Career
Since 2002, he has been representing Hamburg in the German Federal Parliament (the Bundestag). After studying law at the University of Hamburg Klimke worked as a journalist. In addition to his parliamentary activities, he is Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of the Public relations firm Industrie-Contact AG in Hamburg.
Jürgen Klimke joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1970.
From 1982 to 2003 he was deputy district party chairman and from 2003 to 2008 party chairman in the district Hamburg-Wandsbek. Between 2004 and 2008 he worked as deputy regional party chairman in Hamburg.
From 1982 to 2002 he represented Wandsbek in the Hamburg Parliament where he served as Parliamentary Manager of the Christian Democratic Union parliamentary group (1985 - 2002). From 2005 to 2009, he was spokesperson of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) group in the Committee on Tourism, since 2009 he has been the group’s spokesperson in the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.
Klimke’s regional focus lies in South and Southeast Asia.
Furthermore, Klimke is chairman of the working group Elbe of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) group and deputy chair of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. In August 2015, he was appointed as the first Special Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe for the Baltic Sea Area. In addition to his parliamentary functions, Klimke has a number of other positions. As rapporteur for cultural relations and education policy in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Klimke, amongst other things, advocates for international youth exchange.
On 18 June 2015, the motion for resolution “Internationalen Jugendund Schüleraustausch als Fundament in der Auswärtigen Kulturund Bildungspolitik verankern”, initiated by Klimke, was passed in the German Bundestag.
Against the background of the Ukraine-crisis, Klimke repeatedly emphasized that the strength of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is the inclusion of countries like Russia and the United States of America in its membership, allowing for discussions with and not only about them.