Niels Annen

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Niels Annen (2020)

Niels Annen (born April 6, 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013 , to which he was a member from 2005 to 2009, and since 2018 Minister of State at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs . From 2001 to 2004 he was federal chairman of the Jusos .

education

After graduating from the Peter-Petersen-Schule in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel in 1992 , Annen initially did his community service in the State Youth Association in Hamburg . He broke off a degree in history , geography and Latin American studies at the University of Hamburg , which he had started in 1994 , after failing the Latinum . In 2010 he obtained a bachelor's degree in history and Spanish at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where the Latinum was not a requirement. In 2009 he was accepted into the Young Leader program of the German-American network Atlantik-Brücke , of which Annen is also a member. In 2011 he obtained a Masters in International Public Policy from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC , where he was also a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund from 2010 to 2011 . From 2011 to 2013 he was a research associate in the International Policy Analysis department of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

Party politician

Niels Annen at the SPD federal party conference 2015 in Berlin

In 1989, Annen joined the SPD.

Annen was deputy chairman of the international association of socialist and social democratic youth organizations IUSY from 2000 to 2001 and was a member of the Juso federal board. From 2001 to 2004 he was federal chairman of the Jusos. In 2003 Annen was elected to the SPD party executive committee, to which he belonged until 2019. Due to his Juso chairmanship, he was previously an advisory member of the committee.

From 2003 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of the Forum Democratic Left 21 . Since 2006 he has been co-editor of the spw magazine for socialist politics and economics and since 2017 a deputy member of the board of trustees of the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation .

MP

In the list of direct candidates for the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel constituency in the 2005 federal election , Annen prevailed against Dorothee Stapelfeldt with 58 to 31 votes . With 45.1 percent of the first votes, he won the direct mandate in the constituency. As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag , German engagement in Afghanistan and the Middle East was one of his main focuses. He was one of the three deputy spokesmen for the parliamentary left in the SPD parliamentary group and one of the three deputy chairmen of the German-Spanish parliamentary group .

At the conference of delegates for the election of the direct candidate in the constituency of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel in the federal election in 2009, he was defeated by the Hamburg Juso chairman Danial Ilkhanipour with 44 to 45 votes on November 15, 2008 . The delegates' conference was preceded by significant internal party disputes. In the election on September 27, 2009, Ilkhanipour was defeated by the CDU candidate Rüdiger Kruse with 23.8 to 31.3 percent of the vote.

For the nomination of the constituency candidate in the federal elections in 2013 , the SPD Eimsbüttel carried out a member survey for the first time, in which Annen prevailed against Ronald Hartwig with 86 to 11 percent of the votes. On December 12, 2012, he was elected constituency candidate with 96 percent of the delegate's votes. In the 2013 federal election, he won the constituency with 37.5 percent of the vote. From January 2014 until his appointment as Minister of State to the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs in March 2018, he was spokesman for the foreign policy working group of the SPD parliamentary group.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

With the formation of the Merkel IV cabinet , the new Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas appointed him Minister of State to the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs on March 14, 2018 . In addition to his counterparts Michael Roth (Europe) and Michelle Müntefering (international cultural policy), he is responsible for general foreign policy issues.

Controversy

In May 2014, Annen admitted that he had not paid any second home tax on his second home in Berlin for years. He paid them back. Investigations by the Berlin public prosecutor's office were discontinued in October 2014 because of insignificance.

Annens participation as Minister of State of the Foreign Office in an anniversary celebration for the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran caused severe criticism at home and abroad. The Iranian embassy in Berlin celebrated the takeover of power in 1979 in February 2019. Annen responded to the criticism with the words: "I have no regrets."

In 2019, Annen blocked the Jerusalem Post's Europe correspondent , Benjamin Weinthal, on Twitter , who had reported critical of the Iran issue. Annen only lifted the lock after receiving a warning from Weinthal.

Web links

Commons : Niels Annen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Niels Annen  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SPD member Niels Annen fails at Latinum spiegel.de, June 23, 2008
  2. ^ Niels Annen spiegel.de, February 8, 2010
  3. ↑ Annual report 2017/18 atlantik-bruecke.org
  4. ^ Niels Annen to join GMF as Senior Fellow gmfus.org, October 27, 2009
  5. ^ The leisure politician politik-kommunikation.de, December 1, 2011
  6. ↑ Organization helmut-schmidt.de
  7. ↑ Everything is open at the SPD welt.de, June 27, 2005
  8. ↑ Niels Annen loses his direct mandate spiegel.de, November 15, 2008
  9. ↑ Niels Annen wins member survey spdeimsbuettel.de, November 5, 2012
  10. ↑ Niels Annen is now officially a candidate for the Bundestag in Eimsbüttel spdeimsbuettel.de, December 12, 2012
  11. ↑ Niels Annen moves to the Foreign Office spiegel.de, March 9, 2018
  12. ↑ SPD politician Annen gives tax evasion to spiegel.de, May 12, 2014
  13. ↑ Investigations closed nielsannen.de, October 31, 2014
  14. ↑ Celebration visit at the Iranian embassy: "Have no regrets" dw.com, 19 February 2019
  15. ^ Felix Disselhoff: After Twitter blockade: Israeli journalist sued SPD Minister of State Niels Annen. . In: meedia.de , March 1st. 2019, accessed February 14, 2020.
  16. ↑ In a win for 'Post' reporter, diplomat forced to remove Twitter block. In: jpost.com. February 27, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Philipp Bovermann: Locked out on Twitter , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Annen, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg