Lothar Schnitzler

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Lothar Schnitzler (2019)

Lothar Schnitzler (born May 24, 1947 in Saarbrücken ) is a German politician ( Pirate Party Germany , formerly Die Linke party ) and a former member of the Saarland state parliament . He was a member of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Saarbrücken city council. On February 5, 2019, it was announced that he had left the left and became a member of the Pirate Party.

Life and work

Lothar Schnitzler did an apprenticeship as a high-voltage electrician, after which he trained as a state-certified electrical engineer. After evening school, he completed a degree as a primary and secondary school teacher and followed up with a further degree as a psychologist . Since then he has been working as a child therapist, dyslexia trainer and communication consultant.

Party politics

In 2006 Lothar Schnitzler became a member of Die Linke . Before that, he was politically active in the SPD . He was elected to the state executive in his new party and was also spokesman for cultural policy.

In the state elections in Saarland in 2009 , Lothar Schnitzler was elected to the state parliament of Saarland. For his parliamentary group he was a cultural and senior policy spokesman . He was chairman of the Committee on Home Affairs and Data Protection and a member of the Committee on Education, Culture and the Media, the Committee on European Affairs and on issues relating to the Interregional Parliamentary Council and the Committee on Finance and Budgetary Affairs. With the early state parliament election on March 25, 2012 , he left the state parliament. He has been a member of Saarbrücken City Council since September 2014. He represents the Left parliamentary group in the finance and property committee and in the culture committee. He is the finance, transport and cultural policy spokesman for his group.

Change to the pirate party

On February 5, 2019, it became known that Lothar Schnitzler left the Left and became a member of the Pirate Party. He justified his step on the homepage of the Saarland Pirate Party by stating that the established parties had failed.

Political positions

Schnitzler advocates a consistent expansion of the welfare state . He is particularly critical of the changes in wage and labor market policy introduced by the Hartz reforms . He calls for a regulated labor market with full-time jobs that are remunerated in a collective agreement. He calls for a publicly financed labor market for the long-term unemployed. In order to create the necessary financial basis for an expansion of labor and social policy, Schnitzler considers tax increases (above all property, inheritance and financial transaction taxes) to be necessary. He is in favor of a minimum pension of 1,050 euros and proposes the introduction of the principle of citizens' insurance in the area of ​​pension insurance. All self-employed , civil servants and politicians should then also be subject to insurance . In education, he advocates the community school, in which all children up to the tenth grade are taught together. In his opinion, professional qualifications, especially master craftsman diplomas and technician qualifications, must entitle them to study.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk: Schnitzler switches from left to pirates. May 2, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .
  2. http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=sw&dig=2009/09/02/a0093&cHash=a9acb46ab4
  3. by Holger: Saarbrücken city councilor Lothar Schnitzler becomes a PIRATE member. In: Saarland Pirate Party. February 5, 2019, accessed on February 5, 2019 (German).