Rainer Wend

Rainer Wend (born 8 March 1954) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and currently lobbyist for Deutsche Post DHL.

After his legal practical training he completed the second state examination and started his doctoral thesis at the Bielefeld University.

[3] In 2008 he did not run for the reelections anymore and became the Head of Corporate Public Policy and Sustainability at Deutsche Post DHL.

According to Wend important elements of crisis management are besides budget discipline and structural reforms in the affected countries a greater convergence of economic and financial policies of the EU members towards a “political union”.

[6] From July 2012 to 2018, Wend has been president of EM Germany following SPD politician Dieter Spöri and being succeeded by Linn Selle.