Axel Berg (politician)

Axel Berg ( born March 26, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( SPD).

Life and career

After high school, graduated from Mount a study of law and political science in Munich, Tübingen and Frankfurt, which he finished with the first legal state exam. After completing the clerkship, he was also the second state examination. In 1992 his PhD. at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the work " French institutions in the nuclear conflict - conditions and interests of non-military nuclear policy ". Since 1993, Berg has worked as an independent lawyer.

Axel Berg is married.

Member of Parliament

From 1998 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 2000 to 2002 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Enquete Commission Sustainable energy supply. From 2006 he was deputy speaker of the Group's Working Group on Energy.

Axel Berg is fed three times a directly elected representative of the constituency München-Nord in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 43.7% of the primary vote. Berg was after leaving Christopher Moss Bauer is the only directly elected Bavarian SPD deputy in the German Bundestag. In the 2009 federal election Mountain just going down to his CSU competitors John Sing hammer and could not move into the Bundestag also over the national list. He is now the first substitutes on the SPD state list.

For the next general election, Berg tried again to a list. On July 19, 2012, he was defeated, however, in the vote on the SPD constituency candidates (München- Nord), his rival candidate Florian post.

Other activities

Axel Berg is a member of the Board of the Energy Foundation work and is Chairman of the Board of the German section of Euro Solar, a non-profit European Association for Renewable Energy.