Helmut Scholz (politician, 1954)

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Helmut Scholz (2014)

Helmut Scholz (born June 21, 1954 in East Berlin ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). He has been a member of the European Parliament since the European elections in 2009 and defended his mandate in the 2014 and 2019 elections .

Life and work

Helmut Scholz is the son of DBD politician Paul Scholz and his wife Lieselotte. He graduated from high school in Königs Wusterhausen in 1972 and studied international relations at MGIMO in Moscow from 1974 . In the GDR Scholz worked for the Foreign Ministry and from 1983 to 1986 also in the embassy in China. As a profession, he states the head of international politics at LINKEN . He is a member of the ver.di union .

Political party

Helmut Scholz was a member of the SED . In the 1990s he worked on developing international relations for the then PDS . From 1991 to 1992 he was a member of the party executive committee of the PDS, from 2006 to 2007 that of the Left Party.PDS and until 2010 that of the party Die Linke. He is a board member of the European Left Party .

Scholz at a forum of the World Trade Organization (2018)

For the European elections in 2009 , his party nominated him for eighth place on the list. The Left won eight of the 99 German mandates with a result of 7.5 percent, so Scholz moved in directly. He became a member of the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left , which he represented in the Committee on International Trade as a full member and in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs as an alternate member.

For the 2014 European elections , the party delegates took fourth place on the list, so that Scholz defended his parliamentary mandate with an election result of 7.4 percent (7 of the 96 German seats). In the 8th legislature of the European Parliament (2014–2019) he represented his group in the Committee on International Trade and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (2014–2017 as an alternate member, 2017–2019 as a full member). Scholz was a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

At the 2019 European Congress of the party Die Linke, the delegates nominated Scholz again for fourth place on the list. With a European election result of 5.5 percent (5 of the 96 German mandates) of his party, he defended his mandate again. In the 9th legislature, Scholz is a member of the committee for international trade and a deputy member of the committee for constitutional questions.

Web links

Commons : Helmut Scholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man in the blue jacket. In: New Germany . May 19, 2009, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Helmut Scholz. on parliamentwatch.de
  3. ↑ a b Helmut Scholz: About the person. ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dielinke-europa.eu  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dielinke-europa.eu
  4. ↑ Alphabetical list of the selected applicants. ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Federal Returning Officer  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  5. ↑ 7th legislative term | Helmut SCHOLZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 8th legislative term | Helmut SCHOLZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 9th legislative term | Helmut SCHOLZ | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SED, PDS, Die Linke), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin