Mario Voigt
Mario Voigt (born February 8, 1977 in Jena ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been a member of the Thuringian state parliament since 2009 , in which he has been the parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democratic parliamentary group since March 2020. In addition, since 2014 he has been one of three deputy state chairmen of the CDU Thuringia . Since 2017 he has been teaching as professor for digital transformation and politics at the private university of applied sciences Quadriga Hochschule Berlin .
education and profession
Voigt obtained his Abitur in 1995 at the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium Jena . From 1995 to 1996 he did his community service at the Friedrich Schiller University Hospital in Jena. He then studied political science , public law and modern history from 1997 to 2003 at the universities of Jena , Bonn and Charlottesville (USA) . He received his doctorate in 2008 as Dr. phil. in political science at the TU Chemnitz with Eckhard Jesse . Voigt received a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .
Voigt worked for the political representative office of Siemens in Brussels, the political planning department of the CDU in Berlin and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Washington. In 2004 he spent several months as an election observer in the USA for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. At the end of 2007 he took over as head of corporate communications and investor relations for the Jena-based company Analytik Jena AG . He finished this activity at the end of 2009. As a strategy consultant for the McCann-Erickson advertising agency , Voigt took part in Angela Merkel's federal election campaign in 2005. Since then he has been involved in public affairs campaigns from the local to the international level in the areas of mobilization and digital election campaigns. In the 2017 federal election campaign, he was a strategy consultant for mobilization for the CDU.
In 2017 Voigt was hired as a professor for digital transformation and politics at Quadriga Hochschule Berlin GmbH.
Party career
In 1994 Voigt became a member of the Junge Union and the CDU . From 1999 to 2000 he was the first East German federal chairman of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) . He has been a member of the district board since 2000 and has been deputy district chairman of the CDU Saale-Holzland district since 2008. He has been a member of the Saale-Holzland district council since 2004 and was parliamentary group chairman from 2009 to June 2011. From 2002 to 2009 he was a deputy member of the board of the European People's Party (EPP) . In 2004 he was a candidate for the European elections in Thuringia. From 2005 to 2010 he was state chairman of the Young Union of Thuringia. He has been a member of the Thuringian state parliament since 2009. In the 2009-2014 legislature, he was chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture and a member of the Budget and Finance Committee. Voigt has been the parliamentary group spokesman for business, science and digitization and a member of the energy and environmental committee since 2014.
Voigt was nominated General Secretary of the CDU Thuringia by the state executive of his party on May 20, 2010 and was confirmed in office on November 13, 2010 with 79.0% and on November 10, 2012 with 65.5% at state party conferences. In connection with this appointment, he resigned as JU state chairman in July 2010; Stefan Gruhner was elected as his successor in this position in September 2010 . At the CDU state party conference on December 13, 2014, Voigt was elected one of three deputy state chairmen of the Thuringian CDU. The office of General Secretary, which he had previously held, was not filled again.
Member of Parliament
Voigt ran in the state elections in Thuringia 2009 as a direct applicant of the CDU in the constituency of Saale-Holzland-Kreis II . He entered the Thuringian state parliament for the first time with 36.9% of the vote . In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 , he maintained his direct mandate with 41.2%, also in 2019 with 34.1%.
Mike Mohring gave up his parliamentary group chairmanship due to the government crisis in Thuringia in 2020 . As a result, Voigt was elected by the members of the CDU parliamentary group in Thuringia on March 2, 2020 with 15 out of 21 votes as the new parliamentary group chairman.
controversy
In connection with the election campaign for the 2009 state elections, he has come under fire as JU state chairman because of his “Stop Ramelow” campaign. The concern of the Junge Union Thüringen was to take up the dispute with Bodo Ramelow and the Left Party and to make targeted contrasting political advertising. Elements of the campaign were an internet blog, numerous print products (postcards, stickers, etc.) to be distributed and a poster campaign. Another important element of the campaign was the targeted “accompaniment” of Ramelow's campaign appearances. Here, however, the members of the Junge Union wanted to appear in "civil" fashion, so that the actions would not be associated with the CDU or TEAM THÜRINGEN. In the course of this campaign, the Young Union of Thuringia was forbidden from making allegations that Ramelow had claimed that the GDR was not an injustice state and that he wanted to reintroduce the GDR districts and abolish the grammar schools. These election campaign methods became public through the publication of a corresponding circular on the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks .
Memberships and honorary positions
Voigt is a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Center for Political Education Thuringia. He chairs the addiction support foundation Wendpunkt Alternative . He is still a member of the federal board of the Ring of Christian Democratic Academics . He is editor and member of the advisory board of the political magazine Civis mit Sonde .
Publications
- Political consulting as a profession , with Florian Busch-Janser and Sandra Gerding, polisphere, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 978-3938456019 .
- The American presidential campaign. George W. Bush versus John F. Kerry (Volume 9 of the Scientific Writings Series: Politics ), polisphere, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938456-28-6 (dissertation).
- The American presidential election 2016 , with Andrea Römmele and Ralf Güldenzopf, special issue of the magazine for political advice , Berlin, 2017.
Web links
- Short biography . Thuringian Parliament.
- Own homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ quadriga-hochschule.com: Vita , accessed on August 4, 2017
- ↑ Mario Voigt new chairman of the CDU parliamentary group , press release of the Thuringian CDU parliamentary group from March 2, 2020
- ^ "Berliner Morgenpost: Berlin court stops anti-Ramelow campaign" August 5, 2009
- ↑ Network policy: Young Union dirty campaign at Wikileaks
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voigt, Mario |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |