Gert Weisskirchen

Gert white churches (actually white churches, born May 16, 1944 in Heidelberg ) is a German politician ( SPD).

Life and career

White churches left in 1960, the school Wiesloch -high school and then attended until 1962 the commercial college of Heidelberg. He then passed the commercial assistant examination and performed after the ampersand from internship. He then studied at the Pedagogical University (PH ) in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe and an Additional Studies in Education, Political Science and Economic and Social History at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. From 1969 to 1972 white churches worked as a teacher at the secondary school Epping and from 1972 to 1975 as a research assistant at the PH Heidelberg. Then he was up to his leave of absence in 1980 professor of social work at the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden. Since 1995 he is honorary professor of applied cultural studies at the Fachhochschule Potsdam.

Party

White churches in 1966 member of the SPD and first became involved with the Young Socialists, whose national board of directors in Baden- Württemberg he belonged from 1969 to 1972; 1971 to 1972 as state chairman.

From 1973 to 1991, white churches Chairman of the SPD district association Rhein-Neckar and from 1973 to 1997 also a member of the executive committee of the SPD in Baden- Württemberg.

Member of Parliament

From 1976 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 1976 to 1980 and vice chairman from 1980 to 1983 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag Committee on Education and Science. From 1987 to 1990 white churches led the working group defense conversion of the SPD Parliamentary Group, and was also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Enquete Commission "Education 2000 ". From 1993 to 1998 he was speaker of the Group's Working Group United Nations and from 1998 to 1999 spokesperson on culture and media. White churches belonged November 1998 to October 2007 the leadership of the SPD parliamentary group, and was from 1999 to 2009 spokesperson for the Group's Working Party foreign policy. Gert white churches is always drawn on a state list of Baden- Württemberg in the Bundestag.

He was a member from 1994 until 2009, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, where he was from 1997 to 2002 Chairman of the Committee for Humanitarian Affairs and Human Rights. Subsequently, he was until 2005 Vice- President of the Parliamentary Assembly. From 2005 to 2008 White Churches Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman was to combat anti-Semitism. 2009 white churches no longer a candidate for the Bundestag.

Awards

  • 2006: Commander of the Order for Services to Lithuania
  • 2010: Gratias agit the Czech Republic
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