Klaus Jensen (politician, 1952)

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Klaus Jensen (born January 14, 1952 in Duisburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ), former Lord Mayor of Trier and former State Secretary for Rhineland-Palatinate . D.

Life

After training as a wholesaler in an international trading company and community service with the workers' welfare in Duisburg homeless settlements , he completed a degree in social work with a focus on social planning at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf . He then started his career as a social planner in Trier, where he worked for the city administration for three years. He eventually became a lecturer at the University of Trier and a freelance social planner. In 1986 he founded a company for social planning that established itself with locations in Trier, Chemnitz , Erfurt and Mainz .

After seven years as a consultant to several federal states, federal ministries and the European Union, he was appointed State Secretary and Head of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Health in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1994 . He was also the state commissioner for the disabled. In 1999, after his wife at the time fell ill, who died in 2001, he took temporary retirement .

From 1999 he worked again as a freelance management consultant for hospitals, charities and public administrations, but gave up this activity in order to avoid conflicts of interest with the office of his new wife Malu Dreyer , Rhineland-Palatinate State Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Health. He then worked as a board member of the Klaus Jensen Foundation , which supports violence prevention, mediation and reconciliation projects at home and abroad.

Klaus Jensen ran for election on September 24, 2006 for the mayor of Trier. He ran as an independent candidate and was supported by the SPD and the Greens . He won all of the electoral districts and received 66.9 percent of the vote; Ulrich Holkenbrink (CDU) received 33.1 percent. Jensen took office on April 1, 2007. For the first time since 1945, Trier was not governed by a CDU mayor.

Jensen is involved in the association "For a colorful Trier, together against the law eV", founded in 2012.

When the new mayor of Trier was elected in 2014, Jensen did not run for a second term for reasons of age and therefore left office on March 31, 2015. His successor is Wolfram Leibe . In September 2015 Jensen was appointed as the new Honorary Consul of Luxembourg in Trier . Its competence is limited to the representation of the Grand Duchy in Rhineland-Palatinate; as well as assisting Luxembourg citizens, representing Luxembourg interests in commercial and financial matters, and promoting cultural cooperation between Luxembourg and the Trier region .

Personal

Klaus Jensen has been married to the former Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Social Affairs and current Prime Minister of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), since July 2004 . Jensen has lived in the inclusive Schammatdorf residential area of ​​Trier since 1984 . Jensen has a daughter and two sons from his first marriage to Helene Hillesheim-Jensen, who died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ trier.de
  2. ↑ June 13, 2012: Report from the founding meeting
  3. ↑ July 14, 2014: Mayor Klaus Jensen remains chairman of the association
  4. ↑ trier.de
  5. ↑ Luxembourg confirms: Trier mayor becomes new honorary consul. In: volksfreund.de. December 9, 2014, accessed September 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Former Mayor of Trier Klaus Jensen is the new Luxembourg Honorary Consul. In: volksfreund.de. September 26, 2015, accessed September 12, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Timo Frasch: And it has "Zoom!" made , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin October 2015, p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg