Ulrich Kasparick

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Ulrich Kasparick (born October 25, 1957 in Dahme ) is a German pastor and former politician (formerly SPD ). From 2004 to 2005 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Education and Research . Between 2005 and 2009 he held the same position at the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development .

Life and work

After attending the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) in Stendal , Kasparick did a practical year at the Johanniterkrankenhaus in Stendal from 1974 to 1975 . He then attended the church proseminar in Naumburg and passed his Abitur here in 1978 . He then studied theology in Jena and Leipzig , which he completed in 1982 with the first and in 1983 with the second theological exam . He then worked as a youth pastor in Jena and moved to Berlin in 1989 .

From 1990 to 1991 he was the managing director of the Association for Political Education and Social Democracy. V. From 1991 he was deputy head of the Brandenburg State Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung until he headed the Saxony-Anhalt State Office from 1992 to 1998 .

Ulrich Kasparick worked as a pastor in the parish of Hetzdorf in the Uckermark from 2011 to autumn 2017 .

In an interview in July 2019, he expressed his indignation that the "former system representative" Gregor Gysi was supposed to give the Leipzig speech at a memorial concert commemorating 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall , saying that "social forgetfulness" was taking on unbelievable proportions.

He is married and has a son.

Political party

From 1989 to 2011 he was a member of the SPD (initially SDP of the GDR ). Since 1997 he has been a member of Schönebeck's SPD district executive ; from 2008 he was a member of the Berlin regional association .

In the course of the affair surrounding the former Berlin Senator Thilo Sarrazin , whose party he demanded, Kasparick left the SPD on April 26, 2011.

MP

From 1998 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag , there from 1998 to 2004 deputy spokesman for the “Education and Research” working group of the SPD parliamentary group and from 2002 a member of the Enquete Commission on Sustainable Energy Supply in Times of Globalization and Liberalization.

Ulrich Kasparick moved to the Bundestag in 1998 as a directly elected member of the Magdeburg - Schönebeck - Wanzleben - Staßfurt constituency and since 2002 of the Börde constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 36.4% of the first votes . After the Bundestag election in 2009 , he left the Bundestag.

Public offices

On July 1, 2004, he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Education and Research in the Federal Government ( Schröder II cabinet ) led by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . After the formation of the grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel ( Merkel I cabinet ), he changed to the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development on November 22, 2005 in the same function. After the Bundestag election in 2009 and the subsequent change of government, Kasparick left office in October 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the parish of Hetzdorf (Uckerland) .
  2. ↑ Markus Decker: From the Bundestag to the rectory , Frankfurter Rundschau, August 1, 2012
  3. ↑ Jonathan Steinert: The AfD's success in the east has to do with the GDR past , possibly Pro-Medienmagazin, July 6, 2019
  4. ↑ Something from my old aunt ... ( Memento from June 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Ulrich Kasparick's declaration of resignation from the SPD on April 26, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kasparick, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahme