Michael Bürsch

Michael Peter Karsten Bürsch ( born June 3, 1942 in Stettin, † December 9, 2012 in Berlin) was a German politician ( SPD).

Life and career

After graduating from high school in 1961 in Kiel graduated Bürsch studying law at the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel, which he finished with the first legal state exam in 1967. He then took part in a postgraduate program in the United States and made after 1970 to 1973 legal training, which he completed with the second state examination. In 1971 his doctorate in law. at the University of Kiel with the work " Small State Constitution between Vormarz and reaction - studies on the origin of the waldeckisch - pyrmontischen constitutional documents of 1849 and 1852 ". After the end of the clerkship, he was initially a research associate at the University of Kiel and moved in 1975 to the ministry administration of the federal government. From 1984 to 1989 he worked for the former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

From 1993 to 1997 Bürsch worked as a freelance corporate and management consultant for consulting projects in the public sector.

Michael Bürsch was married and had a son.

After serving as a member of parliament, he founded the Center for Corporate Citizenship Germany ( CCCD ).

Member of Parliament

On 17 June 1997 moved Bürsch for the retired deputies to the Bundestag Norbert Gansel after. From 1997 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 1998 to 2002 Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry future of civic engagement and from 2002 to 2009 of the Subcommittee on Civic Engagement.

From 2003 to 2009 Bürsch spokesman for the working group was Public-Private Partnerships for the SPD parliamentary fraction. This working group formulated the PPP Acceleration Act with a strong involvement of various economic experts. Since this was not without criticism, he urged a pragmatic relationship with lobbying. From 2006 to 2009 Bürsch was also Vice Chairman of the Group's Working Group on Migration and Integration.

Bürsch is then always 1997 on the state list of Schleswig- Holstein and as a directly elected representative of the constituency Plön - drawn in Neumünster in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 47.0% of the primary vote. In 2009 he is again taken up for election. In his constituency instead went to Birgit Malecha.

Public offices

From 1988 to 1993 was Bürsch State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs of Schleswig -Holstein and director of the Schleswig-Holstein state representation to the Federal Government.