Lars-Jörn Zimmer

Lars-Jörn Zimmer (2018)

Lars-Jörn Zimmer (born October 4, 1970 in Brehna ) is a German CDU politician .

Life

After high school and military service, Zimmer completed a degree in business administration at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Bernburg , which he completed in 1995 with a degree in business administration . He then worked for several years at the city of Wolfen's economic development agency .

Zimmer is chairman of the Saxony-Anhalt tourism association. He is Roman Catholic , married and has two sons.

politics

In 1994 Zimmer joined the CDU. Since November 22nd, 2008 he has been an assessor in the state executive committee of the CDU of Saxony-Anhalt.

Since 2002 he has been a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt with a short break . He won the direct mandate in what was then constituency 31 (Bitterfeld) . In 2006 and 2011 the re-election took place with 39.7% and 37.7% respectively. He was a member of the Committee on Economics and Labor. In 2016, however, he lost to Volker Olenicak from the AfD in the fight for the direct mandate ; as his list position was also insufficient to move in, he left the state parliament. On May 17, 2016, however, he replaced Edwina Koch-Kupfer in the state parliament. Zimmer has been deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt since 2018.

Controversy

Together with the deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, Ulrich Thomas , Zimmer wrote a memorandum published after the 2019 European elections , according to which the voters of the CDU and AfD have similar goals. The CDU had not adequately countered “multicultural currents of left parties and groups”. In order to regain strength, it must be possible to “reconcile the social with the national”. The two also asked their party not to rule out coalitions with the AfD in principle.

The interior minister of Saxony-Anhalt and CDU state chairman Holger Stahlknecht, on the other hand, considered opening up to the AfD to be wrong and warned against “shifting the CDU to the right”. CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak also rejected Thomas and Zimmer's initiative and referred to the current resolution of the CDU party congress after alliances between the CDU and AfD have been excluded.

During the government crisis in Thuringia, which was noticed throughout Germany in 2020, after the resignation of the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich , elected by AfD votes for the Thuringian Prime Minister , Zimmer repeated his call for cooperation with the AfD. He told ZDF - Magazin Berlin directly that a CDU minority government tolerated by the AfD was conceivable for him. Eight days later, after a conversation with the executive CDU state executive, he had to suspend his function in the state executive of his party because of the controversial statements in order to avert further damage to the party.

literature

• State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, 5th electoral period 2006–2011, people's handbook. 2nd edition, Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-87576-602-8

Web links

Commons : Lars-Jörn Zimmer  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of Lars-Jörn Zimmer

Individual evidence

1. ^ State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, information from May 20, 2016, printed matter 7/43
2. ↑ Lars-Jörn Zimmer. Accessed June 20, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt: CDU politicians call for a debate on coalitions with AfD. www.zeit.de, June 20, 2019
4. ↑ Hagen Eichler: Flirting with the AfD: High-ranking CDU officials consider coalition to be conceivable. June 20, 2019, accessed June 20, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ CDU Secretary General: Ziemiak excludes any cooperation with AfD . In: Spiegel Online . June 20, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 20, 2019]).
6. ^ Gert Glowinski: parliamentary group vice- president of the CDU for AfD tolerance. In: Volksstimme . February 9, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Approaching the AfD? In: MDR . February 10, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ CDU politician leaves board post after a statement to the AfD. In: The world . February 16, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 .