Jürgen Schmieder (politician)

Jürgen Schmieder (left) 1990 with Rainer Ortleb and Bruno Menzel

Jürgen Schmieder (born June 23, 1952 in Jahnishausen , today Riesa ) is a German politician . He was chairman of the German Forum Party and its member of the People's Chamber and member of the Bundestag for the FDP .

Professional background

Schmieder first attended a POS in Riesa from 1959 to 1965 , then the mathematics and natural science special school in Riesa. In 1971 Schmieder completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and at the same time earned his Abitur. After completing basic military service in 1973, he began studying at the TH Karl-Marx-Stadt , which he completed in 1978 as a graduate engineer for heat technology. Schmieder then got a job as a project engineer in chemical plant construction in Leipzig - Grimma for a year , before moving back to TH Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1979. There he worked as a research assistant until 1983, and as a development engineer from 1983 to 1984. In 1984 he was promoted to Dr. ing. PhD with the work vacuum drying of plastic granulate in a vacuum rotary drum dryer in the presence of inert gas . Schmieder then moved to the Karl-Marx-Stadt District Council as a manager , where he worked until 1987. He then worked as deputy head of department and patent engineer at the Karl-Marx-Stadt research center until February 1990. At the same time, from 1989 he took a distance learning course to become a patent attorney. From 1995 he worked for some time as a managing partner in a business start-up and management consultancy. Schmieder is now the managing director of the Saxony State Association of People's Solidarity .

Political career

Schmieder became a member of the LDPD in 1982 . From 1986 to 1988 he was deputy LDPD district chairman in Karl-Marx-Stadt-Nord. Initially active in the New Forum during the fall of the Wall, in December 1989 he was one of the founders of the German Forum Party (DFP). In January 1990 he was elected party chairman. After the DFP had joined forces with other liberal parties to form the Bund Free Democrats (BFD) for the Volkskammer elections on March 18, Schmieder ran in constituency 9 (Leipzig district) on the list at number 1 of the electoral alliance. Schmieder moved in as a member of parliament and was elected one of the six deputies of the People's Chamber President. During the Volkskammer election period, the DFP became part of the FDP. Schmieder initially did not go to the Bundestag like 144 members of the Volkskammer. However, he ran for the federal elections on December 2, 1990 on the list of the FDP regional association of Saxony with list position 5. Since the FDP was able to win five seats in Saxony, Schmieder moved into the 12th German Bundestag. He worked as a full member of the Interior Committee, the Post and Telecommunications Committee and the Legal Committee (from August to October 1992) and was an alternate member of the Finance Committee. At the same time he became FDP district chairman in Chemnitz in 1990 and a member of the FDP state executive committee in Saxony. He held both offices until 1995. For the federal election on October 16, 1994 , he did not get a place on the list, but only a candidacy as a direct applicant in the constituency of Chemnitz I (323). As expected, he failed with only 2.5% of the first votes.

literature

• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Schmieder, Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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