Gino Leonhard
Gino Leonhard (born December 27, 1972 in Bergen (Rügen) ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 2006 to 2011 he was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Life
After finishing school, Leonhard trained as a ship mechanic and then worked as an administrative officer. He was the head of the main and personnel office of the municipality of Seebad Insel Hiddensee , and he was elected deputy and later acting mayor. Later Leonhard was also the full-time mayor of the municipality of Seebad Insel Hiddensee.
He was investigated in 2004 on suspicion of taking advantage , breach of trust and bribery . Offices and private apartments of the then mayor Gino Leonhard as well as the building authority manager of the island community were searched in this context without any prior notice. Among other things , according to suspicions at the time, he received an illegal salary from a community-owned company . Gino Leonhard was put into temporary retirement by a majority decision of the municipal council, parallel to the ongoing investigations. The investigation was discontinued after 1.5 years without Gino Leonhard having to comment personally on the allegations by the Stralsund public prosecutor's office without comment.
After his mandate in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament, Gino Leonhard retired from politics in 2011, resigned all political offices and, after a long period of rest, took over a new position in the private sector. First he worked as a consultant and since April 2014 he has represented the international hotel management company, Private Palace Hotels & Resorts, based in Malta, in the role of Managing Director. The company operates several hotels in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the island of Rügen.
politics
Leonhard joined the FDP and became deputy FDP district chairman of Rügen, where he was deputy parliamentary group leader in the district council. He was also the state chairman of the Association of Liberal Local Politicians in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (VLK MV) and represented the association for several years as deputy federal chairman. Leonhard became deputy state chairman of the FDP and member of the board of the North-East regional association of the Arbeiter Samariter Bund (ASB), which he still represents today as deputy chairman. For several electoral terms, Gino Leonhard represented the Rügen District Council in his function as Vice President.
In the 2006 state election he ran as a direct candidate in constituency 33 Rügen I , where he achieved one of the best results in the state and nationwide with 10.5 percent of the first votes. He moved into the state parliament via the state list of the FDP. There he was the parliamentary managing director of the FDP parliamentary group and its spokesman for domestic, security, local and integration policy as well as for data protection. The international relations of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as the tourism development in the state were particularly important to him. He also represented the FDP parliamentary group in the secret protection committees, the Parliamentary Control Commission (PKK) and the G-20 Commission.
For the state elections on September 4, 2011 , Gino Leonhard, in his capacity as deputy state chairman and parliamentary manager, took on the top candidacy for the completely torn FDP Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Previously, the actual top candidate and previous group leader, Michael Roolf, had not been elected. Despite all efforts by Gino Leonhard to make himself and his election program known in the country, the party lost 6.8 percentage points in the election and, with only 2.8 percent of the vote, failed to reach the five percent hurdle and thus the Return to the state parliament, very clearly.
Due to the death of the CDU candidate Udo Timm two weeks before the regular election date, a by-election took place in the Rügen I constituency two weeks after the rest of the country on September 18. At this Leonhard came again as a direct candidate for the FDP in this constituency. Because the CDU, because of his previous DVU membership, opposed its direct candidate Thomas Gens before the election and called for another candidate to be elected, and because of the knowledge of the election results of the main election, there was the possibility of "voting out" a mandate by tactical election of the NPD What would have been possible through an FDP direct mandate or a very good Green second vote result, Leonhard achieved a record first vote result of 14.9%, but clearly missed the direct mandate.
literature
- The state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Manual. 5th electoral term 2006–2011 (PDF; 1.4 MB). 9th edition. State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin April 2011, p. 37.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Leonhard: Gino - who? ( Memento from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) NDR , September 5, 2011.
- ↑ a b Corruption on Hiddensee? Hamburger Abendblatt , June 29, 2004, accessed on September 13, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leonhard, Gino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains on Rügen |