Rainer Arnold

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Rainer Arnold (born June 21, 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 he was defense policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group .

Life

After completing secondary school in 1967 at the Bernhausen Realschule, Arnold completed an apprenticeship as a telecommunications fitter until 1970 and then worked as a telecommunications advisor until 1973. After he had already obtained the advanced technical college entrance qualification in 1971 , he also passed the entrance examination at the Pedagogical University of Ludwigsburg in 1973 for studies without an Abitur . Here he studied from 1974 to 1978. In the following years from 1980 to 1998 Arnold was finally IT department manager and head of the organization department at the Stuttgart Adult Education Center. In 1983 he also completed a contact course in "adult education" at the Ludwigsburg University of Education.

Arnold is married and has one son.

Political party

He has been a member of the SPD since 1972. From 1981 to 1995 he was chairman of the SPD district association in Esslingen and from 1996 to 1997 a member of the state executive committee of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg .

MP

Arnold was a member of the city council of Filderstadt from 1980 to 1992 and of the district council of the Esslingen district from 1989 to 1994 . From 1994 to 1998 he was also a member of the regional assembly of the Stuttgart region .

From 1998 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Since October 2002 he has been the spokesman for the parliamentary group's working group for security issues and from November 2004 also a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group . He always entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list . From 2009 he was a member of the Bundestag Defense Committee . At that time, in this function, he did not state that he was a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Defense Technology , which he was obliged to do .

From 2014 Arnold was chairman of the German-Romanian parliamentary group. He did not run for the 2017 federal election.

Memberships

Arnold was a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

Political positions

Arnold supports the use of German soldiers in Afghanistan . In doing so, he admits that “no German politician is pushing (...) to send soldiers on combat missions.” In his opinion, “humanitarian aid always comes first.” The use of armed forces is necessary to improve the living conditions of the people can be improved in Afghanistan. Another task of the German military is to train the Afghan security forces so that they can maintain the security structures that have arisen. Because stable security structures, so Arnold, are the prerequisite for a downsizing and ultimately for a withdrawal of the German soldiers.

The use of tornado reconnaissance aircraft to spy out opponents of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in May and June 2007, which was criticized by the Greens MPs Hans-Christian Ströbele and Winfried Nachtwei as a breach of the constitution , Arnold assessed as a classic case of administrative assistance under Article 35 of the Basic Law : "It is crucial that the Bundeswehr does not take on any sovereign police tasks, such as barricading, checking people or searching houses."

Rainer Arnold considers the use of German tornadoes in Syria from December 2015 to be constitutionally and internationally protected. He also emphasizes that reconnaissance pilots make no contribution to careless bombing.

Web links

Commons : Rainer Arnold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Defense Committee ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) bundestag.de , online, accessed on September 18, 2014
  2. ^ Rainer Arnold discussed in Neckartenzlingen on the topic: Foreign missions of the Bundeswehr
  3. ↑ SPD criticizes use of tornados at G8 summit . Star . June 13, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2009.
  4. ↑ Bundestag decides on the Syria mission: "Reconnaissance planes are not a contribution to the bombing war" . Mirror . December 4, 2015. Accessed December 5, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart