Klaus Hammer (politician)

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Klaus Hammer (born September 16, 1942 in Wiesbaden ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Hammer completed an apprenticeship as a tiler and worked in this profession for seven years. After retraining, he was a clerk in an insurance company. In 1974 he became a full-time trade union secretary at the DGB in Mainz and from 1980 to 1994 he was DGB district chairman in Mainz. In 2002 he became City Manager of Mainz.

politics

Hammer joined the SPD in 1960. From 1974 to 2002 he was a member of the Mainz city ​​council , in which he was parliamentary group chairman from 1989 to 1992. Also in 1974 he became chairman of the Mainz-Finthen local SPD association , which he remained until 1979 and was again from 1982 to 1985. From 1995 to 2002 he was chairman of the Mainz SPD. In 1987 he was elected as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he had four legislative terms until 2006. There he represented constituency 28 (Mainz II) and was chairman of the petitions committee and the prison commission.

Awards

In 2008 Klaus Hammer received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the SPD Finthen