Thomas Oppermann
Thomas Oppermann (* April 27, 1954 in Freckenhorst ) is a German politician (SPD) and since December 16, 2013 Leader of the SPD parliamentary group. He was Parliamentary Under- November 2007-December 2013 first secretary of the SPD Parliamentary Group and Chairman of the Parliamentary Control Panel and 1998-2003 in Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture.
Life
Education and work
Oppermann was born in 1954 the son of a dairy Master in Freckenhorst. After graduation in 1975 at the Goethe School Einbeck, he studied German and English at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He refused to do military service and was from 1976 to 1978 as a volunteer in the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ASF ) operates in the U.S., where he also worked for the field and migrant workers union UFW / AFL -CIO. After his return, he began studying law at the Georg- August- University of Göttingen, where he graduated in 1983 with the first legal state exam. During his studies he was a member of the Group based group of Democratic Lawyers in the Student Parliament ( StuPa ), University of Göttingen, which was conducted from 1979 to 1980 by Jürgen Trittin. After the clerkship, he was also the second state examination 1986. After that, he was until 1990 Judge at the Administrative Court of Hanover and later at the administrative court in Braunschweig. From 1988 to 1989 he worked as a legal Affairs of the City Hann. Munden seconded to the local authority.
Party race
Oppermann is since 1980 member of the SPD and since 1989 Chairman of the SPD sub-district of Göttingen. From 1990 to 2005 he was a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony. Here he was from 1990 to 1998 legal policy spokesman and 2003-2005 economic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.
From 2001 to 2005 Oppermann also served on the council of the district of Göttingen. Since 2005 he is member of the German Bundestag. There he was from March 2006 to November 2007 Speaker of the Working Group and Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group in intelligence committee of inquiry. On November 26, 2007, he was elected First Parliamentary secretary of the SPD parliamentary group. He thus replaced from Olaf Scholz, who joined as a Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs in the Cabinet Merkel I. In the 2009 federal election campaign Oppermann was a member of the shadow cabinet of the SPD chancellor candidate Frank -Walter Steinmeier. In the federal election campaign of 2013, Peer Steinbrück Oppermann summoned to his team of experts in the field of domestic and legal policy.
Thomas Oppermann is always drawn as a directly elected representative of the constituency of Göttingen in the Bundestag. In the general election in 2013 it reached 40.4 per cent of the primary vote.
On December 16, 2013, he was elected by 90.81 percent of the SPD deputies to the new Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group.
Public offices
On 30 March 1998 Oppermann was appointed as Minister for Science and Culture in led by Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder state government of Lower Saxony. In this office he also belonged to the run by his successors Gerhard Glogowski and Sigmar Gabriel governments. After the SPD had lost its absolute majority in the regional elections in 2003, it came to form a coalition of CDU and FDP, and Oppermann resigned on 4 March 2003 from the government.
Others commitment
Oppermann belongs to the network in Berlin and the Seeheim Circle and is deputy chairman of the German -Israeli parliamentarian group. He belonged to the Year 1992 of the " Young Leaders Program " of the network Atlantic Bridge.
Private
Thomas Oppermann has two daughters from his previous marriage and a daughter and a son with his current partner.
Cabinets
- Cabinet Schröder III (Lower Saxony) - Glogowski Cabinet - Cabinet Gabriel