Ralf Witzel

Ralf Witzel (born March 25, 1972 in Essen ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

education and profession

Witzel attended the Stadtwald-Gymnasium in Essen, where he graduated from high school in 1991. He then attended the commercial college for business and administration for a year. Until 1999, Witzel studied business administration (with a focus on personnel management and corporate management as well as social policy) at the University of Essen . After graduating in 1999, he worked as a personnel officer for executive development and international personnel management until 2005.

family

Ralf Witzel is single.

Political party

Witzel has been a member of the FDP since 1988. He was state chairman of the Liberal Schools of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1990 to 1992. From 1994 to 2003 he was chairman of the state association of NRW young liberals . Witzel has been chairman of the FDP district association in Essen since 2002 and chairman of the FDP district association Ruhr since 2010. He has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional board of the FDP since 1994.

MP

Ralf Witzel has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament since June 2, 2000 . He was always elected from the state list of his party and since 2005 has also stood as a candidate in the Essen IV state electoral district , where he received 12.2% ( 2000 , when the constituency was still called Essen VI ), 6.5% ( 2005 ), 5.1 % ( 2010 ), 6.1% ( 2012 ) and 10.1% ( 2017 ) of the first votes. From 2000 to 2005 he was education policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group and since 2005 parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group, as well as a member of the council of elders, the main committee (including media, Federal Council affairs) and the committee for schools and further education. Since 2017 he has been deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

In 2002 he linked the “ Project 18 ” of the FDP with the 18 victims of the Erfurt rampage known to date : “That is not the way we imagine Project 18.” Witzel apologized in a press release: “My actual speechlessness and sadness in the face of the terrible event found a completely wrong outlet. "

In 2007 the parliamentary leader of the Greens in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia claimed that Witzel had an application for school lunches with the words "If you always have the latest satellite dish on the roof and a lot of alcohol in your home, we don't have to finance anything." declined. Witzel had previously accused the Greens of violating "good morals and principles of decent behavior in the plenary hall".

Web links

• Ralf Witzel at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Project 18" - Bad joke from FDP politician Witzel. n-tv, April 29, 2002, accessed September 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Johannes Nitzschmann: FDP and Greens fight each other in the Düsseldorf state parliament - parliamentary missteps. In: (Memento of November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive). Retrieved September 28, 2017 .