Leif Blum

Leif Blum

Leif Blum (born January 8, 1975 in Darmstadt ) is a former German politician ( FDP ) and former city ​​councilor of Darmstadt as well as a former member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

In 1991/1992, Blum lived in Pittsburgh ( USA ) while visiting school . In 1994 he graduated from the Georg Büchner School in Darmstadt and studied law in Mainz and Saarbrücken from 1995 to 1999 . Between 2000 and 2002, Blum completed the legal preparatory service of the state of Hesse. After completing his legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in 2002. Since 2003 he has been working as a partner in an interprofessional tax consultancy in Ober-Ramstadt . At the end of 2011, discussions broke out about his various activities in addition to his membership in the state parliament, as Blum was accused of promoting private interests as part of his membership in the state parliament. Leif Blum is married.

politics

Blum has been a member of the FDP since 1999 and has been the district chairman of the FDP in Darmstadt since 2005 , as well as deputy chairman of the FDP district association in South Hesse-Starkenburg. Since the local elections in 2006 he has been a member of the Darmstadt City Council. In January 2007 he took over the chairmanship of the FDP city council group. Also since 2006 and again from 2011 he is a member of the FDP parliamentary group in the regional assembly of South Hesse. After the local elections on March 27, 2011 in Hesse, Blum is again a member of the city council as a city councilor.

In the state election on January 27, 2008, he ran in the constituency of Darmstadt-Stadt II and was elected to the state parliament via the state list. Leif Blum represented the parliamentary group as financial and legal policy spokesman in the budget and legal committee of the Hessian state parliament. In the new election to the Hessian state parliament on January 18, 2009, he was re-elected to the state parliament via the state list. Blum was parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament and financial policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group until he resigned both posts in March 2012 due to investigations into suspected tax evasion against him. Since February 11, 2010, Leif Blum has been chairman of the committee of inquiry to investigate the so-called tax investigator affair . Leif Blum has also suspended the chairmanship since December 9, 2011 due to investigations into suspected tax evasion against him and resigned it at the beginning of 2012.

For the following legislative period in Hesse, he announced that he would resign from his state parliament mandate, which he did in 2014. However, in 2014 he was re-elected chairman of the Darmstadt district association.

He is currently Head of Public Affairs & Government Relations in Munich.

Leif Blum has been the managing director of the FDP parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament since August 2018.

Investigations into tax evasion

According to the Darmstadt public prosecutor's office, Blum is suspected of having submitted false tax returns for several years as managing director of PDGaus Programmier- und Daten-Service GmbH in Ober-Ramstadt . Among other things, the company may have paid too little sales tax, according to the investigators. Services provided were not specified and tax billed, said the public prosecutor's office, which, according to its own statements, had searched Blum's private rooms and the offices of the Ober-Ramstadt-based company “without prior notice”.

On March 14, 2012, Blum therefore resigned from his position as parliamentary group leader of the FDP parliamentary group. He also resigned as the parliamentary group's tax and financial policy spokesman, but remains a member of the state parliament. The FDP Darmstadt had previously canceled a general meeting at which Blum wanted to be re-elected as district chairman. In the meantime, Blum has declared that he will not run for the Hessian state parliament again.

In March 2013, the main committee of the Hessian state parliament recommended that Blum's political immunity be lifted. On March 27, 2013, the public prosecutor's office filed an application with the Darmstadt District Court to warn Blum for tax evasion with punishment reserved. As a result, Blum was sentenced to a fine with reservation of punishment and a fine in the course of a criminal order for reducing taxes.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The business of Leif Blum , Frankfurter Rundschau of November 4, 2012
2. ↑ Leif Blum lets chairman rest  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Darmstädter Echo from December 9, 2011  
3. ↑ Steep ascent, rapid fall
4. ↑ Leif Blum is the managing director of the FDP / stumbled upon a tax affair in 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Search of Leif Blum's business premises ( memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Darmstädter Echo of March 13, 2012 
6. ↑ Leif Blum resigns , Frankfurter Rundschau of March 15, 2012
7. ^ FAZ, Blum withdraws , March 16, 2013, p. 50

Web links

• Homepage of Leif Blum
• Leif Blum on the pages of the FDP parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament
• Portrait of Leif Blum at the Darmstädter Echo