Kersten Wetzel
Kersten Wetzel (born February 23, 1961 in Neustadt an der Orla ) is a German politician ( CDU ). In 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber and from 1990 to 1998 a member of the German Bundestag .
Life
After high school, Wetzel completed an apprenticeship as a precision optician from 1977 to 1980 and passed his Abitur. After graduating from high school, he was unable to study and initially worked as an unskilled worker. He joined the CDU in 1980, worked as a newspaper seller for a CDU publishing house from 1980 to 1981 and then worked as a full-time CDU functionary until 1989. From 1985 to 1989 he did a distance learning course at the University of Law and Administration. In 1989 he co-founded the Christian Democratic Youth and in 1990 became the first state chairman of the CDJ.
politics
On March 18, 1990, Wetzel succeeded in entering the first democratically elected People's Chamber, the parliament of the GDR, to which he belonged until reunification. He then moved up to the German Bundestag and was directly elected in the subsequent Bundestag elections in constituency 305. He was a member of the German Bundestag until the end of the 13th legislative period in 1998. Wetzel was a full member of the Committee for Youth, Family, Women and Health in the eleventh legislative period. In the twelfth he was represented in the committee for women and youth and in the thirteenth again in the committee for family, seniors, women and youth.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 946.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wetzel, Kersten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt an der Orla |