Rainer Thiel (politician)
Rainer Christian Thiel (born September 20, 1951 in Heiligenstadt / Eichsfeld ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from May 31, 2012 to May 31, 2017 .
education and profession
Rainer Thiel was born on September 20, 1951 in Heiligenstadt im Eichsfeld. His family moved to Montabaur in the Westerwald in 1956 . After completing secondary school in 1968, he completed vocational training as a high-voltage electrician at Siemens Glashütte in Wirges from 1968 to 1972 . In 1967 he became a member of the chemical, paper and ceramic industrial union, and from 1972 of IG Metall . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked on assembly in Argentina until 1973. From 1973 to 1983 he worked as an industrial electrician at the Böhler stainless steel plant in Düsseldorf. 1980 to 1981 he attended the Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt as an IG Metall scholarship holder . From 1983 to 1989 Thiel worked in adult education, until 1985 for “ Arbeit und Leben NRW”, then with the DGB -Landesiertel Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 1989 he became managing director of the SPD in the Neuss district and remained so until 2011.
politics
Thiel has been a member of the SPD since 1970. From 1989 to 2011 he was managing director of the SPD district association Rhein-Kreis Neuss. In 1995 he was elected to the district council of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss . Initially environmental policy spokesman and honorary managing director, he was initially deputy chairman from January 2005, before becoming chairman of the SPD district parliamentary group in March 2009. Thiel has been a member of the lignite committee of the district president of Cologne since 2004 and a member of the Düsseldorf regional council since 2009 . He is also a member of the " Region Cologne / Bonn eV" and the "Innovationsregion Rheinisches Revier".
In 2009 he stood as a candidate for the SPD in the district election in the Rhine district of Neuss. He achieved the second best result of the four applicants with 33.8 percent, but had to admit defeat to CDU competitor Hans-Jürgen Petrauschke .
In the state elections in 2012 , Thiel was elected as a direct candidate of the SPD in the constituency of Rhein-Kreis Neuss II with 39.7% of the votes in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament and prevailed against the incumbent Wiljo Wimmer . From May 31, 2012 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was a member of the committee for climate protection, the environment, nature conservation, agriculture and consumer protection, as well as the committee for economy, energy, industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and crafts. He was also a full member and spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Climate Protection Plan subcommittee of the Committee for Climate Protection, Environment, Nature Conservation, Agriculture. From April 2013 to May 2015 he was a member of the study commission on the "Future of the Chemical Industry" in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he also acts as the spokesman for his parliamentary group. Since June 2015 he has been a member and also spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the study commission of the "Future of Crafts and Medium-Sized Enterprises" in North Rhine-Westphalia.
For the 2017 state election, Rainer Thiel ran again in the constituency of Rhein Kreis Neuss II as a direct SPD candidate, but did not return to the state parliament.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ District election 2009 in Rhein-Kreis Neuss ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 31, 2015.
- ^ State election May 13, 2012 in the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss . Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ^ Rheinische Post: Clear vote for Rainer Thiel . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiel, Rainer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thiel, Rainer Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heiligenstadt , Eichsfeld |