Ralf Kapschack
Ralf Kapschack (born December 24, 1954 in Witten ) is a German journalist and social democratic politician .
Life
After graduating from high school, Kapschack completed community service . From 1975 he studied economics with an elective subject social psychology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and graduated in 1980 as an economist . Kapschak then co-authored a report for the European Commission on the subject of “part-time shift work” in various European countries as part of the “Work and Health” research group in Dortmund. For the “Innovation and Technology Transfer Center of the Universities of the Ruhr Area” (ITZ) he dealt with labor market problems in the Ruhr area.
Kapschack lives in Witten, is married and has two grown sons.
journalist
1981 Kapschak sat in on Deutschlandfunk in Cologne; then until December 1982 he worked as a volunteer at the DLF and then as a freelance journalist for broadcasters. In February 1984 he became editor at Westdeutscher Fernsehen , Landesstudio Dortmund. There he was involved in expanding regional reporting and moderated the Dortmund regional window and special programs. In 1987 Kapschack went to the Düsseldorf State Studio . There, in addition to moderating the regional window, he primarily devoted himself to national political reporting and worked on the conception of the new political magazine “ Westpol ”. From 1995 to 2004 Kapschack was the head of the state politics editorial team on WDR television. In 2004, Kapschack switched to the report program Hier und heute , where he was most recently editor-in-chief. He is a member of ver.di .
Others
From 1996 to 1998 he held teaching positions ("Practical Journalism") at the Wilhelms University in Münster , Institute for Journalism.
politics
Ralf Kapschack joined the SPD in 1972 and was chairman of the sub-district of the Young Socialists in the Ennepe-Ruhr district . 1981 Kapschack resigned from the SPD because of the NATO double resolution and joined the Democratic Socialists . After the federal election in 1987 , Kapschack rejoined the SPD. He is currently deputy chairman of the local association and a member of the sub-district executive committee of the SPD Ennepe-Ruhr. Since 2010 he has been press spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the 2013 Bundestag election , he succeeded Christel Humme as the SPD candidate for the new constituency 139 and entered the Bundestag as an elected direct candidate .
In the 19th German Bundestag , Kapschack is a full member of the Petitions Committee and the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs . He is also a deputy member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy .
Web links
- Ralf Kapschack
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Ralf Kapschack on abgeordnetenwatch.de
- WDR Print: Profile: Ralf Kappschak, A Commuter Who Remains Faithful to the Ruhr Area , No. 403 (November 2009) (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ^ WDR Print - Die Zeitung des Westdeutschen Rundfunks, No. 403 (Nov. 2009), p. 2
- ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kapschack, Ralf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |