Ulf Fink

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Ulf Fink (1988)

Ulf Fink (born October 6, 1942 in Freiberg ) is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

Life

Fink studied economics at the universities of Hamburg , Marburg and Bonn and graduated in 1966 with a degree in economics. From 1967 he was employed as a research assistant in the Federal Ministry of Labor, from 1970 as a research assistant in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . His political career reached its first climax in 1979 when he was elected federal manager of the CDU. At that time Fink was considered a close confidante of the then General Secretary Heiner Geißler .

As an expert on social policy, Fink, a member of the NGG since 1983 , was federal chairman of the CDA from 1987 to 1993. From 1990 to 1994 Fink was deputy federal chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation , where he headed the Environment and Health, Technology / Humanization of Work, and Vocational and General Education departments.

politics

In 1981 Richard von Weizsäcker, elected mayor of Berlin , appointed him as Senator for Health and Social Affairs in the Senate of Berlin . He held this office until Walter Momper won the House of Representatives elections in 1989 . In this capacity, he initiated a discussion on drinking water fluoridation in Berlin in 1984 and, after a failure, advocated salt fluoridation. He also advocated a progressive AIDS policy, which was not always a matter of course for Union politicians at the time. He was an important advocate of state funding for information and advice centers such as Mann-O-Meter or Hydra eV In the 1985 election , he was also elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1992.

From 1987 Fink was chairman of the Christian Democratic workforce . In 1993 he lost this office in a vote against the then Labor Minister of Saxony-Anhalt , Werner Schreiber . From 1990 to 1994 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the DGB . After leaving the Berlin Senate, Fink tried his hand at regional politics in Brandenburg and from 1991 to 1993 led the CDU regional association there. When he was elected in November 1991, he prevailed against the candidate Angela Merkel, who was supported by the federal party, in a vote. Despite this success, he found only limited support in his function: especially the cooperation with the parliamentary group leader of the CDU in the Brandenburg state parliament , Peter-Michael Diestel , turned out to be difficult. Fink advocated a clear opposition course against the Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe , who was charged with the accusation of belonging to the Stasi, as well as against the Brandenburg constitution.

In 1994 Fink was elected to the German Bundestag via the state list of Brandenburg , of which he was a member for two legislative periods until 2002 . During this time, the WISO Group , based in Berlin, was founded, which, in addition to the preparation of scientific reports (e.g. on the “ wage quota ”), is involved in the implementation of important health congresses in Germany. 1997–2009 Ulf Fink was also President of the Kneipp-Bund eV - Federal Association for Health Promotion and Prevention. Since December 2003 he has been Chairman of the Board of the Berlin Health City Association . He is also a member of the board of trustees of the aid organization CARE Germany .

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 139.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Ulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg