Karlheinz Busen

Karlheinz Busen
Karlheinz Busen
	Busen in 2019
Member of the Bundestag ; for North 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 the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.^[1]^[2]

Early life and career

After completing school in 1965, he began an apprenticeship as a draftsman, 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 Sciences Bielefeld, 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

From 2012 until 2017, Busen served as a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Busen became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 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-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Busen was part of his party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy, co-chaired by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner.^[5]