Wolfgang Grotthaus

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Wolfgang Grotthaus (born March 7, 1947 in Groß Schwansee ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school in Oberhausen in 1963 , Grotthaus completed training as a chemical laboratory technician and then attended a technical school from 1966 to 1968, which he graduated from as a chemical technician . From 1974 he worked for Deutsche Babcock Anlagen AG . From 1980 to 1998 he chaired the works council here .

Wolfgang Grotthaus is married and has two sons.

Political party

He has been a member of the SPD since 1969. He is deputy chairman of the SPD sub-district of Oberhausen.

MP

From 1975 Grotthaus belonged to the council of the city of Oberhausen.

From 1998 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Since November 2005 he has been the deputy spokesman for the labor and social affairs group of the SPD parliamentary group .

Wolfgang Grotthaus entered the Bundestag three times as a directly elected member of the constituency of Oberhausen and, since 2002, of the constituency of Oberhausen - Wesel III . In the 2005 Bundestag election he still achieved 58.2% of the first votes , although a few months earlier there had been irritations between Grotthaus and the local SPD subdistrict due to unreported secondary employment and a severance payment that was viewed as inappropriate by the public .

Public offices

From 1994 to 1998 Grotthaus was the first mayor of the city of Oberhausen and from 1997 deputy to the mayor Burkhard Drescher .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. SPD Oberhausen: UB board assesses secondary activities of MP Grotthaus , press release from March 15, 2005