Brian Nickholz

Nickholz was born 1989 in Gelsenkirchen and entered the SPD in 2005.{{cite web | url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/N/nickholz_brian-861098 | title=Deutscher Bundestag - Brian Nickholz }} Nickholz grew up in Marl.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Brian Nickholz, MdB" |url=https://www.spd-datteln.de/personen/brian-nickholz/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=spd-datteln.de |date= |language=de}} He trained as an industrial clerk{{cite news |last1=Möller |first1=Martina |title="Von Marl nach Berlin? Wo sich Brian Nickholz zu Hause fühlt" |url=https://www.marler-zeitung.de/marl/von-marl-nach-berlin-wo-sich-brian-nickholz-zu-hause-fuehlt-w1664792-9000049523/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=marler-zeitung.de |date=18 August 2021 |language=de}} after obtaining his general university entrance qualification. After his training, he was employed by Wilo SE in Dortmund as an Innovation Administrator. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as an assistant to the management and the executive board in central processing at the state association of the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken NRW (SJD - Die Falken). From 2016 to 2021, he worked as full-time managing director of the SPD parliamentary group in the council of the city of Marl.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Brian Nickholz, SPD" |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/N/nickholz_brian-861098 |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=bundestag.de |date= |language=de}}{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Brian Nickholz MdB" |url=https://www.nrwspd-landesgruppe.de/abgeordnete-20-wahlperiode/brian-nickholz-mdb/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=nrwspd-landesgruppe.de |date= |language=de}}{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Brian Nickholz, MdB" |url=https://www.nrwspd.de/personen/brian-nickholz/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=nrwspd.de |date= |language=de}}

Brian Nickholz has been a member of the SPD since 2005. Nickholz was a member of the Marl City Council from 2009 to 2021. Before that, he was already a member of the SPD council faction as a knowledgeable citizen from 2007. In September 2020, he took over the School and Sports Committee chairmanship in the Council.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Neue Spielgeräte an der Grundschule Sickingmühle" |url=https://www.spd-marl.de/2021/07/30/neue-spielgeraete-an-der-grundschule-sickingmuehle/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=spd-marl.de |date=30 July 2021 |language=de}} From 2012 to 2016, he was the Juso district association chairman in the Recklinghausen district. Since 2014, he has been delegated by the Marl City Council to the supervisory board of Klinikum Vest GmbH and Klinikum Vest Service GmbH. Since 2015, he has been the SPD local association chairman of Alt-Marl/Brassert. He has been chairman of the Marl SPD municipal association since 2018. He was elected directly to the Bundestag in 2021 and has since been serving on the Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Building and Local Government. He won the Recklinghausen II federal constituency with 37.4% of the first-place votes.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Nickholz, Brian SPD 37,4 % " |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswahlen/2021/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-5/wahlkreis-122.html |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=bundeswahlleiterin.de |date= |language=de}} He also ran for 50th place on the state list of the SPD of North Rhine-Westphalia.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Unsere Landesliste für die Bundestagswahl 2021" |url=https://www.nrwspd.de/btw21/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=nrwspd.de |date= |language=de}}{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Landesliste Nordrhein-Westfalen: SPD" |url=https://www.wen-waehlen.de/btw21/kandidaten/landesliste-5-SPD.html |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=wen-waehlen.de |date= |language=de}} In February 2025, Nickholz lost his seat in Bundestag against Lars Ehm.

Brian Nickholz is a member of the Workers' Welfare Association, Borussia Dortmund, the Association of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, the tribe Knights of the Loe to the Loe Marl, the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics, the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany, the support association Klara Hospiz e.V., Bergbautradition e.V., and the SJD - Die Falken and the Old Forge Marl.

• IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE), Member{{cite web | url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/N/nickholz_brian-861098 | title=Deutscher Bundestag - Brian Nickholz }}

Nickholz shares an apartment with fellow parliamentarians Ye-One Rhie and Lena WernerOkan Bellikli (26 December 2021), [https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/drei-spd-abgeordnete-ziehen-zusammen-wer-putzt-in-der-roten-abgeordneten-wg-a-e1506cd1-2210-4317-a3ed-ac7520efff95 Drei SPD-Abgeordnete ziehen zusammen: Wer putzt in der roten Abgeordneten-WG?] Der Spiegel. in the Moabit district of Berlin.Jonas Jordan (2 December 2021), [https://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/ye-one-rhie-ulla-schmidts-hilfe-bundestag Ye-One Rhie: Mit Ulla Schmidts Hilfe im Bundestag] Vorwärts. Nickholz is married.{{cite news |last1=Mohr |first1=Heinz-Peter |title="Brian Nickholz will Kontakt zu seinen Wählern halten" |url=https://www.marler-zeitung.de/marl/brian-nickholz-will-kontakt-zu-seinen-waehlern-halten-w1678563-9000071118/ |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=marler-zeitung.de |date=27 September 2021 |language=de}}

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• [https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/N/nickholz_brian-861098] Biography at the German Bundestag
• [https://www.brian-nickholz.de/ Website of Brian Nickholz]
• [https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/brian-nickholz]

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