Maria-Elisabeth Grosse

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Maria-Elisabeth Grosse (born June 28, 1955 ) is a German lawyer and politician (non-party, formerly FDP ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Grosse studied economics from 1975 to 1979 at the Martin Luther University in Halle and from 1982 to 1986 law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She was subsequently admitted to the bar. In 1990 she founded the law firm Grosse & Grosse in Weimar , for which she still works today (2009).

politics

Grosse joined the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and was elected to the Thuringian state parliament in 1990, to which she was a member until 1994. She then switched to local politics in Weimar, was elected chairman of the FDP district association in Weimar in 2003 and ran for the office of mayor in 2006. Previously, in the local elections in 2004, her entry into the city council failed because of the five percent hurdle , whereupon she filed a lawsuit against this. In response to their lawsuit, on April 11, 2008, the five percent threshold clause in local elections was declared unlawful by the Thuringian Constitutional Court . In response to Thomas Kemmerich's election as Thuringian Prime Minister , she resigned from the FDP on February 6, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judgment of the Thuringian Constitutional Court of April 11, 2008, VerfGH 22/05
  2. ↑ Matthias Meisner: "A collaboration of @fdp with the #AfD of Björn Höcke contradicts my ethos of freedom and liberalism" - Maria-Elisabeth Grosse, @ FDPFraktionTH member from 1990 to 1994, declares her departure from the party. #MPWahl # Thuringiapic.twitter.com/cXUOVVK8FS. In: @MatthiasMeisner. February 6, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200207104917/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQF5_BMX0AALCJW?format=png&name=900x900
personal data
SURNAME Grosse, Maria-Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1955