Werner Kuhn

Werner Kuhn, MEP

Werner Kuhn (born 19 May 1955, Zingst) is an MEP for Germany from Christian Democratic Union of Germany. He joined the parliament on its 7th term.

Affiliations

• Member, Transport and Tourism
• Member, Fisheries
• Member, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

(A) Occupation(s) during the three-year period before taking up office with the Parliament, and membership during that period of any boards or committees of companies, non-governmental organisations, associations or other bodies established in law:

• Freelance entrepreneur - Consulting (categories of income|income category 3)
• Member of the Landtag Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (categories of income|income category 2)
• Member of state association DRK (German Red Cross) Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (categories of income|income category 1)
• Member of supervisory board, DRK blood donation centre Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (unremunerated)

(C) Regular remunerated activity undertaken alongside the exercise of the office, whether as an employee or as a self-employed person:

• Freelance entrepreneur - Consulting (categories of income|income category 2)

(D) Membership of any boards or committees of any companies, non-governmental organisations, associations or other bodies, or any other relevant outside activity, whether remunerated or unremunerated:

• President of state association DRK (German Red Cross) Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (categories of income|income category 1)
• Member of supervisory board, DRK blood donation centre Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (unremunerated)

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Werner Kuhn has not pledged to any four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Studied at Rostock University, Marine Engineering Department, graduated in engineering (1975-1979). Barth shipbuilding and ship repair yard (1979-1990). MGT Maschinen- und Gerätebau GmbH (Teterow), marketing management; management representative for plant design in the DIEHL Group (1999-2001). Entrepreneur (since 2005).
• Member of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Regional Executive of the CDU.
• Mayor of Ostseebad Zingst (1990-1992). Head of administration in the Ribnitz-Damgarten district (1992-1994). Member of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Regional Assembly (since 2006).
• Member of the Bundestag; contributed to the work of the Transport Committee (1994-1998); Member of the Bundestag (2001-2005).
• President of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Section of the German Red Cross.

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

10E103

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45215

Fax:

+32(0)2 28 49215

Email:

werner.kuhn AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Werner Kuhn, accessed 01 April 2011.