Edgar Moron (28 August 1941 – 7 September 2023) was a German politician for the

Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together w ...

(SPD). He served in the

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for twenty years, from 1990 to 2010, reaching the position of 1st Vice President in 2005.

Career

Born in

Beuthen Bytom (Polish pronunciation: ; Silesian language, Silesian: ''Bytōm, Bytōń'', ) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. Located in the Silesian Voivodeship, the city is 7 km northwest of Katowice, the regional capital. It is one ...

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, Germany (modern Bytom, Poland), he graduated from high school in 1962, then completed a degree in

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in 1967 at the

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. After a spending a year as an assistant at the

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, based at his alma-mater, he worked at the East College of the

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until 1973. Moron became a member of the SPD in 1970 and went on to serve as the local association president in

Erftstadt Erftstadt () is a town located about 20 km south-west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name of the town derives from the river that flows through it, the Erft. The neighbouring towns are Brüh ...

and was a member of the sub-district board of the Rhein-Erft district. He also started to become involved in

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activism with the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and

Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (''Verdi'' (stylized as ''ver.di''; �vɛʁdiː; English: ''United Services Trade Union'') is a German trade union based in Berlin, Germany. It was established on 19 March 2001 as the result of a merger of five individual unions and is a memb ...

. Moron was a Member of the City Council of Erftstadt from 1975 to 2000 and was President of the Socialist Group from 1979 to 1998. He was also a member of the

Rhein-Erft-Kreis The Rhein-Erft-Kreis () is a district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Neuss (district), Neuss, district-free Cologne, Rhein-Sieg, Euskirchen (district), Euskirchen, Düren (district), Düren. History The ...

district council in 1989 and served as Chairman of the Social Democratic Party faction there (1994–2000). He was a member of the District Planning Council in the Cologne region from 1989 to 1999. Moron was elected Member of the

in 1990 and remained in the position until 2010. In the 11th and 12th legislative period he represented as a directly elected member of the 11th constituency (Erft-Kreis III and Euskirchen I) and later the constituency for Erftkreis IV. Between 1998 and 2000, Moron was parliamentary managing director of the SPD. From 2000 to 2005 he was

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. After losing state elections of 2005, he did not stand again for this office. Instead, he supported the candidacy of

Hannelore Kraft Hannelore Kraft (née Külzhammer, 12 June 1961) is a German politician. She served as the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 until 2017. Kraft was the first woman to serve as head of government of this state and was the thi ...

. In the election period 2005 to 2010, Moron was 1st Vice President of the Landtag. In an interview on 18 May 2010, Moron expressed skepticism about a coalition with the Left in NRW, because of its "absurd" policies and suggested a possible coalition with the

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instead.NRW-Koalitionspoker: Kraft-Vorgänger warnt SPD vor Linksbündni
. ''Der Spiegel'' (18 May 2010). Retrieved 18 April 2015. Edgar Moron died on 7 September 2023, at the age of 82.

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(archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Moron, Edgar 1941 births 2023 deaths People from Bytom Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia Politicians from the Province of Silesia