Karl-Georg Wellmann

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Karl-Georg Wellmann (2014)

Karl-Georg Ernst Gottlob Wellmann (born November 18, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and was a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2017 .

Life and work

Wellmann was born in Berlin-Dahlem . After graduating from high school in 1972, he studied business administration and law at the Technical and Free University of Berlin , which he completed in 1978 with the first state examination in law. After his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination in 1980 and then initially worked as a lawyer until he became personal assistant to the Berlin Senator for Health and Social Affairs, Ulf Fink , in 1981 . In 1985 he resettled as a lawyer. He has also been a notary since 1997 .

Karl-Georg Wellmann is married and has three children.

Political party

Wellmann was initially a member of the SPD , in 1972 he joined the CDU and was a member of the federal executive committee of the Junge Union (JU) from 1979 to 1980 . Since 2001 he has been chairman of the CDU local association in Berlin-Dahlem . From 2013 to 2017 he was deputy district chairman of the CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

Positions

On February 19, 2015, Wellmann told the ZDF morning magazine about the war in Ukraine : “It's a Russian war that is being waged there. The separatists are tools of the Russians. "There is a" permanent flow of ammunition, weapons, fighters, logistics from Russia ".

On May 25, 2015, Wellmann, who is chairman of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group and worked as an OSCE election observer in Ukraine, was banned from entering the Russian Federation despite an invitation from the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federation Council. He was given an entry ban until November 2019. Wellmann suspected that he was on a list of counter-sanctions to the EU punitive measures imposed because of the conflict in Ukraine. On May 30, 2015, his suspicion was confirmed by the publication of a Russian entry ban list , on which 88 politicians and military representatives from Europe are listed in addition to Wellmann.

MP

Karl-Georg Wellmann, member of the CDU regional group in Berlin, was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005 , where he was the spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group for urban development and environmental protection.

From 2005, Wellmann was a member of the German Bundestag and for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee . He was also a full member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In addition, Wellmann was a deputy member of the Committee on Affairs of the European Union and the Interparliamentary Union.

Karl-Georg Wellmann was a member of the following parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag:

  • Chairman of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group
  • Member of the German-Russian parliamentary group
  • Member of the German-Belarusian parliamentary group
  • Member of the Parliamentary Friends of Berlin-Taipei
  • Member of the SME parliamentary group (PKM) of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group

Karl-Georg Wellmann was a directly elected member of the Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf constituency . In the 2009 Bundestag election , he received 38.8% of the first votes , compared to 40.0% in the 2005 Bundestag election . In the 2013 Bundestag election , he received his best result with 42.5% of the first votes and thus for the third time in a row the direct mandate.

In the German Bundestag, Wellmann campaigned for the intensification of relations with Eastern Europe and would like Berlin to become a new east-west hub. Karl-Georg Wellmann was often on duty as an election observer for the OSCE PA. As the first member of the CDU, Karl-Georg Wellmann called on Federal President Christian Wulff to resign on January 11, 2012 .

In his constituency of Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Wellmann, together with the citizens' initiatives, campaigned against the flight routes over the south-west of Berlin to the new major Berlin airport BER. Wellmann was also committed to maintaining the Dahlem domain and improving noise protection for the residents of the A 115 (AVUS) in the Nikolassee district .

Wellmann wanted to run again in his constituency for the 2017 federal election. However, he got an opposing candidate in Thomas Heilmann , who was Berlin Senator for Justice and Consumer Protection until December 2016 . Heilmann had already prevailed against Wellmann in 2013 in the fight for the chairmanship of the CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf. In the first vote on March 1, 2017, both politicians received 245 votes after several ballots in which another candidate had run. Before the next vote took place on March 19, 2017, Wellmann was accused of having falsified party questionnaires, which he denied. In the vote on March 19, 2017, Heilmann finally prevailed with 378 votes to 252 and became CDU direct candidate for the constituency of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Wellmann left the Bundestag in September 2017.

Memberships

Wellmann is a member of the following institutions.

