Manfred Dammeyer

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Manfred Dammeyer (born March 31, 1939 in Hausberge , today a district of Porta Westfalica ) is a German educator and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Dammeyer graduated from high school in 1958. He then studied social and educational sciences, graduated in 1963 with a degree in social economics and received his doctorate in 1979 on the guidelines for trade union youth education work and the problems of their development, their content and methods for becoming a Dr. paedagogiae.

From 1965 to 1975 he was director of the Volkshochschule Oberhausen and in 1994 became honorary professor for political science at the University of Duisburg.

Political party

He joined the SPD in 1957.

MP

He sat from May 28, 1975 to June 1, 2000 and from September 3, 2001 to June 2, 2005 for his party in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, from 1998 to 2000 as its parliamentary group chairman. Dammeyer won constituency 077 Oberhausen I in 1975 and the constituency 072 Oberhausen II in the next four elections.

Public offices

From 1995 to 1998 he was Minister for Federal and European Affairs in the Rau V cabinet . He then headed the Committee of the Regions of the European Union as President from 1998 to 2000 and then Vice-President until 2002 .

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