Marino Freistedt

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Marino Freistedt at the CDU party conference, June 2011

Marino Freistedt (born March 26, 1954 in Watford , Great Britain ) is a German politician ( CDU ) in Hamburg .

Life

Freistedt is the son of a Protestant woman from Königsberg and an Indian. At the age of four he was accepted as a child by the Catholic Aachen clergyman Heinrich Freistedt (1903–1986, long-time director of the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius ).

After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen in 1974, Freistedt studied English and history . From 1983 to 1991 he was a teacher at the Catholic high school Collegium Josephinum Bonn and advisor to the school inspectorate in the diocese of Aachen . From 1998 to 2004 he was senior director of studies at the Sankt-Ansgar-Schule (Catholic high school in Hamburg). He then became a senior school councilor at the Association of Roman Catholic Churches with a focus on quality assurance in the Catholic school system in Hamburg. For several years, Marino Freistedt also taught history, English and politics at the Catholic Franz von Assisi School in Hamburg-Barmbek and at the Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Harburg. Since 2011 he has also been working as a school inspector for Catholic schools that have joined the "Joint Catholic School Inspection" (GKSI). In the GKSI school inspectors work together on behalf of various Catholic school departments in the dioceses of Dresden-Meißen, Erfurt and Magdeburg as well as the Bernostiftung from Schwerin and the Catholic School Association in Hamburg. For several years he was editor of the series “Quality Management and Evaluation in Schools” published by Forum-Verlag Herkert (Merching). Marino Freistedt was at times the only member of parliament with some Indian roots in a German state parliament. Freistedt is married and has three children.

politics

Freistedt has been a member of the CDU since 1982. From 1989 to 1997 he was a member of the City Council of Aachen and for four years deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. There he was also a colleague of the later Minister of Integration and NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet . After moving to Hamburg, he was a CDU deputy in the Hamburg school authorities from 1998 to 2004. He is a member of the board of directors of the local CDU association in Alstertal and, together with Manfred Schwarz, heads the “Education” regional committee in the Hamburg CDU regional association. From 2004 to 2011 he was a member of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . As a member of the state parliament , he was a member of the school, social and scientific committees in the 18th electoral term (2004 to 2008). In addition, he was a member of the “School Development” Commission of Inquiry , the Special Committee “Neglected Children” and the Parliamentary Inquiry CommitteeClosed Accommodation on Feuerbergstrasse”. In February 2008, he was in the state election on the constituency Alstertal Walddörfer move again as a deputy in the Hamburg Parliament. For his parliamentary group , he sat again in the 2008 to 2011 election period in the school and science committee and in the parliamentary committee of inquiry into HSH-Nordbank. He was also the specialist spokesman for his parliamentary group in the fields of education and schools. With the early elections for the Hamburg citizenship in February 2011, Freistedt left the citizenship and has been a member of the Hamburg Debt Committee since May 2011. Marino Freistedt is a member of the board of directors of the CDU-Alstertal and, from December 2011, succeeded the CDU state chairman and member of the Bundestag, Marcus Weinberg, as the new chairman of the "Jürgen Echternach Foundation for Education and Democracy". In February 2014 he gave up this voluntary work. Successor as chairman of the Jürgen Echternach Foundation was the former CDU member of parliament Wolfgang Beuss .

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