Hans-Ulrich Klose
Hans -Ulrich Klose ( born June 14, 1937 in Breslau) is a German politician of the SPD. Klose was from 1974 to 1981, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Life and career
Klose was born in 1937 in Breslau Silesia 1947 and came to Bielefeld. During his school years (1954 ) Klose attended Clinton High School in Clinton, Iowa, United States. After graduation in 1957 at the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld Klose started in 1959 to study law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Hamburg, where he graduated in 1961 with the first and second state examination in 1965. This was followed from 1965 to 1970 to work as a youth prosecutor, later he was then to 1972 government director in Hamburg.
As a member of a white vintage he made voluntarily five months military service in the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 17 in Hamburg and was promoted to lieutenant of the reserve. Klose has four children.
Party
1964 Klose joined the SPD, as its national treasurer, he served from 1987 to 1991.
From 1994 to 1997 he was National Chairman of the AG60plus.
Member of Parliament
In 1970 he was elected to the Hamburg Parliament from 1972 to 1973 and was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. October 10, 1973 to May 25, 1981 its mandate was suspended due to the membership of the Senate. With the resignation on March 11, 1983 Klose retired from the citizenry.
Since 1983, Klose is a member of the German Bundestag. There he was elected following the resignation of Hans -Jochen Vogel on 12 November 1991 as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. After the parliamentary election in 1994 he gave up this position to the then SPD federal chairman Rudolf Sharping, the 1994 was also been chancellor candidate. Klose was instead 1994-1998 Vice- President of the German Bundestag.
1998 Klose was then first Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and from 2002 to 2013 and its Vice Chairman since January 2003 and Chairman of the German - American Parliamentary Group.
Klose is always as directly elected representative of the constituency of Hamburg-Harburg and since 2002 the constituency Hamburg- Bergedorf - Harburg drafted in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 51.0% of the primary vote, in the general election of 2009 were 39.0 %. At the general election in 2013 Klose did not start.
Public offices
In 1973 he was Hamburg's Senator under the First Mayor Peter Schulz, whom he succeeded in office only a year later. Klose was the youngest head of government of a country of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Due to a toxic waste scandal of the company Stoltzenberg, loss of public municipal Hamburg's city development company STEG, and especially as a result of intra-party conflict over the construction of the nuclear power plant Brokdorf Klose came on 25 May 1981 as mayor surprisingly back. He was succeeded by Klaus von Dohnanyi. Klose rejected the construction of the nuclear power plant, for this position could also win a majority in the Hamburg SPD, but does not yet prevail against the then SPD regional chairman Werner Staak.
On 16 March 2010, Klose was appointed by Federal Foreign Minister Westerwelle to the coordinator for German -American Cooperation. Klose was the successor of Karsten Voigt, who went into retirement. This office he resigned for personal reasons on January 31, 2011. He was succeeded by Harald body right.
Klose is also a member of the Bundeswehr Structural Commission.
Social commitment
Klose was from 1986-1989 Chairman of the Federal Association for the Promotion of the cooperative idea V. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Presidium of the German Society for Foreign Policy, the Advisory Board of Atlantic Initiative and the Board of Trustees of AFS Intercultural eV, the oldest German student exchange organization.
Awards
His awarded the Federal Cross of Merit refused Klose, as this was, of Hanseatic tradition, banned as a former Hamburg Senator due to a 1963 decision of the Hamburg Senate recently confirmed it.
Publications
- With Dieter Biallas and Volker Ruhe, SPD - CDU - FDP contributions to the fundamental program of the political parties, publishing Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg, 1974.
- Charade ( poetry), Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 1997
- Charade two ( poetry), Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 2001
- Write time. Poems 1995-2007 ( poetry), Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 2007