1. Florian Pronold was born on 28 December 1972 and is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021.
15 Facts About Florian Pronold
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From 2013 until 2021, Pronold served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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In 1995, Florian Pronold began to study law at the University of Regensburg, finishing in 2000 with the first state law exam.
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From 1996 to March 2010, Florian Pronold was a member of the City Council of Deggendorf and from 1996 to 2002, as well as since 2005 to the district council of the district Deggendorf.
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From 1999 to 2004, Florian Pronold served as chairman of the Jusos in Bavaria and, in this capacity, was a member of the presidium of the Bavarian SPD.
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Since 2004, Florian Pronold has been chairman of the SPD subdistrict Rottal-Inn.
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Since 2007, Florian Pronold has been a member of the party executive committee of the SPD, since 2009 of the presidium.
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In 2011 and 2013 Florian Pronold was confirmed to this office.
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Together with Doris Ahnen, Niels Annen, Martin Dulig and Gabriele Losekrug-Moller, Florian Pronold co-chaired the SPD's national convention in Berlin in 2014.
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In February 2017, Florian Pronold announced that he would not stand for re-election at the state party convention in May At the same time, he proposed the general secretary of the SPD national association, Natascha Kohnen, as party leader and top candidate for the state elections in 2018.
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From 2009 until 2013, Florian Pronold served as deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, under the leadership of the group's chairman Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Florian Pronold remained in his position in the restructured and renamed Ministry in the fourth cabinet, this time under Minister Svenja Schulze.
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Florian Pronold was always elected to the Bundestag via the state list of Bavaria.
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In March 2007, Florian Pronold was disinvited by Fritz Schosser, the DGB chairman in Bavaria, as a speaker from the May 1 rally, because he "betrayed" trade union positions by his approval in the Bundestag of the health care reform and the "pension at 67".
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In November 2012, Florian Pronold was exposed to criticism from within the party.