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Kurt Beck

クルト・ベック　/　くると・べっく

Politician from Germany

February 5, 1949 (age 77)　・　Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate
politician

My Take

Kurt Beck strikes me as the kind of politician who wins not with flash but with stamina. Steering Rhineland-Palatinate for nearly two decades, from 1994 to 2013, and briefly leading the SPD nationally, he embodied the patient, regionally rooted brand of social democracy. What I find admirable is the consistency: state-level trust is earned street by street, not in soundbites. The honors he collected, including France's Legion of Honour and Germany's Grand Cross, read less like trophies than acknowledgments of durable service. I respect figures who outlast hype, and Beck, with that reassuring grey beard, clearly did.

Overview

Kurt Beck (born 5 February 1949) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000–01. In May 2006, he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He resigned from that post in September 2008.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Kurt Beck
Name (Japanese): クルト・ベック
Reading: くると・べっく
Born: February 5, 1949 (age 77)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Ox
Origin: Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: politician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
2004 Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttp://www.kurt-beck.de
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

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