Jörg Geibert

Jörg Geibert 2016

Jörg Geibert (born February 20, 1963 in Marienberg (Westerwald) ) is a German lawyer , politician ( CDU ) and was a member of the Thuringian state parliament from 2014 to 2019. There he was parliamentary managing director of the CDU parliamentary group from 2018.

Professional background

After his Abitur at the Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium Westerburg Geibert began his law studies and then the Legal preparatory service , which he shares with passing both legal state exam completed successfully in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1990 he was appointed judge at the Koblenz Administrative Court. In 1992 he moved to Thuringia. In the Thuringian Ministry of Justice he held several managerial positions until 2009, most recently as head of the penal system. In the meantime, he worked briefly as a judge at the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court in Weimar and was head of the personnel department in the Thuringian Ministry of Finance from 1997 to 1999. He has been working as a lawyer since leaving Parliament in 2019.

Political activity

Jörg Geibert in the plenum of the Thuringian State Parliament, 2017

On November 4th, 2009 Geibert was appointed State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior , headed by Peter Michael Huber . Huber was elected a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court in November 2010 and left office on November 16, 2010. On December 1, 2010 it was announced that Geibert was to succeed him as Thuringian Minister of the Interior in the Lieberknecht cabinet , and was appointed Minister on December 8, 2010 and sworn in before the state parliament.

Geibert gained greater media attention when he had a total of 778 folders with unredacted documents on the subject of right-wing extremism of the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution made available to the first NSU investigative committee of the Bundestag , which he turned all other German interior ministers against.

For the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 , Geibert won a direct mandate in the Weimar II constituency and was thus elected a member of the Thuringian state parliament for the first time . After the election, a red-red-green coalition was formed under Bodo Ramelow , whereby the CDU in Thuringia left the government for the first time and Geibert also lost his ministerial office.

Since December 2015 he has been chairman of the budget and finance committee in the Thuringian state parliament, succeeding Jürgen Reinholz . Geibert is chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the committee of inquiry into the so-called "Lauinger affair" .

By resolution of the state parliament, he is a member of the board of trustees of the state center for political education , member of the board of trustees of the Foundation European Youth Education and Youth Meeting Center Weimar, member of the board of trustees of the Ettersberg foundation and member of the supervisory board of the DRK Krankenhausgesellschaft Thüringen Brandenburg gGmbH.

On June 13, 2018, Geibert was elected Parliamentary Managing Director of the state parliamentary group.

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2019 , Geibert lost his previous constituency to Steffen Dittes and left the state parliament. In May 2020 he was elected a deputy member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court by the Thuringian state parliament.

Private

Geibert is married and has three children.

Web links

Commons : Jörg Geibert - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Short biography . Thuringian Parliament.
Jörg Geibert's website

Individual evidence

↑ Veronika Lewandrowski: How things continue for ex-members of the Thuringian state parliament. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , November 10, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019 .

^ Lieberknecht: Focus on the budget , press release from December 1, 2010

↑ Maximilian Popp: 1:16 - Jörg Geibert from Thuringia is committed to resolving the NSU affair. Now he has all his colleagues against him . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 2012, p. 44-45 ( Online - Dec. 3, 2012 ).

^ Lauinger investigation committee: Left coalition wants to curtail opposition rights - press releases - CDU parliamentary group Thuringia. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .

↑ CDU parliamentary group unanimously elects Jörg Geibert as the new parliamentary managing director - press releases - CDU parliamentary group Thuringia. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .

↑ Geibert now deputy judge at the constitutional court , report on rtl.de from May 15, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Geibert, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	20th February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)

[1] Veronika Lewandrowski: How things continue for ex-members of the Thuringian state parliament. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , November 10, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019 .

[2] Lieberknecht: Focus on the budget , press release from December 1, 2010

[3] Maximilian Popp: 1:16 - Jörg Geibert from Thuringia is committed to resolving the NSU affair. Now he has all his colleagues against him . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 2012, p. 44-45 ( Online - Dec. 3, 2012 ).

[4] Lauinger investigation committee: Left coalition wants to curtail opposition rights - press releases - CDU parliamentary group Thuringia. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .

[5] CDU parliamentary group unanimously elects Jörg Geibert as the new parliamentary managing director - press releases - CDU parliamentary group Thuringia. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .

[6] Geibert now deputy judge at the constitutional court , report on rtl.de from May 15, 2020.