Christian Schmitt (politician)

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Christian Schmitt (born July 14, 1981 in St. Ingbert ) is a German politician, former member of the Saarland state parliament and owner of several companies. He was parliamentary group leader of the FDP Saar and from the end of 2011 belonged as a non-party member of the CDU parliamentary group.

Life

Christian Schmitt passed the secondary school leaving certificate in 1998 in his hometown St. Ingbert. This was followed by a visit to the economics high school in Saarbrücken, which he finished in 2001 with the general university entrance qualification. After graduating from high school, he studied in Boston ( USA ) for a year . In 2004/05, he completed a degree abroad at the University of South Alabama (USA). In 2006 he finished his studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms with a degree in business administration. In 2008 he also received an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the University of West Florida (USA).

In 2006/07 he worked as a freelancer. Since 2007 he is u. a. Managing Director of Schmitt Landschaftsbau GmbH & Co. KG. He is married with two children and lives in St. Ingbert , the town where he was born .

politics

Schmitt was an FDP member from 2005 to 2011 and chairman of the FDP local association Mandelbachtal from 2006 to 2011. From 2008 to 2011 he was the deputy district chairman of his party in the Saarpfalz district; In 2011 he no longer stood for election to the district board of the FDP district association Saar-Palatinate.

In September 2008 in the constituency of Homburg , he was elected the top candidate of his party for the 2009 federal election with 97.14 percent of the delegate's votes. In addition, he was in second place on the FDP state list, but missed the leap into the Bundestag in both cases.

At the beginning of the legislative period on November 10, 2009, Schmitt replaced Georg Weisweiler , who became Minister of Health and resigned his mandate, in the Saarland state parliament. There he was initially deputy chairman and education and health policy spokesman for his group. In January 2011 he took over the office of the FDP parliamentary group chairman in the Saarland state parliament. On December 14, 2011, Schmitt officially announced that he had resigned from his position as parliamentary group leader in the state parliament. From December 15, 2011, he was an independent member of the CDU parliamentary group. With the early state elections in 2012, he left the state parliament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ saarbruecker-zeitung.de of November 14, 2009
  2. ↑ saarbruecker-zeitung.de from December 15, 2011 ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Resigned FDP parliamentary group leader changes to the CDU ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Spiegel Online from December 15, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP, independent), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert