Johannes Kahrs (politician)
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politician. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
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Kahrs' parents are Wolfgang and Bringfriede Kahrs, who were both senators in Bremen for Social Democratic Party of Germany. After his schooling in Bremen, Kahrs went in to the military and became an officer
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. Later he began a study of German Jurisprudence
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. During his university studies, Kahrs became member of Wingolf
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s, a student fraternity, in Hamburg
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and was speaker of the organization from 1990 to 1992. After he finished university he worked for the company Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona. Kahrs is openly
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gay
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Kahrs became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1982. He worked first for the Young Socialists in the SPD
Young Socialists in the SPD
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(Juso). In 1992 Kahrs had a conflict with Juso member Silke Dose.
In 1998 Kahrs became a member of the Bundestag
Bundestag
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. He is the speaker of the Seeheimer Kreis
Seeheimer Kreis
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in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and represents the Hamburg-Mitte
Hamburg-Mitte
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borough.
Kahrs has described Gustav Noske
Gustav Noske
Gustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the first Minister of Defence of Germany between 1919 and 1920.-Biography:...
as one of his political role models.