Klaus Zeh

Klaus Zeh, 2011

Klaus Zeh (born November 16, 1952 in Leipzig ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

He was Finance Minister from 1990 to 1994 and Minister for Social Affairs, Family and Health of the Free State of Thuringia from 2003 to 2008 . From May 8, 2008 to November 4, 2009 he was Thuringian Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Head of the State Chancellery. From July 2012 to May 2017, Klaus Zeh was Lord Mayor of the city of Nordhausen .

Life and work

Zeh was born the son of an industrial foreman and a flower maker. His parents, displaced from the Eastern Territories , raised him in the Catholic faith. After graduating from high school in 1971, Zeh studied information technology at the TU Dresden , which he finished in 1975. He then worked as a lecturer at VEB Robotron in Leipzig until 1978 . In 1978/79 he completed an additional course in engineering education and then worked until 1982 as a design engineer for microchips at the Funkwerk Erfurt . He then worked as a problem analyst at microelektronik erfurt until 1990 . From 1985 to 1989 he was also an unscheduled aspirant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Dresden . In 1990 he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD . Zeh has been President of the German Family Association since June 2011 .

Klaus Zeh has been married since 1976 and has two children. He lives in Nordhausen.

Political party

In 1990 Zeh became a member of the Democratic Awakening , its deputy chairman in the GDR and chairman of the DA regional association in Thuringia. Since the merger of the Democratic Awakening with the CDU, he has been a member of the CDU state executive in Thuringia and was deputy state chairman of the CDU from 1990 to 1992 and from 2012 to 2014. From 1993 to 2015 he was also chairman of the CDU district association in Nordhausen . From 1996 to 2000 he was also state treasurer and from 2001 to 2003 state manager of the Thuringian CDU.

MP

He had been a member of the Thuringian state parliament since 1990 . Here he was financial policy spokesman from 1999 to 2001 and deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 1999 to 2003. Since November 4, 2009, Klaus Zeh has been deputy chairman and media policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament.

Public offices

From 1990 to 1994 he was a finance minister in the state government of the Free State of Thuringia led by Prime Minister Josef Duchac and, from 1992, Bernhard Vogel .

Zeh has been a member of the Nordhausen City Council since 1999 and chaired it from 2010 to 2012.

In June 2003 he was appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Family and Health to the state government headed by Prime Minister Dieter Althaus . After a cabinet reshuffle, which was announced on April 23, 2008 and carried out on May 8, Zeh was head of the State Chancellery and Thuringian Minister for Federal and European Affairs; Christine Lieberknecht became the new Minister of Social Affairs .

After Birgit Diezel was elected President of the 5th Thuringian Parliament, Zeh took over as managing director of the Ministry of Finance on September 29, 2009. In the Lieberknecht coalition cabinet formed after the state elections in 2009 , Zeh was not considered again as a minister.

On May 6, 2012, Zeh won the runoff election against Matthias Jendricke ( SPD ) for the position of Lord Mayor of Nordhausen , which he had assumed on July 1, 2012 (successor to Barbara Rinke ). On March 8, 2017, he announced his resignation for health reasons and resigned from office on May 18. Until the election of Mayor Kai Buchmann (non-party), the councilor Jutta Krauth (SPD) was in charge of official affairs.

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Zeh, Klaus . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Bodo Schwarzberg: Dr.-Ing. Klaus Zeh , in: Images of People from the Harz and Kyffhäuser Region (Volume 1), Schwarzberg, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036495-2 , pp. 1168–1177.
• Wolfgang Büscher : 1985: Leipzig - a youth in the waiting room , in: Eight German Summers (with Christine Kensche and Uwe Schmitt). Rowohlt Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-835-8 , pp. 105–124.

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Klaus Zeh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Zeh's website
• Chronicle-biography: Klaus Zeh . In: Chronicle of the turning point
• Klaus Zeh in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Zeh: Mit den Menschen , FAZ , June 10, 2003.
2. ↑ CDU district leader Klaus Zeh gives chairmanship , Thüringer Allgemeine , September 3, 2015.
3. ↑ Althaus announces cabinet reshuffle. ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , thueringen.de , April 23, 2008. 
4. ↑ Althaus exchanges six ministers. , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 23, 2008.
5. ↑ Lord Mayor Klaus Zeh declares his resignation ( memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , MDR , March 8, 2017. 
6. ↑ Last working day: The mayor of Nordhausen, Klaus Zeh, says goodbye from the town hall ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , MDR , May 18, 2017.