Ralf Stegner
Ralf Stegner ( born October 2, 1959 in Bad Durkheim ) is a German politician ( SPD).
He's since 2014 Deputy National Chairman of the SPD. In addition Stegner acts since 2008 as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and since 2007 as state chairman of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein. From 2003 to 2005, Stegner Finance and from 2005 to 2008 Minister of the Interior of Schleswig- Holstein. After the end of the grand coalition and the dismissal of the SPD ministers from the cabinet Carstensen I on July 21, 2009, he was leader of the opposition in the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag.
Life and career
Stegner grew up in Maxdorf on in the Palatinate, where his parents ran an inn. Later the family moved to Baden Emmen things. After graduation in 1978 at the Goethe -Gymnasium studied Stegner 1980-1987 Political Science, History and German at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. Included was one academic year 1984-1985 at the University of Oregon. After that, he was in 1987 McCloy Scholar of the Volkswagen Foundation and the Scholarship Foundation of the German people at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, which he left in 1989 with the completion of a Master of Public Administration.
In 1990 he joined as a consultant for Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Youth and Health of the Land Schleswig -Holstein. With the theatrical work policy made in the USA - The president in the tension between democracy and modern TV commercialized PR show he was in 1992 at the University of Hamburg, Dr. phil. doctorate. From 1994 to 1996 he headed the staff of the Minister of Social Affairs of Schleswig -Holstein, Heide Moser.
Ralf Stegner is Protestant, married, has three sons and lives in Bordesholm.
Party
Stegner joined the SPD in 1982. From 1998 to 2002 he was deputy chairman of the SPD district association Rendsburg -Eckernförde. He is since 2005 the SPD state board and has since March 24, 2007 state chairman of the SPD Schleswig -Holstein. Most recently, he was at the state party on 9-10. April 2011 re-elected with a score of 62.7 % of the votes cast. First time in over 30 years there has been a state party to the Schleswig-Holstein SPD alongside with Stegner Uwe Döring two candidates for the top job in the party. Stegner was elected after 2007 also at the 2009 national convention of the SPD from 13 to 15 November 2009 the National Executive Board and subsequently to the presidency of his party.
At the 2009 state election, he stood as the top candidate.
On a state convention of the SPD Schleswig -Holstein on September 11, 2010, he reiterated his will to compete as a top candidate of the SPD for the early parliamentary elections, which must take place no later than September 2012. He challenged the Kiel Lord Mayor Torsten Albig, who had already announced his candidacy. The SPD Schleswig- Holstein had the choice between four candidates. The vote for the leading candidate was, for the first time in the North SPD, by a membership referendum. Stegner was defeated Albigensian here with 32.15 to 57.22 percent.
On January 26, 2014 Stegner was elected at a special congress of the SPD in Berlin with 78.3 % of the vote to one of the six Deputy National Chairman Sigmar Gabriel. Gabriel had Stegner nominated in December 2013 after it had initially been considered favorite to succeed the previous General Secretary Andrea Nahles.
Member of Parliament
Since 2005, Stegner is a member of the Landtag of Schleswig -Holstein. On 15 January 2008 he was elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. He retired in 2005 as in 2009 over the national list in the Landtag.
Public offices
After the state elections in 1996 Stegner was appointed as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Youth and Health in led by Prime Minister Heide Simonis state government. In 1998 he joined as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Culture.
On 1 March 2003 he was appointed Minister of Finance of the State of Schleswig -Holstein. He was since the failed re-election by Heide Simonis on 17 March 2005 business leaders in office. He was in Schleswig -Holstein long as the " crown prince " who might inherit Heide Simonis, Office of the Prime Minister.
From 27 April 2005 to 15 January 2008, he was the Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen (CDU ) led the Grand Coalition Cabinet as Minister of the Interior. In this position, he was Deputy Chairman of the Tariff Group German countries.
The Schleswig-Holstein CDU and Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen threw Stegner claims to have repeatedly failed to comply with coalition agreements and therefore called for its withdrawal from the state government. Stegner was then known on 17 September 2007 that he would resign on 15 January 2008 and apply to the top candidate of the SPD for the state election in 2010. On 15 January 2008, he resigned from his position as interior minister back.
Stegner took over the offices of the SPD state and parliamentary group leaders. The climate within the CDU / SPD coalition deteriorated continuously. After the State of Schleswig- Holstein, had assured the head of HSH Nordbank, Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher bonus payments for its whereabouts at the bank, said Stegner, this operation was not coordinated with the SPD.
In July 2009, the coalition partners CDU announced on the coalition agreement with the SPD and also made Stegner's behavior for the fraction responsible. Stegner, in turn, accused the Prime Minister in relation to the disputed bonus payments of falsehood; Carstensen acknowledged false information.
The application of the CDU on resolution of the Diet and implementation of early elections voted the SPD faction not to. Carstensen dismissed then the SPD ministers from the cabinet and put on 23 July 2009 vote of confidence, which he lost in overwhelming abstention of your own faction. At the same time held with the general election of the Landtag election, the SPD scored 25.4 % of the vote (down 13.3 percentage points compared to 2005) the worst ever nationwide achieved by their results. The be incurred as a top candidate Stegner took over the responsibility for this, but remained as chairman of the party in office. As group chairman, he was re-elected with 20 of 25 votes. As leader of the main opposition party, he remained so until the change of government in 2012 the opposition leader in the parliament.
Political
On 18 March 2005, he published in response to the failure on the previous day re-election by Heide Simonis as Prime Minister of Schleswig -Holstein an open letter to the unknown deputies who abstained in this election the vote and confirmation by Heide Simonis had prevented it. He described his behavior therein as " shabby and unprincipled betrayal ". Media speculated Stegner myself reelection Heide Simonis prevented ' as prime minister. Heide Simonis himself stressed that they did not understand the charges against Ralf Stegner and do not believe it.
In January 2006, as the then Minister of the Interior Stegner broke with his reply to a criticism of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig Holstein defensive reactions. In a draft of the new Law on Police, among others, a license plate monitoring and an extended detention powers to independent identity suspicion finding was required. The head of the data protection center Thilo Weichert had criticized that the draft " inadmissible in a constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens " engaging and " likely [ ... ] a review by the Federal Constitutional Court not withstand " will .. Stegner then threw the data protection under the heading " Thilo home alone " before, that this in " a [r ] wrong [n ] world [ ... ] lives alone ." In April 2007, Stegner said, however, in an interview with Bild am Sonntag, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble pursuing " a policy that gradually undermines our fundamental rights " and Schäuble shrink " even before the abolition of the presumption of innocence " back.
Cabinets
- Cabinet Simonis III - Cabinet Carstensen I