Karl Schiewerling (

Borbeck-Mitte Borbeck-Mitte is the central borough of ''Borbeck'', the fourth suburban district of Essen, Germany. Together with the other boroughs of the district, it was incorporated on April 1, 1915. Borbeck-Mitte has a population of roughly 13,500 people an ...

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

, 18 May 1951 –

Nottuln Nottuln (; Low German: ''Notteln'') is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Nottuln is situated in the Baumberge, approx. 20 km west of Münster. Neighbouring municipalities ...

, Germany, 28 February 2021) was a German politician.

Career

Schiewerling was a member of the municipal council of his place of residence, Nottuln, from 1989 to 1994 and from 2004 to 2006. He was a member of the German

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons ...

from 2005 to 2017. Karl Schiewerling entered the Bundestag as a directly elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of

Coesfeld – Steinfurt II Coesfeld – Steinfurt II is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 12 ...

, succeeding the CDU Member of Parliament Werner Lensing. In the 2005 Bundestag election, he achieved 51.6% of the first votes here. In the 2009 Bundestag election, he was confirmed in office with 50.8% of the first votes. From November 2009, he was chairman of the "Labour and Social Affairs" working group of the

CDU/CSU CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties (german: Unionsparteien, ) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian-democratic political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Soc ...

parliamentary group and its labour market and social policy spokesman. He was also chairman of the Kardinal-Höffner-Kreis, an association of Christian MPs in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

References

1951 births 2021 deaths Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Politicians from Essen {{Germany-CDU-politician-stub