Klaus Barthel

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Klaus Barthel (born December 28, 1955 in Munich ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Munich, Klaus Barthel completed a degree in political science , sociology and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed with a Magister Artium . In between he did his community service and then worked as a union secretary for youth and vocational training at the Bavarian district administration of the public services, transport and traffic union, which merged into ver.di in 2001. He has been on leave without pay since his election to the Bundestag.

Political party

Klaus Barthel has been a member of the SPD since 1975. From 1983 to 1988 he was chairman of the South Bavarian Young Socialists and in this function was a member of the SPD district executive committee for southern Bavaria. In 1991 he was elected deputy chairman of the SPD district of Upper Bavaria and held this office until 2000. In 2005 he was re-elected as deputy district chairman in Upper Bavaria and was last confirmed in this office in 2009. Since 2007 he has been a member of the state board and since 2009 of the presidium of the Bayern SPD. In 2009 the Working Group for Employee Issues in the SPD (AfA) elected him to be their state chairman in Bavaria. In April 2010 he was also elected Deputy Chairman of the AfA Federal Board; since April 2012 he has been its chairman. He was one of the candidates in the member survey for the election of the state chairman of the BayernSPD in spring 2017.

MP

From 1994 to 2017 Barthel was a member of the German Bundestag . He ran for election in the Starnberg constituency , which he was unable to win, and entered the Bundestag via the SPD's state list. From 2002 to 2009 he was deputy spokesman for the Bavarian regional group in the parliamentary group . His main areas of responsibility were economic and social policy. From 2009 he was deputy spokesman for economic policy in his group, in which he held reporting functions in the areas of the network industry, i.e. for telecommunications, post, energy and rail. He is the alternate chairman of the advisory board at the Federal Network Agency. As a full member, he was represented in the Committee for Economics and Technologies, in the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Political Education and in the committee pursuant to Section 23 c (8) Customs Investigation Service Act. Barthel announced that he would not run again as a member of the Bundestag election in 2017 .

Memberships

Barthel was a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group in the German Bundestag .

Political positions

Klaus Barthel is assigned to the party left. With his voting behavior, he repeatedly contradicted majority decisions of the SPD parliamentary group, which in his opinion did not correspond to the principles and resolutions of his party. He called for improvements to the Hartz IV laws right up to the end. In addition, he did not agree to a partial privatization of Deutsche Bahn AG and the raising of the retirement age to 67 years. From the beginning he was one of the critics of the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release: "State Presidency: We are the participation party". BayernSPD , accessed on March 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ Afp: Whoever no longer competes: Lammert, Ströbele, Jung: The Bundestag is losing many familiar faces . ( noz.de [accessed on July 10, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Barthel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich