Manfred Geis

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Manfred Geis (2016)

Manfred Geis (born December 27, 1949 in Ellerstadt ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1998 to 2019 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . On March 13, 2016, he won the direct mandate in constituency 41 (Bad Dürkheim) for the fourth time in a row .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1968, Geis studied political science, history and German studies at the University of Mannheim on a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . After graduating in 1975, he was employed there as a research assistant until 1980. From 1980 to 2002 he was managing director of the SPD district Palatinate, from 1989 to 1994 culture department of the city of Bad Dürkheim. In 1998 he became a successor member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. In the next four state elections ( 2001 , 2006 , 2011 and 2016 ) he won the constituency of Bad Dürkheim as a direct candidate. In the state parliament he was chairman of the committee for science, further education and culture since 2001. He was also a member of the committee for European issues and One World and spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group for "One World" policy.

Geis is married and has two grown sons.

politics

In 1969 Geis joined the SPD and from 1975 exercised various party functions. From 1979 to 1989 and again from 2004 to 2014 he was city ​​councilor of Bad Dürkheim .

Since 1999 he has been a member of the Palatinate District Assembly .

Geis is a member of the board of directors of the Social Democratic Cultural Forum with a focus on cultural education, state cultural policy in Rhineland-Palatinate and culture "in conversation".

further activities

He is chairman of the German Library Association, State Association of Rhineland-Palatinate, and a member of the boards of trustees and advisory boards of many political and cultural organizations, e. B. the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture , the State Center for Political Education and the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck .

Since 1999 he has also organized the cultural series Art in the Parliament's Office with 98 exhibitions (as of January 2019) of contemporary art in the Chamber of Deputies of the Landtag in Mainz.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Geis  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Spengler: Pension postponed . In: Die Rheinpfalz , Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung . No. 62 . Ludwigshafen March 14, 2016, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Kulturforum der Sozialdemokratie - Board of Directors. (No longer available online.) August 1, 2011, archived from the original on December 15, 2013 ; accessed on March 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spd.de
  3. ↑ Board of Trustees. In: www.kulturstiftung-rlp.de. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Board of Trustees. In: Politik-bildung-rlp.de. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Geis, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellerstadt