Gustav Herzog
Gustav Herzog, born on October 11, 1958 in Harxheim (now Zellertalblick), is a German politician and has been a Member of Parliament for the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) since 1998.
Political career[edit]
Gustav Herzog has been member of the SPD since 1975, and since 1991, Chairman of the SPD subdistrict Donnersberg. He was a founding member of the local association Zeller from 1986 to 1999 and its chairman. Since 1984, Herzog has been a member of the council of his hometown Zellertalblick. He was there from 1989 to 1999 and also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In addition, he was from 1984 to 1989, a Member of the Council of Göllheim and of the District of Donnersberg. Since 1998, Herzog has been a member of the German Bundestag, where from 2005 he has acted as spokesman for the country group of Rhineland-Palatinate in the SPD parliamentary group. He is currently working as a permanent member of the Committee on Transport and digital infrastructure and as a substitute member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. He is also a member of the Commission, the Council of Elders for information and communication technology. In 1998, after being directly elected, Herzog moved from the constituency Frankenthal to the Bundestag. Since 2002, he has also represented the electoral district of Kaiserslautern, which includes the city of Kaiserslautern, the northern part of the district of Kaiserslautern, the Donnersberg district and the district of Kusel. In the 2005 federal election, he reached in his constituency 44.2% of the primary vote and in 2009, 34.6%. He was next to Klaus Hagemann the only directly elected representatives of the Rhineland-Palatinate SPD in the Bundestag. In the 2013 federal election, Herzog reached 38.5% in the constituency Kaiserslautern SPD as the sole candidate from the southern German states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland, and obtained a direct mandate. Gustav Herzog was also from 1999 until 2004 honorary mayor of his hometown Zellertalblick. In the German Bundestag, Herzog is a member of the European Union and the German-South American and the German-Belarusian parliamentarian group. He was a co-founder in 2002 of the Parliamentary Wine Forum, a nonpartisan initiative of members of the Bundestag.
Education[edit]
After Primary and Secondary School, Herzog completed High school in 1974. He then trained and was employed as a laboratory assistant from 1975 to 1987.
