Knut Korschewsky

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Knut Korschewsky, May 2011

Knut Korschewsky (born December 21, 1960 in Seehausen (Altmark) ) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . He has been a member of the Thuringian state parliament since 2009 and was state chairman of his party in Thuringia from 2006 to 2013 .

Career

Korschewsky became a member of the SED in 1979 . He is a precision technician and initially worked as a lathe operator, then until 1985 as a grinder in the Suhl precision measuring equipment factory , an external location of Carl Zeiss , and then became a scientific employee of the operations director. In 1988/89 he attended the district party school in Schleusingen and then worked in the FDJ district leadership in Suhl until 1990 .

After German reunification, he worked briefly in 1990/91 for the PDS city ​​council in Suhl; In 1992 he became a member of the PDS regional board and finally in November 2002 PDS regional manager. On March 4, 2006, he was elected regional chairman of the Linkspartei.PDS after the long-time chairman Dieter Hausold no longer stood.

In July 2007, Korschewsky was elected as state chairman of Die Linke with 78 percent at the unification party conference with the WASG in Gotha. After the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 , he received 55.8 percent of the delegate's votes at the end of November when he was re-elected as state chairman at the state party conference in Schleiz. His surprising opponent Stanislav Sedlacik received 34.9 percent.

In an interview on February 27, 2009 with the Thüringische Landeszeitung , he said: "For me there was no such thing as an injustice state.

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 , he ran for position 4 on the state list of his party and was thus elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the first time . He is the sports and tourism policy spokesman for his parliamentary group and represents the constituency of Sonneberg. In 2014 and 2019 he made the leap into the state parliament via the state list.

For the 2013 federal election , he ran in the Bundestag constituency of Sonneberg - Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - Saale-Orla-Kreis as a direct candidate, receiving 26.4% of the vote. At the state convention of his party in November 2013, he no longer ran for state chairman; his successor was Susanne Hennig .

Web links

Commons : Knut Korschewsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronology of the regional association of the PDS, the Linkspartei.PDS and DIE LINKE.Thüringen 1990 - 2018. (PDF) September 22, 2018, p. 51f. , accessed November 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Korschewsky remains head of the left country despite the dampers. In: Free Word. November 28, 2009, archived from the original on January 2, 2010 ; accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ THE MÜNCHHAUSEN TEST . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2009 ( online - Mar. 2, 2009 ).
personal data
SURNAME Korschewsky, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Seehausen (Altmark)