Klaus Ness

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Klaus Ness , MdL (born February 15, 1962 in Peine ; † December 17, 2015 in Potsdam ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was general secretary of the SPD Brandenburg , later a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there.

Life and work

Klaus Ness was born in Peine, Lower Saxony , in 1962 and grew up in the region. After graduating from the Peiner Gymnasium am Silberkamp in 1981, he studied educational science at the Technical University of Braunschweig . He completed his studies in 1987 as a qualified pedagogue. Until 1988 he worked as a member of the European Parliament. He did his community service from 1988 to 1989. From 1990 he worked as a continuing education teacher at the adult education center in Hanover before joining the SPD state association in Brandenburg in 1991 .

Ness had been married to Martina Gregor-Ness since September 1, 2007 , who was an SPD member of the Brandenburg state parliament from 1994 to 2014.

Ness collapsed on the evening of December 17, 2015 on the sidelines of a reception in the Brandenburg state parliament as a result of a heart attack . He was reanimated several times, but died in the late evening hours of December 17, 2015 at the Ernst von Bergmann Clinic in Potsdam at the age of 53.

politics

Ness had been a member of the SPD since February 15, 1977. From 1991 to 1994 he was a consultant for the SPD regional association Brandenburg and in December 1994 became its regional manager. When Matthias Platzeck became federal chairman of the SPD in 2005, Ness moved to the SPD's federal party headquarters as department head for planning and communication. In 2006, Platzeck resigned from the office of federal chairman, and in the summer of 2006 Ness became general secretary of the Brandenburg SPD.

In the state elections in September 2009 , he entered the state parliament of Brandenburg via the SPD state list. On August 28, 2013, Ness was elected as the successor to Ralf Holzschuher as the new parliamentary group leader of the SPD in the Brandenburg state parliament. and remained so until his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brandenburg's SPD parliamentary group leader Klaus Ness is dead ( MAZ-Online , read on December 18, 2015)
  2. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Brandenburger SPD parliamentary group leader Klaus Ness: "One of the great party strategists of our generation". In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved December 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Members elected according to the state list , Landtag Brandenburg
  4. ↑ SPD parliamentary group elects successor to Ralf Holzschuher / Klaus Ness elected parliamentary group chairman with 93 percent (August 28, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Ness, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Torment
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2015
Place of death Potsdam