Wolfgang Gunkel (politician)

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Wolfgang Michael Gunkel (born May 15, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( SPD ), former member of the German Bundestag and former police president. D.

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school , Wolfgang Gunkel joined the police force and was trained as a police sergeant. In 1972 he graduated from high school . 1974 Gunkel rose to the higher service and was promoted to police commissioner . He graduated from the University of Applied Sciences for Police with a degree in administrative management (FH). From 1982 Gunkel was active in the higher police service.

Before he became chief director of the Bautzen Police Department in 2000 , Wolfgang Gunkel was Vice-Rector of the University of Applied Sciences for Police in Saxony from 1997 to 1999 . Since 2005 he has been in charge of the Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia Police Department (today the Görlitz Police Department , Bautzen and Görlitz districts).

Wolfgang Gunkel is married and has four children.

Political party

Wolfgang Gunkel has been a member of the SPD since 1976 and was chairman of the SPD sub-district Neisse.

His area of ​​expertise is domestic and security policy . He heads the Internal Security Working Group at the State Executive Committee of Saxony of the SPD.

MP

From 2005 to 2017 Gunkel was a member of the German Bundestag and from February 2006 deputy spokesman for the right-wing extremism working group of the SPD parliamentary group . In the 17th electoral term he was a member of the Bundestag interior committee .

Wolfgang Gunkel entered the Bundestag via the state list of Saxony . His home constituency was initially Löbau-Zittau - Görlitz - Niesky . He ran in the constituency of Erzgebirgskreis I in the 2013 federal elections .

Since the 2013 election, Wolfgang Gunkel has also been responsible for constituency 163 - Chemnitzer Umland / Erzgebirgskreis 2 and constituency 166 - Vogtlandkreis . For federal election 2017 candidate Gunkel not again.

Positions

In the vote on the expanded EFSF euro rescue package on September 29, 2011, Gunkel was the only SPD member to vote no.

Individual evidence

  1. Membership statistics new / re-elected. April 20, 2012, accessed August 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Spiegel Online: Voting on crisis funds. Merkel just got a majority chancellor. Retrieved September 29, 2011.

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