Burkhard Schöps

Candidate poster for the state election in Brandenburg in 1994

Burkhard Schöps (born July 8, 1955 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Schöps attended school in Nennhausen before he graduated from high school in Potsdam from 1972 to 1975 and completed vocational training as a construction worker . From 1977 to 1981 he studied civil engineering at the University of Cottbus and graduated with a degree in industrial and special construction. From 1981 to 1986 he was employed as a civil engineer at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , then he was an assistant at the Cottbus University of Civil Engineering until 1990. Between 1994 and 2000 he was managing director of BUGA Cottbus 95 GmbH.

He was at times a member of the Presidium of the National Sports Confederation and state chairman of the Brandenburg Sports Youth.

politics

In 1990, at the time of reunification in the GDR , Schöps joined the CDU and soon became chairman of the CDU local branch in Cottbus-Mitte.

After the local elections in May 1990, he was elected as an alderman in Cottbus and was head of the environment and urban economy until 1994 . He was elected to the Cottbus city council for 1993 to 1994 and was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there . At times he was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Cottbus recycling company.

In the state elections in Brandenburg in 1999 , Schöps ran as a direct candidate in constituency 41 (Cottbus II). With a result of 21.10% of the first votes , Schöps was clearly defeated by Manfred Stolpe from the SPD , who won the direct mandate with 53.70%, but Schöps entered the Brandenburg state parliament via the CDU list . He was a member of parliament from September 29, 1999 to October 13, 2004. During this time, Schöps was media policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group and member of the committee for science, research and culture.

Web links

• Brandenburg parliamentary documentation on Burkhard Schöps

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More Power for the New , Spiegel Online, September 23, 1991. Accessed March 19, 2011.
2. ↑ Results of the 1999 state elections: Wahlkreis 41 - Cottbus II ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Regional Returning Officer. Retrieved March 19, 2011. 
3. ↑ z. B. in: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Almost all CDU members want to run again , Märkische Oderzeitung from February 10, 2004. Accessed on March 19, 2011.