Torsten Sommer

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Torsten Sommer (2013)

Torsten Sommer (born September 28, 1971 in Hagen-Haspe ) is a German businessman and was a member of the Pirate Party in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

biography

Torsten Sommer completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk (1994–1997). In 1998 he started working for the WAZ media group as a commercial clerk. A year later he became a DTP operator. Until 2013 he was also a member of the works council .

Torsten Sommer is married and has three children.

politics

Sommer joined the Pirate Party in 2009 and was treasurer of the Dortmund district association from 2010 to 2011. At the state party conference in 2012 on March 24 and 25, 2012 in Münster, he was elected 11th on the state list. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012 , he got a mandate in the state parliament with this list position. He was a full member of the main committee and the committee for work, health and social affairs, as well as a deputy member of the legal committee and the committee for economy, energy, industry, medium-sized businesses and crafts. From 2013 he was a member of the newly constituted constitutional amendment commission. For his parliamentary group he was the spokesman for labor market policy.

Since March 2017 he has been the parliamentary manager of the pirate faction in the state parliament. He succeeds Marc Olejak , who resigned from this position on March 1, 2017 for personal reasons. When the pirates left the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , he lost his mandate.

Sommer headed the home office of the Dortmund member of the Bundestag Marco Bülow (SPD).

Web links

Commons : Torsten Sommer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Torsten Sommer at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
  2. ^ Profile in the wiki of the Pirate Party Germany
  3. ↑ State list for the state election 2012
  4. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician (PIRATES), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen