Wolfgang Börnsen

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Wolfgang Börnsen (2009)

Wolfgang Börnsen (born April 26, 1942 in Flensburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1987 to 2013 he was a member of the Bundestag and from 2005 to 2013 chairman of the working group on culture and media of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school , Börnsen did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and attended the Flensburg Higher Commercial School . He then graduated from the University of Education (PH) in Kiel to become a teacher at secondary schools . He then worked as a teacher for history, economics / politics and religion at the Käte-Lassen School in Flensburg . Börnsen also had lectureships at the PH Kiel for leisure education and at the PH Flensburg for play and theater education.

In 1962 Börnsen played drums for a short time in the beat and hit band Club 62 . From 1963 he reported as a "raging village reporter" for the Flensburger Tageblatt , including from fishing on the snow disaster in northern Germany in 1978 .

Wolfgang Börnsen is a Protestant , married and the father of four children.

Political party

Börnsen joined the CDU in 1967 and in 1977 also joined the Christian Democratic Workforce (CDA). From 1991 to 1995 he was Secretary General of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein .

MP

Börnsen had been a member of the German Bundestag since 1987 . Here he was chairman of the working group on the coast of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . Since November 2005 he has also headed the parliamentary group culture and media and was also the cultural policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. In this role, he attacked the nomination of the computer game Crysis 2 for the German Computer Game Award in April 2012 ; Although the jury is defined as independent, Börnsen threatened with “a new composition of the jury” and was criticized for this from different sides, even from within its own ranks.

Wolfgang Börnsen entered the Bundestag in 1987, 1990, 1994 and 2009 as a directly elected member of constituency 1 Flensburg - Schleswig, in 1998, 2002 and 2005 via the Schleswig-Holstein state list . He announced that he would no longer run in the 2013 federal election after more than 25 years as a member of the Bundestag. His successor was Sabine Sütterlin-Waack .

Memberships

Börnsen is a member of the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

Börnsen has been parliamentary and government advisor in Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan since 2010.

Börnsen is an advisor to the Supreme Constitutional Court in Brazil March 2017.

Börnsen was a member of the "Ethics Advisory Board" of the former German music award Echo and in April 2018, as its spokesman, defended the participation of rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang in the 2018 Echo Awards with the album Jung - which led to the abolition of the award after violent protests two weeks later brutal Handsome 3 regardless of the counter contained therein Title 0815 raised Semitism allegation .

Publications (selection)

  • Role model with small mistakes - MPs between aspiration and reality. Siegler, Sankt Augustin 2001, ISBN 3-87748-613-4
  • Low German in the German Bundestag. Siegler, Sankt Augustin 2001, ISBN 3-87748-614-2
  • Rock or surf? Gerhard Stoltenberg - the misunderstood visionary. Siegler, Sankt Augustin 2004, ISBN 978-3-87748-644-3
  • Save Berlin - Schleswig-Holstein's contribution to the 1948/49 airlift. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02812-0
  • The fishing saga. Endangered homeland . Husum Printing and Publishing Company, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-915-0
  • From decline to a new beginning . Kiel / Hamburg
  • Parliamentarism in Sleeping Beauty - Verlag der Nation, ISBN 978-3-373-00536-0
  • Low German plays - Ostfriesischer Theaterverlag
  • - Lüüd, Luther un de Düvel 2016
  • - Weltünnergang, we are not in 2013
  • - Rocker didn't retire 2010
  • - De Reis near Cape Town, edited 2006
  • - De oppsternaatsch Deern 2000
  • - Schleswig-Holstein Revue op Platt 1998 a. a. Translation and editing of Loriot texts
  • Fishing saga II Departure into homelessness Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2019 ISBN 978-3-89876-967-9
  • The history of fishing - Schleswiger Nachrichten of February 18, 2020

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Börnsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topics / Working Groups - Culture and Media. ( Memento from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) cducsu.de
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Matthiesen: Twist & Shout. Flensburg beat scene from 1962 to 1972 (=  series of publications by the Society for Flensburg City History . Volume 73 ). 2nd Edition. Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-925856-64-8 , Club 62, p. 29 (-35) (265 pp.).
  3. ↑ 150 years of the Flensburger Tageblatt . A special publication by sh: z. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , Flensburg June 15, 2015, Der rasende Dorfreporter, p. 17 .
  4. ^ History of the CDU, Schleswig-Holstein State Association . Konrad Adenauer Foundation ; Retrieved March 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. Kai Biermann: The computer game award that shouldn't be . Zeit Online , April 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ Union gets the crisis with "Crysis 2" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ cnetz defends nomination for Crysis 2 at the German Computer Game Award . ( Memento of April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) CNETZ; Retrieved April 26, 2012
  8. ↑ shz.de
  9. ↑ For the discussion about the album "JBG3" by Kollegah & Farid Bang and the decision of the ECHO Advisory Board , echopop.de, press release of April 6, 2018, accessed on April 11, 2018
  10. ↑ Echo: Despite accusations of anti-Semitism, Farid Bang and Kollegah are allowed to compete , dw.com, April 6, 2018, accessed on April 11, 2018
  11. ↑ Numerous artists return echo prizes - The advisory board spokesman for the music prize defended the nomination of the rappers , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on April 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Börnsen, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg