Norbert Post

Norbert Post (born June 16, 1952 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and was a long-time member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

education

After attending the primary school in Damm, Norbert Post switched to the mathematical and natural science high school in Mönchengladbach, where he graduated from high school in 1972.

From 1973 to 1976 he studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland , Neuss department. He passed the first state examination in 1976, the second state examination followed in 1978. From 1979 to 1988 he worked as a teacher and from 1989 to 1991 as vice-principal at the Katholische Hauptschule Stadtmitte in Mönchengladbach. From there he moved to the newly founded Hardt comprehensive school in Mönchengladbach, where he was department head until 1998. From 1998 to June 2000 he was the comprehensive school director at this school.

Political career

Norbert Post ran for the first time for the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in the state elections in 2000 and won the direct mandate in the Mönchengladbach-Nord constituency with 43.9 percent of the votes. He repeated this success in the same constituency in the 2005 state elections with 53.1 percent, in the 2010 state elections with 47.2 percent and in the 2012 state elections with 40.3 percent of the vote. In the electoral term of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from 2012 onwards, he was a full member of the Committee for Labor, Health, Social Affairs and Integration and the Committee for Schools and Further Education. From July 2010 to 2012 he was one of the deputy chairmen of the CDU parliamentary group.

Norbert Post is a member of the Mönchengladbach City Council. In the local elections in 2009 , he won the direct mandate in the Neuwerk constituency with 53.7 percent of the vote. In the local elections in 2009, he also ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach, but was defeated in this election to the incumbent with 31.94% of the votes cast. Norbert Post was a member of the Neuwerk district council and was district chairman of the Neuwerk district for 25 years before it was merged into the new Mönchengladbach-Ost district in 2009, consisting of the Neuwerk, Giesenkirchen and Volksgarten districts.

In the 2012 to 2017 electoral term, he served on the Main Committee and the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Seniors.

Norbert Post is married and has two sons.

Web links

• Website of Norbert Post ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Norbert Post at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ralf Jüngermann: Mönchengladbach: Four districts - a trembling victory. Rheinische Post, February 27, 2008, accessed on October 21, 2018 .