Kerstin Lorenz

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Kerstin Bärbel Lorenz (born July 14, 1962 in Dresden ; † September 7, 2005 there ) was a German politician . She ran for the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in the 2005 Bundestag election , but died eleven days before election day.

Kerstin Lorenz joined the Republicans (REP) in 1994 and was initially press spokeswoman for the Weißeritzkreis district . From 1998 to 2002 she was a member of the party's federal executive committee. She became deputy Saxon state chairman and finally in March 2000 state chairman in Saxony .

Against the will of the federal executive board of the REP, she withdrew its planned participation in the state elections in Saxony on September 19, 2004 and called for the election of the NPD. The Republicans initiated a party expulsion process against Lorenz, which they anticipated by resigning. One day before the election, she joined the NPD. The party received 9.2% of the vote and entered the Saxon state parliament. Since then, Lorenz, a trained cook and previously worked as a clerk, has worked as an employee of the NPD parliamentary group.

Lorenz ran as a direct candidate of the NPD for the 2005 federal election in constituency 160 (Dresden I) . During an election rally by the NPD on September 5, she suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. Brain death occurred on September 6th. She was pronounced dead on September 7th. As a result, the Saxon state election administration ordered a by- election in the constituency concerned on October 2nd . The by-election attracted a lot of attention due to the tight outcome in the other constituencies, because the exact number of overhang mandates of the CDU in Saxony depended on the result and there was mathematically the possibility that the SPD would become the strongest parliamentary group before the CDU / CSU and thus receive the government mandate would.

In the election, Franz Schönhuber replaced Lorenz as the NPD candidate and received 2.42% of the first votes. He died eight weeks after the election on November 27, 2005. Andreas Lämmel (CDU) was elected, which led to a shift in the number of elected officials between individual state lists compared to the provisional calculation.

Kerstin Lorenz was married and had two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b By-election in Dresden: "Serious legal problem" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 30, 2019]).
  2. ^ By-election in Dresden - election result on September 18th only provisional . September 10, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed December 30, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Bundestag election results delayed until October. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Accessed December 30, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenz, Kerstin Bärbel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2005
Place of death Dresden