Wolfgang Pohl (politician, 1953)

Wolfgang Pohl (born December 14, 1953 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He is a former member of the Brandenburg State Parliament , and was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1992 to 2002 .

Life

Wolfgang Pohl attended the Polytechnische Oberschule from 1960 to 1970 and trained as an electronics technician from 1970 to 1972 . He then worked in this profession until 1977 and graduated from high school from 1972 to 1974. In 1977/78 he worked as a teacher without any pedagogical training. From 1978 to 1982 he studied geography and sport at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he graduated as a qualified teacher . From 1982 to 1990 he worked as a teacher. From 1990 to 1992 he was employed as a department head in the city administration of Frankfurt (Oder) and in 1992 was elected mayor of the city. He held this office until 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a freelance business consultant.

Wolfgang Pohl is married and has three children.

politics

In 1989 Wolfgang Pohl became a member of the New Forum and was a member of the round table for them . He also successfully ran for mayor election for the New Forum. In 1998 he joined the SPD. Wolfgang Pohl was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament from October 1990 to 1994 . At that time he was in the faction of Alliance 90 . In 2004 he was able to move into parliament again as a successor for the SPD. He moved into parliament for Reinhold Dellmann , who was appointed State Secretary of the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning.

In the fourth legislative period (2004–2009) Wolfgang Pohl was a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and from 2007 to 2009 chairman of the Committee on Economic Affairs, of which he was a member. In the first electoral term he was a member of various committees: in the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry (1990 to 1991), in the Committee on Budgetary Control (1990 to 1991), in the Committee on Science, Research and Culture (1990 to 1994) as well as in 1991/92 in the investigation committee 1/1 (topic: On the behavior of the Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport Jochen Wolf in property matters).

In the state elections in 2009 , Pohl missed re-entry into the state parliament, he was unable to prevail against Axel Henschke in his constituency , nor could he move into the state list (29th place) and left the state parliament. On September 1, 2011, he moved up again to the state parliament after Reinhold Dellmann had resigned from his seat. Even in the state elections in 2014 , Pohl was unable to win a mandate because he failed in the constituency because of René Wilke and 29th place on the state list of the SPD was not enough for an entry. On August 1, 2018, he moved up again to the Brandenburg state parliament, as MP Daniel Kurth became district administrator in the Barnim district. In 2019 he left the state parliament.

literature

• President of the Landtag Brandenburg (ed.): Landtag Brandenburg : Names - Dates - Facts. 4th electoral term 2004 - 2009. 3rd edition. Potsdam 2007.

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Brandenburg State Parliament
• Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lausitzer Rundschau : Ninth successor in the state parliament - Dellmann gives back his mandate from August 25, 2011.
2. ↑ Press release of the SPD Brandenburg: Björn Lüttmann on the appointment of new functions. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .