Nicolaus Kern

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Nicolaus "Nico" Kern (born September 21, 1972 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( Pirate Party Germany ) and lawyer . From 2012 to 2017 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , where he was chairman of the committee for Europe and One World as well as a member of the legal committee, later also the budget and finance committee and the WestLB committee of inquiry. He was also the European political spokesman for the pirate faction in the state parliament and meanwhile its parliamentary manager.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1992, Kern first completed an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in Cologne. Then he also studied law in Cologne . After the first and second state examination he was appointed as 2003 Lawyer admitted.

In May 2009, Kern became politically active for the Pirate Party. Shortly afterwards he joined the party. Initially active in Viersen and Mönchengladbach, he was a co-founder of the Nierspiraten crew . In November 2009 he was elected the top candidate of the Pirate Party of North Rhine-Westphalia for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 .

Member of Parliament

In the early elections on May 13, 2012, he moved into the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia as a list candidate for the Pirate Party and founded the pirate faction in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia together with 19 other members.

There he was initially a full member of the Legal and European Committee and its chairman until March 2016. During this time he submitted the first application ever to raise a subsidiarity complaint in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. Other parliamentary initiatives concerned the introduction of a European unemployment insurance scheme, data retention , the possible privatization of the drinking water supply through the free trade agreement TTIP , the independence of the North Rhine-Westphalian public prosecutor's offices and an EU infringement procedure against the United Kingdom. He opposed the introduction of a debt brake in North Rhine-Westphalia and against (partial) privatization of federal highways within the framework of the new regulation of the federal-state financial equalization.

Together with another member of the Pirate Party, Dirk Schatz and the Düsseldorf lawyer and former Pirate Party member Udo Vetter , he reported the then NRW Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans for buying the tax evaders CDs .

At the end of the electoral term on May 31, 2017, Kern left the state parliament.

Private

Kern lives in Marl . He is married to Melanie Kern, who sits for the pirates in the Recklinghausen district .

Web links

Commons : Nicolaus Kern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Department Nierspiraten on wiki.piratenpartei.de. Retrieved May 31, 2012
  2. ^ Viersener pirate sails into the state parliament on rp-online.de. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Subsidiarity complaint" on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Solidarity and stability in the euro zone: No thinking bans on European unemployment insurance" on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ "EU data retention directive violates the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and must not be implemented!" on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ "The transatlantic free trade and investment agreement TTIP fundamentally runs counter to North Rhine-Westphalian interests!" Retrieved from landtag.nrw.de on October 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Abolish the right to give political instructions to public prosecutors - enable self-administered justice - strengthen the separation of powers." on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ "British monitoring program" Tempora "is against Union law: initiate infringement proceedings against Great Britain!" on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  9. ↑ "The debt brake is actually a brake on the future and an accelerator for the privatization and de-democratization of the state: NRW says no to the debt brake!" on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ No blank check for an 'infrastructure society transport' - NRW must now put a stop to the threatened privatization of the autobahns! on landtag.nrw.de, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  11. ↑ http://de.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idDEBEE87G02Z20120817
  12. ↑ https://blog.piratenpartei-nrw.de/recklinghausen/kreistag-re/
personal data
SURNAME Kern, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kern, Nico (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Pirate Party), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne