Lars Klingbeil

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Lars Klingbeil (2021)

Lars Klingbeil (born February 23, 1978 in Soltau ) is a German politician ( SPD ). In 2005 he was a brief member of the German Bundestag , to which he has belonged again since the 2009 Bundestag election . From May 2003 to November 2007 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the Jusos and from December 2017 to December 2021 General Secretary of his party. In December 2021, Klingbeil was elected as co- federal chairman of the SPD alongside Saskia Esken , subject to confirmation by postal vote.

Origin, education and personal matters

Klingbeil grew up as the son of a soldier in the German Armed Forces and a retail saleswoman in Munster . After graduating from high school in Munster in 1998 and doing community service at the Bahnhofsmission in Hanover , he began studying political science , sociology and history at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover in 1999, completing his master's degree in 2004 . From 2001 to 2004 he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

He has been married to Lena-Sophie Müller since August 2019, who has been the managing director of Initiative D21 since 2014 . He plays guitar in his spare time and was the singer and guitarist of the rock band Sleeping Silence. In his youth he was active in the Antifa by his own account .

Political career

Starts as a party speaker (2001 to 2005) and young socialist (2003 to 2007)

In addition to his studies, Klingbeil worked from 2001 to 2003 in the constituency office of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Member of the Bundestag Heino Wiese . From 2001 to 2016 he was a member of the City Council of Munster and from 2002 to 2021 was a board member of the SPD district of North Lower Saxony, from 2010 as deputy district chairman. After completing his studies, he worked from 2004 to 2005 as a youth education officer for the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2003 to 2007 he was deputy federal chairman of the Jusos and from 2004 to 2007 a member of the international commission of the SPD party executive .

Successor to the German Bundestag (2005)

From January 24, 2005 to October 18, 2005 he replaced the SPD MP Jann-Peter Janssen, who resigned in the wages of the salaries affair, in the German Bundestag . During this time he was a member of the European Committee and an alternate member of the Health Committee and the Defense Committee . In the early federal elections in 2005 , Klingbeil missed re-entry into the German Bundestag and left parliament.

Local and party politicians (2005 to 2009)

From 2005 until his return to the German Bundestag in 2009, he was the office manager of the SPD state chairman Garrelt Duin . From 2006 to 2018 he was a member of the district council of the Heidekreis and was chairman of the SPD sub-district Heidekreis from 2006 to 2020 .

Member of the German Bundestag (since 2009)

Lars Klingbeil (2013)

In the 2009 Bundestag elections , he moved into the German Bundestag with 7th place on the Lower Saxony state list . In the constituency of Rotenburg I - Soltau-Fallingbostel, he lost 35.3 percent of the first votes to Reinhard Grindel from the CDU , who received 40.2 percent of the first votes. In the 17th electoral term he was a member of the Defense Committee , the New Media subcommittee and the Internet and Digital Society Enquete Commission . In addition, he was parliamentary group spokesman in the New Media subcommittee, speaker of the parliamentary group working group for the Internet and Digital Society inquiry commission and deputy chairman of the SPD regional groups in Lower Saxony / Bremen .

In the 2013 Bundestag election , he moved into the German Bundestag via ninth place on the Lower Saxony state list. In the constituency of Rotenburg I - Heidekreis, with 40.6 percent of the first votes, he was again defeated by Reinhard Grindel from the CDU, who received 44.8 percent of the first votes. In the 18th electoral term he was a member of the Defense Committee and the Digital Agenda Committee . He was also the spokesman for the parliamentary group working group on the Digital Agenda and chairman of the SPD regional groups in Lower Saxony / Bremen.

In the 2017 federal election he ran for 7th place on the state list of Lower Saxony and in the constituency of Rotenburg I - Heidekreis, where he prevailed against Kathrin Rösel from the CDU with 41.2 to 36.1 percent of the first votes and thus won a direct mandate for the first time . In the 19th electoral term he was a deputy member of the Defense Committee, the Digital Agenda Committee and the 1st Committee of Inquiry of the Defense Committee of the 19th electoral term of the German Bundestag . He was also deputy chairman of the SPD regional groups in Lower Saxony / Bremen.

In the federal election in 2021 he ran for 5th place on the state list of Lower Saxony and in the constituency of Rotenburg I - Heidekreis, where he clearly prevailed against Carsten Büttinghaus (CDU) with 47.6 to 26.4 percent of the first votes and again won the direct mandate.

Secretary General (2017 to 2021)

Lars Klingbeil as SPD General Secretary signing the coalition agreement of the Grand Coalition (2018)

On October 23, 2017, the party presidium nominated Klingbeil as the successor to the outgoing Secretary General Hubertus Heil at the suggestion of Federal Chairman Martin Schulz . At the federal party congress on December 8, 2017, he was elected to office with 70.6 percent of the delegate's votes and at the federal party congress on December 6, 2019, he was confirmed in office with 79.9 percent of the delegate votes.

Klingbeil together with Volker Wissing and Michael Kellner with the coalition agreement of the traffic light parties (2021)

In his function as General Secretary, Klingbeil negotiated the coalition agreement with the Union parties in the spring of 2018 and successfully campaigned for the approval of the SPD members in the subsequent member vote. He organized the election campaign for the 2019 European elections and the membership decision for the 2019 SPD chairmanship . As Secretary General he was editor of Vorwärts .

Party chairman (since 2021)

After the previous co-chairman of the SPD, Norbert Walter-Borjans, announced that he would no longer run for chairmanship, Klingbeil took over the position of successor in December 2021. Together with Saskia Esken , who previously held the post with Walter-Borjans, he was elected at the party conference on December 11th. Klingbeil received 86.3 percent of the delegate votes. Kevin Kühnert took over his previous position as Secretary General .

Political positions

Basic orientation

Klingbeil belongs to the Seeheimer Kreis , in which the conservative wing of the SPD parliamentary group has come together. Until 2015 he was a member of the parliamentary left .

Climate policy

Klingbeil commented on his party's climate policy at the beginning of 2021: “The approach we are taking in our program is deliberately moving forward. He says: Let's also take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technology, let's focus radically on hydrogen, expand renewable energies, let's turn it into a job engine in Germany. ”In the same year, he describes the climate-neutral transformation as a“ task of the century ”, which is not It would only have to be resolved through a CO 2 price , but also through other instruments, including the expansion of renewable energies , the abolition of the EEG surcharge , the establishment of a modern mobility system and the obligation of the public sector to use only climate-neutral raw materials. In the 2021 debate, Klingbeil pleaded for a concrete setting of a CO 2 price for restraint and spoke out against a price of 60 euros per tonne of CO 2 in order to protect homeowners and commuters from pollution.

Social policy

Klingbeil defended the sanctions of Hartz IV , so cuts under the subsistence level, and do not want to abolish this. However, he thinks it is wrong that this also affects rent subsidies and is calling for corrections to be made here.

Network policy

Internet and new media

In a contribution written with Martin Oetting and Mathias Richel in July 2011, Klingbeil developed his image of a “real social democratic network policy ” based on six tasks for social democracy . He considered the following factors to be essential in this context:

  • Democratic renewal
  • Openness and transparency
  • Copying as an essential feature
  • Access for everyone
  • Jobs become states and cease to be places
  • Communication with people and for people

Monitoring the Internet

The attacks in Norway of July 2011 took Klingbeil as an opportunity to call for greater monitoring of the internet by German security authorities. In this context, he explained on Deutschlandfunk that there were too few experts in the German security authorities to monitor, for example, sites with right-wing extremist content. Since these servers can be found worldwide, the investigators must increasingly rely on international cooperation, and more officers are still needed in the law enforcement authorities. In particular, action against right-wing extremists is necessary. He supports the demand of the police union Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) to promote a kind of alarm button for reporting right-wing extremists.

Net neutrality

Klingbeil calls for a statutory definition of net neutrality .

Controversy

Proximity to the arms industry

Although his father was a soldier in the German Armed Forces, Klingbeil refused to do military service. According to his own statements, he changed his critical stance on the Bundeswehr in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 .

Until 2017 he was a member of the presidium of the lobby associations of the German Society for Defense Technology and the German Army Support Group . Politically, he advocates an increase in the defense budget. Nevertheless, he advocated a stop of arms exports for countries involved in the Yemen war . As a possible reason for his close contact with the German arms industry is considered that the Rheinmetall -Location Unterluess that employs many people in the region, adjacent to its constituency.

