Rolf Schwanitz

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Rolf Schwanitz (born April 2, 1959 in Gera ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1998 to 2005 he was Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and then from 2005 to 2009 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Health .

Rolf Schwanitz (1990)

education and profession

After attending the Polytechnic High School in Gotha , Schwanitz completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a construction worker. He then studied business administration in Jena and law in Berlin . He completed his studies with a degree in engineering and economics and a degree in law and then worked as a research assistant at the TH Zwickau in the business administration department.

family

Rolf Schwanitz is married and has two children.

Political party

Schwanitz joined the New Forum in the GDR in October 1989 and became a member of the newly founded SDP in November 1989 . From 1993 to 2010 he was deputy state chairman of the SPD in Saxony . After Thomas Jurk's resignation after the state elections in Saxony in 2009 , Schwanitz acted temporarily as provisional state chairman of the Saxon SPD until Martin Dulig was elected . He is a member of the steering committee of the Seeheimer Kreis , a conservative working group of the SPD.

Schwanitz is "a passionate, staunch atheist ". Since 2010 he has been campaigning for the establishment of a working group “ Laicists in the SPD ”. He mentions the goals of such a group as follows: "Religious communities and also non-religious groups must enjoy the same ranking and the same esteem in society by the state, but no privilege on one side". He would like to put an end to the “poor position of employees in the church sector. We have special rights there so that the right of co-determination does not apply, we have special rights there with regard to collective bargaining situations ”. He says, "if a third of the population in Germany consists of non-denominationalists who also see this topic, then you have to set up such a working group on equal terms in the SPD". Schwanitz was a sharp critic of the Pope's visit to Germany in 2011 .

MP

Schwanitz was a member of the GDR's first freely elected People's Chamber from March to October 1990. From October 3, 1990 to 2013, he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Rolf Schwanitz entered the German Bundestag in 1998 as a directly elected member of the Reichenbach - Plauen - Auerbach - Oelsnitz constituency and otherwise always via the Saxony state list .

In the Bundestag election campaign in 2005, he gained nationwide attention through a controversial poster motif. Above a photo that showed the coffins of US soldiers who had fallen in Iraq in the hold of a transport plane, he had the statement placed, “She had sent soldiers”. Below that was a call for the election of Rolf Schwanitz. Although he justified the intention of this poster with his criticism of Angela Merkel's attitude to the Iraq war , Schwanitz was exposed to sharp criticism. Among other things, he was accused of bad taste. With the choice of such a motif he exceeded the limits of piety .

For the general election in 2013 Schwanitz did not occur again.

Public offices

The last GDR government under Lothar de Maizière belonged to Schwanitz as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Minister of Justice Kurt Wünsche .

On October 27, 1998, Schwanitz was appointed Minister of State to the Federal Chancellery ( Schröder I cabinet ). From 1998 to September 2002 he was also the Federal Government Commissioner for Affairs in the New States . After the federal election in 2002 , Schröder formed the Schröder II cabinet and left Schwanitz in his post.

In the grand coalition under Angela Merkel ( Merkel I cabinet ) Schwanitz was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Health ( Ulla Schmidt ). After the federal election in 2009 , Schwanitz left office.

He was a co-founder in February 2017 and has been an advisory board member of the Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht (ifw) since then .

He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation (gbs) since 2018 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conversation with Wolfgang Thierse
  2. ↑ "Laicist Sozis"
  3. ↑ All quotes from the interview in Deutschlandradio Kultur on December 18, 2010: “One third of all Germans are non-denominational” Bundestag member Schwanitz (SPD) wants to limit the special rights of the churches in Germany
  4. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/region-duesseldorf/duesseldorf/nachrichten/spd-politiker-wollen-papst-rede-boykottieren-1.1314736
  5. ↑ faz.net: And time goes with us, Rolf Schwanitz
  6. ^ Rolf Schwanitz | ifw - Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Brief vita gbs: Rolf Schwanitz
personal data
SURNAME Schwanitz, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera , GDR