Dieter Lauinger

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Dieter Lauinger (2013)

Dieter Lauinger (born December 5, 1962 in Ettlingen ) is a German lawyer and politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ). From 2009 to 2015 he was one of the two state spokesmen for the Thuringian regional association of his party. As of December 5, 2014, Lauinger was Thuringia's Minister for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection in the Ramelow I cabinet . Since the constituent meeting of the 7th Thuringian State Parliament on November 27, 2019, he, like his cabinet colleagues, has only been in office in an executive role. His term of office ended on February 5, 2020 with the election of the new Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich .

education and profession

From 1984 to 1989 he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He passed the first state examination in 1990 and - after working as a trainee lawyer in Karlsruhe and, among other things, in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg - the second state examination in 1993 . In 1993 Lauinger came to Thuringia as a judge and worked there initially at the Gotha District Court and from 1996 as a civil and criminal judge at the Erfurt Regional Court .

Political career

Since his school days, Lauinger has been active in various citizens' groups. From 2004 he became involved in Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, whose district executive in Erfurt he had been a member since 2006. For the 2009 Bundestag election he ran for his party in second place on the Thuringian state list, but this was not enough to get into the Bundestag. In the constituency of 193 , he also ran as a direct candidate and received 8.1% of the first votes.

On November 28, 2009, Dieter Lauinger and Madeleine Henfling were elected to the new dual leadership of the regional association at the state party conference of the Thuringian Greens, with Lauinger prevailing against two opposing candidates with 55.6% of the votes. At the state party conference on November 12, 2011, Lauinger was confirmed in office for two more years, this time with Babett Pfefferlein as the female leadership.

In the 2013 Bundestag election , Lauinger again applied for a Bundestag mandate. As in 2009, he was elected to second place on the state list of the Thuringian alliance greens. On March 7, 2013, Lauinger was elected by almost 50 members at an electoral meeting in Weimar as the Bundestag direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency Erfurt - Weimar - Weimarer Land II . He received over 80% of the vote. In the federal election on September 22, 2013, Lauinger achieved 6.0% of the first votes in his constituency, which was won by CDU politician Antje Tillmann . Since only one politician from the Greens, namely Katrin Göring-Eckardt , won a mandate through the state list in Thuringia , Lauinger failed to make it into the Bundestag again. On November 30, 2013, he was confirmed again as state spokesman at the state party conference of the Greens, now together with Stephanie Erben .

As a result of the 2014 state elections , the first red-red-green state government in Germany was formed in Thuringia . Lauinger was appointed Minister for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection in Bodo Ramelow's cabinet . He was also a deputy member of the European Committee of the Regions from January 2015 to January 2019 ; he has been a full member since January 2019.

Others

Lauinger is a Protestant, married and has two children.

In July 2016 the Constitutional Court of Thuringia ruled that Lauinger had violated his duty of neutrality as a minister by publicly and on the website of his ministry warning against participating in an AfD demonstration.

Inquiry committee of the state parliament

In August 2016, allegations arose that Lauinger had campaigned from his ministry with the help of official funds for a legally dubious exemption of his son from the special performance assessment , the mandatory examination for Thuringian high school students at the end of the tenth school year, at the ministry of education. In response, Lauinger announced that his son would take an "equivalent test". At the request of the CDU state parliamentary group, the Thuringian state parliament set up an investigative committee on September 29, 2016 ("Lauinger affair"). The object of investigation of the committee is to clarify the circumstances of the exemption of the son of the Thuringian Minister for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection from the special performance assessment as well as the extent to which the public and the Thuringian state parliament are informed by members of the state government. As part of the committee's work, it turned out that the transfer took place without a subsequent application and that the certificate was backdated on the instructions of the education authority. The former education minister Birgit Klaubert explained in the committee of inquiry that this process was initially like any other, but that she did not have “the dimension of the whole thing in mind”. After a year, the committee of inquiry had only heard half of the planned 60 witnesses. In October 2017 it became known that the exam announced by Lauinger in August 2016 did not take place.

Web links

Commons : Dieter Lauinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow appoints cabinet members
  2. https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/thueringen-liveticker--akk-will-christian-lindner-vor--diesem-spiel-der-afd--gewarnt-haben-9123700.html
  3. Bundestag election in Thuringia on September 27, 2009 - nominations. (PDF) Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Message from the west of October 6, 2012
  5. ^ Website of the Thuringia State Statistical Office
  6. ^ Constitutional Court: Thuringian minister is subject to AfD , accessed on July 7, 2016
  7. Detlef Esslinger: son of Lauinger . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 24, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
  8. ^ Thuringia: Minister of Justice admits errors in "Sohnemann affair" . In: Spiegel Online . August 23, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 23, 2018]).
  9. Lauinger refuses to resign - son should catch up on the exam . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
  10. ^ Motion: establishment of a committee of inquiry. (PDF) In: Drucksache 6/2686. Thuringian State Parliament, September 21, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2018 .
  11. ^ The Landtag: Thuringian Landtag - Inquiry Committee 6/3. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  12. ^ Resolution: establishment of a committee of inquiry. Possible misconduct by the Thuringian state government in the "Lauinger affair". (PDF) In: Printed matter 6/2760, new version -for Printed matter 6/2686 - new version. Thuringian State Parliament, September 29, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2018 .
  13. Despite promise: Son of the Thuringian Minister of Justice transferred without examination . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
  14. ^ Lauinger Affair: Testimony was backdated . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
  15. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Klaubert: The extent of the Lauinger affair was initially not recognized. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 18, 2017, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
  16. mdr.de: Lauinger affair: One year committee of inquiry in Thuringia | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  17. Small question from MP Tischner (CDU) and answer from the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport: Broken word in the "Lauinger Affair"? (PDF) In: Drucksache 6/4585. Thuringian State Parliament, October 2, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2018 .

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