Dieter Schinzel
Dieter Schinzel (born November 14, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( SPD , SPE ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1976 and 1980, and the European Parliament from 1979 to 1994.
Life
Dieter Schinzel was born in Berlin and studied physics in Aachen . He worked politically in the AStA of the university. In 1966/67 he became the first social democratic AStA chairman at RWTH Aachen University. Schinzel has been a member of the SPD since 1961. In 1972 he was elected to the Aachen city council, of which he was a member until 1994 with one interruption. In 1972 he was the first Social Democrat to win a direct mandate for the Bundestag in the CDU stronghold of Aachen, constituency of Aachen-Stadt , and distinguished himself as a representative of the left wing until the end of the 1976 legislative period . In the 1976 Bundestag election, however, his place on the list was not enough to to get a second mandate after narrowly missing out on the new direct mandate. In 1976 he became the first chairman of the newly founded SPD sub-district Aachen-Stadt and remained so until autumn 1994.
In 1979 he changed platforms and took the opportunity of the first direct election of the European Parliament . He moved into the European Parliament . He remained a member of the European Parliament until April 20, 1994.
On May 5, 1980 he moved through the SPD state list NRW for the MP Albert Tönjes up to the end of the legislative period 1980 again in the Bundestag. In 1986 Schinzel received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.
When Saddam Hussein took several German hostages before the escalation of the second Gulf War (Iraqi attack on Kuwait from August 2, 1990) , Schinzel played a key role in the secret negotiations about their release. Willy Brandt was able to take the released hostages back to Germany from Baghdad in October 1990. In 1991 Schinzel became Vice-President of the German-Arab Society and later its President.
In 1993 it seemed to have passed its political zenith. He suffered heavy losses in real estate investments and gambling. As President of the German-Arab Society, he announced his resignation in the spring of 1993. The SPD reacted to the financial situation by giving him time to “get his affairs in order”. In the list of candidates for the 1994 European elections, his party-internal opponent Martin Schulz prevailed. Due to his money problems, Schinzel got involved in an allegedly highly profitable foreign exchange deal together with a WDR editor and ended up with fraudsters. On May 27, 1994, however, he and his business partner were arrested for five million Swiss francs. In the middle of the European election campaign, the tabloid press presented this incident as a “counterfeit money deal”. In the criminal proceedings, however, it became clear that it was not a trade in counterfeit money and that both the WDR editor and Schinzel were unaware of the fraudulent intentions of their trading partners. Ultimately, five people were convicted, but the criminal proceedings against Schinzel and the WDR editor were discontinued at the expense of the state treasury. However, Schinzel had to file for bankruptcy, and it was only in 2006 that the bankruptcy proceedings were ended with a rate of 1.27%.
family
Schinzel has three children and married his long-term partner in 1994. The pop singer and conspiracy theorist Christian Anders is his brother.
When proceedings against Schinzel for attempted stolen goods were pending in 1994, Anders demonstrated naked and chained for his brother in front of the Aschaffenburg prison. The case is closed.
Works
- Inverse photoproduction of negative pions in the area of the first nucleon resonance . Karlsruhe 1971 (dissertation)
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 742.
swell
- ^ Entry on Dieter Schinzel in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
- ↑ spiegel.de November 26, 1990: [1] , zeit.de November 16, 1990
- ↑ Manfred Kutsch: Bad bankruptcy for Schinzel ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Aachener Zeitung , December 19, 2006
- ^ Processes: Zug nach Nirgendwo , DER SPIEGEL 37/1995, September 11, 1995, accessed June 9, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schinzel, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |