Dieter Möhrmann is a German politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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 (SPD) and deputy speaker in the Lower Saxony State Parliament.

Möhrmann was born on 6 March 1948 in Soltau

Soltau

- Middle Ages :The region of the Lüneburg Heath had already been settled by the start of the New Stone Age about 4,000 years ago. The Soltau area was initially occupied by a few individual farms. The parish of Soltau was probably founded around 830 and the first wooden church Sante Johannis...

, Lower Saxony. After attending a middle school, Möhrmann underwent training as an industrial sales representative (Industriekaufmann) and then worked as a commercial clerk (kaufmännischer Angestellter). He then undertook further study, earning diplomas in business management and commerce

Commerce

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. After that he was employed as a teacher in a school of commerce in Harburg

Hamburg-Harburg

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.

In 1971 Dieter Möhrmann joined the SPD. Since 1972 he has been a member of the town council

Town council

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 of Schneverdingen

Schneverdingen

Schneverdingen is a town in the northern part of the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 15 km north of Soltau, and 50 km south of Hamburg....

. From 1974 to 1991 he was chairman of the council's SPD group and, from 1991 to 1996, he was the Mayor of Schneverdingen. Since 1981 Möhrmann has been a member of the district council for Soltau-Fallingbostel; where he is chairman of the SPD group.

Möhrmann is a long-standing member of the Lower Saxon Parliament

Lower Saxon Landtag

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 or Landtag (from 1982 to 1986 and since 1989). From 1999 to 2008 he was the chief whip

Chief Whip

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 for the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament; since March 2008 he has been vice-president (deputy speaker) of the parliament. Dieter Möhrmann lives in Schneverdingen, is Evangelical-Lutheran, and is married with two children.

Sources

• Barbara Simon: Abgeordnete in Niedersachsen 1946–1994. Biographisches Handbuch. 1996, p. 259.

External links

• Dieter Möhrmann's website