  • Berlin Hilft e. V., chairman of the board
  • German-Ukrainian Forum e. V., member of the board
  • Transatlantic Leadership Academy (TLA), member of the board
  • Blue Riband Society, member of the Advisory Board
  • Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine (AMU)
  • German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP)

Web links

Commons : Karl-Georg Wellmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f German Bundestag: Karl-Georg Wellmann, CDU / CSU. (No longer available online.) In: bundestag.de. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015 ; accessed on May 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ TV.Berlin: Wahl '13 with Karl-Georg Wellmann - Part 2 (Minute 2:15 ff.) (Video; 12:43 Min) In: YouTube . TV.Berlin - the capital's broadcaster. August 20, 2013. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved on March 26, 2015., Part 1 ( Memento of March 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in.
  3. ^ CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf: Karl-Georg Wellmann . In: cdusz.de . CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  4. ^ CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf: Board of the CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf . In: cdusz.de . CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Focus: International: Moscow entry ban for CDU politicians angered Berlin. In: Focus. May 25, 2015, accessed May 27, 2015 .
  6. ^ Morgenmagazin: Morgenmagazin, Wellmann: "Military strike, if necessary, even without a UN mandate" on ARD (video) In: verpasst.de . August 28, 2013. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved on March 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ bundestag.de October 26, 2015
  8. ↑ SZ -author AFIS: Russia denied entry Wellmann. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 25, 2015, accessed May 27, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Thomson Reuters: CDU politician Wellmann prevented from entering Russia. In: Reuters Germany. Reuters, May 26, 2015, accessed May 27, 2015 .
  10. ^ WDR 2: Interview with Karl-Georg Wellmann. (No longer available online.) In: wdr2.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk, May 26, 2015, archived from the original on May 27, 2015 ; accessed on May 27, 2015 .
  11. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung -Author mest: Moscow imposes entry bans - also against Germans. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 30, 2015, accessed May 30, 2015 .
  12. ^ RUS: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF 23 kB) In: yle.fi. May 26, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Picture gallery: These Berliners are now sitting in the Bundestag. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 24, 2013, accessed May 30, 2015 .
  14. ↑ a b c Editor: Vita of Karl-Georg Wellmann. (No longer available online.) In: wellmann-berlin.de. Karl-Georg Wellmann, April 5, 2013, archived from the original on May 27, 2015 ; accessed on May 27, 2015 .
  15. ^ Federal Returning Officer: 2009 - election results for the Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf constituency. (No longer available online.) In: bundeswahlleiter.de. Federal Returning Officer, archived from the original on August 2, 2015 ; accessed on May 27, 2015 .
  16. ^ Tagesschau: Bundestag election 2005 - Berlin-Steglitz. In: Tagesschau. ARD, September 19, 2005, accessed on May 27, 2015 .
  17. ^ Federal Returning Officer: 2015 - election results for the Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf constituency . In: bundeswahlleiter.de . Federal Returning Officer. Archived from the original on September 25, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  18. ↑ Handelsblatt: "Personal advice": CDU deputy calls on Wulff to resign . In: Handelsblatt . January 11, 2012. Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. Retrieved on March 26, 2015.
  19. ↑ Heilmann leads the CDU district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf. berlier-zeitung.de, May 13, 2013, accessed on September 30, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Sabine Beikler: Berlin Southwest CDU not agree on parliamentary candidates. tagesspiegel.de, March 2, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Lorenz Maroldt and Sabine Beikler: Counterfeit affair shakes Berlin CDU. tagesspiegel.de, March 13, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Hannes Soltau: Heilmann wins showdown against Wellmann. tagesspiegel.de, March 19, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Berlin Hilft: About Us . In: berlin-hilft.de . Archived from the original on March 3, 2011. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  24. ^ DUF: Board of the German-Ukrainian Forum eV . In: du-forum.de . German-Ukrainian Forum e. V .. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  25. ↑ YoungTCA: Advisory Board Members ( English ) In: youngtca.org . Young Transatlantic Conservative Alliance. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  26. ↑ Florian Rötzer: German politicians in association with Ukrainian oligarchs. In: telepolis. Heise Online, March 4, 2015, accessed on May 27, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Wellmann, Karl-Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wellmann, Karl-Georg Ernst Gottlob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin