Reinhard Kahl (politician)

Reinhard Kahl (2013)

Reinhard Kahl (born October 4, 1948 in Allendorf (Eder) ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1967 to 1971, Kahl studied politics, mathematics and education at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and worked from 1972 to 1983 as a secondary school teacher and vice principal.

politics

Kahl has been a member of the SPD since 1967 and was chairman of the SPD local association Allendorf (Eder) for many years.

From 1972 to 1993 and from 2001 to 2016 he was a member of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district assembly , from 1980 to 1991 and from 2001 to 2016 he was chairman of the SPD district assembly. In October 2015, Kahl announced that he would no longer run for the district council and resigned from the local parliament in March 2016.

Since the state election in 1983, Kahl was a member of the Hessian state parliament. He was elected deputy chairman several times by the parliamentary group and was appointed parliamentary manager from February 2003 to the end of 2008. In the 12th legislative period (1987–1991) he served as chairman of the cultural policy committee , in the 14th parliamentary term (1995–1999) as chairman of the subcommittee for establishment plans. Since 1999 he has been deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Hessian State Center for Political Education. He was also a member of the Council of Elders , the Budget Committee and the Presidium of the Hessian State Parliament . In the state elections in 2008 he ran again as a direct candidate in the Waldeck-Frankenberg II constituency and was able to prevail against Claudia Ravensburg , candidate of the CDU , among others .

In 1994 Kahl was a member of the 10th and 2004 a member of the 12th Federal Assembly .

Kahl did not run in the state elections in 2013, his successor was Daniela Sommer from Frankenberg. Like Kahl before, Sommer moved into the Hessian state parliament via the state list.

Political positions

In the following the state election 2013 debate on the - before the election excluded explicitly - formation of the Left Party tolerated red-green state government under a possible prime minister Andrea Ypsilanti , represented Kahl with sharp words, the position of the national party leadership. The former interior minister, state party chairman and SPD top candidate from 2003 , Gerhard Bökel , called on Kahl to leave the SPD. The parliamentary group colleagues Carmen Everts , Silke Tesch and Jürgen Walter , who rejected the planned government constellation, described Kahl as "traitors". In the early state elections in Hesse in 2009 , he lost his constituency, but was able to move into the state parliament again via the state list.

Other offices

Kahl was a member of the board of directors of Sparkasse Waldeck-Frankenberg and a former treasurer on the board of the think tank Institut Solidarische Moderne .

literature

Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 291 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 204.

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Kahl - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

↑ Thomas Kobbe: Farewell to politics: SPD parliamentary group leader Reinhard Kahl in an interview. In: hna.de . October 19, 2015, archived from the original on March 29, 2017 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .
↑ Hessen has voted: State election on January 27, 2008. In: hr-online.de . Archived from the original on January 31, 2008 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .
↑ Dr. Daniela Sommer, Member of the State Parliament. In: SPD parliamentary group in Hesse. Archived from the original on March 29, 2017 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .
↑ Thomas Holl: Protest against SPD dissenters: “A queasy feeling”. In: faz.net . November 10, 2008, accessed December 1, 2018 .
^ The board of directors of the institute. Institute for Solidarity Modernism, archived from the original on April 11, 2010 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kahl, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Allendorf (Eder)

[1] Thomas Kobbe: Farewell to politics: SPD parliamentary group leader Reinhard Kahl in an interview. In: hna.de . October 19, 2015, archived from the original on March 29, 2017 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .

[2] Hessen has voted: State election on January 27, 2008. In: hr-online.de . Archived from the original on January 31, 2008 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .

[3] Dr. Daniela Sommer, Member of the State Parliament. In: SPD parliamentary group in Hesse. Archived from the original on March 29, 2017 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .

[4] Thomas Holl: Protest against SPD dissenters: “A queasy feeling”. In: faz.net . November 10, 2008, accessed December 1, 2018 .

[5] The board of directors of the institute. Institute for Solidarity Modernism, archived from the original on April 11, 2010 ; accessed on December 1, 2018 .