Lothar Klein

Lothar Klein (born May 15, 1956 in Dresden ) is a German politician ( DSU / CDU ). In 1990 he was a member of the last People's Chamber of the GDR and has been a member of the Dresden City Council since 2004.

Life

After training as an electronics technician and completing basic military service, he worked as an electronics technician at the VEB Research Center for Microelectronics Dresden from 1976 to 1990 . According to his own statements, Klein, who came from a Christian family, was not allowed to attend an extended high school and thus the opportunity to study for political reasons.

In the course of the political change in the GDR , Klein began to get involved politically until then. He was one of the founding members of the German Social Union (DSU) founded in Leipzig in January 1990. In March he was elected managing director of what was then the DSU district association of Dresden and in this role stood as a DSU candidate for the Volkskammer election on March 18, 1990 in the Dresden electoral district (03) on the list. Since the DSU in the Dresden constituency was able to achieve the second-best result of all electoral districts with 13.8%, the DSU provided 6 members from this constituency alone, so that Klein received a mandate in the last parliament of the GDR, to which he belonged until its dissolution.

After the establishment of the federal state of Saxony, Klein headed the DSU district association Dresden-Land and was a member of the DSU federal executive committee for some time from July 1991. Professionally, Klein initially found a job in the Dresden branch of the Gauck authority until June , after which, after training as an editor, he worked as a freelance speaker until 2000. In June 1991 Klein was the only DSU representative in the function of a substitute applicant for Gotthard Voigt at the suggestion of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag as an observer to the parliamentary group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament , where he regularly attended meetings of the European Parliament until 1994 participated. After the break with the CSU at the 5th Federal Party Congress of the DSU in April 1993, Klein switched to the CDU because he saw no political agreement with the newly elected DSU chairman Roberto Rink .

In 2001, Klein got a job as an employee of the Bautzner Strasse Memorial in Dresden . In 2009, after a vacancy, he was temporarily acting chairman of the Friends' Association of the memorial until 2010, the former Lord Mayor of Dresden Herbert Wagner (CDU) was elected as the new chairman. In the CDU, Klein initially got involved in his home town of Weixdorf . Since 1996 he has been a member of the Saxon Union's "Security and Law" regional committee . In 2004 Klein was elected to the Dresden City Council for the first time, and in 2009 and 2014 he succeeded in entering the Dresden City Parliament again. There he was security policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group and a member of various city council committees. In 2019 he resigned from the city council.

Lothar Klein works for the Saxon Memorials Foundation to commemorate the victims of political tyranny .

Web links

• Biography of Lothar Klein . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)
• Lothar Klein on the side of the CDU parliamentary group in the city council of the state capital Dresden.
• Employee of the Saxon Memorials Foundation