Johannes Kahrs (politician)
| Johannes Kahrs | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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15 September 1963 Bremen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
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 Germany
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| Political party |
German: Social Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
Johannes Kahrs (born 15 September 1963 in Bremen) is a German politician. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Kahrs' parents are Wolfgang and Bringfriede Kahrs who were both senators in Bremen on the ticket of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. After visiting school in Bremen, Kahrs joined the Bundeswehr and became an officer. Later, he began to study German jurisprudence. During his university studies, Kahrs became a member of Wingolfs, a student fraternity, in Hamburg and was speaker of the organization from 1990 to 1992. After he finished university, he worked for the state-owned housing company Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona (SAGA). Kahrs is an openly gay person.
Kahrs became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1982. He first worked for the Young Socialists in the SPD (Jusos).
In the 1998 elections, Kahrs was elected to the Bundestag. He is the speaker of the Seeheimer Kreis of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and represents the Hamburg Mitte constituency.
During his first term between 1998 and 2002, Kahrs served on the Defence Committee. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee. In addition, he joined the parliament’s Council of Elders in 2002, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. Since 2009, he has been leading the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians from Hamburg, one of the smaller delegations of the SPD parliamentary group. In this capacity, he is part of the parliamentary group's leadership under its chairman Thomas Oppermann.
From 2003, Kahrs served as member of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group, first as deputy chairman (2003-2011) and then as chairman (2011-2013). Since 2014, he has been serving as deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia).
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