Volker Kröning

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Volker Kröning (born March 15, 1945 in Zwickau ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was Interior Senator from 1983 to 1987, Justice Senator from 1987 to 1991 and Finance Senator from 1991 to 1994 for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . From 1994 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

biography

Family, education and work

Kröning was born in Zwickau in 1945 while his mother was fleeing the East while his father was still a soldier. He grew up near Osnabrück and Wuppertal .

Kröning has been married to Elke Kröning since 1976 and has three sons.

After graduating from high school in 1964, Kröning did military service and studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Free University of Berlin and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There he passed the first state examination in law in 1969 . Afterwards, Kröning worked alongside his legal clerkship in Bremen in founding the university and in the one-stage legal training . After the second state examination in Hamburg, Kröning was a consultant in the Bremen administration from 1974 to 1979 . In 1979 he was elected to the Bremen Parliament and in 1983 to the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . From 1994 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

From August 2009 to July 2010 Kröning was CEO of Detlef Hegemann Aktiengesellschaft ; With this interruption, he was a member of the Supervisory Board from June 2009 to May 2017. He was admitted to the bar in 1979 and has been practicing this profession since 1994. Since 2010 he has been Honorary Consul for Morocco in the states of Bremen , Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

politics

Kröning has been a member of the SPD since 1969. He was active in various functions in the SPD Bremen .

From 1979 to 1983 he was a member of the Bremen Citizenship , where he worked in the interior and finance deputation. The first commitment to peace and security policy also fell during this period. For several years, Kröning was involved in the Bremen Initiative for Peace, International Balance and Security and was involved in the integration of data protection into the law of internal security. He was a co-founder of the Center for European Legal Policy and the Legal Society and set the first priorities in constitutional legislation. At the invitation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, he made two trips to the USA as part of the International Visitors Program.

From 1983 to 1994, Kröning was a senator in the Bremen Senate (see below). In the era of the nuclear arms race and accidents in reactor and missile technology, civil protection and disaster control became more topical. He advocated humanitarian international law. He was committed to strengthening civil rights by reforming the right to vote in advisory councils and the right to petition.

Member of the Bremen Senate

In November 1983, Kröning was elected as the successor to Helmut Fröhlich (SPD) Senator for the Interior in the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen headed by Mayor Hans Koschnick (SPD) . He kept this office with his successor Klaus Wedemeier (SPD), who had been in office since 1985 .

In 1987 Kröning became Senator for Justice and Constitution as the successor to Wolfgang Kahrs (SPD) and Senator for Sports as the successor to Henning Scherf (SPD) and Senate Commissioner for Data Protection .
In 1988/1989, Kröning was Bremen's representative and chaired the Conference of Justice Ministers of the Federation and the Länder. He was involved in the constitutional commission of the Bundesrat and Bundestag for the completion of German unity. He campaigned for the Basic Law as the basis for German unity. Around 1991 he published the Bremen Constitution Handbook together with representatives from science and practice .

In 1991, he succeeded Claus Grobecker (SPD) as Senator for Finance and Chairman of the Senate Commission for Human Resources . On June 29, 1994, Kröning resigned from the Senate to run for the German Bundestag.
He put u. a. the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on emergency budget aid and changed the rehabilitation program for Bremen in the 1993/94 budgets and in the medium-term financial planning.

Member of the German Bundestag

From 1994 to 2009 Kröning was a member of the German Bundestag . He succeeded MP Ernst Waltemathe (SPD) as a directly elected member of the constituency of Bremen-Ost and, since 2002, of the constituency of Bremen I. He was re-elected in 1998, 2002 and 2005. His successor in 2009 was Carsten Sieling (SPD).

The focus of his work was the areas of finance and law.
From 1994 to 1998 Kröning was a member of the Finance Committee, where he dealt with the completion of the European Economic Union and the introduction of the euro.
He stands up for the outlawing and clearing of landmines, the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the armed forces justice, the fight against right-wing extremism and the organization of voluntary services under social security law. From 1984 to 1994 and again from 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. From 1998 to 2002 he was also rapporteur for the defense budget in the Committee on Budgets.

In 2000/01, Kröning was chairman of the benchmark committee, which deals with the differences between financially strong and weak federal states. He saw in the parliament's waiver of creative influence and the limitation of the law of standards an incompatibility with the principle and the mandate of the constitutional specification. Therefore, he resigned from the committee chair.

In 2002, Kröning took over the budget committee reporting for the new Ministry of Economy and Labor . The financial implementation of Agenda 2010 was the main focus of the work until 2005.
Since 2002 he has been spokesman for the Bremen regional group in the SPD parliamentary group. From 2005 to 2009 he then took over the individual plan of the business and technology department , where the maritime economy , the aerospace industry, foreign trade and interdisciplinary and cross-departmental research and technology played a greater role.

From October 2003 to December 2009 he was the spokesman for the working group on the modernization of the federal system and the modernization of federal-state financial relations of the SPD parliamentary group . He took the position for the introduction of the so-called debt brake.

Other offices

  • Kröning was a member of the Presidium of the German Red Cross from 1991 to 2000 - as Federal Treasurer since 1994 .
  • From 2000 to 2009 he was a member of the Association for the Promotion of Research and Teaching on Peacekeeping Law and International Humanitarian Law at the University of Bochum .
  • Since 1995 he has been chairman of the Wilhelm and Helene Kaisen Foundation .

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personal data
SURNAME Kröning, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau