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FLECKENSTEIN, Knut

Foreign Affairs Coordinator of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

S&D Foreign Affairs Coordinator
Germany: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD)

Born on 20 December 1953, Bad Nauheim
Married, two daughters
Qualification in banking

Contact

Knut Fleckenstein, MEP
European Parliament
ASP 12G305
Rue Wiertz 60
1047 Brussels
Belgium
Tel  +32 2 28 47548/ 38548
Fax +32 2 28 49548
knut.fleckenstein(at)europarl.europa.eu

MEMBER

  • Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
  • Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
  • Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

SUBSTITUTE

  • Committee on Transport and Tourism
  • Subcommittee on Security and Defence
  • Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1994-2009 Workers' Samaritan Federation Hamburg, Executive Manager
  Inter alia implementation of humanitarian projects aiming to build up social NGOs in St Petersburg, Latvia, Lithuania
1991-1994 HANSETRANS transport and logistics group, Member of the Executive Board
1989-1991 State Parliament of Hamburg, Spokesperson and Head of Protocol
  Responsibility for the town twinning Hamburg-St Petersburg
1984-1989 State Government Hamburg, Spokesperson and Head of Cabinet of Vice Mayor, Head of European Affairs Department
1979-1984 Import and export of energy products, gas purchasing

POLITICAL CAREER AND CURRENT DUTIES

  • Member of the SPD (since 1974)
  • Member of the Hamburg executive of the SPD (1994-2004 and since 2007)
  • Member, European Affairs Committee of the SPD Executive (since 2008)

CIVIL ENGAGEMENT

  • Bertini Prize Association Hamburg, Member of the Executive (since 2007)
  • Ernst Deutsch Theatre Company Hamburg, Partner and Chair of the Supervisory Board
  • Social Democratic Cultural Forum Berlin, Member of the Executive (2007 - 2012)
  • Cultural Forum Hamburg, Founding President