Whittaker Quay
Kai Whittaker [ ˈw (ʰ) ɪtˌʔeɪ̯kɐ ] (born April 10, 1985 in Baden-Baden ) is a German politician ( CDU ).
Life
Kai Whittaker's father is a trained carpenter and comes from the United Kingdom . His mother comes from Villingen and is a trained secretary. He grew up with his parents and younger sister in Sinzheim-Winden . In 2004 he passed his Abitur at the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium Baden-Baden . He wrote for the local daily newspaper Badisches Tagblatt as a freelance journalist. He graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Bristol in economics and business administration . After one year as an assistant to the management at Leoni AG in Roth near Nuremberg , Whittaker decided to do a one-year Master of Science in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science . After successfully completing his degree, he worked from 2011 to 2013 as an assistant to the management of Herrenknecht AG at Lahr / Schwarzwald , a world market leader in tunnel boring machines.
Member of Parliament
In 1999 Whittaker joined the Junge Union . In the 2013 federal election , Whittaker won the direct mandate in the Rastatt constituency with 53.5 percent of the first vote .
In the 18th legislative period, Whittaker represented the Rastatt constituency as a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and as an alternate member of the Finance Committee, the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee on Digital Agenda. He was also secretary. Because a position paper on the subject of Hartz IV went public without agreement, Whittaker's parliamentary group withdrew his responsibility as rapporteur for Hartz IV in 2014.
In the 2017 federal election , Whittaker was re-elected with 44.1 percent of the first votes. In the 19th legislative period he remains a full member of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs. He is also chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the parliamentary advisory council for sustainable development . Whittaker is a deputy member of the Digital Agenda Committee and the Transport and Digital Infrastructure Committee.
Whittaker is a supporter of the " Union der Mitte ", a group of the left wing of the CDU, which was formed after the 2017 federal election .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CDU MP Whittaker demoted: punitive action against the Hartz IV revolutionary! In: BILD.de . ( bild.de [accessed on August 27, 2017]).
- ^ German Bundestag - MPs . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed October 19, 2018]).
- ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Tobias Bringmann from the Union der Mitte: "We want to inspire the future". Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whittaker, quay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden-Baden |