Willi Brase

Willi Brase ( born October 10, 1951 in Quetzen ) is a German politician (SPD ) and member of the German Bundestag.

Life and career

After attending elementary school Brase began in 1966 training as a merchant in wholesale and foreign trade. Once finished, he attended from 1969 to 1971, a technical college and then made ​​until 1972, first the military and after successful conscientious objection to 1973 from his community service. He then earned a degree in social education at the Fachhochschule Niederrhein, which he completed in 1976.

After a year at the practical professional landscape Rheinland he began in 1978 to work as a social worker in the Department of Youth Care of the youth office in Mönchengladbach. In 1981, Brase as youth education officer for DGB district of North Rhine -Westphalia, where he eventually state youth secretary in 1984. In 1989 he took over the chairmanship of the DGB District Association Siegen- Wittgenstein in 1994 and was chairman of the DGB region Siegen- Wittgenstein - Olpe, since 2009 the DGB region South.

Brase is married and has two children.

Party

Willi Brase is a member of the SPD since 1981. Brase is chairman of the SPD sub-district of Siegen- Wittgenstein and serves on the board of the district in Western Westphalia. He is also a member of the DGB and the union Ver.di.

Member of Parliament

Since 1998 he is member of the German Bundestag and a full member of the Committee on " Education, Research and Technology Assessment " as well as in the Committee " Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection " active. As a deputy member, he is also in the Committee on " Transport, Construction and Urban Development ".

Willi Brase has entered 1998 on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia and 2002, and in 2005 elected as a direct delegates of the constituency Siegen- Wittgenstein in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 43.6 percent of the primary vote. At the general election in 2009 he was defeated Volkmar Klein, candidate of the CDU, with just 39.1 percent, but was again able to move about the country list in the German Bundestag. In 2013, he moved in the general election once again on the list in the Bundestag since he lost Volkmar Klein ( CDU) at 36.5 % share of the vote again ..