Ulrich Kelber

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Ulrich Wolfgang Kelber (born March 29, 1968 in Bamberg ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and a computer scientist. From December 2013 to March 2018 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection , previously from 2005 to 2013 Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Kelber is the Federal Data Protection Commissioner , he took up this office on January 7, 2019.

Life and work

Ulrich Kelber grew up in Bonn and attended the private Ernst-Kalkuhl-Gymnasium . After graduating from high school in 1987, Kelber studied computer science and biology in Bonn and obtained a diploma in computer science in 1993 . From 1991 to 1995 he was most recently a research assistant at the Information Technology Research Center of the GMD . From 1996 to 2000 he worked as a consultant for Comma Soft AG .

Ulrich Kelber is married and has five children. He lives with his family in the Holzlar district of Bonn . His father Karl-Ludwig Kelber was a journalist and federal chairman of the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC).

Political party

Kelber has been a member of the SPD since 1985. From 1993 to 1996 he was spokesman for the Juso Federal Commission for Environment and Energy. From 2001 to 2008 he was chairman of the SPD in Bonn. From 2009 to 2011 he was a member of the party's federal executive committee. He then decided not to run in order to allow the board of directors to be downsized.

From 2011 to 2013, Kelber was the founding speaker of the SPD's consumer policy forum . After his appointment as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, he resigned from this position, but continued to represent the forum as its advisory delegate at the SPD federal party conferences until 2018.

In the SPD, Kelber was considered a member of the left wing of reform. During his time as a member of the Bundestag, he was a member of the Berlin network and the parliamentary left .

MP

From 1994 to 2002 Kelber was a member of the Bonn City Council .

On September 1, 2000, Kelber moved through the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia for the resigned MP Rudolf Dreßler in the German Bundestag . From November 2004 until he left the Bundestag in January 2019, he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group. Between 2005 and 2013 Kelber was also deputy parliamentary group leader of the SPD for the areas of environment, energy, sustainability, agriculture and consumer protection. From December 2013 to March 2018, Kelber was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection .

Ulrich Kelber was elected to the Bundestag as a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency in the Bundestag elections in 2002 , 2005 , 2009 , 2013 and 2017 , although the CDU was in the lead in the second votes. The Bundestag constituency of Bonn is the only Bundestag constituency in Germany in which an applicant succeeded so often.

In the 2005 Bundestag elections, he achieved 42.0% of the first votes , which was the best result for the SPD in Bonn up to that point. Kelber is the first social democrat to win this constituency. In May 2018, he overtook Konrad Adenauer and Guido Westerwelle in terms of their term of office and has since been the Bonn deputy in the history of the Bundestag who has sat the longest in parliament.

In the 2017 federal election, Kelber won the constituency with a lead of 5,047 votes over the CDU candidate (34.9% to 32.0%). In the second vote, the CDU with 29.8% was clearly ahead of the SPD with 20.2%. Kelber got 26,258 first votes more than the SPD second votes; this was the largest personal lead of a Bundestag candidate in all 299 constituencies nationwide.

In 2000, Kelber took up the initiative of the former member of the Bundestag Norbert Gansel from the 1970s as a "transparent member of the Bundestag" and expanded it. As the first member of the Bundestag, he published his tax assessments, reported on all business trips and votes and, since 2009, has also listed all conversations with lobbyists.

In the 2017 federal election campaign, Kelber was supported as a direct candidate in the Bonn constituency by the campact association, as he was isolated from the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD due to his environmentally-motivated commitment to coal mining and was not given a secure place on the list due to the influential “coal lobby” there. In a letter to the state executive, Kelber had then completely waived a candidacy on the state list.

On November 29, 2018, Kelber was elected by the German Bundestag to succeed Andrea Voßhoff as Federal Data Protection Commissioner. He took up this office on January 7, 2019 and resigned his Bundestag mandate the day before.

Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

Shortly after his appointment as Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information on January 7, 2019, Kelber clearly spoke out in favor of an end to data retention.

He also sided with the critics when he criticized the proposed changes to EU copyright law. In Kelber's view, upload filters would be the automatic consequence of the changes, which, however, would lead to monopoly developments that are difficult in terms of data protection policy.

Kelber demanded a "security law moratorium" from the federal government and the German Bundestag because the security laws that were published and passed in quick order represented massive encroachments on fundamental rights from his point of view.

Honorary positions

Since June 2015, as the successor to Geert Müller-Gerbes , Kelber has been the patron of the “Bonner Tafel” and the volunteer discovery program. Kelber is also involved in the general assembly and board of trustees of the humanitarian aid organization Help - Help for Self-Help e. V.

On July 9, 2019, Kelber was appointed honorary professor for data ethics at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

Honors

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Königs: For Bonn in Parliament - Ulrich Kelber is now the longest serving member. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . May 17, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Report in the Bonner General-Anzeiger from July 16, 2001 on ga-bonn.de, accessed on August 9, 2016
  3. ↑ Report in Tagesspiegel from April 10, 2013 on tagesspiegel.de, accessed on August 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Ulrich Kelber reported himself in his balance sheet on his work as a member of the Bundestag
  5. ↑ With the first vote against the coal lobby on blog.campact.de, accessed on September 15, 2017
  6. ↑ Ulrich Kelber becomes the top data protection officer. Spiegel Online, November 29, 2018, accessed on the same day.
  7. ↑ Federal data protection officer: Kelber calls for the final end of data retention - Golem.de. Accessed March 5, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Internet presence of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information - on the press releases - Reform of copyright law also harbors data protection risks. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Data protection officer presents report - Ulrich Kelber warns of the authorities' eagerness to collect. May 8, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  10. ^ Report in General-Anzeiger (Bonn) of June 29, 2015 , accessed again on October 2, 2018
  11. ↑ Board, members and board of trustees of Help - Help for self-help on help-ev.de, accessed on March 17, 2013
  12. ↑ Ulrich Kelber appointed honorary professor at ZEV | Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS). Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  13. ^ Winner of the German Solar Industry Prize 2008
  14. ↑ Bernd Leyendecker: Neujahrsemfpang 2018. Bonner Medien Club, accessed on March 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kelber, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelber, Ulrich Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg