Jürgen Maresch

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Jürgen Maresch

Jürgen Maresch (born January 12, 1966 in Torgau ) is a German politician and former member of the Die Linke party . From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament .

Life

Maresch attended the Polytechnic High School in the Gneisenaustadt Schildau ( Torgau district ) from 1972 to 1982 . From 1982 to 1984 he completed an apprenticeship as a fitter at VEB Landmaschinenbau Torgau. In 1985 he obtained his university entrance qualification.

Until August 1989 he studied at the officers' college of the border troops in Suhl . He completed his studies as a qualified engineer-pedagogue for mechanical engineering. At the same time he was appointed first officer rank. From September 1989 he worked for the border troops and then for the border guards of the GDR in the Oebisfelde area near Magdeburg .

In the middle of 1990 he quit this job and started studying pedagogy in Berlin . On October 3, 1990, he began working for the Federal Border Guard at the Forst (Lausitz) border crossing . Until 2009, Maresch held various positions in the Federal Border Police (since 2005 Federal Police ). Most recently, Maresch worked for the Federal Police in Forst as the first police chief inspector. From 2009 to 2014 Maresch was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament.

Jürgen Maresch is married, has three children and lives in Cottbus - Groß Gaglow .

politics

Maresch was a member of the SED from 1985 to 1989 .

In 2003 he was a successful candidate on the list of the then PDS for the Cottbus city ​​council .

In 2007 Maresch decided to join the PDS, until 2014 he was a member of the follow-up party Die Linke.

For local elections 2008 candidate Maresch again and moved again. The group elected him deputy group chairman. He gave up this position in 2010 after he moved into the Brandenburg state parliament. Jürgen Maresch is chairman of the committee for social affairs, equality and minority rights in the Cottbus city council as well as a member of the committee law, order and security.

In the state elections on September 27, 2009 , Maresch was directly elected to the state parliament. He received 32.2% of the votes in the Cottbus II state constituency (the former Stolpe / Szymanski constituency) and was thus able to prevail against Kerstin Kircheis ( SPD ).

Maresch was spokesman for the Die Linke parliamentary group for people with disabilities and minority politics, deputy chairman of the committee for European affairs and development policy, member of the Parliamentary Control Commission (PKK) and the petitions committee, deputy member of the judges' selection committee and member of the parliamentary advisory council of the Foundation for the Sorbian People .

From November 2009 to November 2011 Maresch was deputy chairman of the district association Die Linke Lausitz and from 2010 to 2012 chairman of the local executive committee of the Left in Cottbus. Since January 2012 he is no longer chairman of the left in Cottbus.

To state election in 2014 Maresch did not occur again. He criticized the fact that the left had promised to vote against new opencast mines before the state elections in Brandenburg in 2009 , but wanted to vote for new opencast mines under government responsibility. He took part in the protest marches in Lusatia against this policy.

On September 1, 2014, Maresch announced that he was leaving Der Linke . Maresch had already been expelled from the Left Party in the Cottbus city council in June. Maresch justified his resignation from the party with “mendacity” within the party, in which those would have an advantage “who are scheming, obsessed with power and compliant” .

Volunteering

On April 17, 2010, Maresch was elected President of the Brandenburg State Transport Authority.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Maresch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MdL Jürgen Maresch: Why I demonstrate against new opencast mines , PDF p. 4, Green League Cottbus, May 2, 2014
  2. ^ Lusatian initiatives protest in front of the lignite committee against the Welzow II opencast mine , Niederlausitz aktuell, April 28, 2014
  3. Why did Jürgen Maresch not become a member of the parliamentary group? ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. , Cottbuser Herzblatt , PDF p. 2, dielinke-lausitz.de, accessed on August 30, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dielinke-lausitz.de
  4. Alexander Fröhlich: Maresch complains of mendacity and leaves the Left , Potsdamer Latest News , August 31, 2014, accessed on August 31, 2014.