Wolfgang Vogel (politician)

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Wolfgang Vogel (born June 22, 1950 in Nuremberg ; † December 12, 2017 ) was a Bavarian politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Life

After graduating from the Ohm-Gymnasium Erlangen in 1969, Vogel studied economics and geography for teaching at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). From 1974 he worked as a research assistant at the same institute. From 1975 to 1977 Vogel completed his seminar training in Regensburg and Hof. In 1977 Vogel began working as a grammar school teacher at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer grammar school in Oberasbach , where he was elected to the state parliament.

Wolfgang Vogel was divorced.

politics

Vogel had been a member of the SPD since 1969 . From 1997 to 2003 Vogel was district chairman of the SPD Erlangen. From 1996 to 2016 he was a member of the Erlangen city ​​council .

In 1998 , Wolfgang Vogel was nominated at short notice as a candidate in the Erlangen-Stadt district after the incumbent SPD member of the state parliament and Karl-Heinz Hiersemann, who was a direct candidate there , had died. Wolfgang Vogel moved into the state parliament through the constituency list of Middle Franconia and was re-elected through this in 2003 . In the state parliament he was the deputy chairman of the committee for universities , research and culture . He was also spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group on university policy. In the state election in 2008 he was not re-elected.

In 2002 Wolfgang Vogel ran for the office of Lord Mayor in Erlangen, but lost in the first ballot against Siegfried Balleis ( CSU ).

Vogel was a member of the cabaret group "Hohn und Spott" of the SPD parliamentary group.

Political positions

Within the SPD parliamentary group , Vogel was counted among the party left; he also called himself a leftist. Vogel played a key role in the fact that the SPD parliamentary group spoke out against tuition fees. In the debate about a new Bavarian Higher Education Act (passed in 2006), Vogel advocated greater participation by students and mid-level academic staff in university committees. This was anchored in the draft law of the SPD parliamentary group, which, however, was rejected.