Wilfrid Adam

Wilfrid Adam (born February 2, 1947 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German politician. As a member of the SPD , he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1986 to 2003 .

Life

Adam, who comes from Himmelreich and grew up in Bant , trained as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant after graduating from school. From 1970 to 1980 he worked as a city youth worker in Wilhelmshaven and then until his election to the Lower Saxony state parliament in June 1986 as a consultant for press and public relations in his hometown.

He began his political engagement in the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB). From 1964 to 1970 he acted as chairman of the DGB-Jugend Wilhelmshaven and as an honorary state youth leader of the trade union trade, banks and insurance companies . In 1968 he joined the SPD and subsequently took on various board positions in the SPD sub-district of Wilhelmshaven.

In the state elections on June 15, 1986, he was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first time, to which he belonged for a total of four legislative periods until 2003. There he held the chairmanship of the Committee on Ports and Shipping from June 27, 1990 to June 20, 1994.

In 1999 he was elected deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and responsible for the policy areas inside, law, economics, European and federal affairs.

In the local elections in October 1986, he was also elected to the City Council of Wilhelmshaven, where he became the deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. He became a member of the Administrative and Finance Committee and the Council of Elders. From 2008 to October 2011 Adam was second mayor of the city of Wilhelmshaven.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung: Adam would like to continue taking responsibility in the future , accessed on January 1, 2013