Volkmar Klein

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Volkmar Klein
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Member of the Bundestag
for Siegen-Wittgenstein
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1960-01-13) 13 January 1960 (age 64)
Siegen, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party Christian Democratic Union
Alma mater University of Bonn

Volkmar Klein (born 13 January 1960 in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He is a member of the German Bundestag since 2009 and was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 until 2009.

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Early life and education

Parallel to his studies in the University of Bonn, Klein worked as an assistant to a member of the German Bundestag. In 1986, Klein finished his studies in the University of Bonn as a graduate economist and took on a several month internship in the consulting company Henkell Brothers in Melbourne, Australia.

After returning to Germany, Klein continued working for the same Australian consulting company as a freelancer. From 1988 until 1989, Klein was the branch manager of another Australian company Exicom Ltd (electronic company) in Düsseldorf. [1] From 1989 until 1995, Klein was the executive manager of the Wittgensteiner Kuranstalt GmbH & Co. KG, an operator of rehabilitation clinics and hospitals in Germany and the Czech Republic.

Political career

Career in state politics

In 1978, Klein became a member of the CDU. He has been a member of the federal board of the CDU since 2001 and the chairman of the CDU in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein since 2003.

From 2004 until 2015 he was the chairman of the federal board of the Protestant Working Group of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1984 until 2005, he was a member of the council of the Burbach municipality and from 1992 until 1996, he was the mayor of this municipality. [1]

Klein was a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 until 2009, where, in the 14th legislative period, he was a member of the Budget control committee, Budget committee, Finance committee and the Subcommittee of the Budget- and Finance committee "Personnel“. Besides that he was the speaker of his party in the Budget and Finance committees.

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–present

In the 2009 national elections, Klein was directly elected with 41.53% votes into the German Parliament, followed by 45.8% votes in the federal election in 2013. [2] In his first two legislative terms in the German Parliament, he served on the Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on European Union issues.

Klein also was a member of the parliamentary Financial market committee, a committee that monitored the federal bank rescue package worth 480 billion euros passed on 17 October 2008 and advised on fundamental and strategic issues as well as long-term developments in financial market policy. In 2017 Klein was directly elected with 40,13% votes into the German Bundestag. [3] In the current, 19th legislative period of the German Parliament, he is the Chairman of the Economic Cooperation and Development Task Force of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, Deputy member of the Budget Committee and deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. [4]

In addition to his committee assignments, Klein chairs the German-Pacific Parliamentary Friendship Group of the German Bundestag.

In July 2023, Klein announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term. [5]

Other activities

Personal life

Klein is married and has four children. He lives in the town of Burbach.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Deutscher Bundestag – Volkmar Klein". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Ergebnisse Siegen-Wittgenstein – Der Bundeswahlleiter". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Wahl zum Deutschen Bundestag – Wahl zum Deutschen Bundestag 2017 im Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein – Gesamtergebnis". wahlen.kdvz-frechen.de. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Wahl der Arbeitsgruppenvorsitzenden". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Hendrik Schulz (26 July 2023), Für Siegen-Wittgenstein im Bundestag: Volkmar Klein kandidiert nicht mehr Westfalenpost.
  6. ↑ Parlamentarischer Beirat setzt sich für die Stärkung von Gesundheitssystemen ein und will Vernachlässigten eine Stimme geben, 14 Juny 2018 German Network against Neglected Tropical Diseases (DNTDs).
  7. ↑ Board of Trustees University of Siegen.
  8. ↑ Board German Africa Foundation.
  9. ↑ "Stiftung für Grundwerte und Völkerverständigung: Vorstand". in-verantwortung.de. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  10. ↑ Board of Trustees Development and Peace Foundation (SEF).
  11. ↑ Advisory Board German Foundation for World Population (DSW).
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