Werner Kuhn

Werner Kuhn, MEP

Werner Kuhn (born 19 May 1955, Zingst) is an MEP for Germany from Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

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.