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Torbjörn Kartes MdB

Torbjörn Kartes (* 23. April 1979 in Freiburg as Jens Torbjörn Jagodzinski ) is a lawyer and a German politician of the CDU . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2017 .

Life and work

Torbjörn Kartes was born the son of a German and a Swede. As a child he moved with his family to Ludwigshafen am Rhein . After graduating from high school in 1998 at the Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen, he completed his community service as a paramedic with the German Red Cross, also in Ludwigshafen. From 1999 to 2004 he studied law at the universities of Mannheim , Gothenburg and Heidelberg . From 2004 to 2006 he was a trainee lawyer in the district of the Palatinate Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken . In 2007 he was admitted to the bar. In 2006 he started working in the legal department of the municipal utility Technische Werke Ludwigshafen . In 2011 he became head of the Human Resources and Organization department, in 2012 Head of Human Resources, and in 2015 also Managing Director of TWL Vertrieb GmbH and TWL Energie Deutschland GmbH. Since moving into the German Bundestag in 2017, he has continued to support the TWL as part of a sideline on strategic personnel issues.

Kartes is married and has one son.

Political party

From 1996 until the age-related retirement in 2014, Kartes was a member of the Junge Union in various functions . In 2001 he joined the CDU. From 2006 to 2015 he was deputy district chairman of the CDU Ludwigshafen. He has been the district chairman since January 2018. Kartes has been a member of the city council of Ludwigshafen since 2009. From 2015 to January 2018 he was chairman of the CDU city council group in Ludwigshafen for three years.

MP

Torbjörn Kartes speaks in plenary (2020)

In the federal election on September 24, 2017, Kartes managed to get into the Bundestag. He received the most votes in the Bundestag constituency of Ludwigshafen / Frankenthal, to which the majority of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis also belongs, and entered parliament as a direct candidate. There he is a full member of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . In 2017, Kartes was appointed to the “Labor and Social Affairs” commission of the Federal Association of SMEs and Business Associations of the CDU / CSU (MIT). Kartes is also secretary .

Social offices

From 2010 to 2014 Kartes was first chairman of the Society of Friends of the Theater in the Pfalzbau . He has been a member of the Lions Club Ludwigshafen-Kurpfalz since 2015. Kartes has been the district chairman of the CDU Ludwigshafen since 2018.

Web links

Commons : Torbjörn Kartes  - collection of images, videos and audio files