Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn

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Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn
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Strengmann-Kuhn in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1964-05-20) 20 May 1964 (age 59)
Dinslaken, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party Greens
Children2
OccupationEconomist

Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (born 20 May 1964) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2008 till 2013 and again since 2014. [1]

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Early life and education

After graduating from high school, Strengmann-Kuhn studied economics at the University of Bielefeld, graduating as Diplom-Volkswirt in 1992.

Early career

Strengmann-Kuhn then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University from 1993 to 1995, at the Department of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1995 to 2000 and at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim from 2001 to 2003.

Political career

Strengmann-Kuhn was a member of the Bundestag from 4 January 2008 to 2013 as successor to Margareta Wolf, representing the Offenbach district. At the end of January 2014, he returned to the Bundestag as successor to Priska Hinz. [2]

In parliament, Strengmann-Kuhn is a member of the Finance Committee and the Study Group on Vocational Education and Training. [3] [4] He also serves as his parliamentary group's spokesman on labour market policy and European social policy. [5]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) on the national level following the 2021 German elections, Strengmann-Kuhn was part of his party's delegation in the working group on labour policy, co-chaired by Hubertus Heil, Katharina Dröge and Johannes Vogel. [6]

Other activities

Political positions

Amid the European migrant crisis in 2015, Strengmann-Kuhn joined fellow Green parliamentarians Luise Amtsberg, Annalena Baerbock, Franziska Brantner and Manuel Sarrazin in calling for more responsibilities for the European Commission in managing the European Union's intake of refugees, a clear mandate for Frontex and EU-managed facilities for asylum seekers in their countries of origin. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Infos zur Person". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag - Finance". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "German Bundestag - Study Commission 'Vocational Training in the Digital Work Environment'". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Die fachpolitischen SprecherInnen". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .
  7. ↑ Flüchtlingskrise: Grünen-Abgeordnete prangern Versäumnisse ihrer Partei an Der Spiegel , December 15, 2015.
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