Kurt Bodewig
Kurt Bodewig Hubert ( born April 26, 1955 in Rheinberg ) is a German politician ( SPD). He was from 2000 to 2002 Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Housing.
Life and career
Post-high school Bodewig began training as a merchant in the real estate and housing industry. He attended technical school in Grevenbroich economy, which he left to the University student in 1976. Until 1981 he worked as a clerk at the apartment Dusseldorf City Savings Bank as well as in construction and housing companies. After completing his civilian service in a nursing home in Dusseldorf in 1981, he took over the management of the civil service to the District Administrator Verband Niederrhein AWO. From 1986 to 2000 he worked as Head of Department at DGB district of North Rhine -Westphalia.
Bodewig is honorary chairman of the Baltic Sea Forum eV and the Advisory Board of the Hamburg trade consulting firm Inca Solutions GmbH. He is also a Senior Adviser to the management consulting firm KPMG in Berlin, and Member of the Board of the Global Panel Foundation. 2007 Bodewig eV was chosen as President of the German Road.
Kurt Bodewig is married and has two sons. He lives in Hamburg.
Party
Since 1973 Bodewig is a member of the SPD. From 1982 to 1988 he was chairman of the Young Socialists District Lower Rhine. From 1995 to 2005 he was chairman of the SPD district Neuss Association and from 2002 to 2004 Chairman of the SPD Lower Rhine. From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the SPD Federal Executive.
Member of Parliament
From 1998 to 2009 Kurt Bodewig was a member of the German Bundestag. As of November 2002, he was Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Affairs of the European Union. He joined the network in Berlin, whose initiators he belonged in 1998, and is co-editor of the Berlin Republic.
Kurt Bodewig else is always drawn to the Bundestag in 2002 as a directly elected representative of the constituency I Neuss and over the national list of North Rhine -Westphalia.
Public offices
On 20 March 2000 Bodewig was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Housing. Following the resignation of the then incumbent Reinhard Klimmt he was on 20 November 2000 his successor as Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Housing. After the parliamentary elections of 2002 he retired from the Federal Government on 22 October 2002.
In his tenure as Federal Minister involves the introduction of the HGV toll legislation in Germany and the contract with the company, Toll Collect, which was signed on 20 September 2002.
Since autumn 2011 he has been Honorary Consul of Lithuania. The consular district includes the states of Hamburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and Schleswig -Holstein.
Cabinet
- Cabinet Schröder I
Publications (selection )
- Kurt Bodewig / Rainer Hesels / Dieter Mahlberg (eds. ): The creeping danger - right-wing today, Essen 1990