Matthias W. Birkwald

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Matthias W. Birkwald (born September 28, 1961 in Münster ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2009 .

biography

Matthias W. Birkwald was born in Münster / Westphalia and moved to Cologne in 1964 . He is single and non-denominational.

Matthias W. Birkwald passed his Abitur at the municipal high school in Erftstadt-Lechenich in 1981 and studied political science , sociology , philosophy and political economy in Cologne , Bonn and Bremen . In 1990 he graduated as a social scientist. Especially after his studies, Birkwald became involved in state and federal politics, was a member of the Young Democrats / Young Left NRW, the PDS and the WASG. He ran several times for a seat in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the Bundestag. From 1990 to 1994 he acted as a full-time youth education officer and honorary state manager of the Young Democrats / Young Left North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1994 he was the campaign manager of the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of the PDS. From 1994 to 2002 he was a research assistant in the PDS parliamentary group . From 2003 to 2005 Matthias W. Birkwald was an advisor to the Berlin Senator for Social and Health Affairs Heidi Knake-Werner for the areas of social affairs and migration. From 2005 to 2009 he was head of Lothar Bisky's parliamentary office in the German Bundestag. He is a member of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , the Solidarity Modern Institute , the Children of Sisyfos - Freundeskreis Erasmus Schöfer eV and in the Central Cathedral Association of Cologne from 1842 .

Political party

From 1980 to 1996 Birkwald was a member of the young democrats on the left of the Jusos , which until the turn of 1982 were a youth association closely related to the FDP . In 1986 he joined IG Metall . From 1988 to 1990 Matthias W. Birkwald was a member of the renewal of the German Communist Party in Cologne and the Rhineland district.

Since the end of 1993 he was a member of the Democratic Socialism Party (PDS), since 2005 a member of the WASG and since the formation of the new party from these two he is now a member of the party Die Linke. At the PDS he held several delegate mandates.

Birkwald was the first direct candidate in the 1994 federal election in Cologne's southwest. In 2000 he ran for the PDS as a direct candidate for the NRW state elections in Cologne and on the state list . In the federal elections in 2002 , 2005 , 2009 and 2013 as well as in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 , he was again a direct candidate for the PDS, the Left Party and the Left in the Cologne II federal constituency and the Cologne I state constituency .

At the founding party congress of the party Die Linke in June 2007, Matthias W. Birkwald took part as a delegate of the Federal Working Group on Civil Rights and Democracy. Within the Left, Birkwald has joined the Socialist Left . He worked in the working group “For a modern, repression-free, needs-covering minimum social security” and is committed to a “solidarity minimum pension”, the central principles of which he developed.

Matthias W. Birkwald has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Public offices

In the federal election on September 27, 2009 , Matthias W. Birkwald entered the German Bundestag on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was a full member and chairman of the Left in the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs and spokesman for his group's pension policy. He was also a deputy member of the Petitions Committee, the Enquete Commission “Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life - Paths to Sustainable Business and Social Progress in the Social Market Economy” and a full member of project group 2 “Development of a holistic prosperity / progress indicator”.

In the general election in 2013 he was first re-elected. He was still the pension policy spokesman for the left-wing parliamentary group, chairman and full member of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs and a deputy member of the Petitions Committee.

Since November 2014 he has been Parliamentary Managing Director of the Left Party in the German Bundestag. In the 19th electoral period after the 2017 federal election , Matthias W. Birkwald is a full member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee and its deputy chairman. In this committee he is chairman of the left parliamentary group. He is also deputy chairman of the Franco-German and Italian-German parliamentary groups and a member of the German-Spanish-Portuguese parliamentary group. Matthias W. Birkwald has been a member of the Automobiles Kulturgut parliamentary group since 2013. He is also a full member of the Board of Trustees of the House of History Foundation in Bonn . Since 2019 he has also been a member of the parliamentary group of Foolish Customs.

Trivia

In 2018, Matthias W. Birkwald was named by Tagesspiegel as the MP who made the most heckling calls.

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Web links

Commons : Matthias W. Birkwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solidarity minimum pension instead of old-age poverty - the pension concept of the party and the parliamentary group DIE LINKE on the homepage of Matthias W. Birkwald
  2. ↑ "The interjection is an instrument of defensive democracy" in the Tagesspiegel
personal data
SURNAME Birkwald, Matthias W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DIE LINKE), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster