Michel Wolter

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Michel Wolter

Michel Wolter (born September 13, 1962 in Luxembourg City ) is a Luxembourg politician of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) .

Life

Wolter grew up in Esch an der Alzette . His father was the journalist and politician Jean Wolter (1926–1980), most recently Minister of the Interior of Luxembourg. Michel Wolter completed his secondary studies in Esch and Echternach . From 1981 to 1985 he successfully studied economics at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Professionally, Wolter worked successively from 1986 to 1995 in the field of the administration of captive reinsurance companies, a trust company and professional reinsurance. Since the end of 2006 he has held various board memberships in Luxembourg companies.

Wolter is married, has three grown children and lives in Niederkerschen .

politics

In 1984, at the age of 21, Wolter was elected the youngest member of the CSV's list to date in the Luxembourg Parliament . He was directly re-elected in 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2013 and 2018.

Between 1985 and 1990 he was president of the CSJ, the youth organization of the CSV. From January 1988 to July 1992 he was a member of the municipal council of Esch an der Alzette , and after changing residence in the municipal council of Niederkerschen from January 1994 to January 1995.

On January 26, 1995, Wolter was appointed Minister of the Interior, Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform. After the state elections on June 13, 1999, Wolter was again Minister of the Interior, with expanded competencies in the areas of state planning, police and water management. After the state elections on June 13, 2004, Wolter left the government at his own request and moved back to parliament, where he held the post of parliamentary group leader of the CSV until 2009. In November 2009 he was elected to succeed François Biltgen as party president of the CSV. He was party president until 2014.

From January 2006 Wolter was again a member of the community council of Niederkerschen . In early 2010 he became mayor of Niederkerschen. After the local elections in 2011 and the merger of the communities of Niederkerschen and Küntzig , he became mayor of the community of Käerjeng . In the 2017 municipal elections, he was confirmed in his post.

Web links

Commons : Michel Wolter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Michel Wolter in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible). Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  2. Dani Schumacher: In the sign of renewal . Luxemburger Wort, November 16, 2009. Retrieved from the CSV website on May 27, 2013.
  3. ^ Wolter new mayor. In: Luxemburger Wort Online. December 17, 2009, accessed February 17, 2013 .
  4. Michel Wolter sworn in: Former Minister of the Interior, successor to Jeannot Halsdorf. In: Luxemburger Wort Online. January 4, 2010, accessed February 8, 2014 .