Jürgen Walter (politician, 1968)

Jürgen Walter

Jürgen Walter (born August 23, 1968 in Jugenheim ) is a German SPD politician and former member of the Hessian state parliament .

Professional and private

In 1987 Walter graduated from high school in Gernsheim and studied law at the University of Mannheim and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After completing his studies in 1996, he worked as a lawyer , and from 1997 in his own law firm in Gernsheim . Since August 21, 2008 he has been with the former CDU - Spokeswoman married Esther Petry. Since January 2009 Walter has been working again as a lawyer specializing in labor law and traffic law in Wiesbaden and Gernsheim.

politics

Walter joined the SPD in 1987 and was initially involved with the Jusos (from 1996 to 1999 as Hessian state chairman) and as a city councilor in Gernsheim (1993 to 2002). Jürgen Walter belongs to Netzwerk Hessen, the Hessian branch of the internal SPD group Netzwerk Berlin .

From 1999 to 2009 Walter was a member of the Hessian state parliament. Until 2003 he was regional manager of the Hessian SPD, from then until November 2008 he was deputy chairman of the regional association. He was chairman of the committee of inquiry into the black money scandal of the Hessian CDU . From February 11, 2003 to January 2007, Walter was parliamentary group leader of his party in the state parliament.

In August 2006, Walter applied alongside Andrea Ypsilanti for the nomination as SPD top candidate for the Hessian state election in 2008 . He lost the vote at the state party conference on December 2, 2006 in Rotenburg . After a 172-172 tie in the first ballot, he received 165 votes in the second ballot, Ypsilanti 175 votes. The SPD base had previously spoken out in favor of him at regional conferences.

In the state election on January 27, 2008 , Walter ran unsuccessfully in the Wetterau I constituency , but entered the state parliament via the state list .

After the internal party disputes about how to deal with the Left Party following the election, Walter decided not to run again as deputy group leader. He turned down the Ministry of Transport and Europe, which was later proposed to him as part of the intended red-green minority government , and he described the separation of economy and transport as a “huge mistake”.

On November 3, 2008, he and Carmen Everts , Silke Tesch and Dagmar Metzger declared that they would not support the election of Andrea Ypsilanti as Prime Minister with votes from the Left Party. The planned coalition of the SPD and the Greens , tolerated by the left , thus became impossible. The following day he resigned as deputy Hessian SPD chairman. A party order procedure was applied for against Walter. For the state election on January 18, 2009, Walter was no longer nominated as a candidate by his party.

On March 27, 2009, the competent arbitration commission of the SPD sub-district Wetterau decided that Walter's membership rights in the party would be restricted for two years in such a way that he could only work for the local club; his appeal was denied in August 2009.

literature

• Volker Zastrow : The four. An intrigue. 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-659-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Ypsilanti challenges Koch. , December 2, 2006.
2. ↑ FAZ.net : Ypsilanti Vice Walter attacks SPD leader , October 28, 2008.
3. ↑ Tagesschau : Ypsilanti fails because of SPD rebels ( memento from June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), November 3, 2008.
4. ^ FAZ.net: Walter resigns as deputy chairman , November 4, 2008.
5. ↑ fr-online, November 6, 2008 ( Memento of November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
6. ↑ sueddeutsche.de, March 27, 2009