Nikolaus Voss

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Nikolaus Voss (born October 6, 1961 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German political official . Since 2008 he has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

biography

education and profession

Voss attended the Polytechnic High School in Schwerin. From 1978 to 1980 he trained as a skilled horticultural worker in Potsdam, after which he did alternative military service as a construction soldier . From 1982 to 1989 he studied at the Theological Seminary in Leipzig , which he graduated with a degree in theology . During his studies he worked in the Leipzig Environmental Protection Working Group (AGU) . He was involved in the demonstrations in Leipzig.

After the red-red coalition under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff took office following the state elections in 1998 , Voss became its office manager. From 2001 to 2008 he was department head for the coordination of state and federal politics in the State Chancellery . From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of the administrative board of the Federal Employment Agency.

Voss is married and has five children.

politics

In 1990 Voss became the district manager of the SPD in Leipzig. In 1991 he switched to the SPD Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as state manager . He was chairman of the SPD in Schwerin.

On October 20, 2008, he was appointed State Secretary in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry for Social Affairs and Health, led by Manuela Schwesig (SPD), and since October 2011 Ministry for Labor, Equality and Social Affairs, which Birgit Hesse (SPD) headed from 2014 to 2016 and since 2016 Ministry for Social Affairs, Integration and Equal Opportunities , which Stefanie Drese (SPD) leads.

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Footnotes

  1. See Thomas Rudolph , Oliver Kloss , Rainer Müller , Christoph Wonneberger (ed. On behalf of the IFM-Archiv eV ): Weg in den Aufstand. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Araki, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941848-17-7 , ( preface as reading sample) pp. 65, 87, 113 and 321.