Soeren Kosanke

Sören Kosanke 2016

Sören Kosanke (born February 4, 1977 in Dresden ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and between 2009 and 2019 a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament .

Life and work

Sören Kosanke was born in Dresden and grew up in Eberswalde . He graduated from high school in 1996 and then did his basic military service. From 1997 to 2000 he completed his professional training as an administrative clerk for the municipal administration of the state of Brandenburg . After completing his training, he went to Heidelberg to study philosophy, sociology and law at the University of Heidelberg . He completed his studies with a Magister Artium . From 2006 he initially worked as a project manager in Eberswalde, before he worked in 2007 as operations manager at the business training academy in Hennigsdorf. From 2007 to 2009 he worked as a personal advisor and business promoter for the city of Teltow. Sören Kosanke is married and has three children. He lives in Teltow.

politics

Political party

Sören Kosanke joined the SPD in 1998 and is a member of the SPD local association Teltow. From 2007 to 2011 he was state chairman of the Jusos Brandenburg. From 2010 to 2014 he was chairman of the SPD sub-district Potsdam-Mittelmark . Sören Kosanke has been chairman of the Teltow SPD local association since 2015 . Since 2016 he has been chairman of the Social Democrats in the Police (SiP) and thus an advisory member of the state board of the Brandenburg SPD.

Landtag mandate

In the state elections in 2009, Sören Kosanke, in the constituency of Potsdam-Mittelmark IV, was directly elected to the Brandenburg state parliament. From 2009 to 2010 he was a member of the Committee for Education, Youth and Sport. He has also been a member of the Economic Committee since 2009. In 2011 he became chairman of the committee. In addition, he has been a member of the Parliamentary Control Commission since 2010 and has been its chairman since 2015. Between 2010 and 2014, Kosanke was chairman of the committee of inquiry 5/1. In the state elections in 2014, Sören Kosanke again won the direct mandate in the constituency of Potsdam-Mittelmark IV. In the current legislative period, he was chairman of the parliamentary control commission and the interior committee as well as a member of the legal committee. He is the domestic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Further mandates and offices

In the local elections in 1998 Sören Kosanke was elected to a city parliament for the first time. In Eberswalde he was a city councilor until 2000. After the municipal elections in 2014, he was a member of the city ​​council of Teltow and the district council in Potsdam-Mittelmark. Until 2015 he was chairman of the SPD district parliamentary group, of which he still belongs to this day.

Lobbying

In November 2010, Sören Kosanke hosted a conversation with Vattenfall and the power plant supplier Hitachi about the future of lignite. The European subsidiary of the Swedish state company Vattenfall belonged to large parts of the Lusatian lignite area and Kosanke was the economic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group at the time. The meeting was arranged by the SPD subsidiary Network Media and was part of the so-called “forward talks”. The party-owned company was paid 9,500 euros by the two companies for the event entitled “Outlook for the Future - Energy Strategy 2020 in Brandenburg”.

Memberships

Since 2009 Sören Kosanke has been chairman of the association for the Teltower Rübchen . Among other things, the Rübchenverein has committed itself to protecting the trademark and revitalizing the market and is the organizer of the annual Rübchenfest in the Teltow district of Ruhlsdorf. He is also a founding member of the Foundation for the volunteer fire brigade in Teltow and the state of Brandenburg, the RSV Eintracht committed to the advisory board of the second largest sports club in 1949 eV He also is a member of the AWO , the Regional Business Association and the ver.di .

Web links

Commons : Sören Kosanke  - Collection of Images

• Biography page for the 7th electoral term in the Brandenburg state parliament
• Sören Kosanke - Official website
• Brandenburg Parliamentary Documentation - Database query formulator from the Brandenburg State Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Affair about SPD sponsorship in Brandenburg: Once upon a time: Vattenfall's hope . In: Potsdam's latest news . December 27, 2016 ( pnn.de [accessed December 29, 2016]).