Mario Czaja

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Mario Czaja (2017)

Mario Czaja (born September 21, 1975 in Berlin ( East )) is a German politician ( CDU ). He is a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and chairman of the Wuhletal CDU district association (corresponds to the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district ). Czaja was Senator for Health and Social Affairs in Senate Wowereit and Senate Müller I from December 1, 2011 to December 8, 2016 .

Since November 2018 he has been President of the German Red Cross Berlin.

Life

education and profession

The son of an electrician and a nurse grew up in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and lives in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. After he had finished high school in 1995 with the middle school leaving certificate, he completed an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman in 1997 . After training and community service, Czaja began his professional life as Head of Marketing and Sales at the Krone management und technologie GmbH group . From 2002 to 2011 Czaja was at the Facilities Management working Gegenbauer Group hired. In addition, from September 2006 to December 2010, Czaja took the undergraduate degree in business administration at the Technical University of Wildau (FH) , which he completed with a degree in business administration. The title of his thesis is: “Business opportunities and risks of the practice clinic model for the resident specialist”.

Political career

Czaja has been involved in Berlin politics since 1993. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of the district assembly of Berlin-Hellersdorf . He advocated closer cooperation with the PDS , which resulted in a party expulsion procedure that was discontinued in 1999.

In the election in October 1999 in the constituency of Kaulsdorf-Mahlsdorf, Czaja was directly elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he has been a member without interruption. In the preferred choice in October 2001 won Gregor Gysi ( PDS ), the direct mandate against him; Czaja was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives from his party's district list. There he worked in the Committee for Health and Social Affairs and was also committed to road development and against the Road Construction Contribution Act . At the same time he was health policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the House of Representatives from 2001 and later also deputy chairman of his parliamentary group. Since 2001 he has been chairman of the CDU district association Wuhletal von Marzahn-Hellersdorf with around 500 members.

In the election in September 2006 , Czaja won his constituency well ahead of his SPD and PDS opposing candidates. Czaja was the only CDU candidate in East Berlin who succeeded. He received 33.8 percent of the first votes and 13.1 percent of the second votes for the CDU in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. The Berliner Zeitung then described him as the “election winner” of the Berlin CDU. Until the end of November 2011, Czaja was a member of the committees for health, the environment and consumer protection as well as urban development.

In the election in September 2011 , Mario Czaja defended his direct mandate, whereby he was able to increase the proportion of first votes to 41.5 percent. He was a member of the committees for health, the environment and consumer protection as well as urban development.

In December 2011 he was elected Senator for Health and Social Affairs in the grand coalition of the Senate Wowereit IV and since December 2014 Müller I appointed. After the request for the dismissal of the Senator for Justice and Consumer Protection, Michael Braun , in mid-December 2011, Czaja also temporarily took over his official duties.

During his time as Health Senator, the joint state committee was set up to improve patient access to outpatient medical care in the individual districts of Berlin. In December 2012, a cooperation agreement was signed in the state of Berlin to combat service abuse and billing manipulation in outpatient care. The function of patient representative has also been expanded to include the topic of care. When updating the Berlin hospital plan, Czaja was committed to improving care in the field of geriatrics . In 2012, Czaja made together with the CDU Senate colleague Frank Henkel (Home Affairs) and Thomas Heilmann (Justice) for a reduction of the penalty and its needs to cannabis strongly from 15 to six grams. During his tenure, he paid particular attention to helping the homeless; This is how he initiated the city ​​mission's hygiene center at the Zoo station. In addition, for the first time during his tenure, there were enough cold help places in Berlin during the winter months.

In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016, against the state trend, Czaja increased the first vote result in his constituency of Marzahn-Hellersdorf 5 by 5.8 to 47.4 percent and thus again defended his direct mandate. It is the strongest result of all direct candidates across Berlin.

As the previous government partners SPD and CDU lost their majority in the House of Representatives as a result of the election result and a red-red-green coalition was formed, Czaja resigned from the state government on December 8, 2016 when the second Senate Müller took office . Successors were Elke Breitenbach ( Die Linke ) in the Office for Integration, Labor and Social Affairs and Dilek Kolat ( SPD ) in the Office for Health, Care and Equality.

Other engagement

Mario Czaja is a member of the friends' association of the Kaulsdorfer Ulmenschule, sponsor of the Wilhelminian style museum in the Mahlsdorf manor , member of the Friends of Gardens of the World Association and patron of the non-profit Librileo project. His football heart beats for 1. FC Union . He was also the first chairman of the volleyball Bundesliga team at that time, Volley Dogs Berlin . Since November 2018 he has been President of the German Red Cross Berlin.

Private

Czaja is married and has one daughter. 1997 Czaja was due to desertion sentenced to a small fine after he had not made the invitation to the Bundeswehr result. Instead, he ended up doing community service. Czaja's younger brother Sebastian Czaja is active in the Berlin FDP and since the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016, FDP parliamentary group leader in the House of Representatives.

2015 refugee crisis

In the summer of 2015, Czaja came under fire when the State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin (LaGeSo), which he oversees, could no longer control the increasing influx of refugees and talk of a humanitarian crisis. The senator, who is considered a good communicator but hesitant and not very assertive, was made head of a daily meeting of a crisis team on August 11, 2015, which is supposed to organize faster admission procedures, more accommodation and employees for refugee work. At the end of August, the situation had worsened and the district mayor of Berlin-Mitte , Christian Hanke , sharply criticized Czaja's inaction. In October, further delays in the construction or the preparation of permanent accommodation caused criticism even among fellow senators. Czaja was asked to resign several times, according to press reports he is said to have offered him in a closed session, but this was rejected because others could not have coped with the situation on the Lageso better. At the beginning of December 2015, over 40 lawyers filed charges against Czaja and Lageso President Allert for assault and coercion while in office. All proceedings were discontinued.

Education controversy

In February 2006, a report by Spiegel Online announced that Czaja had obtained his degree as a " Diplom-Ökonom " ( diploma economist ), which he had stated on his website and in the House of Representatives' manual, at the so-called Free University of Teufen / Appenzell Ausserrhoden - allegedly through a postgraduate degree Studies from 2002 to 2005 - acquired. Degrees from this institution are not recognized as academic titles in Germany. The Free University of Teufen is known as a title mill , which does not award academic degrees for a corresponding performance, but for payment. It is not recognized as a university in Switzerland, has no right to award doctorates and may not award any academic degrees. Czaja then withdrew from the Committee on Science and Research. He began studying business administration at the Technical University of Wildau (FH) in Brandenburg in September 2006 and graduated in December 2010 with a degree in business administration with the distinction “with distinction”.

honors and awards

On October 10, 2016, the German Society for Interdisciplinary Emergency and Acute Medicine (DGINA) awarded the Health Senator at the time with the David Williams Award for his long-term commitment to establishing professional emergency care in Berlin. This includes the binding specification of certain quality standards such as personnel and equipment specifications for emergency rooms. In addition, the first portal practice in Berlin was introduced during Czaja's tenure. It is used to ensure outpatient care when there are no consultation hours at clinics, in order to relieve emergency services.

Fonts

  • Business opportunities and risks of the practice clinic model for the resident specialist (= Wildauer publication series / corporate management and corporate law. ). Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-8305-1937-0 (diploma thesis).

literature

Web links

Commons : Mario Czaja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Heine: Refugees in Berlin. Mario Czaja is no longer considerate. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 12, 2015 (page 2).
  2. ↑ Christine Richter : The election winner. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 25, 2006, accessed October 30, 2011 .
  3. ↑ In Neukölln there is a shortage of 185 general practitioners, while Charlottenburg has 133 too many. BZ Berlin, February 16, 2013, accessed on September 29, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Agreement sought in the negotiations on the Berlin Social Framework Agreement . Press release. In: Berlin.de .
  5. ^ Tasks and goals of the Berlin patient representative ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Berlin.de .
  6. ↑ More hospital beds for the elderly. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 18, 2013, accessed June 20, 2013 .
  7. ↑ grass. Broadside against stoners. In: taz.de , May 22, 2012, accessed on June 4, 2012.
  8. ↑ Opening of the hygiene center at Zoo station. 12/08/2015. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Closing event Berlin Cold Aid. In: www.gebewo.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Elections to the House of Representatives 2016 - Marzahn-Hellersdorf - Elected. Retrieved October 17, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Assumption of patronage - Berlin Senator for Health and Social Affairs supports Librileo , website of the "Librileo" project from September 12, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2015
  12. ^ Ralf Kuring: 1st chairman :. In: www.volley-dogs.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Berlin Red Cross . Organization chart from November 19, 2018
  14. ↑ Social Senator Mario Czaja became a father. Berliner Morgenpost, March 28, 2013, accessed on September 29, 2013 .
  15. ↑ CDU politician has to pay a fine. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 30, 1997, accessed October 30, 2011 .
  16. ^ Hannes Heine: Refugees in Berlin. Mario Czaja is no longer considerate. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 12, 2015.
  17. ↑ PM District Mayor Hanke August 25, 2015 "Mr. Senator Czaja: Finally take political responsibility and decide!"
  18. ↑ Thorkit Treichel: Berlin Senate criticizes Mario Czaja: The opening of the Berlin refugee accommodation is delayed. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 9, 2015.
  19. ↑ www.tagesspiegel.de: Berlin's CDU is looking for its future, from September 21, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2016
  20. ↑ Berliner Zeitung online on December 7th. 2015 : Lawyers file criminal charges against Mario Czaja and Franz Allert
  21. ↑ Andreas Abel: Investigations against Berlin's Social Senator Czaja stopped. In: www.morgenpost.de. Retrieved August 10, 2016 .
  22. ^ Diploma from Titelmühle: CDU deputy in distress. In: Der Spiegel . February 15, 2006, accessed October 30, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Holger Schmale: Fallen title heroes , Frankfurter Rundschau on February 16, 2011, accessed on April 30, 2020
  24. ↑ Health Senator Mario Czaja honored with David Williams Award - German Foundation for Acute and Emergency Medicine . In: German Foundation for Acute and Emergency Medicine . October 11, 2016 ( stiftung-notfall.de [accessed February 15, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Czaja, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin