Kai Klose

Kai Klose (2013).

Kai Klose (born December 23, 1973 in Usingen , Taunus ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and since 2019 Hessian Minister of State for Social Affairs and Integration in the Bouffier III cabinet . He was also chairman of the Hessian Greens from 2013 to 2019 . He was elected to the Hessian state parliament in 2009. From October 1, 2017 to January 2019, Klose was the Plenipotentiary for Integration and Anti-Discrimination in the Bouffier II cabinet .

Life

Klose comes from Waldems - Steinfischbach on the edge of the Rheingau-Taunus district . He made in 1993 on the Pestalozzi School in Idstein Schloss his High School and then studied at the University of Frankfurt German Studies, with minors in political science and Scandinavian studies. After a semester he went to the Philipps University in Marburg, where he studied to become a teacher. In 2001 he passed the first state examination in German and political science. After completing his studies, he completed his civil service and then began his legal clerkship in May 2002. After graduating in 2004 (second state examination), he became an executive officer of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hessen. Today he lives with his partner in Idstein.

politics

Kai Klose as Minister in the plenum of the Hessian State Parliament, 2019

Kai Klose in the Federal Council, 2019

Since 1993, Klose has been a member of the Waldems municipal council for a Free Voters' Association (FWG) , of which he was also deputy chairman. During his studies he was involved in the AStA at the University of Marburg and in the student parliament, of which he was temporarily president. From 2001 to 2006 he was a member of the community board of the community of Waldems for Die Grünen , was there honorary environment and youth department and from 2002 to 2003 temporarily acting mayor of the community. Klose has been a member of the Hessian Greens since 1995. In September 2004 he was initially appointed provisional political director, in July 2005 he was elected as political director in the state board of the Greens by a state members' meeting at the side of the two then chairmen Evelin Schönhut-Keil and Matthias Berninger . In this office he was confirmed in 2007 with more than 98%, in 2009 with around 81% of the votes by a state members' meeting and has since served alongside Kordula Schulz-Asche and Tarek Al-Wazir . For his party, he organized the early federal election in 2005, the local election campaigns in 2006 and 2011, the state election campaigns in 2008 and 2009 and the European and federal election campaigns in the same year.

In 2008, Klose traveled to the United States of America as a guest of the State Department with a focus on "Alternative Energies and Policy Development" and met a. Green Vice-Presidential Candidate Matt Gonzalez . He took part in the red-green coalition negotiations in October 2008 on the Mechtildshausen domain near Wiesbaden. In the recent state elections on January 27, 2009, he was elected to position 16 on the state list in the Hessian state parliament. He was initially the spokesman for regional planning, state development, housing and tourism for the Green Parliamentary Group and is a member of the committees for economy, transport and state development as well as science and art. In August 2011, the parliamentary group appointed him their economic and housing policy spokesman. Since April 2012 he has also been the spokesman for the group for lesbian and gay policy. In December 2011, with the election of a new state executive, Klose no longer took up the position of political director. At the request of the state board, he acts as campaign manager for the state party in the state and federal elections in 2013. The state members' assembly elected him to position 12 on the state list for the 19th state parliament with more than 88 percent. From November 2009 to December 2013, Klose was chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Rheingau-Taunus district.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , he ran in the Rheingau-Taunus II constituency . Here he lost to Peter Beuth . However, he succeeded in entering the state parliament via a list of the party. From December 2013 to May 2019 he was chairman of the Hessian Greens , from 2013 to 2017 together with Daniela Wagner and from 2017 to 2019 together with Angela Dorn .

After the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , Klose was appointed Minister of State for Social Affairs and Integration in the new Bouffier III cabinet on January 18, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Kai Klose  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography. Hessian state parliament.
• Internet presence of the MP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erfurth and Krämer run the Hessian Greens. In: welt.de. Die Welt , May 11, 2019, accessed on May 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Kai Klose | Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration. Retrieved December 14, 2017 .