Ingo Schmitt (politician)

Ingo Schmitt on a 1999 election poster

Ingo Schmitt (born July 30, 1957 in Berlin ) is a former German politician . From 1975 to 2014 he was a member of the CDU .

From 2005 to 2009 he was chairman of the Berlin regional group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and from 2005 to 2008 he was regional chairman of the CDU Berlin . From 1991 to 1999 he was State Secretary in Berlin.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1976 at the Wald-Oberschule in Berlin-Westend , Schmitt studied law at the Free University of Berlin , which he completed in 1983 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination in 1986. He worked from 1986 to 1991 and has been working as an independent lawyer again since 1999 .

Political party

In 1975 Schmitt joined the CDU Berlin-Charlottenburg , local association for the castle . This local association under the leadership of Wolfgang Antes was dissolved in 1978 as part of a regional reform within the Charlottenburg CDU, most members changed to the local association Lietzensee , which was chaired again shortly afterwards by Wolfgang Antes. In the mid-1980s, Schmitt disempowered his previous sponsor Antes and took over his offices, initially in the Lietzensee local association .

Schmitt became chairman of the district association Charlottenburg of the Junge Union in 1978 and has been a member of the board of the CDU district association Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1978, of which he became chairman in 1991 and remained until it was merged with the previously independent district association Berlin-Wilmersdorf in 2000.

From 2000 he was chairman of the newly formed district association Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , which he led until he resigned in February 2009.

Schmitt was elected deputy state chairman of the Berlin CDU in 1997 and was then its general secretary from 2000 . He resigned from this office in June 2001 after he had called the school senator at the time, Klaus Böger ( SPD ), a “political hooker”.

From 2003, Schmitt was state treasurer until he was finally elected state chairman of the CDU in Berlin in May 2005.

In the course of the dispute over the leadership of the Berlin CDU with the parliamentary group chairman in the House of Representatives Friedbert Pflüger in autumn 2008, he resigned on October 1, 2008 as regional chairman of the CDU Berlin. His successor was provisionally Joachim Zeller and on November 18, 2008 Frank Henkel was elected. Henkel had already taken over the chairmanship of Pflüger on September 11, 2008. At the state delegates' meeting of the CDU on November 22, 2008, Schmitt lost to Stefanie Vogelsang in the election for the promising third place on the Berlin state list for election to the 17th German Bundestag . His attempt to win the direct mandate in the Bundestag constituency of Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf instead in order to move back into the Bundestag failed.

MP

Schmitt was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1981 to 1991 and of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005 .

From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag and chairman of the Berlin regional group in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Public offices

From 1991 to 1996 Schmitt was State Secretary in the Senate Department for Transport and Enterprises and from 1996 to 1999 in the Senate Department for Building, Housing and Transport of the State of Berlin.

Volunteering

Schmitt has been President of the Landesverkehrswacht Berlin since 2012 .

literature

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 330.