Karlheinz Busen

Karlheinz Busen
Karlheinz Busen
	Busen in 2019
Member of theBundestag; forNorth Rhine-Westphalia
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 24 October 2017
Constituency	FDP List
Personal details
Born	5 April 1951(age 73); Gronau (Westf.),West Germany
Political party	Free Democratic Party
Children	3
Alma mater	Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences

Karlheinz Busen(born 5 April 1951) is a German civil engineer and politician of theFree Democratic Party(FDP) who has been serving as a member of theBundestagfrom the state ofNorth Rhine-Westphaliasince 2017.^[1]^[2]

Early life and career

After completing school in 1965, he began an apprenticeship as adraftsman,which he completed in 1968. From 1968 to 1972, he underwent training as a civil engineering technician and obtained the entrance qualification for a technical college. He then studied Structural Engineering at the University of Applied SciencesBielefeld,Minden Department, from 1973 to 1976, graduating as a Diplom-Civil Engineer. During his military service, he served as a staff soldier and attained the rank of private.^[3]From 1976, he operated his own company with eight employees.

Political career

From2012until 2017, Busen served as a member of theState Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Busen became a member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election.In parliament, he serves as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for hunting and forestry.^[4]

In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalitionof theSocial Democratic Party(SPD), theGreen Partyand the FDP following the2021 German elections,Busen was part of his party's delegation in the working group onenvironmental policy,co-chaired byRita Schwarzelühr-Sutter,Steffi LemkeandStefan Birkner.^[5]