Volkmar Klein

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Volkmar Klein
Klein, Volkmar-1101.jpg
Portrait of Volkmar Klein
Member of the Bundestag
for Siegen-Wittgenstein
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1960-01-13) 13 January 1960 (age 61)
Siegen, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Alma materUniversity 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.

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 back 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 Dusseldorf.[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 the member of the CDU. He is 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 October 17, 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.

Other activities[]

  • German Africa Foundation, Member of the Board[5]
  • Friends of the Siegerland Airport Dreiländereck, Member of the Board[1]
  • Foundation for Basic Values and International Understanding, Deputy Chairman[6]
  • Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany, Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board
  • Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Member of the Board of Trustees[7]
  • German Foundation for World Population (DSW), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board[8]
  • GIZ, Member of the Supervisory Board (until 2018)

Personal life[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Deutscher Bundestag - Volkmar Klein". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  2. ^ "Ergebnisse Siegen-Wittgenstein - Der Bundeswahlleiter". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  3. ^ "Wahl zum Deutschen Bundestag - Wahl zum Deutschen Bundestag 2017 im Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein - Gesamtergebnis". wahlen.kdvz-frechen.de. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  4. ^ "Wahl der Arbeitsgruppenvorsitzenden". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  5. ^ Board German Africa Foundation.
  6. ^ "Stiftung für Grundwerte und Völkerverständigung: Vorstand". in-verantwortung.de. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  7. ^ Board of Trustees Development and Peace Foundation (SEF).
  8. ^ Advisory Board German Foundation for World Population (DSW).
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