Hubertus Heil
| Hubertus Heil | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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| Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 2005–2009 |
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| Preceded by | Klaus Uwe Benneter |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Nahles |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 3, 1972 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |
 Germany
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| Political party |
German: Social Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
University of Potsdam University of Hagen |
Hubertus Heil (born 3 November 1972 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony) is a German politician. In 2005 he became general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In September 2009, after immense losses for the SPD during the German federal election, Heil announced his resignation from this position for November.Andrea Nahles succeeded him as general secretary in November 2009.
After receiving his Abitur in 1992 Heil first served his Zivildienst, then began studying sociology and political science at the University of Potsdam and the FernUniversität Hagen in 1995.
Hubertus Heil joined the SPD in 1988. At first he was active at the Jusos and he was their chairman in the district of Braunschweig from 1991 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 Heil was executive director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arbeitnehmerfragen, a leftist caucus in the SPD, representing the workers' wing of the party, although he was reputed to belong to the undogmatical reform socialist wing during his Juso time.
Today Heil serves as chairman of the SPD in Braunschweig.
Heil has been a member of the Bundestag since the 1998 German elections, representing the electoral district of Gifhorn-Peine. Between 1998 and 2005, he was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. In this capacity, he served as the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson for telecommunications and postal services from 2003. In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the executive board of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Franz Müntefering from 2002 to 2004.
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