Jimmy Schulz

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Jimmy Schulz (July 2017)

Ralph Jimmy Schulz (born October 22, 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 25, 2019 in Hohenbrunn ) was a German entrepreneur and politician . As a member of the FDP , he was a member of the German Bundestag from autumn 2009 to autumn 2013 . In 2017 he was re-elected to the Bundestag. Schulz was chairman of the Digital Agenda committee .

Life and work

Jimmy Schulz (2009)

Schulz was the son of Wilfried Schulz (1939-2008), a professor of economics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , his mother, who came from the GDR († 1989), was a doctor of neurology and psychotherapy. He grew up in the Munich suburb of Ottobrunn and graduated from high school Ottobrunn in 1990. In 1990 he studied as a guest at the University of Texas at Austin and in 1990 and 1991 did his military service with the mountain troops in Berchtesgaden . From 1991 to 2000 Schulz studied political science at the University of Politics in Munich , where he obtained the degree of political scientist (Dipl. Sc. Pol. Univ.).

During his school days he worked for various IT companies. In 1995 he founded the IT service provider CyberSolutions GmbH. In 2001 he was a partner with his company in the e-Garten project , which set up the first public wireless Internet access points in the Englischer Garten in Munich in 2001 . After the parent company Telesens AG went public in 2000, he was a managing partner of the newly founded CyberSolutions Ltd. until his death. in Hohenbrunn- Riemerling.

In an interview with Spiegel in June 2019, Schulz made his pancreatic cancer disease public, which was diagnosed around the turn of the year 2017/2018. He died on November 25, 2019 at the age of 51 from complications from the disease.

Schulz was married and had three children. He lived in Hohenbrunn.

Political career

Jimmy Schulz joined the party The Republicans in 1989 and ran for the local council in Ottobrunn and the district council. He left the party after a year. In 2000 he joined the FDP. After the local elections in the spring of 2002, he took on a first political mandate in the Hohenbrunn municipal council. In the same year he was elected to the board of the FDP District Association of Upper Bavaria and the following year as district chairman of the FDP Munich-Land.

Jimmy Schulz at the state party conference of the FDP Bavaria (March 2019)

In 2006, Schulz was his party's candidate for the election of the mayor of Hohenbrunn. In the spring of 2008 he was confirmed as a member of the municipal council in the local elections and appointed third mayor of the municipality. At the same time, he received another mandate in the district council of the district of Munich, of which he was a member until June 2018. In the state election on September 28, 2008, he was a direct candidate in the Munich-Land-Süd constituency and received the most first votes of all Bavarian FDP candidates, but failed to make it into the state parliament. In the 2009 Bundestag elections , he succeeded Martin Zeil as a direct candidate in the Munich-Land constituency and received 13.4 percent of the first votes. He moved into the German Bundestag as a member of the FDP's state list .

In the 17th electoral term, Schulz was a full member of the Interior Committee , chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the New Media subcommittee and the Internet and Digital Society Enquête Commission , as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Culture and Media and the Petitions Committee .

From November 2012 to April 2018 he was district chairman of the FDP Upper Bavaria. Jimmy Schulz was re-elected as a direct candidate of the FDP in constituency 221 Munich-Land on July 14, 2016 in Neubiberg . At the same time, he was the top candidate of the FDP Upper Bavaria and moved into the German Bundestag at number 4 on the list . In his constituency, he received 9.34% of the first vote. The FDP was the second strongest party in his constituency with 15.31%.

On January 31, 2018, he became Chairman of the Digital Agenda Committee .

Schulz was a member of the parliamentary committee of the Free Democrats in the German Bundestag and from 2013 to 2019 a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP .

Network policy engagement and awards

Jimmy Schulz has been campaigning against software patents since 2003. a. against the ancillary copyrights through programmatic motions at party congresses of the FDP and own publications. As part of the Science Year 2014 initiative Die Digitale Gesellschaft of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Society for Informatics, he was honored with the award of Germany's Digital Minds . The award goes to those who drive digital development in Germany with their ideas and projects .

In January 2014, Jimmy Schulz and others founded the association for liberal internet politics Load , of which he was chairman from January 2014 to April 2018.

From 2014 to 2016 Jimmy Schulz was a member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) at ICANN .

From 2015 to 2017 he was deputy chairman of ISOC (Internet Society) Germany, of which he has been a member of the executive committee since 2018.

In January 2016, he participated in a constitutional complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court against data retention .

A preventive declaratory action brought against the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) together with his colleague Manuel Höferlin was rejected by the Cologne Administrative Court in a judgment of February 14, 2019 as inadmissible. In August 2018 he became one of the complainants in the constitutional complaint against the use of state Trojans .

Web links

Commons : Jimmy Schulz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundestag election 2017: Elected 'S' . The Federal Returning Officer, accessed October 30, 2018
  2. ↑ Wilfried Schulz , wiwi-online.de
  3. ↑ a b Martin Mühlfenzl: Jimmy Schulz :: A pioneer for freedom on the net , Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 25, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c “It's okay that I'm dying” , published in: Der Spiegel 25/2019, on Spiegel Online , June 14, 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Jimmy Schulz: curriculum vitae
  6. ↑ Bundestag mourns: FDP MPs died at the age of 51 - emotional farewell letters to children , wetterauer-zeitung.de, November 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Jimmy Schulz . XING. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  8. ↑ FDP deputy Schulz - Jimmy does not give up , cicero.de
  9. ^ FDP politician Jimmy Schulz has died , Spiegel Online, November 25, 2019.
  10. ^ Manfred Wagner: Democracy and civil rights . Parliament watch. March 16, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  11. ↑ Jimmy doesn't give up . Cicero. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  12. ^ German Bundestag: German Bundestag: Web archive. In: webarchiv.bundestag.de. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .
  13. ^ FDP district association Munich Land: Jimmy Schulz takes over the chairmanship of the FDP district association Upper Bavaria. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Jimmy Schulz should take the hurdle . In: http://www.merkur.de/ . July 17, 2016 ( merkur.de [accessed December 9, 2016]).
  15. ↑ District Office Munich - Bundestag election 2017
  16. ↑ [1]
  17. ↑ Demonstration Munich 2003/09/19: Innovation instead of patent inflation! Archived from the original on March 15, 2010 ; accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Ancillary copyrights for press publishers - what happened so far. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  19. ↑ These are Germany's digital minds ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ LOAD e. V. → Board of Directors. In: www.load-ev.de. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .
  21. ↑ ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee Announces Selections ( English ) ICANN. August 15, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  22. ↑ www.isoc.de: Board of Directors & Presidium. In: www.isoc.de. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Reinhard Müller: FDP politicians complain against the Network Enforcement Act . June 10, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  24. ↑ Cologne Administrative Court, 6 K 4318/18. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  25. ↑ FDP files constitutional complaint against state trojans . August 20, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulz, Ralph Jimmy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2019
Place of death Hohenbrunn