Marion Walsmann

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Marion Erika Walsmann (born March 17, 1963 in Erfurt as Marion Erika Schau ) is a German politician ( CDU-Ost , CDU ). She was a member of the People's Chamber from 1986 to 1990 and a member of the Thuringian Parliament from 2004 to 2018 . She was also Minister of Justice from May 2008 to November 2009, Minister of Finance from November 2009 to December 2010 and Minister for Federal and European Affairs of Thuringia from December 2010 to September 2013 and Head of the State Chancellery . In the 2019 European elections , Walsmann was elected to the European Parliament as the top candidate of the CDU Thuringia .

biography

Walsmann grew up in Bischleben . After graduating from the Heinrich-Mann-Oberschule , she studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1981 to 1985 , then returned to Erfurt and initially worked as a lawyer for VEB Robotron-Vertrieb . In 1986 she moved to the Erfurt municipal building authority as a legal advisor. In 1990 she was briefly head of the legal office of the city of Erfurt, but in the same year after the re-establishment of the state of Thuringia, she was in charge of building up the Thuringian Ministry of Justice. She later held various functions within the ministry, including head of the constitutional law department. Most recently she was deputy head of department and head of the HR department in the penal system.

Walsmann is Protestant, married and has two children.

politics

At the turning point

In the GDR Walsmann exercised his first political mandate. From 1986 to 1990 she was a member of the CDU parliamentary group of the People's Chamber . Various media reported that, as a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR, in 1989 she approved a resolution justifying the massacre on Beijing's Tiananmen Square . In fact, there was a speech by SED MP Ernst Timm , in which he declared the solidarity of the People's Chamber with the Beijing leadership to applause. Walsmann emphasizes that this declaration was not voted on in the People's Chamber. This was only suggested by a report by the GDR news program Current Camera , in which Timm's statement was quoted and at the same time it was overlaid with the image of MPs during a vote, which created the false impression of a coordinated resolution.

During the political change in 1989 Walsmann was one of the representatives of the CDU of the GDR at the Central Round Table and a member of the Political Advisory Committee in Erfurt to prepare the state of Thuringia. Joachim Linck describes Walsmann's memories of this period of construction as “transfigured” and, in the interpretation of their influence, as “rather unrealistic overestimation”.

After reunification

After reunification, she was elected chairman of the state working group for Christian-Democratic Lawyers in Thuringia in 1990. In 1995 she took over the district chairmanship of the CDU Erfurt; in this function she was repeatedly confirmed, most recently in December 2013. In the state election on June 13, 2004 , she won the Erfurt III constituency and entered the Thuringian state parliament for the first time. In the state elections in 2009 , she lost her direct mandate, as she was narrowly defeated by the top candidate of the Left Party, Bodo Ramelow (26.8 percent), with 26.6 percent of the first votes , but moved back into parliament via the state list . In 2014 she won back the direct mandate with 33.8 percent against Ramelow (31.5 percent).

Ministerial Office 2009 to 2013

In May 2008, Walsmann became Minister of Justice under Dieter Althaus as part of a cabinet reshuffle , replacing Harald Schliemann, who was leaving due to illness . After the state elections in 2009, she became finance minister in the Lieberknecht cabinet in November . On December 8, 2010, she took over the management of the State Chancellery as part of a cabinet reshuffle. On September 24, 2013, she was dismissed as a minister. According to MDR, Prime Minister Lieberknecht was "apparently" dissatisfied with her work and had doubts about her loyalty; Lieberknecht denied the latter. When they left the state government, all the heads of the state chancelleries in the New States were West Germans.

Since 2013

In the course of the local elections in Thuringia in 2018 , Walsmann was a candidate for the mayor of Erfurt. With 21.9% of the votes in the first ballot she qualified for the runoff election and was defeated by the incumbent Andreas Bausewein with 41.5% of the votes .

European Parliament

For the 2019 European elections , she was the top candidate of the CDU Thuringia . She made it into the European Parliament in 22nd place of the 23 elected CDU MPs . She has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2, 2019 . There she belongs to the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats). She is the deputy chairperson of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) and the delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee. In the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Marion Walsmann is a full member.

Volunteering

Marion Walsmann has been chairwoman of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund regional association for Central Thuringia since 2002 . As chairwoman of the Thuringian regional association Weißer Ring , she is committed to victims of crime and violence. She has been a member of the Europa-Union Thüringen since 2010 and took over the chairmanship of the Foundation Council of the Evangelical Academy Thuringia in 2015.

Web links

Commons : Marion Walsmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See her self-view: Marin Walsmann: Memories of the school days from 1977 to 1981. In: Tom Fleischhauer (Hrsg.): Heinrich-Mann-Gymnasium Erfurt, State High School "Zur Himmelspforte". A commemorative publication for the 175th anniversary with school history (s) from three centuries. Tom Fleischhauer, Erfurt 2019, pp. 292–295.
  2. ↑ Withdrawal before taking office. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 6, 2008; Veit Medick : The recorder doesn't care about the old days. In: taz , April 28, 2008; Michael Bartsch : Old house alone at home. In: taz , May 6, 2008.
  3. ^ Julia Weber: Suppression of the protest movement on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 1989. In: German Broadcasting Archive .
  4. ↑ Walsmann carries the symbolic Germany flag at the Erfurt demo. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , November 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ Question and answer on work for the Block CDU. Parliamentary Watch, accessed November 12, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Joachim Linck: How a state parliament learned to walk. Memories of a West German construction worker in Thuringia. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20468-6 , p. 235, note 1.
  7. ↑ State election 2014 - results. In: Erfurt.de .
  8. ↑ Alexander Del Regno: Christine Lieberknecht lets her cabinet rotate vigorously. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , December 9, 2010.
  9. ^ MDR Thuringia - State Chancellery boss Walsmann dismissed. ( Memento from October 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Markus Decker: Second home. West Germans in the East. 2nd, revised edition. Ch.links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-798-4 , p. 19.
  11. ↑ Strengthen the cohesion of Europe and confidently represent Thuringian interests. In: CDU-thueringen.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Walsmann makes a leap into the European Parliament for the CDU. In: Welt Online , May 27, 2019.
  13. ↑ Super User: Board of Directors - ASB Erfurt - Regionalverband Mittelthüringen e. V. Accessed on November 26, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Thuringia. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  15. ^ Evangelical Academy of Thuringia ›Academy› Foundation. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Walsmann, Marion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walsmann, Marion Erika (full name); Look, Marion Erika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU-Ost, CDU), MdV, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt