Torsten Albig

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Torsten Albig (2013)

Torsten Albig (born May 25, 1963 in Bremen ) is a former German politician ( SPD ). He was Lord Mayor of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital Kiel from 2009 to 2012 and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein from June 12, 2012 to June 28, 2017 . After losing the state election in 2017, he withdrew from politics.

education

Torsten Albig grew up in Ostholstein and Bielefeld . In 1982 he graduated from high school, then he began to study history and social sciences to become a teacher at Bielefeld University, but switched to law in 1984 . His focus was on tax law , business law and labor law . He passed the assessor exam in 1991 at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

Professional career

In 1992 Albig entered the higher service of the tax administration of Schleswig-Holstein . From 1993 to 1994 he was deputy head of the Schleswig-Holstein State Finance School in Malente . In 1994 he became a consultant for finance and taxes in the representation of the state of Schleswig-Holstein at the federal government in Bonn . From 1996 to 1998 he was given leave of absence to work with the SPD planning staff, where he was personal advisor to the then SPD party chairman Oskar Lafontaine . From 1998 to 2001 he worked on the management staff of the Berlin Federal Ministry of Finance and in 1998 also became spokesman for the BMF and head of the press and public relations department. In 2001 he left his civil service and became corporate press spokesman and head of the press department at Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main .

In 2002 he was City Council of Civil Affairs, Order, Personal and Home Affairs of Schleswig-Holstein state capital Kiel , 2003 City Treasurer and 2005 also responsible department head for the responsibilities of waste management and culture. In the same year, he also took on the role of plant manager of the waste management company in Kiel (ABKI). In 2004 Albig was awarded the Schleswig-Holstein Fire Brigade Cross of Honor in bronze.

From February 1, 2006 to the end of May 2009, Albig was spokesman for the SPD Federal Minister of Finance Peer Steinbrück and head of communications at the BMF, was appointed ministerial director and head of the communications subdivision in 2007 , and in 2008, when he was appointed ministerial director, he also took over the management of the legal department and service in the BMF. His successor as press spokesman and media officer was Martin Schmuck , previously head of the ZDF regional studio in Düsseldorf , on May 1, 2009 .

After leaving politics in 2017, he looked for a job in business and found it in December d. J. as company representative of Deutsche Post DHL based in Brussels.

In June 2019 he was appointed to the board of trustees of Quadriga University Berlin .

Private life

Torsten Albig has two children. He lived with his family in the Kiel district of Suchsdorf until the beginning of 2016 . After separating from his wife, he moved in with the Kiel advertising entrepreneur Bärbel Boy.

politics

Torsten Albig at the “ Appen musiziert ” benefit event in 2014

Beginnings

Albig has been a member of the SPD since 1982. 1984 to 1991 he was chairman of a local club in Bielefeld , 1992 to 1994 deputy chairman of the local club Lütjenburg in the district of Plön . In 1994 he was elected as a direct candidate for the city council of Lütjenburg, which was followed by the appointment to the city council as a member of the magistrate and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

In September 2008, Torsten Albig was put up as the SPD candidate for the direct mayor election of the city of Kiel on March 15, 2009 and in the local elections on March 15, 2009 with 52.1 percent of the votes cast in the first ballot against incumbent Angelika Volquartz ( CDU ) elected as the new Lord Mayor of Kiel . He was sworn in on June 11, 2009 and took office on June 17, 2009.

As Lord Mayor, he was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Förde Sparkasse .

On February 8, 2010, Albig published together with the then Kiel SPD member of the Bundestag Hans-Peter Bartels , the Kiel SPD member Rolf Fischer and the SPD councilwoman Gesa Langfeldt a paper called "City instead of State". In it, the signatories call for financial policy to be geared towards the needs of local authorities. Torsten Albig in particular represents these demands in the media public.

At the beginning of September 2010, Torsten Albig declared his readiness for the SPD's top candidacy for the new elections to the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein . In a member survey, Albig prevailed with 57.22% of the votes against Ralf Stegner , the state and parliamentary leader of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein , who received 32.15% of the votes cast.

State election 2012

At the state party conference of the Schleswig-Holstein SPD in Lübeck on February 3, 2012, Albig was elected the top candidate with 96.7%. He received 188 of 194 possible votes.

Albig, who did not run as an applicant in any constituency, moved into the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament via number 1 on the SPD state list. He resigned from his position as Lord Mayor of Kiel ; The successor in office was Susanne Gaschke in the subsequent election .

Under Albig's top candidacy, the SPD gained five percentage points in the country, but with 30.4 percent of the vote, it was just behind the CDU, which had 30.8 percent. Since the FDP fell from 14.9 to 8.2 percent, the black-yellow coalition missed its previous majority. Due to the arrival of the Pirate Party (8.2 percent), it was not enough for a Red-Green majority. The SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the SSW, however, achieved a mathematical majority of 35 of the 69 votes and subsequently formed a coalition. After the coalition talks were concluded, the state parliament elected Albig as Prime Minister on June 12, 2012. Albig received at least two votes from the opposition with 37 votes.

Time as prime minister

In April 2014, Albig, who had previously spoken out against a car toll, expressed the opinion, which even in his own parliamentary group, was clearly contradicted, that a special fee of around 100 euros should be demanded from all motorists for the maintenance and maintenance of roads and bridges become.

In July 2015, in a summer interview with the NDR, Albig doubted that “the term Chancellor candidate is still correct” for possible SPD candidates in the next election campaign. With reference to Angela Merkel, he continued: "I think she does it very well - she is a good Chancellor."

State election 2017

For the state elections in 2017, the Prime Minister applied for the SPD candidacy in the Kiel-Nord constituency as the successor to Rolf Fischer . In the nomination conference on July 2, 2016, he prevailed against competitor Gesine Stück with 100 to 60 votes (62.5%) . In the run-up to the nomination, his rejection of joint introductions caused displeasure in the local associations.

At the SPD state party congress on November 26, 2016, Albig was again nominated by acclamation as the top candidate for the state elections in 2017 by around 200 delegates .

With this he succeeded in winning the direct mandate in the state electoral district of Kiel-Nord with 37.9% of the votes ; at the same time, the second vote result of the SPD worsened nationwide compared to the 2012 election by 3.2 percentage points to 27.2%. His party thus practically no longer had the opportunity to participate in the government. The decline in votes was largely attributed to Albig personally. During the election campaign, he gave an interview to the BUNTE magazine , from the context of which he was accused of an old-fashioned image of women with great media coverage. He initially refused to resign, then announced on May 16, 2017 that he would not take up his state parliament mandate and would withdraw from politics. As his successor in the state parliament mandate, the SPD candidate Tobias von Pein was determined via the state list . Albig's last interview was published in Flensborg Avis on December 15, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Torsten Albig  - Collection of Images
 Wikinews: Torsten Albig  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZDF man becomes Steinbrück advisor . In: ngz-online.de March 17, 2009.
  2. ↑ in an interview with the Redaktions-Netzwerk Deutschland (RND), spread z. B. via https://www.shz.de/17810406 and Wolfram Hammer: Albig looking for a job: Ex-MP offers himself to the economy . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 12, 2017, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten of December 6, 2017 ( Memento of December 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ https://www.politik-kommunikation.de/personalwechsel/howe-albig-und-amberg-neu-im-kuratorium-der-quadriga-hochschule-173693989
  5. ↑ https://www.kn-online.de/Nachrichten/Ppolitik/Turbulente-Tage-fuer-Torsten-Albig
  6. ↑ Torsten Albig has separated from his wife . In: shz.de , accessed on January 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Mayor election: Torsten Albig conquers the Kiel town hall . In: Kieler Nachrichten of March 16, 2009.
  8. ^ The board of directors Förde Sparkasse . foerde-sparkasse.de, accessed on July 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ City instead of state (PDF; 33 kB).
  10. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 11/2010: " Lord of the Potholes "
  11. ↑ SWR2 forum indebted municipalities “Defective system, lack of sense of reality” - May 20, 2010
  12. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 10, 2010 "Defective system, lack of a sense of reality"
  13. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 21, 2010 Albig: Tax plans are "Absurdistan"
  14. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche, May 11, 2010 The pros and cons of tax reform
  15. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, December 15, 2009 Kiel mayor criticizes the cities' reputation
  16. ↑ DIE WELT, February 15, 2010 "We are the center of our country"
  17. ↑ Merkel's beautiful tax gift - do you pay after the party? Anne Will, December 13, 2009. Archived from the original on March 18, 2010 ; Retrieved May 26, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Albig replaces Stegner, article on sueddeutsche.de , accessed on February 28, 2010
  19. ↑ Torsten Albig elected the top candidate of the SPD with around 97%. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012 ; Retrieved February 4, 2012 .
  20. ↑ Martina Drexler: Last day of my dream job. In: Kiel News . May 29, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2016 .
  21. ↑ zeit.de: “SPD parliamentary group criticizes Albig's proposal for a special tax”, accessed on April 21, 2014
  22. ↑ zeit.de: "SPD Prime Minister questions his own candidate for chancellor", accessed on July 23, 2015
  23. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten, April 29, 2016
  24. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: "SPD nominates Prime Minister Albig as a top candidate", accessed on November 29, 2016
  25. ↑ State Returning Officer of the State of Schleswig-Holstein: Preliminary results of the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein 2017. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, May 8, 2017, accessed on May 9, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Torsten Albig: The fateful Bunte interview - manager magazin . In: manager magazin . ( manager-magazin.de [accessed on May 9, 2017]).
  27. ^ After losing the election - Torsten Albig is not thinking of resigning. In: kn-online.de. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Torsten Albig retires from politics . Welt Online, May 16, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Albig, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen