Wolf-Michael Catenhusen

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Catenhusen gives Philipp Jenninger the final report of the study commission "Chances and Risks of Genetic Engineering" (1987).

Wolf-Michael Catenhusen (born July 13, 1945 in Höxter ; † April 30, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1998 to 2002 he was Parliamentary State Secretary and from 2003 to 2005 Permanent State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . Most recently, Catenhusen was Deputy Chairman of the National Regulatory Control Council and Deputy Chairman of the German Ethics Council .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1965, Catenhusen completed a teaching degree in Latin , history and social sciences in Göttingen and Münster , which he completed with the first and second state examinations for teaching at grammar schools. From 1977 he was a teacher at the Arnoldinum high school in Burgsteinfurt .

Wolf-Michael Catenhusen was married and had two children.

From 1999 to 2011 he was a member of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress . He was chairman of the advisory board in the competence network stem cell research NRW.

Political party

Since 1968 he was a member of the SPD. From 1975 to 1985 he was chairman of the SPD sub-district of Münster and from 1976 was a member of the SPD district executive committee for Western Westphalia. From 1995 to 2003 he was also a member of the SPD federal executive committee .

MP

From 1980 to 2002 Catenhusen was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1984 to 1986 he was chairman of the Enquête Commission on Chances and Risks of Genetic Engineering and from 1987 to 1994 chairman of the committee for research and technology and research, technology and technology assessment (from November 1989). From 1994 to 1998 Catenhusen was Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group .

Wolf-Michael Catenhusen always entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Public offices

On October 27, 1998 he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the federal government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( Schröder I cabinet ). After the federal election in 2002 , he resigned from this office on October 22, 2002, but was appointed permanent state secretary in the BMBF on July 1, 2003. After Annette Schavan ( CDU ) was appointed as the new Federal Minister of Education, Catenhusen was put into temporary retirement on December 31, 2005.

From 2006 to the beginning of 2011, Catenhusen was chairman of the Federal Government's Nano Commission , which was part of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and which presented its final report on the risks and opportunities of nanotechnology in February 2011 .

From September 19, 2006 he was a member of the National Regulatory Control Council and was its deputy chairman. From April 2008 to 2016 he was also a member of the German Ethics Council, from 2012 as deputy chairman.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SPD Münster mourns Wolf-Michael Catenhusen. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . May 10, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Competence network stem cell research NRW: Organization & structure. In: stem cells.nrw.de. Archived from the original on October 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 19, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Chancellor Merkel welcomes new members of the National Regulatory Control Council. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, September 21, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2011 (press release 344).
personal data
SURNAME Catenhusen, Wolf-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2019
Place of death Berlin