Klaus Uwe Benneter

Berlin 2010

Klaus Uwe Benneter (born March 1, 1947 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

In 1977, as a representative of the Stamokap wing, he was federal chairman of the Young Socialists , from 2004 to 2005 General Secretary of the SPD and from 2005 to 2009 legal advisor of the SPD parliamentary group.

Life and work

After graduating from the Helmholtz-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe in 1966 , Benneter studied law at the Free University of Berlin , which he completed in 1971 with the first state examination. After the legal preparatory service, the second state examination followed in 1974 . He has been working as a lawyer since 1975 and as a notary since 1985 . After leaving his political office, he is involved in various charitable projects, e.g. B. as president of the DRK district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin, and dedicates himself to his hobby, pigeon breeding.

Benneter is widowed and has one son.

Political party

Klaus Uwe Benneter at the Reitverein Düppel

In 1965 Benneter became a member of the SPD. Here he was initially involved with the Young Socialists , of which he was Deputy Federal Chairman from 1974. In 1977 he was elected federal chairman of the Jusos. With the Young Socialists, Benneter was always a proponent of the Stamokap theory. He described the DKP as a political opponent, but the CDU as a class enemy. He also questioned the status of the Young Socialists as an SPD youth organization. (“For us Jusos, membership in the SPD is not a dogma that no one should shake.”) During his time as chairman of the Jusos, he earned the nickname “Benni der Bürgerschreck”. Because of his behavior, which was also felt by friends as unsolidary, Benneter was expelled from the SPD and thus also from the Jusos in 1977 , mainly at the instigation of the SPD federal manager Egon Bahr . The vacant position at the top of the Juso was taken over by Gerhard Schröder , who brought him back to the SPD in 1983.

From 1996 to 2000 he was deputy state chairman of the SPD Berlin.

In Berlin he was long considered close to the SPD left. He clearly criticized the CDU / SPD coalition ruling there. In connection with Agenda 2010 , however, in 2003 he stood behind the positions of the SPD party leadership and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He refused to work with the SPD left around Ottmar Schreiner on this issue.

On February 7, 2004, Benneter was proposed by Franz Müntefering as the new general secretary of the SPD and elected at an extraordinary party congress on March 21, 2004 with around 80 percent of the vote. He thus succeeded Olaf Scholz . At the SPD federal party conference in November 2005, he no longer stood; Hubertus Heil was elected as his successor .

MP

From 1999 to 2002 Benneter was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . Here he was the legal policy spokesman and spokesman for the protection of the constitution of the SPD parliamentary group.

From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 2002 to 2003 he was chairman of the committee of inquiry "Committee of Lies " and from November 2005 to 2009 legal advisor of the SPD parliamentary group.

Klaus Uwe Benneter moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf constituency in the federal election in 2002 and in 2005 via the Berlin state list .

On January 10, 2009 he was re-elected constituency candidate for Steglitz-Zehlendorf by his party with 93.6 percent of the vote for the 2009 Bundestag election, but lost his direct mandate on September 27 and failed to make it into the Bundestag with list position 5 for Berlin via the country list.

Web links

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

 Wikinews: Klaus Uwe Benneter  - in the news

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Contact page at parliamentwatch.de
• Literature by and about Klaus Uwe Benneter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Uwe Benneter. Resume. Heussen Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft, accessed on March 19, 2018 .