Georg Schmid (politician)

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Georg Schmid (2012)

Georg Schmid (born April 20, 1953 in Berg , today in Donauwörth ) is a German lawyer and former politician ( CSU ). He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1990 to autumn 2013 . He lost the chairmanship of the CSU parliamentary group, which he had held since 2007, in April 2013 due to his involvement in the relatives affair , for which he was also prosecuted.

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1972 at Donauwörth , Schmid studied law at the University of Augsburg as part of the one-stage legal training . After that, he joined the civil service, he in the course of which first as Councilor with the Government of Swabia and from 1979 as a senior civil servant in the district office Dillingen acted.

politics

Local politics

Schmid began his political career in the Junge Union , of which he was chairman in Donauwörth from 1982 to 1986. In 1987 he became chairman of the CSU Donauwörth and in 1989 chairman of the CSU district association Donau-Ries . In addition to his state political activities, Schmid also retained his activities at the municipal level until he left the state parliament in 2013 and then in 2014 from the city council of Donauwörth (member from 1984 to 2014) and the district council of Donau-Ries (member from 1990 to 2014) . From 1996 to 1999 he was also deputy district administrator .

Member of the state parliament

In October 1990 he was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament, where he was a member of the committees for regional development and environmental issues as well as for municipal issues and internal security. For a time he was also a representative of the Bavarian State Parliament in the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . On October 17, 2007 he succeeded Joachim Herrmann as chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament. As chairman of the CSU parliamentary group, Schmid enforced a strict smoking ban in October 2007, which was relaxed in 2009 and reintroduced in a referendum in 2010 .

Government offices

In 1999 Schmid was appointed State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women. In 2003 he moved to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior as State Secretary. During his time as State Secretary Schmid was one of the representatives of the Bavarian State Government on the Board of Directors of Bayerische Landesbank when the latter made the decision to purchase Hypo Alpe Adria in May 2007 .

After Prime Minister Günther Beckstein announced on October 1, 2008, in response to the poor CSU result in the 2008 state election , that he would no longer run for Prime Minister, Schmid applied for Beckstein's successor with the other candidates Thomas Goppel , Joachim Herrmann and Horst Seehofer . Two days later he withdrew this candidacy and remained chairman of the parliamentary group. Seehofer was elected Prime Minister on October 27, 2008.

Relatives affair

On April 15, 2013, Hans Herbert von Arnim's book The Self-Service and Triggers the Relatives Affair will be published. On April 23, it became known that Schmid had employed his wife as a constituency worker for 23 years. This publicly funded employment relationship was based on contracts for work and services , the monthly volume of which "in recent years has ranged between 3500 and 5500 euros net, depending on the workload". Due to public and internal pressure, Schmid ended the contractual relationship and resigned as parliamentary group leader of the CSU on April 25, 2013. He was succeeded on April 26, 2013 by Christa Stewens . Schmid ended his political career. On May 17, 2013, customs officers searched Schmid's house in the Swabian town of Donauwörth.

The Augsburg public prosecutor's office started investigations against Schmid on suspicion of social fraud after he himself had stated that his wife had worked for him "around the clock". If Schmid were the only client his wife worked for, there would actually have been bogus self-employment , which would have circumvented the social security contributions. For this reason, the public prosecutor's office applied for the immunity of MP Schmid to be lifted , whereas the state parliament did not appeal. Schmid's attorneys were given access to the files during the investigation and were invited to comment.

On July 25, 2014, the Augsburg public prosecutor brought charges against Schmid, who allegedly evaded at least 340,000 euros in social security contributions alone by employing his wife as a bogus self- employed for 22 years . Another employee is said to have been employed for 13 years without registration.

He was accused of withholding and embezzling wages in 262 cases and tax evasion in 59 cases. At the same time, Schmid's wife was charged with aiding and abetting and tax evasion in ten cases. On March 18, 2015, Georg Schmid was sentenced to 16 months probation and a fine of 120,000 euros by the Augsburg District Court . However, according to the magistrate, Schmid is still allowed to keep his “princely” pension claims. In February 2015, his wife was sentenced to pay 240 daily rates .

Private

Schmid is married and has two sons. His inclination to shake hands earned him the nickname “Schüttelschorsch” coined by Theo Waigel , but which Schmid never made friends with.

honors and awards

Web links

Commons : Georg Schmid (CSU)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Group leader on call . Southgerman newspaper. May 17, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  2. ^ Secret meeting after the Strauss devotion . Southgerman newspaper. May 17, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ CSU parliamentary group leader Georg Schmid . Central Bavarian Newspaper. February 20, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  4. ↑ Thomas Hilgendorf: Georg Schmid justifies his wife's salary . Augsburg General. April 24, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  5. ^ Frank Müller, Mike Szymanski: CSU parliamentary group leader Georg Schmid resigns. sueddeutsche.de, April 25, 2013, accessed on April 25, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Frank Müller: Georg Schmid gives up . Southgerman newspaper. May 1, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  7. ^ Nepotism in the CSU: parliamentary group leader Schmid gives up. n-tv.de, May 1, 2013, accessed May 1, 2013 .
  8. ^ House search at Georg Schmid's . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 17, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ Georg Schmid: "The most difficult day of my life" . Augsburg General. 17th May 2013.
  10. ↑ Frank Müller, Mike Szymanski: Georg Schmid is targeted by the judiciary . Southgerman newspaper. May 6, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  11. ↑ Georg Schmid is threatened with charges . Southgerman newspaper. May 6, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  12. ^ Public prosecutor accuses former CSU parliamentary group leader . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 25, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  13. ↑ process? That is why Georg Schmid has to wait for a decision . Augsburg General. December 12, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  14. ↑ Ex-CSU parliamentary group leader Schmid should go to court . Southgerman newspaper. July 25, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  15. ↑ Schmid retains "princely" pension entitlements . Southgerman newspaper. March 18, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  16. ↑ Georg Schmid's wife surprisingly convicted . Southgerman newspaper. February 27, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  17. ↑ From Schüttel-Schorsch to heavyweight . Southgerman newspaper. May 19, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  18. ↑ CSU. Group leader does not want to be called "Schüttel-Schorsch" . Focus Online. October 10, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Donauwörth