Hubertus Heil

Hubertus Heil ( born November 3, 1972 in Hildesheim ) is a German politician. He is deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group with responsibility for the economy and labor issues.

He was from November 2005 to November 2009 Secretary General of the SPD.

Life and career

Healing was born in 1972 the son of a school teacher in Hildesheim. After graduation in 1992 at the High School at Silver Kamp in Peine salvation made ​​initially from his civil service began in 1995 and a degree in political science and sociology at the University of Potsdam, which he completed at the University of Hagen in 2006.

He was from early 1995 to the end of 1997, employees of the Brandenburg state parliament Heidrun Förster and in 1998 briefly employees of the members of the Bundestag Eva Folta. At the same time was healing from 1995 to 1997 Managing Director of the Association for Workers' Questions in the SPD Association Brandenburg.

Heil is Protestant. He is married to Solveig Orlowski and has a son.

Party

Since 1988 he is member of the SPD. He first became involved with the Young Socialists, whose district chairman in Brunswick, he was from 1991 to 1995. He was regarded as representative of the non-dogmatic reform socialist Young Socialist wing.

Salvation was for many years chairman of the SPD City Association Peine and since December 2009, Chairman of the SPD district of Braunschweig.

On 15 November 2005 he was elected to Karlsruhe with a relatively poor outcome of 61.7 percent of the delegates' votes for SPD General Secretary and successor of Klaus Uwe Benneter. Previously proposed by Franz Müntefering as Secretary General Kajo Wasserhövel was inferior in the SPD Federal Executive against Andrea Nahles. Münterfering then announced his resignation from the party leadership; Nahles renounced a Secretary - candidacy. The designated party chairman Matthias Platzeck proposed to the Board then the little-known deputies salvation for the nomination for Secretary ago. On 29 September 2009 ( two days after the 2009 federal election ) announced salvation, that he would not stand for the post of Secretary General of the SPD in the next election at the party from 13 to 15 November. His successor in office was Andrea Nahles.

Member of Parliament

Since 1998 he is member of the German Bundestag. He was from October 2002 to November 2005 the board of the SPD state of Lower Saxony and group from October 2002 to November 2004 the board of the SPD parliamentary group on. Healing was from April 2003 to October 2005 Chairman of the Group Working Group on Telecommunications and Post. He is one of the founding members of the network Berlin, whose spokesman he was from 2003 to 2005.

Salvation is always as directly elected representative of the constituency Gifhorn - drawn in Peine in the Bundestag. In the general election in 2013, he scored 42.1 percent of the primary vote here. In the previous parliamentary elections in 2009 it was only 40.5 percent. Its advantage over the CDU but decreased to 1.1 percentage points.

Publications

  • Hubertus Heil (ed.): Youth and violence - on dealing with violent young people. Stoke, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3894720751
  • Hubertus Heil, Juliane Seifert ( ed.): Social Germany - for a new justice policy. VS, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3531147986
  • Hubertus Heil, Armin Steinbach: So Germany is progressing: compass for a progressive economic policy. Forward Verlag Berlin 2001, ISBN 3866023510
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