Klaus Meiser

Klaus Meiser (2017)

Klaus Meiser (born October 3, 1954 in Quiigart ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2009 to 2015 he was parliamentary group leader of the CDU in the Saarland state parliament and from 2015 to February 12, 2018, state parliament president .

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After the Abitur at grammar school Sulzbach 1973 Meiser took the Jura -Studies at the Saarland University in which he with the first state examination completed 1979th His legal traineeship and his second state examination followed from 1979 to 1981. In 1982 Meiser was an associate lawyer. He was a consultant in the Ministry of Economic Affairs until 1984, head of division in the State Chancellery until 1986 and managing director of the CDU parliamentary group until 1991. From 1991 to 1999 he was mayor of the community Quiigart .

Political career

Meiser has been a member of the CDU since 1983. Since 1991 he has been chairman of the CDU Quiigart and since 1995 deputy chairman of the CDU Saar and since 1999 district chairman of the CDU Saarbrücken-Land. From 1991 to 1999 he was mayor of the municipality. From 1984 to 1992 and from 2004 he was again for several years a member of the Quiigart community council, where he also held the post of parliamentary group chairman. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Saarland state parliament and chairman of the “Committee for Economy, Labor and Mine Safety”. In 2000 he became deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 1999 to 2000 Meiser was Minister of the Interior and Sport.

After a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Peter Müller , Klaus Meiser took over again in September 2007 as the successor to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , the department for internal affairs and sport.

In November 2009 he succeeded Jürgen Schreier as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and left the cabinet.

In October 2014 he succeeded Gerd Meyer as President of the State Sports Association for Saarland (LSVS).

On November 11, 2015, Meiser was elected as the successor to the late Hans Ley as President of the Saarland State Parliament. At the beginning of the 16th electoral term, Meiser was unanimously re-elected on April 25, 2017.

On February 11, 2018, Meiser announced his resignation as President of the Saarland state parliament. Stephan Toscani was elected as his successor on March 1, 2018 . He also resigned as President of the State Sports Association on April 29, 2018. After increasing political isolation, he resigned his state parliament mandate on December 3, 2018.

Affairs

In his function as Quierschieder mayor, Meiser was determined in 1998 for taking advantage of having accepted tickets to the 1998 World Cup. The proceedings were discontinued against payment of 11,600 D-Marks.

Meiser resigned from his office as Saarland Interior Minister on November 22, 2000. In December, a penalty order imposed on him by the Trier District Court for 20,700 D-Marks (90 daily rates) for aiding and abetting infidelity in connection with the so-called Doerfert affair became legally binding.

At the beginning of 2018, the Saarbrücken public prosecutor initiated criminal investigations against him on suspicion of breach of trust and the granting of advantages. The background is a loss of millions at the state sports association, whose president was Meiser, as well as the employment of his partner and his driver at this association. His immunity as a member of parliament was lifted, and there were calls from state politics for his resignation, both as state parliament president and as president of the state sports association. These resignations took place in February and April 2018. The investigations were expanded in May 2018 when it became known that Meiser had invited a CDU local association to a tour of the LSVS followed by dinner as part of his function as LSVS President.

In the following trial before the Saarbrücken Regional Court in March 2019, Meiser was sentenced to imprisonment of one year and ten months as well as a suspended sentence of 60,000 euros for serious breach of trust in five cases and the granting of benefits. During the trial, the public prosecutor described the LSVS leadership as a generation of stubborn sports officials who were unwilling to admit their abuse of power.

Meiser had to pay a further 100,000 euros as a monetary deposit to settle the suspicion of budget infidelity as part of the criminal investigation of the financial scandal at the state sports association.

Private

Meiser is a Roman Catholic and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Meiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the CDU parliamentary group Saar ( Memento from February 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landtag: CDU man Klaus Meiser new President of the Saar Landtag . dpa article on Focus Online , November 11, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2018.
2. ↑ Landtag of Saarland: Voting results of the 1st Landtag session of the 16th Election period from April 2nd, 2017. (No longer available online.) Saarland State Parliament, April 25th, 2017, archived from the original on April 26th, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Klaus Meiser also resigns as head of the state sports association. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 29, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Meiser resigns from the Landtag. Saarländischer Rundfunk , December 3, 2018, accessed on December 3, 2018.
5. ↑ State Parliament President Klaus Meiser resigns . Saarländischer Rundfunk , February 11, 2018, accessed on February 12, 2018.
6. ↑ Saarland: Penal order against ex-Interior Minister Meiser . Spiegel Online , December 5, 2000, accessed February 10, 2018.
7. ↑ Thomas Gerber: Meiser driver also had a part-time job at LSVS . Saarländischer Rundfunk , February 2, 2018, accessed on February 10, 2018.
8. ↑ Michael Jungmann: Public prosecutor takes action against Meiser and Roth . Saarbrücker Zeitung , February 7, 2018, accessed on February 10, 2018.
9. ↑ Thomas Gerber: Further preliminary investigation against Klaus Meiser . Saarländischer Rundfunk , May 25, 2018, accessed on June 11, 2018.
10. ^ Caroline Uhl: LSVS trial: ex-President Meiser condemned . Saarländischer Rundfunk , March 7, 2019, accessed on March 8, 2019.
11. ↑ Members of the Presidium pay large amounts of money . Saarländischer Rundfunk , January 3, 2020, accessed on February 7, 2020.