Background
VOIGT, Karsten was born on April 11, 1941 in Elmshorn. Parents: Theodor Voigt and Margarethe Voigt (née Diedrichsen).
politician member of the German Bundestag
VOIGT, Karsten was born on April 11, 1941 in Elmshorn. Parents: Theodor Voigt and Margarethe Voigt (née Diedrichsen).
University Hamburg, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, History, German and Scandinavian Studies. Spoken languages: English, Danish.
Federal chairman, Young Socialists, 1969-1972. Representative, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) in Foreign committee of the Bundestag. Member of Bundestag, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany), since 1976.
Member of committee, SPD-Bundestag Group. Foreign policy spokesman, SPD-Bundestag faction. Chairman, Committee for International Relations, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) Executive Committee.
Member. Executive Committee of the Union of Social Democratic Parties of the European Community. Deputy, 1972-1973, Vice-President, 1971-1973 and Chairman, Controlling Commission, International Union of Socialist Youth, 1973-1975. Head of Adult Education Institute, VHS.
Protestant
Atlantik-Brücke]
From 1976 to 1998 he was a member of the German parliament, representing Frankfurt am Main I - Main-Taunus. He is a board member of the Atlantik-Brücke, an association which promotes German-American understanding.
Spouse Inge Voigt (née Krebs), 1974.