Garrelt Duin | |
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| State Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| In office 2012–2017 | |
| Preceded by | Andreas Pinkwart |
| Succeeded by | Andreas Pinkwart |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2005–2012 | |
| Member of theEuropean Parliament | |
| In office 2000–2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1968-04-02)2 April 1968 (age 57) |
| Political party |  German:Social Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
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Garrelt Duin (born 2 April 1968) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD).
Duin was born inLeer,Lower Saxony. From 1987 to 1995 he studiedlaw andProtestanttheology at Bielefeld and Göttingen. In 1995 he completed his First State law examination, Higher Regional Court, Hamm; in 1998 he finished his Second State law examination, Higher Regional Court, Celle
In the European Parliament, Duin served on theCommittee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2000–2004) and on theCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy (2004–2005). In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the parliament's delegation for relations withSwitzerland,Iceland andNorway from 2000 until 2004.
Duin was elected as Member of theGerman Bundestag in the2005 federal elections; he got 58 percent of the vote in the Aurich-Emden region in northern Germany. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology. Within his parliamentary group, he held the position of commissioner for industry policy (2006-2009) and chairman of the working group on economic affairs and technology (2009-2012).
In addition to his committee assignments, Duin served as deputy chairman of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2010 until 2012. He was also a member of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German-Dutch Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Also in 2005, Duin was elected chairman of the SPD inLower Saxony, succeedingWolfgang Jüttner. He resigned from this position in 2010 and was replaced byOlaf Lies. Within his party, he belongs to theSeeheim Circle.
Together withDoris Ahnen,Bärbel Diekmann, Barbara Ludwig andHeiko Maas, Duin co-chaired the SPD's 2009 national convention inDresden.[1]
Duin resigned as Member of the Bundestag on 21 June 2012 and was appointedMinister for Economics, Energy, Industry and Commerce of the state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia in the government ofMinister-PresidentHannelore Kraft on the same day.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition following the2013 federal elections, Duin was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on economic policy, led byIlse Aigner andHubertus Heil.
During his time in office, Duin was a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by theGerman Bundesrat and theRussian Federation Council. From 2014 and 2016, he was one of the members of Germany's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste.[2]
In February 2018, Duin joinedThyssenKrupp, where he has since been working in theDortmund-based Industrial Solutions business area.[3][4]
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