Ralf Wieland

Ralf Wieland

Ralf Wieland (born December 11, 1956 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German politician ( SPD ) in Berlin . He is President of the Berlin House of Representatives .

biography

From 1975 to 1977 Wieland trained as a forwarding agent and then worked in the forwarding department until 1986. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a consultant at the Senate Department for Building and Housing, from 1997 to 1999 at the Senate Department for Urban Development, Environmental Protection and Technology.

politics

Wieland joined the SPD in 1973, moved to Berlin in 1977 and held various party offices. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . In 2016 he was directly elected to the House of Representatives in the constituency center 6 with 25.0 percent. From 1999 to 2004 he was regional manager of the Berlin SPD. From 2004 to 2011 he was chairman of the main committee of the Berlin House of Representatives.

In the 2011 Berlin election , Wieland was re-elected to the House of Representatives. Since the then incumbent parliamentary president Walter Momper had not run for parliament again for reasons of age, the SPD, as the strongest parliamentary group, had to decide on his successor. In the nomination by the SPD parliamentary group on October 18, 2011, Wieland prevailed against his party colleague Iris Spranger , so that Wieland was elected president on October 27, 2011 by the House of Representatives with 129 of 149 members.

In the 2016 Berlin election , Wieland was able to defend his constituency.

Wieland was re-elected in the constituent session of the new House of Representatives on October 27, 2016 with 136 votes in favor, 18 against and 6 abstentions.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives for the 18th electoral term
• Homepage of Ralf Wieland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Wieland at the Berlin House of Representatives ( Memento from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: 17th Berlin House of Representatives from October 27, 2011.