Ulrich Freese

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Member of the Bundestag, Ulrich Freese, in the Paul Löbe House of the German Bundestag
Member of the Bundestag Ulrich Freese in his Bundestag office in the Paul-Löbe-Haus

Ulrich Ronald Freese (born April 12, 1951 in Drevenack , Rees district , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German trade unionist ( IG BCE ), politician ( SPD ) and coal lobbyist.

biography

After attending primary school, Ulrich Freese completed an apprenticeship as a fitter and worked underground at the Schlägel & Eisen colliery in Herten . After attending the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main, he switched to the Mining and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE). From 1990 to 1997 he headed the Lausitz district with headquarters in Cottbus , then the Brandenburg / Saxony district of IG BCE. From 2004 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of IG BCE. In addition, from 2005 to June 2014 Freese was honorary chairman of the board of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See .

politics

Freese joined the SPD in 1970, was local association chairman and city councilor (from 1989 to 1990 in Herten / Westphalia) and from 1993 to 2003 and has been chairman of the SPD sub-district Spree-Neisse again since 2013. From 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament , for which he was directly elected in 1994 and 99. For Brandenburg he was a delegate in the German Federal Assembly . From 2008 to 2014 Ulrich Freese was a member of the Spree-Neisse district council. In 2013 he moved into the German Bundestag via the Brandenburg state list . In the 18th German Bundestag, Freese was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy, the Committee on Health, the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Committee on Budgets. As a member of the constituency of Cottbus / Spree-Neisse, Ulrich Freese is a member of the Brandenburg SPD regional group. In the 19th German Bundestag, Freese is still a full member of the Committee on Economy and Energy, as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Health, the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Budget Committee.

Freese has a number of sideline jobs . He has and had positions on the supervisory boards of Vattenfall (and two of its subsidiaries), the chemical company Lanxess , the residential real estate company Vivawest and the Medical Center City Region Aachen (until 2013). According to research of the policy portal Abgeordnetenwatch.de he is one of the members of parliament with the highest perquisites. The MP publishes this on his homepage.

From Greenpeace Freese is considered one of the most outspoken proponents of lignite mining listed in the SPD. According to parliament watch.de, Freese is a coal lobbyist because he is paid by Vattenfall . But he also called himself that in the past.

On June 1, 2017, the day on which Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate protection treaty , Freese said in the Bundestag that an exit from lignite would save a maximum of 200 million tons of carbon dioxide. Climatologically, this would have the same effect “as if a sack of rice fell over in China”.

Memberships

From 2005 to 2014 Freese was honorary chairman of the board of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn See.

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Freese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction video of the SPD regional group Brandenburg in the 18th German Bundestag
  2. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Member biography Ulrich Freese ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Bundestag.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  4. ↑ These are the additional income of the members of the Bundestag , Abenkenwatch.de, March 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Publication on his homepage "Transparency is important to me"
  6. ↑ Greenpeace, Black Book Coal Policy , April 2013, p. 11.
  7. ↑ Representatives of the people and lobbyists in personal union on parliamentwatch.de, March 28, 2014
  8. ↑ Greenpeace triggers wave of scandal from Lausitzer Rundschau, April 13, 2013
  9. ↑ Is Germany actually achieving its climate goals? . In: Kieler Nachrichten , June 2, 2017. Accessed June 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Freese, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freese, Ulrich Ronald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Drevenack , Rees District , North Rhine-Westphalia