Reinhard Hegewald

Reinhard Hegewald (born June 2, 1964 in Loppersum , Aurich district ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and former member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life and work

After graduation in 1983 at the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium Emden and two years of training as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr Hegewald completed in 1985 a business degree at the University of Applied Sciences Ostfriesland in Emden for business graduate . From 1989 he worked in controlling at Otto-Versand , then from 1990 - with two interruptions due to his state parliament mandate - as a speaker, deputy managing director and managing director at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for East Friesland and Papenburg , based in Emden. His areas of responsibility essentially included transport and port policy, trade, the service sector, tax policy, tourism and foreign trade. He has been Head of Regional Policy there since June 2013.

Reinhard Hegewald is married and has two sons.

Political party

He has been a member of the CDU since 1981. He was a founding member and chairman of the Junge Union in the community of Hinte . Since 1992, with brief interruptions, he has been a member of the board of the CDU district association Emden, from 2004 to 2010 as district chairman. Since 1994 he has also been on the board of the CDU district association East Friesland, since September 2012 as district chairman. He is a member of the state committee “Labor, Economy, Infrastructure” of the CDU in Lower Saxony.

Candidacies and offices

Since 1991 Hegewald has been a member of the city council of Emden. From 1996 to 2006 and since 2010 he has been deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there. Since 2006 he has been chairman of the city council committee for economy, port and tourism.

After Hegewald was initially unsuccessful in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2003 , he replaced Friedrich-Otto Ripke in the state parliament in 2005 . Here he was a member of the inquiry commission “Demographic Change - Challenge to a Future Lower Saxony” and various committees of the state parliament. In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2008 , Hegewald ran as a direct candidate in the Emden / Norden constituency , but won fewer votes than the SPD candidate Hans-Dieter Haase and therefore did not return to the state parliament. However, in 2011 he moved up to the state parliament for André Wiese , who had been elected mayor of Winsen (Luhe) . In the state elections in 2013, he was again defeated by Haase and came in sixth on the CDU list of successors.

In 2006 Reinhard Hegewald ran for the office of Lord Mayor of the city of Emden, but lost to the incumbent incumbent Alwin Brinkmann (SPD).

In the 2009 federal election , Hegewald ran as a CDU direct candidate in the Aurich - Emden constituency against the then SPD state chairman Garrelt Duin . Hegewald was able to unite 25.84 percent of the first votes. Despite losses, Duin secured the constituency with 44.37 percent of the votes cast. After the election, Hegewald was also unable to enter the Bundestag via the state list.

In the 2017 federal election , Hegewald ran again in the Aurich-Emden constituency, but was again unable to assert himself and his state list position was also insufficient for entry into the German Bundestag.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chamber of Commerce and Industry for East Friesland and Papenburg: Organigram , accessed on July 27, 2014.
2. ^ Aurich district: WK 25 - Aurich / Emden. Bundestag election 2009 / subsequent recording . Accessed July 27, 2014.
3. ↑ Home page of September 30, 2009: SPD and Duin punished by the voters . Accessed July 27, 2014.