Rüdiger Kruse
| Rüdiger Kruse | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 June 1961 Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Political party | CDU |
Rüdiger Kruse (Hamburg, Germany, 10 June 1961), is a German politician who represents the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
Education and early career
After attending elementary school in Hamburg, Kruse studied medicine at University, but did not complete the course. In the year 2000, he was appointed managing director of the Eimsbuttel Einfal Initiative for working and learning.[1] He subsequently became managing director of the Hamburg National Association for the Protection of German Forests and CEO of the Foundation Company Forest Germany – two shareholders of the Einfal company with 60 employees and approximately 900 participants. In addition, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of HSH Nordbank AG in Hamburg.
Political career
Kruse joined the CDU when he was 16. From 2001 until September 2009, he was a deputy in the Hamburg Parliament, where he was a technical spokesman for his group in the areas of policy development, finance, budget issues and sustainable development. He represented the CDU on several parliamentary committees: budget, Europe, environment and culture. In addition, he was a member of the Special Committee on Administrative Reform and two subcommittees, as well as finance areas and public companies.
Kruse was selected to contest the constituency of Hamburg Eimsbüttel, which the CDU had never won and which the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) had held since the 1950s. However, the crisis in the SPD presented an opportunity[2] and in the 2009 federal election, the SPD vote collapsed, with the party finishing third. Kruse gained the seat for the CDU, despite a slight drop in the party's vote share.
Kruse sits in the Bundestag as an ordinary member of the Audit Committee, the Budget Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.[3] A member of the Budget Committee since 2009, he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Chancellery and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In the Audit Committee, he serves as the rapporteur on the budget of the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg). He is also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD. Between 2009 and 2013, he was also part of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Baltic States.
Kruse opposes the extension of nuclear power plants.[4]
Other activities
- Association for the Protection of the German Forest (SDW), Hamburg section, Managing Director
- UMPR Public Relations Agency, Member of the Advisory Board
- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
- Green Budget Germany (FÖS), Member of the Advisory Board
- HSH Nordbank, Member of the Advisory Board (2009-2012)
References
- ↑ Biography at German forestry site accessed 30 June 2012
- ↑ Die Krise in der SPD:Für ihn will keiner Wahlkampf machen, Hamburger Morgenpost, 20 November 2008
- ↑ Biography at Bundestag site, accessed 30 June 2012
- ↑ Er soll jetzt den Haushalt richten, Hamburger Morgenpost, 25 November 2010