Others

In 2013, one week of Klingbeil's meetings was portrayed as part of the NDR series 7 days . The episode was broadcast on September 1, 2013 and shortly afterwards removed from the media library and YouTube due to a complaint by his constituency opponent Reinhard Grindel from the CDU until the 2013 federal election .

Web links

Commons : Lars Klingbeil  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Klingbeil spd.de
  2. ↑ SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil is getting married in Lüneburg Heath nwzonline.de, August 26, 2019
  3. ↑ From rocker to pirate competitor cicero.de
  4. ↑ The Antifa strikes back neue-deutschland.de, December 5, 2019
  5. ↑ Reinhard Grindel clearly in front of Lars Klingbeil weser-kurier.de, 23 September 2013
  6. ↑ Klingbeil wins the direct mandate weser-kurier.de, September 25, 2017
  7. ↑ Direct mandate from Rotenburg I - Heidekreis goes to SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil spiegel.de, September 27, 2021
  8. ↑ SPD leaders suggest Klingbeil spiegel.de, October 23, 2017
  9. ↑ Lars Klingbeil elected Secretary General with 70 percent spiegel.de, December 8, 2017
  10. ↑ Lars Klingbeil re-elected as Secretary General spiegel.de, December 6, 2019
  11. ↑ Election at the federal party congress: The SPD has a new party leadership. tagesschau.de, December 11, 2021, accessed on December 11, 2021 .
  12. ↑ Mission: Rettung spiegel.de, December 6, 2017
  13. ↑ Members of the parliamentary left parliamentarian-linke.de (archive version from March 11, 2015)
  14. ↑ Veronika Lohmöller: Klingbeil on the SPD election program: The core of the brand is the welfare state. In: br.de. March 2, 2021, accessed November 9, 2021 .
  15. ↑ SPD attacks Union on climate protection: "So much mendacity". In: t-online.de. May 5, 2021, accessed November 9, 2021 .
  16. ↑ Lars Klingbeil: The SPD general secretary shoots so hard against Laschet and the Greens. In: rtl.de. May 8, 2021, accessed November 9, 2021 .
  17. ↑ ARD Mittagsmagazin: Lars Klingbeil (SPD) considers the abolition of all Hartz IV sanctions to be wrong. In: press portal . Retrieved November 6, 2021 .
  18. ↑ The article What is social democratic network policy? Attempt to answer in 6 tasks. can be found under What is social-democratic network policy ?, das-ist-sozialdemokratisch.de, July 18, 2011 ( memento of March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 28, 2011, as well as Red Cloth Social-Democratic Network Policy, caught in the network, theeuropean .de, July 20, 2011 ( memento of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 28, 2011
  19. ↑ cf. z. B. Internal security: SPD internet expert wants to monitor right-wing extremist websites more closely, focus.de, July 28, 2011 , accessed on July 28, 2011.
  20. ↑ Klingbeil: More forces needed to fight right-wing extremism on the Internet, dradio.de, July 28, 2011 , accessed on July 28, 2011.
  21. ↑ cf. z. B. Net neutrality-digital classes feared , In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 12, 2011, accessed on August 16, 2021
  22. ↑ On all channels - sometimes with your head through the wall. In: Kreiszeitung.de. September 19, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Part-time jobs in lobby groups: How the armaments industry ensnares politicians. In: parliamentwatch.de. April 16, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Lars Klingbeil - Secondary Employment. In: parliamentwatch.de. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Lars and the tanks. In: taz.de. August 8, 2021, accessed August 8, 2021 .
  26. ↑ For realistic spending targets in security and defense policy. In: thomas-hitschler.de. March 21, 2017, archived from the original ; accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  27. ↑ For realistic spending targets in security and defense policy. In: tagesschau.de. January 19, 2018, archived from the original ; accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  28. ↑ For realistic spending targets in security and defense policy. In: tagesschau.de. January 19, 2018, archived from the original ; accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  29. ^ NDR deletes documentation about SPD politicians stefan-niggemeier.de after protests by CDU politicians , September 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Klingbeil, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
BIRTH DATE February 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Soltau