Klaus Käppeler

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Klaus Käppeler (* 5. October 1954 in Ueberlingen on Lake Constance ) is a German SPD - politician and was a member of the Parliament of Baden-Württemberg between 2001 and 2006 from 2,011 to 2,016.

education and profession

Klaus Käppeler studied after elementary school in Nesselwangen, a suburb of Überlingen, and high school in Überlingen from 1974 to 1977 at the Pedagogical University in Weingarten . His subjects were: English and History, his specialty: Technology. He worked as a primary and secondary school teacher at the primary and neighborhood secondary school in Wurmlingen and at the Münster school in Zwiefalten . Since the 2007/2008 school year he has been the rector of the Hohenstein School , a primary and secondary school in Hohenstein with around 200 students.

Political activity

Klaus Käppeler joined the SPD in 1980 and has been chairman of the local association in Zwiefalten since 1985 . Since 1992 he has been a delegate at state party conferences several times . From 1993 to 2006 he was deputy chairman of the SPD district association in Reutlingen . He has held this office again since 2009.

Klaus Käppeler has been a local councilor in Zwiefalten since 1989. In the local elections in 2009 he achieved the best voting result of all candidates. Käppeler has been a member of the Reutlingen district council since 2004. There he was a full member of the committee for technical questions and environmental protection AtU .

In addition, he was campaign manager and second candidate in the state parliament election campaign in 1996 and campaign manager in the 1998 federal election campaign in the Reutlingen constituency. In 2000 he was nominated as a candidate for the state election in the constituency of Hechingen-Münsingen . In the subsequent state election , he entered the state parliament with a second mandate. In his first electoral term he was active in the School, Youth and Sport Committee, the Rural Areas and Agriculture Committee and the Media Council of the State Office for Communication (LfK) . In the state elections in 2006 he narrowly missed the necessary number of votes for re-entry into the state parliament, but in the state elections in 2011 he was again given a second mandate. He was again a member of the School, Youth and Sport and Rural Areas and Consumer Protection committees and worked in the government group and a. actively participated in the reforms in the education system. In the 2016 election, he missed re-entry into the state parliament.

Family and private

Klaus Käppeler is Roman Catholic. He is married to Gundi Käppeler nee Hoffmann; they have three grown sons.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Käppeler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Excerpt from the parliamentary handbook of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament for the 15th electoral term
• Klaus Käppeler on parliamentwatch.de