Ralf Nagel

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Senator Nagel at the opening of the Bremerhaven Festival Week on July 25, 2007

Ralf Nagel (born March 8, 1959 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2007 to 2010 he was Senator for Economics and Ports and Senator for Justice and the Constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

biography

education and profession

Nagel attended a technical high school. After graduating from high school, he did his military service in the German Navy. He studied political science , sociology and psychology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and graduated with a Magister Artium in 1985 . In 1982 he joined the SPD . In 1985 he became a research assistant with Gunter Huonker, member of the Bundestag(SPD), the former Minister of State with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. In 1991 he switched to the SPD parliamentary group as a consultant for regional planning, construction and urban planning. From 1992 to 1994, Nagel was finally head of the housing subsidy department in the Ministry for Urban Development, Housing and Transport of the State of Brandenburg . From January 2006 to June 2007, Nagel was a member of the board of Putz & Partner Unternehmensberatung AG in Hamburg .

At the beginning of 2010 he became General Manager of the Association of German Shipowners in Hamburg. He sits down z. B. advocate protecting German merchant ships against piracy off the Somali coast with armed forces on board.

Ralf Nagel has three children.

Public offices

In 1994, Nagel was appointed State Secretary in the state government of Saxony-Anhalt and in November 2000 as State Secretary in the federal government. After the state elections in 1994, Nagel was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in July 1994 . In 1999 he moved to the Ministry of Economics and Technology in the same position, until in 2000 he was finally appointed State Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing . After the federal election in 2005 , Nagel left office.

After the designated port senator Ulrich Nussbaum rejected the office on June 26, 2007, Nagel was proposed at short notice by the Bremerhaven-based SPD, traditionally entitled to do so . Nagel stated that he wanted to take up residence in Bremerhaven so that this city could be represented in the Bremen Senate. On June 29, 2007, he was elected to succeed Jörg Kastendiek (CDU) as Senator for Economics and Ports and Senator for Justice and the Constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . At the end of 2009 to 2010 he was heavily criticized in the Weser-Kurier and then by the CDU. On February 11, 2010 he resigned from the Senate at his own request, and on February 15, 2010 he was appointed General Manager of the Association of German Shipowners . Martin Günthner became his successor as Senator .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RP 28 December 2011
  2. ↑ Welt Online : Stress with SPD - Bremen Senator Nagel switches to the economy , February 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ VDR press release on the appointment of Ralf Nagel as General Manager , February 11, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Nagel, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe