Ralf Christoffers

Ralf Christoffers (2016)

Ralf Christoffers (born October 8, 1956 in Rostock ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). Christoffers was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament between 1994 and 2019 and was state chairman of the PDS Brandenburg from 2001 to 2005. From 2009 to 2014 he was Minister for Economic Affairs and European Affairs for Brandenburg .

Life

From 1973 to 1981 Christoffers completed vocational training as a shipbuilder and locksmith. From 1981 to 1982 he acquired the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification at the FDJ “Wilhelm Pieck” youth college . From 1983 to 1986 he studied social sciences at the party college "Karl Marx" and then worked until 1990 as a lecturer in philosophy at the (international) youth college "Wilhelm Pieck". From 1991 to 1994 he was a researcher in the PDS-LL parliamentary group of the Brandenburg state parliament. Christoffers is married and has five children.

politics

Christoffers joined the PDS in 1990 (Die Linkspartei.PDS from July 2005, Die Linke from June 2007). Since October 1994 he has been a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and from 2001 to 2005 he was chairman of the Brandenburg state association of the PDS.

From September 2007 to November 2009 Christoffers was deputy chairman of the Die Linke parliamentary group. From November 2007 until the end of the legislative period he was also Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance. From 2010 to 2014 he was a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union. Since June 2015 he has been chairman of the Die Linke parliamentary group.

Since March 26, 2010 October 2014, he was one of four representatives of the state of Brandenburg on the supervisory board of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH .

Minister in Brandenburg

From 2010 to 2014 Christoffers was Minister for Economic Affairs and European Affairs in Brandenburg, succeeding Ulrich Junghanns , CDU . Like him, he is a member of the Presidium of the Oskar Patzelt Foundation .

Because of his economic policy, which, in accordance with the coalition agreement with the SPD, is also geared towards the continuation of open-cast lignite mining in Lusatia , Christoffers was heavily criticized within the party. In a newspaper interview at the end of 2010, Wolfgang Nešković , who was then left-wing member of the Bundestag from the Brandenburg constituency of Cottbus / Spree-Neiße, described Christoffers as a wrong choice and accused him of making politics to the right of the SPD. The majority of the Brandenburg state association followed Christoffers on the path of gradually phasing out lignite by 2040, as the party had stipulated in its election manifestos.

Ralf Christoffers is a member of the board of directors of Sparkasse Barnim and the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB).

See also

• Cabinet Platzeck III
• Cabinet Woidke I

literature

• President of the Landtag Brandenburg (ed.): Landtag Brandenburg : Names - Dates - Facts. 3rd electoral term 1999–2004. 5th edition. Potsdam 2004, here: p. 9.
• President of the Landtag Brandenburg (ed.): Landtag Brandenburg : Names - Dates - Facts. 4th electoral term 2004–2009. 3. Edition. Potsdam 2007, here: p. 30.

Web links

Commons : Ralf Christoffers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography page for the 7th electoral term in the Brandenburg state parliament
• personal homepage
• Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release from the Ministry ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ Daniel Delhaes, Silke Kersting: The advice of the clueless . In: Handelsblatt . No. 7 , January 10, 2013, p. 46 .
3. ↑ Newspaper article. ( Memento of January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Potsdam Latest News , December 29, 2010