Heinz-Joachim Barchmann (born 17 November 1950), also known as ''Achim Barchmann'', is a German

SPD 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 wi ...

politician and trade unionist. Heinz-Joachin Barchmann has been a member of the German

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since 2009.

Professional career

After graduating from Handelsschule (business school), Brachmann pursued commercial education. From 1982 to 1985 he attended evening classes after high school and subsequently studied at the Sozialakademie Dortmund. He has actively several as secretary in the

Confederation of German Trade Unions The German Trade Union Confederation (; DGB) is an umbrella organisation An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. ...

(DGB) since 1987. From 1992 he was chairman of the DGB-Kreis Wolfsburg-Gifhorn-Helmstedt. From 2007 to 2009, he was chairman of the DGB-Region South-East Lower Saxony. He has been a member of the Verwaltungsrat (board) of Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) Lower Saxony. From 2001 to 2009, he was one of the alternating directors of the Medizinischen Dienst der Krankenkassen (MDK) in

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

Political career

Barchmann has been a member of the SDP since 1979. He has also been a member of the SPD-Bezirksvorstand

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

since 2007. In the

2009 German federal election The 2009 German federal election was held in Germany on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag. The Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Uni ...

, he ran in the Election District Helmstedt – Wolfsburg with a direct mandate. With 34.6% of the first preference votes he obtained second place, but was able to obtain the eleventh place on the Lower Saxon Landesliste and entry into the

. In the Bundestag, he is a member of the "Committee on the Affairs of the European Union" as well as a deputy in the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. In the Bundestagswahl 2013 he ran again in the Helmstedt-Wolfsburg electoral district retained his membership in the Bundestag.

Memberships

Barchmann is a member of the German Bundestag European Union Parliamentary Group (Europa-Union Parliamentariergruppe Deutscher Bundestag) and the Parliamentary Association for the Mediterranean (PV-UfM). He has been a trade unionist since 1971, first at the Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen (HBV) (now part of

ver.di (''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 m ...

). He is a member of the club "Mach meinen Kumpel nicht an!" ("Don't drive my buddy crazy!"), a supporting member of the UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe, voluntary chairman of Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) district association in

Helmstedt Helmstedt (; Eastphalian: ''Helmstidde'') is a town on the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. The historic university and Hanseatic city conserves an important monumental heritage o ...

, deputy chairman of the AWO district association Braunschweig, and also non-executive director of the AWO seniors and Pflege Elm-Lappwald gGmbH.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barchmann, HeinzJoachim Members of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony 1950 births Living people Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany