Sebastian Hartmann (politician)

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Sebastian Hartmann (2014)

Sebastian Hartmann (born July 7, 1977 in Oberhausen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013 and chairman of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia since June 23, 2018 .

Origin, studies and professional activity

Hartmann grew up in Bornheim - Sechtem . He obtained his Abitur in 1996 at the Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium in Bonn . While at school, Hartmann took part in the United Nations student simulation game in the role of first general secretary , and then became its managing director. He did his community service in an educational institution. From the 1997/98 winter semester he studied law at the University of Cologne with a focus on international and European law. For this study he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . Hartmann broke off his studies without an academic degree in order to work as a freelance organizational consultant and personal trainer. He carried out this independent professional activity until his election to the Bundestag in 2013.

Sebastian Hartmann is married and has one child.

Political career

Political party

Hartmann joined the SPD in 1993. At first he held several functions at the Jusos , including a. for a time as its chairman in the Rhein-Sieg district . From 2004 to 2010 he was chairman of the SPD in Bornheim, followed by the chairmanship of the SPD Rhein-Sieg in 2005. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Rhein-Sieg district council. In 2000 he ran for the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament in the constituency of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis III , and in 2009 for the European Parliament.

For many years he was an employee of the Bundestag member Ulrike Merten . From 2011 to 2013 he was Assistant to the MEP and President of the European Parliament , Martin Schulz . In the general election in 2013, he joined as a direct candidate in the constituency Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I to. Although he was defeated by Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker from the CDU , he entered the German Bundestag via the state list. He ran again for the 2017 federal election and retained his mandate.

From 2014 to 2018 he was 2nd deputy district administrator of the Rhein-Sieg district.

On April 8, 2018, he was unanimously proposed as state chairman by the Personnel Commission of the SPD NRW; on June 23, 2018, he was elected with 80.3% of the delegates at the party conference in Bochum .

SPD member of the Bundestag since 2013

Sebastian Hartmann was a full member of the Transport and Digital Infrastructure Committee and a deputy member of the Finance Committee . For the SPD parliamentary group he was the responsible rapporteur for transport infrastructure financing (public-private partnerships and user financing (truck and car toll )) and the infrastructure company as well as the Passenger Transport Act , local public transport , local rail transport and municipal transport financing .

After Christina Kampmann took over the management of the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in October 2015 , he also became a member of the Bundestag interior committee . There he was responsible for migration and integration until 2017. In 2018 Hartmann became rapporteur for IT security and civil and disaster protection. He also became rapporteur for data protection in the Interior Committee in 2020. In addition, Hartmann is a deputy member of the Finance Committee , the Election Review Committee , the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure , and the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

Hartmann became a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly in 2019 .

Political positions

Social policy

In a guest article for the Rheinische Post , Hartmann describes a "global, aggressive capitalism" that would have led to extreme inequality in the distribution of wealth within societies and sees in this - combined with a withdrawal of the state - the "explosive of our time". Hartmann sees the dismantling of traditional companies, a social step backwards and environmental destruction and speculation with goods of general interest , for example in the area of ​​housing, as negative consequences of this development .

To combat this development, Hartmann propagates a strong welfare state . In order for municipalities to be able to carry out their services of general interest in this sense, Hartmann is calling for the federal level to take over old municipal debts. As further measures, Hartmann proposes, among other things, an increase in education spending by seven billion euros, a higher statutory pension, higher minimum wages and a lifelong entitlement to further qualification. In this context, Hartmann speaks of a "New Deal" for social investments and innovations.

Internal security

Sebastian Hartmann sees a close connection between public and social security. The greater the inequality between people, the greater the potential for conflict within a society. That is why Hartmann sees a stronger welfare state as a means of fighting crime . Hartmann cites government housing subsidies, measures to improve the living environment and neighborhood-related social work as concrete measures for this.

In an article for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Hartmann describes the growing right-wing extremism as one of the greatest dangers to internal security in Germany. The boundary between right-wing conservatives, right-wing radicals and right-wing extremist neo-Nazis would increasingly disappear and digital communication channels favored the formation of right-wing extremist networks. Hartmann therefore demands suitable digital tools for the security authorities in order to recognize radicalization tendencies of groups and individuals at an early stage, for example in forums and social networks. Corresponding digital analysis programs, well-trained police officers and improved cooperation across national borders are more important in the fight against the right than new statutory surveillance rights.

In the area of cybercrime , Hartmann is clearly in favor of a strictly defensive cybersecurity policy and criticizes the demands for so-called hackbacks, as these "set off a spiral of escalation, the consequences of which cannot be assessed and therefore lead not to more security but to more insecurity in the long term. " Instead, Hartmann would like to strengthen encryption tools and consumer protection .

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic Hartmann calls in a concept paper, the federal government in civil protection to reinforce. Hartmann advocates expanding the competencies of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief . However, federal structures must be retained, said Hartmann. "We have to move away from the federal prohibition of cooperation towards a cooperation requirement, " explains Hartmann in the Rheinische Post.

Europe

Sebastian Hartmann advocates more cooperation at European level, including Hartmann calling for an investment budget to be introduced at EU level in order to be able to invest in education, research, climate protection and infrastructure. He also advocates the development of a common European defense under parliamentary control. Hartmann advocates a social union "in which basic social rights take precedence over radical market principles." This means, for example, a social investment budget to combat youth unemployment.

Memberships

In addition to the SPD, Sebastian Hartmann is a member of various clubs, associations and initiatives. This includes his memberships in the service union ver.di, the industrial union for mining, chemistry, energy, the workers 'welfare, the German Life Rescue Society, the Landscape Protection Association Vorgebirge eV, the Kuratorium der Bürger für Beethoven and the German Tenants' Association, the advisory board of the Foundation for Data Protection eV

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Hartmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Rainer Kellers: Sebastian Hartmann is the new chairman of the NRW-SPD. June 23, 2018, accessed June 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Urs Zietan: USA without voting rights in climate protection. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) . June 26, 2001. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ General Secretaries look back. United Nations student simulation game, accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  4. ^ Federal Parliament election 2013 in the Rhein-Sieg district - Sebastian Hartmann. April 8, 2013, accessed August 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ District Administrator and Deputy. Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, accessed on December 20, 2018 .
  6. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ A b Sebastian Hartmann: Revitalizing the solidarity state. Rheinische Post, September 26, 2019, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  8. ^ Olaf Kupfer: Party conference in Bochum: Hartmann moves the SPD to the left in NRW. September 21, 2019, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Sebastian Hartmann: Security for everyone is the prerequisite for a free and equal society. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, January 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Concept paper on civil protection
  11. ↑ RP ONLINE: New initiative: SPD wants to strengthen the federal government in large areas. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b Sebastian Hartmann: Priority for social security. Tagesspiegel, December 7, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen