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SPD-out after 40 years: ex-Porsche works council Uwe Hück leaves party

2020-12-05T21:24:21.807Z


After 40 years, Uwe Hück gives up his SPD party book. The former head of the Porsche works council is disappointed with the party's development. Politically, he wants to remain active.


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 Uwe Hück at the SPD party conference in 2019

Photo: Christoph Schmidt / dpa

The former long-standing Porsche works council chairman Uwe Hück is leaving the SPD after 40 years.

Hück announced this in a conversation with the "Badische Neuesten Nachrichten", and later confirmed this to the German Press Agency.

Hück justified his resignation with his disappointment with the party: "The SPD has betrayed its basic values," the dpa quoted Hück.

Nonetheless, he wanted to remain active in politics by re-establishing the "Open Party" movement he founded.

He wants to announce details in January.

Political engagement out of "concern for Germany"

In February 2019, Hück surprisingly announced that he would resign from all offices at Porsche with immediate effect in order to become politically active instead.

He justified this step with "worries about Germany".

Immediately after the announcement of his change, he criticized the SPD and claimed that it was in the process of "destroying its inheritance." His announcement that he would compete in the local elections in Pforzheim with his own list, which he later withdrew, also caused irritation.

Before that, Hück had been with the sports car company for almost 35 years; he had been a works council since 1990, and in 2002 he was elected head of the general works council.

He was also a member of the supervisory boards of Porsche AG and the parent company Volkswagen.

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Source: spiegel

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