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34-640: The platform has three speakers: Matthias Miersch , Sönke Rix and Wiebke Esdar . Elisabeth Kaiser is the platform treasurer . Other prominent members include SPD group chairman Rolf Mützenich and party co-leader Saskia Esken . The Parliamentary Left describes itself as "an association of social democratic members of the Bundestag". It represents the left wing of the Social Democratic Party, "advoca[ting] for freedom, equality and social progress". Their principles are essentially based on

68-537: A postgraduate certificate program, and administers programs of executive education . The school is a major training ground for German and international senior government officials. Noted alumni and faculty include former President of Germany Roman Herzog , Professor Niklas Luhmann ; former Minister of Defence Christine Lambrecht , current Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Heinrich Amadeus Wolff , former President of

102-471: A core curriculum consisting of six modules on administrative, legal, economic, methodological, and strategic topics, and complete a mandatory eight-week internship. In the second year, students choose courses from the following six optional modules: 1. Government and Administration, 2. Public Policy, 3. Europeanization and Internationalization of Public Administration, 4. Organization and Personnel, 5. Funding of Public Services, and 6. Competition and Regulation in

136-650: A master's thesis. Both M.A. programs also offer a one-year option for students holding a previous relevant master's degree. The Master of Public Administration in Higher Education and Research Management is a two-year part-time program for professional university or research institute administrators. The university runs doctoral programs in administrative sciences ( Doctor rerum publicarum ), law ( Doctor juris ), and political sciences and economy ( Doctor rerum politicarum ). Doctoral candidates are required to complete one year of coursework in residence at

170-499: A reputation as an "elite training center". The school is the only German university run jointly by the Federal Republic ( Bund ) and all 16 German states ( Länder ). The university offers programs leading to a postgraduate certificate and master's degrees. Furthermore it runs doctoral programs , and administers programs of executive education . The language of instruction is predominantly German, although each year

204-587: A series of seminar courses offered in cooperation with Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs is delivered in English language. In 2015 the cooperation expanded to include the University of Southern California 's Price School of Public Policy . Master's students may earn the European Master of Public Administration diploma by studying an additional semester abroad at one of

238-1012: Is a German criminal defense lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Member of the German Parliament since 2005, representing the Hannover-Land II district. He focusses on environmental policy. On 8 October 2024 Miersch was appointed as provisional secretary general of the Social Democratic Party. Since 2013, Miersch has been a member of the party's executive board under successive chairpersons Sigmar Gabriel (2013-2017), Martin Schulz (2017-2018), Andrea Nahles (2018-2019), Norbert Walter-Borjans (2019–2021), Saskia Esken  (since 2019) and Lars Klingbeil  (since 2021). Born in Hannover , Miersch studied law at

272-535: Is a national graduate school for administrative sciences and public management located in Speyer , Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Founded in 1947 by the French occupational authorities as a grande école , today it is operated under the joint responsibility of both the Federal Republic ( Bund ) and all 16 German states ( Länder ). It runs four Master's programs, grants doctoral degrees and habilitations , offers

306-446: Is a one-year postgraduate program open to students holding an additional graduate-level degree, preferably in law, economics, history, or sociology. Students can choose from some 100 courses that are divided into five policy areas: 1. Public tasks, Organization and Proceedings, 2. Public Management, 3. European and International Affairs, 4. State and Economy, and 5. Higher Education and Research Management. The program comprises two terms at

340-532: Is a two-year in-service program preparing senior executives holding at least the rank of a Government Director to assume higher positions. Admission to the school is competitive and is limited to 25 seats per program and year for the M.A. programs, and to 60 seats for the Master in Administrative Sciences program. Formal minimum entry requirement for all degree programs is a class rank among

374-639: The Bundesbank Helmut Schlesinger , former Prosecutor General of Germany Alexander von Stahl , and CEO of BASF Jürgen Strube . The school was founded in 1947, as the State Academy of Administrative Sciences Speyer ( Staatliche Akademie für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer ). In 1950 it was renamed the School of Administrative Sciences Speyer ( Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer ) and after reunification became

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408-771: The Bundesbank Helmut Schlesinger ; president of the Federal Court of Auditors of Germany Dieter Engels ; Head of the German Chancellery Waldemar Schreckenberger ; president of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany Willi Geiger ; president of the Federal Employment Agency of Germany Florian Gerster ; Executive Director of the Bundesbank Thilo Sarrazin ; Attorney General of Germany Alexander von Stahl ; Advocate General at

442-643: The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the PL advocates a long-term move away from balanced budget principles, pushing for public investment in education, digitisation, and climate. The Parliamentary Left favours closer ties with the Greens and The Left and the development of red-red-green coalitions ; the first such coalition in a western state was formed in 2019 under the leadership of Carsten Sieling , former speaker of

476-690: The Extra-Parliamentary Opposition and pushed for reform within the SPD parliamentary group. The modern platform was officially founded in 1972, then known as the Leverkusener Kreis ( Leverkusener Circle). It was refounded as the Parliamentary Left in 1980. The following is a list of members of the Parliamentary Left as of January 2022. Matthias Miersch Matthias Miersch (born 19 December 1968)

510-675: The Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU ) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections , Miersch was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on the environment and agriculture, led by Katherina Reiche and Ute Vogt . From 2014 to 2016, he

544-523: The German School of Administrative Sciences Speyer ( Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer ). The school was founded in 1947 as École Supérieure d'Administration by the French occupational authorities in order to democratize the German senior civil service. Created as a sister institution to École Nationale d'Administration , it was the first and only German school to employ

