Lars Klingable, Center-Left Social Democratic Party (SPD) stronger is 47 years old. After the February 23 general election, in which the SPD reduced the record that it was 16%low, he remained the co-chairman of the party and was taken by Temporly under the leadership of SPD Parliagenry Group.
He led the conversation for his party with the Conservative Block of the Christian Democratic Union of Frederick Merz and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) of Bavaria and secured the positions of Finance Ministers and Vice Chancellor.
Klingbill said at the time, “This government should do this with team play, with courage to take decisions and more confidence in the citizens,” Klingbill said at that time, saying that the trust comes through action, not through action.
Klingable personally chose the minister for cabinet posts. For many observers, the most surprising thing about the list of names was that which is not on it: Swenja Shulz, first long -term minister for the environment and then for development, Huberts Heel, Long -term Service Minister, and Internal Minister Nancy Nancy Nancy Nancy Feser is the most among the most SPD minister cabinet. Only Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Germany’s most popular politician, is in the new cabinet of Chancellor Frederick Merz.
Political scientist Carl-Rudolf Corte told Focus magazine at the time of government building, “The fact that an Vice Chancellor, Finance Minister and President of the party is an unusual concentration of power.”
Klingbill captured powerful positions, while SPD co-chairman Saskia Escain finished empty hands, later carried forward the role of its chairmanship. The party’s decline analysis is expected to be a major challenge for Klingbils. The party rank and files are eager to discuss the fact that the party that led the previous center-class coalition government lost ten percent support, which was far behind the far-flung option (AFD) for CDU and Germany.
A stable party career on top all ways
The educational career of Lars Klingable resembles many social democrats: In 2004, he completed a degree in political science at Hanover University, which received a scholarship from SPD’s Frederick Ebert Foundation. In 2005, at the age of about 27, he entered the lower house of Parliament, replacing the Bundestag, who retired the SPD legalist. Klingbill failed to join a general election again in the same year. Since 2009, however, he has been a permanent member of Parliament, took over as SPD General Secretary and finally became the party’s co-leader in December 2021 with Saskia Escains. Power, but for destructive one in February 2025.
From the Klingbill Lower Saxony, many major SPD politicians in recent decades, especially former Chancellor Gerhard Showder. His father was a Bundesvehar soldier, his mother for a retail sale. The family lived in Munter, where one of the largest Bundesvehar locations across Germany is located.
Klingbeel completed his A-Level and opted to perform community service instead of military training, in the fanfare of his A-Level. He worked in “Bahnhofsmation” in Hanovar, providing immediate support for people such as a donation with an office at all major German train stations, such as food, clothes, gold space and medical care. Meanwhile, Klingbill started creating its network within the Social Democratic Party. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in Chancellor Shrodeer’s office.
At that time, there was a significant twist in Klingbeel’s political outlook: he took place in New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which inspired him to give up his pacifying lies and supported Bundesvehar a strengthening as a means of self-defense. Since then, He campaigned to increase the party’s right -wing wing to increase spending on Bundesvehar like several SPD politicians.
The clingbill calms down in front of adverseness. Hey had diagnosed the tongue cancer more than ten years ago, but has been well recovered since then. Klingbill is married to Sion 2019 and is the father of a one -year -old son. As a young man, he was a guitarist since the disco with the rock band “Sleeping Silence”.
This article was original in German. It has been updated and reinstated to reflect post -election development.
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