Klaus Uwe Benneter
Klaus Uwe Benneter ( born March 1, 1947 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( SPD).
He was in 1977 as a representative of the Stamokap wing national chairman of the Young Socialists and 2004-2005 Secretary General of the SPD and the 2005-2009 General Counsel of the SPD parliamentary group.
Life and career
After graduating from high school in 1966 in Karlsruhe Benneter graduated in law at the Free University of Berlin, where he graduated in 1971 with the first state exam. After legal training was followed by the second legal state exam in 1974. Since 1975 he has been a lawyer since 1985 and also as a notary. After leaving his political posts he is involved in various charitable projects and is dedicated to his hobby of raising pigeons.
Klaus Uwe Benneter is widowed and has a son.
Party
1965 Benneter member of the SPD. Here he engaged first in the Young Socialists, the deputy national chairman, he was from 1974. In 1977 he was elected national chairman of the Young Socialists. The Young Socialists Benneter was always a representative of the so-called Stamokap theory. However Benneter described the DKP as political opponents, the CDU as a class enemy. He also presented the status of the Young Socialists as SPD youth organization in question. ( " Membership in the SPD for us Young Socialists no dogma, to which no one can shake. " ) During his time as chairman of the Young Socialists, he acquired the nickname " Benni the enfant terrible ." Due to its well of friends perceived as disloyal behavior Benneter was excluded mainly at the instigation of the SPD Federal CEO Egon Bahr, 1977 from the SPD and thus also of the Young Socialists. The newly available space at the Young Socialists took over top Gerhard Schröder, who brought him back in 1983 in the SPD.
From 1996 to 2000 he was deputy chairman of the SPD Berlin.
In Berlin he was long regarded as related parties of the SPD - Left. He criticized clearly there 's ruling CDU / SPD coalition. In the context of Agenda 2010 but he exhibited in 2003 behind the positions of the SPD party leadership and of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. A collaboration with the SPD - Left to Ottmar Schreiner on this issue he refused.
On 7 February 2004 Benneter was proposed by Franz Müntefering as the new Secretary General of the SPD and elected at an extraordinary party congress on 21 March 2004, about 80 percent of the vote. He thus entered the successor to Olaf Scholz. On 13 October 2005 Benneter declared that he would take up as SPD General Secretary not again at the SPD party in November 2005. His successor was elected on 15 November 2005 Heil.
Member of Parliament
From 1999 to 2002 Benneter a member of the Berlin House of Representatives. Here he was quite political spokespersons for the Protection of the SPD.
From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 2002 to 2003 chairman of the Committee "lying Committee " and from November 2005 to 2009 Counsel of the SPD parliamentary group.
Klaus Uwe Benneter is drafted as a directly elected representative of the constituency Berlin -Steglitz -Zehlendorf and 2005 on the state list of Berlin to the Bundestag in 2002.
On 10 January 2009 he was re-elected for the 2009 federal election by his party with 93.6 percent of the vote for constituency candidates for Steglitz -Zehlendorf, but lost on September 27, be direct mandate and failed with Rank 5 for Berlin a place in the Bundestag over the national list.