578-826: The Leibniz University Hannover and the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer . From 1988 until 1995, he volunteered for the St. John Accident Assistance . Miersch has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2005 national elections . In parliament, he served on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2005–2017) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2005–2009). In addition, Miersch

612-729: The Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC), the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA). Besides numerous politicians, diplomats, professors, judges, and high-ranking government officials at local, state, federal, and international level, the university's noted alumni and faculty include President of Germany Roman Herzog ; Professor Niklas Luhmann , one of

646-400: The wealth tax . They reject proposals for a strict limitation of the national debt , and opposed the introduction of the debt brake . They support efforts to combat climate change , including internationally-agreed climate targets, strong investment in renewable energy , and changes to subsidies and taxes for this purpose. In light of the record debt taken on by the federal government during

680-401: The French grande école model. In 1950 it was formally established as a German institution of public law with legal capacity and entrusted with "fostering the administrative sciences in education and research". In 1961 and 1970 respectively, it was bestowed with the right to grant habilitations and doctorates, thereby receiving full university status. Since its inception, the school has had

714-779: The Infrastructure Sector. At the end of the second year, students complete the master's thesis. The Master of Arts in Public Economy is a two-year program dedicated to the study of the public economic sector from an interdisciplinary perspective. During the first year, students follow the core curriculum of the M.A. in Administrative Sciences. Second-year students complete four deepening modules in Public Finance, Competition and Regulation, Procurement, and Public Corporate Governance, choose one optional module on Public Enterprises, or Infrastructure, and write

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748-464: The Parliamentary Left. The Left became the leading member of a governing coalition for the first time in the eastern state of Thuringia after the 2014 state election , alongside the SPD and Greens. The Parliamentary Left finds its origins in the "Group of the 16th Floor" ( German : Gruppe der 16. Etage , founded by 21 mostly young SPD Bundestag members in October 1969. This group was associated with

782-621: The leadership of chairman Thomas Oppermann . Since 2017, he has been the group's deputy chairman, under successive chairs Andrea Nahles (2017-2019) and Rolf Mützenich (since 2019). In 2019, Miersch succeeded Stefan Schostok as chairman of the SPD in Hannover. In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections , Miersch led his party's delegation in

816-486: The most important social theorists of the 20th century; current Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht ; former Federal Minister and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Klaus Töpfer ; Federal Minister Wolfgang Bötsch ; First Mayor and Prime Minister of Hamburg Christoph Ahlhaus ; vice president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Ferdinand Kirchhof ; president of

850-404: The party program that existed until the 1990s. To this end, the platform supports Keynesian approaches to economic and social policy. They were critical of the largely supply-side Agenda 2010 reforms of Gerhard Schröder 's government, but officially called for their amendment rather than repeal. In the area of tax policy, the PL call for a higher inheritance tax and the reintroduction of

884-729: The professional M.P.A. in Higher Education and Research Management program, the school charges €8,000 in tuition. The annual housing costs for on-campus dormitories range from €1,560 to €3,240. The university performs " fundamental research with high relevance to practice", and regularly publishes treatises on administrative, legal, political, and economic matters in the Speyer University Monograph Series ( Schriftenreihe der Hochschule Speyer ). With its 17 chairs dedicated to public and constitutional law , administrative sciences , economics, modern and contemporary history , sociology, and political science ,

918-832: The school maintains a strategic partnership with the German Research Institute for Public Administration , which is part of the Leibniz Association , and is located on the campus. It also maintains individual research cooperations with 20 universities in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. It is a member of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA), the Standing Conference of European Public Service Training Agencies (SCEPSTA),

952-438: The school, an eight-week internship at German or European institutions, and a subsequent period of three months to write the master's thesis and pass an oral examination. International student enrollment in this program regularly hovers around 50 percent. The Master of Arts in Administrative Sciences is a two-year interdisciplinary program focusing on public administration in an international context. First year students follow

986-473: The school, and produce a dissertation which makes a creditable contribution to scholarship in its field. The dissertation must be supervised by a member of the faculty. The school's executive education provides in-service training for senior civil servants of all government levels. The seminars, workshops and conferences deal with contemporary problems of administration, legislation, and European affairs. The Speyer Leadership College ( Führungskolleg Speyer )

1020-491: The top third in the previous academic degree program. Professional administrative experience is considered an asset. For prospective international students , a language test for German at CEFR C1 level is required. The German state heavily subsidizes university study to keep higher education affordable regardless of socio-economic background. Like most German public universities , Speyer charges no tuition fees for academic programs, for both EU and non-EU citizens. For

1054-490: The twelve partner schools in the EMPA network. The one-term postgraduate certificate program offers complementary studies in public management. It is aimed at young and future government officials holding a graduate-level degree. It resembles the first semester of the Master of Administrative Sciences program. The Master of Administrative Sciences ( Magister rerum publicarum ) is the school's traditional flagship program. It

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1088-425: The working group on environmental policy; his co-chairs from the other parties are Oliver Krischer and Lukas Köhler . Miersch is openly homosexual and married to his partner. German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (German: Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer ; sometimes referred to as Speyer University ),

1122-836: Was a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board for Sustainable Development (2006-2009) and the Parliamentary Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (2014-2016). In 2014, he joined the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH),

1156-479: Was one of the members of the country's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, chaired by Ursula Heinen-Esser and Michael Müller . Within his parliamentary group, Miersch belongs to the Parliamentary Left , a left-wing movement. He served as spokesperson on environmental policy between 2009 and 2013. In 2015, he was elected to the parliamentary group's executive board under

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