Volkmar Schultz

Volkmar Schultz (born August 10, 1938 in Böken , Schwerin district (Mecklenburg)) is a German SPD politician .

education and profession

Volkmar Schultz attended grammar school, which he finished with his Abitur in 1958. From 1958 to 1963 he studied history and English at the Universities of Göttingen and Cologne. From 1963 he went to a journalistic activity. In 1971 he became head of the press office of the city of Porz and in 1975 deputy head of the press office of the city of Cologne.

Schultz is married and has two children.

Political party

Volkmar Schultz has been a member of the SPD since 1965. From 1979 to 1991 he was a member of the subdistrict board of Cologne and from 1979 to 1985 chairman of the local association. He became a delegate at the state party congress in 1979. He has been a member of the public services, transport and traffic union since 1970. Schultz was deputy chairman of the Workers' Welfare Association, Cologne District Association.

MP

Volkmar Schultz was from May 29, 1980 to November 30, 1994 directly elected member of the 9th, 10th and 11th state parliaments of North Rhine-Westphalia for constituency 014 Cologne II.
From 1987 to 1994 he acted as deputy chairman of the state parliamentary group. Schultz was chairman of the committee for urban development and housing from April 1991 to November 1994.

On November 30, 1994, Volkmar Schultz resigned from the state parliament to take up his parliamentary mandate. Until October 2002 he was a member of the 13th and 14th German Bundestag .

In the Bundestag he was a full member of the Committee for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development and a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Schultz was also a member of German-American associations, including the "Partnership of Parliaments".

Web links

• Volkmar Schultz at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Biography at the German Bundestag