Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia - Johannes Rau, Wolfgang Clement, Peer Steinbruck, Karl Arnoldjohannes Rau, Wolfgang Clement, Peer Steinbruck, Karl Arnold, Jurgen Ruttgers, Heinz Kuhn, Jurgen Ruttgers, Heinz Kuhn (Paperback)

Chapters: Johannes Rau, Wolfgang Clement, Peer Steinbruck, Karl Arnold, Jurgen Ruttgers, Heinz Kuhn, Rudolf Amelunxen, Franz Meyers. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wolfgang Clement (born 7 July 1940 in Bochum) is a German politician. Clement was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was Premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1998 to 2002 and Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from 2002 to 2005. Wolfgang Clement is an Honorary Member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation After attaining his abitur at the Graf-Engelbert-Schule in Bochum, Clement first completed a Volontariat (internship) at the Westfalische Rundschau newspaper in Dortmund. He then studied jurisprudence at the University of Munster, leaving in 1965 with a law degree after passing the First State Examination. This qualification also permitted him to teach. Clement was subsequently employed as an articled clerk and assistant at the Institute for Trial Law at the University of Marburg. In 1968, he returned to the Westfalische Rundschau, first as a political editor. He later became head of the political department, then deputy editor-in-chief. In 1986, Clement moved to the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost in Hamburg, where he remained as editor-in-chief until 1989. On 12 November 2004, he was presented with an honorary doctorate (Dr. h. c.) by Ruhr University in Bochum. Wolfgang Clement is married and has five daughters. He lives in Bonn. Clement has been a member of the SPD since 1970. From 1981 to 1986 he was spokesman for the SPD federal executive board and was also a deputy federal party whip from 1985 to 1986. From 1994 to 2001 he was on the SPD State Executive in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), from 1996 as deputy leader. Clement...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=86780