Kurt Neumann (politician, 1945)

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Kurt Neumann (born June 10, 1945 in Bischofswerda ) is a German politician ( SPD , PDS , Die Linke ).

Neumann grew up in North Frisia . After studying law in West Berlin , he became a research assistant and has been a lawyer since 1977.

Neumann was a member of the SPD from 1966 until he was expelled from the party in 1996 . From 1974 to 1976 he was state chairman of the Jusos in Berlin and also national chairman of the Socialist University Association . From 1994 to 1998 he was a directly elected member of the Berlin-Kreuzberg - Schöneberg constituency in the Bundestag . He was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives , a member of the program commission for the “Berlin Program” of the SPD, a member of the SPD state executive committee and of the German Bundestag. Neumann, who had been convicted of tax evasion , breach of legal professional secrecy, breach of trust and fraud, had initially not admitted this within the party, which in 1995 led to a party order procedure.

He is a member of the Left and worked for the MEPs Tobias Pflüger and Sahra Wagenknecht until October 2005 . Since October 2005 he has been an EU advisor to the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag. In 2012, together with Wolfgang Gehrcke , Diether Dehm , Christiane Reymann and Harald Werner , he formulated a plea for a “necessary re-politicization” of the left.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project group moral disposal. In: FAZ.net . July 16, 1999, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Jan von Flocken: BUNDESTAG: Red scandal attorney. In: Focus Online. January 20, 1997, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Gehrcke, Diether Dehm, Kurt Neumann, Christiane Reymann, Harald Werner: Necessary Re-politicization . In: Junge Welt from May 15, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD, PDS), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofswerda , Saxony