Steffen Bockhahn
Steffen Bockhahn (born December 29, 1978 in Rostock ) is a German politician . He is Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Health and School of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. From October 24, 2009 to November 5, 2012 he was state chairman of the party Die Linke in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and from 2009 to 2013 a member of the 17th German Bundestag , into which he was elected as a direct candidate.
biography
Family, education and work
Bockhahn spent his childhood in Rostock. Until he started school he lived with his parents and his older sister in the Reutershagen district, before the family moved to a new development in the city center. From 1985 to 1991 he attended the 9th POS Clara Zetkin , which got its old name "Big City School" again during the fall of the Berlin Wall. From the third grade he learned the Russian language there. From 1991 to high school, Bockhahn was a student at the grammar school on Goetheplatz. He passed his Abitur in 1997 in the advanced courses in mathematics and English.
Bockhahn did his community service in a day care center run by the People's Solidarity in Rostock. From 1999 to 2000 he was a volunteer at the private radio station Ostseewelle before moving to competitor Antenne Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . There he worked as an editor and news anchor .
In 2002, Steffen Bockhahn began studying political science and European modern history at the University of Rostock . He passed the Bachelor of Arts exams in 2005 and the Master of Arts in 2007. From October 2007 he worked for Dietmar Bartsch , Member of the Bundestag .
Steffen Bockhahn has been married since 2005 and has had one child since 2009.
politics
Steffen Bockhahn began his political engagement as a school speaker at the grammar school and in the district school council of the Hanseatic city. On May 1, 1995, he joined the PDS at the age of 16 . Before he retired from active politics from 1999, for professional reasons, he was a member of the district executive committee, the state executive committee and a delegate to the federal party congress .
In 2004 Bockhahn ran for the Rostock citizenship for the first time and was elected. In the same year he became deputy state chairman of his party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In the 2005 federal election , Bockhahn stood for the Left Party.PDS in constituency 14 . After Christian Kleiminger (SPD) and Eckhardt Rehberg (CDU), he received the third-best result. In 2009 he was selected as a direct candidate. In the 2013 federal election he lost the direct mandate in the Rostock constituency - Rostock II district (constituency 14) to Peter Stein (CDU).
Since 2007 Steffen Bockhahn was chairman of the parliamentary group Die Linke in Rostock. During this time he initiated a petition against the sale of municipal property together with the service union ver.di. More than 10,000 signatures were collected in five weeks. The majority of the citizens accepted the request. Due to an objection by the mayor, there are now legal proceedings to clarify the legality.
On March 5, 2014, Bockhahn was elected Senator for youth, social affairs, health, school and sport by the citizens of Rostock.
By order of July 10, 2014, the Schwerin Administrative Court prohibited the Hanseatic City of Rostock from appointing Bockhahn as a senator (election officer) because he lacked the aptitude, qualifications and expertise required for the office and the election by the citizens violated the constitutional requirement of selecting the best (Ref. 1 B 599/14). Contrary to the recommendation of its city administration, the citizens of the Hanseatic City of Rostock lodged a complaint with the Greifswald Higher Administrative Court, which on January 9, 2015, finally lifted the ban on appeal. Bockhahn was a candidate for the mayoral election in Rostock in 2019. He achieved 18.9% in the first round and thus entered the runoff election against Claus Ruhe Madsen , but lost the same on June 16, 2019 with 42.9%.
Others
In January 2012 it became known that Steffen Bockhahn was one of 27 members of the Bundestag of the Left under observation by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which was criticized by politicians from all political groups . The observation of Bockhahn was seen as particularly sensitive because the Scientific Services of the Bundestag had determined in December 2011 that "due to the special tasks of the trust committee [...] only very exceptional circumstances justify the observation of a member [...]."
In July 2014, it became known that his cell phone had been tapped by US intelligence services. Bockhahn's closest colleague noticed tampering with her cell phone on July 30, 2013. Unknown people are said to have searched through the entire SMS traffic between her and the then member of the Bundestag and specifically searched for service mails relating to the parliamentary control body .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostseezeitung: Bockhahn is Senator for Social Affairs
- ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Alphabetical list of elected parties by party: DIE LINKE ( Memento from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), September 28, 2009
- ↑ Election result in the constituency 2013
- ^ Ostsee-Zeitung, Rostock local edition, Ostsee-Zeitung, July 10, 2008
- ↑ North German Latest News from March 5, 2014: Steffen Bockhahn is the new Senator for Social Affairs .
- ^ NDR: Bockhahn is allowed to become a social senator
- ↑ Rostock: Head of HR wants to be OB , Ostsee-Zeitung , September 28, 2018
- ↑ Mayor election . Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Runoff election Lord Mayor. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Secret Service: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution observes 27 members of the Left . In: Spiegel online . January 22, 2012, accessed October 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Supervision of MPs “unbearable” . In: tagesschau.de . January 22, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
- ^ CIA-NSA espionage in Germany Die Zeit , online
- ↑ NSA affair: Cell phones spied on by members of the Bundestag Tagesspiegel , online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bockhahn, Steffen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |