- Technical secondary school for economics, training as a commercial clerk in the real estate and housing industry, 1976 specialized baccalaureate. Civilian service.
1976 to 1981 worked as a housing salesman at the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf and in construction and housing companies, 1981
to 1986 head of the administration office for civilian service at the Lower Rhine district association of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt e.V. (Workers' Welfare Association), 1986 to 1998 head of department at the German Federation of Trade Unions, North Rhine-Westphalia district, until March 2000 chairman of the board of the Rhine Province State Insurance Institute.
Member of ver.di, member of various social and socio-political initiatives; Chairman of the Baltic Sea Forum; member of the Supervisoring Board Global Panel Foundation e. V.; Chairman of the Advisory Board for Europe of the Gesellschaft zum Studium strukturpolitischer Fragen e. V.; member of the scientific advisory board of the in-service continuing education course "Public Transport Management" at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Joined the SPD in 1973, various functions in the SPD, including 1982 to 1988 Juso district chairman of the Lower Rhine, until 2002 member of the SPD district executive committee, until 2001 member of the party council, 1995 to 2005 chairman of the SPD district of Neuss, June 2002 to May 2004 chairman of the SPD Lower Rhine region, since 2001 member of the party executive committee and head of the Mobility and Sustainability Forum of the SPD party executive committee.
Member of the Bundestag since 1998; March 2000 Parliamentary State Secretary be- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
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