Wilfried Klenk

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Wilfried Klenk

Wilfried Klenk (born March 3, 1959 in Oppenweiler ) is a CDU politician from Baden-Württemberg . From 2015 to 2016 he was President of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Klenk was born in Oppenweiler-Ellenweiler and grew up there on a farm.

education and profession

He trained as a paramedic with the additional qualification courses paramedic and qualified in the DRC and the -Bundesschule Academy for Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection for leadership and management tasks on. From 1983 to 1986 he was the head of the rescue station in Murrhardt and from 1986 to 1991 of the rescue station in Backnang . From 1991 to 2015 he was head of the Stuttgart rescue service and the overhead control center in Baden-Württemberg . After being elected President of the State Parliament, he left the German Red Cross in 2015 after 38 years of full-time employment.

Political activity

Wilfried Klenk was municipal councilor in Oppenweiler from 1980 to 2018 and first deputy to the mayor from 1994 to 2018. From February 2017 to March 2018 he was the honorary managing mayor of the municipality due to illness of the incumbent. Since 1995 he has been chairman of the CDU local branch in Oppenweiler and from 2002 to 2018 he was also chairman of the CDU local branch in Sulzbach / Murr. From 1999 to 2018 he was a member of the district council in the Rems-Murr district . He had to give up his honorary municipal political offices with his appointment as State Secretary.

Since April 12, 2001, the beginning of the 13th electoral term, he has been a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg. He was elected in the 13th , 14th , 15th and 16th electoral terms in each case via the direct mandate in the constituency of Backnang . From 2006 to 2018 he was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee, from 2006 to 2015 he was chairman of the social policy working group. During this time he was also a member of the advisory board of the Landesstiftung Familie in Not and the Stiftung Kinderland Baden-Württemberg. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of Südwestrundfunk, from 2015 to 2016 he was chairman of the Baden-Württemberg Economic Archive Board of Trustees. Since 2015 he has been a member of the advisory board of the state traffic watch in Baden-Württemberg. In 2015 he was elected President of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. He has been on the Advisory Board of the AMSEL Foundation Ursula Späth since 2018.

Since the CDU no longer had the strongest parliamentary group in the state parliament in the state elections on March 13, 2016 , the right to propose the office of state parliament president lay with the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group, which Muhterem Aras nominated. At the constituent meeting on May 11, 2016, Aras was elected Klenk's successor and Klenk was elected Vice President. In April 2018, Klenk was appointed political state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, Digitization and Migration in Baden-Württemberg .

Honorary positions and awards

Wilfried Klenk has been a member of the Oppenweiler Volunteer Fire Brigade since 1972 and was awarded the Gold Fire Brigade Decoration in 2014. The Rems-Murr District Fire Brigade Association awarded him the gold pin of honor in 2015. He has been a member of the German Red Cross (DRK) since 1973 ; in addition to his full-time work at the DRK, he accompanied the functions of chairman, standby manager and deputy for many years. District Emergency Leader. In 2001 he was appointed honorary chairman of the local DRK club in Oppenweiler. He was a member of the honorary presidium of the DRK district association Rems-Murr until 2018 and was awarded the association's plaque of honor on the occasion of his departure. In 2000 the DRK awarded him the highest award of the Red Cross, the DRK Badge of Honor. The DRK district association in Stuttgart awarded him the association's medal of honor after his resignation as rescue service manager in 2015. In 2010 he received the gold pin of honor from the local council for his services as a local councilor. In 2010 he was awarded the Citizens Medal by the municipality of Oppenweiler.

Family and private

Wilfried Klenk is Protestant and married. He has a grown son.

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personal data
SURNAME Klenk, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppenweiler