Joachim Schultz-Tornau

Joachim Schultz-Tornau (born March 4, 1943 in Metz , Lorraine) is a German politician ( FDP ).

biography

Schultz-Tornau was a student at the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken . After graduating from high school in 1963, Schultz-Tornau studied law in Saarbrücken and Tübingen . He completed his studies in 1968 with the first state examination and made his second state examination in 1971. In the same year he came to North Rhine-Westphalia ; from 1981 onwards he was head of the legal department of the city of Lage .

Schultz-Tornau was a member of the FDP in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1985 to 1995 and from 2000 to 2005 . His constituency was the Landtag constituency Gütersloh I - Bielefeld III . From December 1994 to April 1996 he was chairman of the FDP regional association in North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1995 to 1997, as an assessor of the presidium, he was a member of the federal board of the Liberals. From 1973 to 1986 he was a member of the council of the city of Bielefeld and chairman of the FDP council group .

In April 1996, Schultz-Tornau stood at the party congress of the FDP NRW in the election for state chairman against, among others, Hagen Tschoeltsch , Jürgen W. Möllemann (who was elected on April 27, 1996), Ruth Witteler-Koch as well as Michael Haßdenteufel and Wilhelm Heineking.

Schultz-Tornau's current residence is in Berlin . Schultz-Tornau came under criticism when he took over the representation and voluntary care of the convicted child murderer Magnus Gäfgen . Schultz-Tornau justified this with the social task of rehabilitating criminals, which he has seen as an important social task since his studies and his assistantship at Werner Maihofer .

Schultz-Tornau is among other things bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit , the bronze cross of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and the Order of the Rising Sun of the Japanese imperial family. Schultz-Tornau is also a member of the Arminia Bielefeld sports club . At the annual general meeting of the association in 1986, he involuntarily caused laughter when he addressed the association members with the words "Dear party friends ...".

literature

Annika Joeres : Liberal Advocate , in: tageszeitung (taz) , January 8, 2007.

Web links

Joachim Schultz-Tornau at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Focus 17/1996, April 22, 1996 .
↑ Reinhold Michels: Portrait of the week: Joachim Schultz-Tornau (FDP). In: Internal Parliament , Volume 32, Issue 11, June 26, 2001, p. 11.
^ Message on the website of the Japanese Consulate General in Düsseldorf.
↑ Michael König, Philipp Kreutzer: 111 reasons to love Arminia Bielefeld - a declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-415-4 , pp. 251 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schultz-Tornau, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP), Member of the State North Rhine-Westphalia (2000-2005)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Metz

[1] Focus 17/1996, April 22, 1996 .

[2] Reinhold Michels: Portrait of the week: Joachim Schultz-Tornau (FDP). In: Internal Parliament , Volume 32, Issue 11, June 26, 2001, p. 11.

[3] Message on the website of the Japanese Consulate General in Düsseldorf.

[4] Michael König, Philipp Kreutzer: 111 reasons to love Arminia Bielefeld - a declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-415-4 , pp. 251 .