Rainer Arnold
Rainer Arnold ( born June 21, 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( SPD).
He is since 2002 defense policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.
Life and career
Post-high school in 1967 at the Realschule Bernhausen Arnold graduated to 1970 an apprenticeship as a telecommunications technician and then worked as a telecommunications auditor until 1973. After he had attained the technical college in 1971, he was in 1973, the entrance exam to the University of Education Ludwigsburg to study without High School, where he studied from 1974 to 1978. From 1980 to 1998, Arnold was finally EDP Head of Department and Head of the Organization Department of the folk high school in Stuttgart. In 1983, he also has a contact study " adult education " completed at the University of Education Ludwigsburg.
Arnold is married and has a son.
Party
Since 1972 he is member of the SPD. From 1981 to 1995 he was chairman of the SPD district Esslingen Association and from 1996 to 1997 Member of the Land executive of the SPD in Baden- Württemberg.
Member of Parliament
Arnold belonged from 1980 to 1992 the city council of Filderstadt and from 1989 to 1994 the council of the district of Esslingen on. From 1994 to 1998 he was also a member of the Regional Assembly of the Stuttgart Region.
Since 1998 he is member of the German Bundestag. Here he is since October 2002 the Group's spokesperson working group on security issues and since November 2004 Member of the board of the SPD parliamentary group. He belongs since 2009 to the Defense Committee of the Bundestag. Arnold is always drawn on a state list of Baden-Württemberg in the Bundestag.
Memberships
Arnold is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag.
Political Position
The deployment of German soldiers in Afghanistan endorsed Arnold. He confesses that it " urges no German politician ( ... ) to send soldiers into combat. " In his view, " is humanitarian aid always comes first. " Necessity is the use of armed forces, so that the living conditions of the people can be improved in Afghanistan. Is a further object of the German military to train Afghan security forces so that they can maintain the resulting security structures. For stable security structures, Arnold, were the basis for a reduction and ultimately the withdrawal of German soldiers.
The criticized by the Green Party Member of Parliament Hans- Christian Ströbele and Winfried Nachtwei as unconstitutional use of Tornado reconnaissance aircraft to spy the enemy of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in May and June 2007 evaluated Arnold as a classic case of assistance under Article 35 of the Basic Law: " It is crucial that the Bundeswehr accepts no police authority tasks such as making fences, control people or search houses. "