Lars Harms (politician)

Lars Harms (2016)

Lars Harms (born November 8, 1964 in Husum ) is a German politician . He is chairman of the SSW in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament .

Life and work

After completing his technical college entrance qualification in Husum in 1983, Harms did his military service , worked in banking, tax consulting and retail from 1983 to 1985 and then began studying business administration in Kiel and Koblenz in 1985 , which he completed in 1989 with a degree in business administration . From 1985 to 1989 he worked at the post office while studying. He then headed the tourist information office in Heide from 1989 to 2000 .

Harms has been a volunteer on the board of Friisk Foriining and on the advisory board of the Nordfriisk Instituut in Bredstedt since 1994 . He is also a member of the cultural association of the Danish minority ( Sydslesvigsk Forening ), the Frisian youth association Rökefloose (German: "Rabenschar"), the Feriin Nordfriisk Teooter (German: Verein Nordfriesisches Theater), the Feriin Nordfriisk Instituut (German: Verein Nordfriesisches Institut) and in the housing cooperative Maro Temm of the Sinti and Roma minority in Germany.

Lars Harms is non-denominational, has six children and lives in Husum.

Political party

Harms is a member of the South Schleswig voter association and was chairman of the SSW district association of North Friesland from 2007 to 2019. Before that, he was a board member of the SSW in Friedrichstadt from 1993 to 1996 and chairman of the local association of Koldenbüttel from 1997 to 2007. In the SSW - according to Schleswig-Holstein's electoral law, the party of the Danish minority - the Frisian national stream of the Frisian ethnic group is also politically organized, to which Harms belongs. Harms is the third chairman of the cultural association of the national Frisians, the Friisk Foriining .

MP

Harms began his political work from 1994 to 1996 as a civil committee member in Friedrichstadt and from 1994 to 1998 as a civil committee member in the district of North Friesland . From 1998 to 2000 Harms belonged to the district council of the district of North Friesland and was chairman of the SSW parliamentary group. From 1998 to the end of 2007 he was a member of the community council of his then place of residence Koldenbüttel .

Since 2000 Harms has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament for the SSW exempt from the five percent hurdle . Until 2009 he was deputy chairman of the SSW group, which at that time consisted of two or three members. After the SSW regained parliamentary group status in 2009 for the first time after the state elections in 1950 with four members , Harms was elected parliamentary manager of the SSW parliamentary group. Since June 2012 he has been chairman of the SSW group in the state parliament, which now consists of three members and was part of the coalition of the SPD , the Greens and the SSW ( Danes traffic light ) from 2012 to 2017 .

In the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament, Harms is a member of the council of elders , the interior and legal committee, the finance committee, the sub-committee of the finance committee for corporate investments of the state, the parliamentary control committee, the parliamentary unification committee, the first parliamentary investigation committee and the budget audit working group, the committee for questions the Frisian ethnic group, the Low German Advisory Board, the committee for issues relating to the minority of the German Sinti and Roma and the data protection committee. He was also a member of the Special Committee on Constitutional Reform, which completed its work in 2014. He is also a member of the state planning council.

He was the initiator of the Schleswig-Holstein Tariftreuegesetz and the Friisk Gesäts to promote the Frisian minority, which the state parliament adopted on November 11, 2004.

In 2017 he was a member of the 16th Federal Assembly and elected Frank-Walter Steinmeier on behalf of SSW . On May 8, 2020, he was also elected to the Board of Trustees of the Friesenstiftung by the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament.

Harms always entered the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament via the state list .

Web links

Commons : Lars Harms  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lars Harms (politician) in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
• The members of the SSW: Lars Harms. In: SSW in the state parliament. SSW Landesverband, accessed on March 29, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ The MPs of the SSW. In: SSW in the state parliament. SSW Landesverband, accessed on December 21, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ssw-landtag.de ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Harms appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Friesenstiftung. Retrieved June 29, 2020 (fy-FY).