Hubertus Heil
Politician
1972 –
Who is Hubertus Heil?
Hubertus Heil is a German politician. In 2005 he became general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. 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. From 1995 to 1997 Heil was executive director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arbeitnehmerfragen, a leftist study group inside 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.
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- Born
- Nov 3, 1972
Hildesheim - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Hildesheim
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on July 23, 2013
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