Markus Rinderspacher

Markus Rinderspacher (2014)

Markus Rinderspacher (born July 18, 1969 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German politician , former television journalist and a member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2008 . There he was from October 2009 to November 2018 SPD - party leader and thus leader of the opposition in Parliament. Since November 2018 he has been the 5th Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament and European policy spokesman for his group.

education and profession

Rinderspacher graduated from high school in 1988 and then trained as a banker from 1989 to 1991 . From 1991 to 1992 he completed further training in media marketing at the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing, and from 1991 to 1996 he studied political science , media law and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing his social science studies ( Magister Artium ), Rinderspacher started working as a television journalist in 1996, but gave up his profession after his election to the state parliament.

Rinderspacher is a Protestant and has one son. He is in a relationship with the mezzo-soprano Franziska Rabl .

politics

Rinderspacher, who has been a member of the SPD since 2002 , was the honorary press spokesman for the Munich SPD from 2005 to 2009. In the state elections in Bavaria in 2008 , he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for the first time in the constituency of Upper Bavaria via the SPD electoral list , but he missed the direct mandate in the Munich-Ramersdorf district . In the Landtag, he was initially a member of the Committee on Constitution, Law, Parliamentary Questions and Consumer Protection . On October 21, 2009 he succeeded Franz Maget as chairman of the parliamentary group. He held this office for nine years.

After the state election in Bavaria in 2018 , Rinderspacher moved back into the state parliament, but announced that he would not run again as parliamentary group chairman due to the poor election result of his party. Horst Arnold was elected as his successor on October 25, 2018 . In addition, Rinderspacher is a member of the council of elders.

Rinderspacher proposed in March 2020, the applicant loose absentee ballot perform well as in future Federal and state elections after because of COVID-19 pandemic in Germany the ballot to the local elections in Bavaria in 2020 had been held exclusively by absentee ballot. Against the background of increasing mobility, this is a “contemporary, citizen-friendly and sensible option”.

Parliamentary function

Rinderspacher was elected V Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament in November 2018 and has also been a member of the Council of Elders since then. He is a member of the Committee on Federal and European Affairs and Regional Relations and has been the European policy spokesman for his group since 2018.

Federal assemblies

Rinderspacher was a member of the federal assemblies for the election of the Federal President in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2017. In 2009, he said he supported SPD candidate Gesine Schwan with his vote , in the 2010 and 2012 elections Joachim Gauck , and in 2017 Frank-Walter Steinmeier .

Public offices and functions

From 2008 to 2010 and from 2013 to 2018, Rinderspacher was elected by the Bavarian State Parliament as a member of the Bavarian Media Council, the broadcasting supervisory body of the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM).

He is a member of the board of trustees of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing and the Bavarian People's Foundation , the Munich Forum for Islam (MFI) and the Georg von Vollmar Academy , member of the Board of Trustees of the Bavarian Football Association , political advisory board of the New Concert Hall Foundation Munich , member of the America House (Munich) advisory board and parliamentary advisory board of the Federal Association for eMobility .

Constitutional Lawsuits

Because of Rinderspacher's activities, the Bavarian State Government received a rebuke from the Constitutional Court in June 2011 . The BayernSPD parliamentary group wanted to see the so-called resonance studies and only got them when they went to court with a lawsuit. The Bavarian Constitutional Court finally ruled that the CSU-led state government should have informed parliament on request about the content of the studies. The opposition's right to information was fundamentally violated by the rejection of various types of information and the constitution was violated. The Bavarian Supreme Audit Office (ORH) had already sharply reprimanded the State Chancellery. She confused government and party interests in an inadmissible manner with the resonance studies.

In May 2014, Rinderspacher was again successful at the Bavarian Constitutional Court. The judges ruled that the questions submitted by the SPD on the so-called family affair within the Seehofer cabinet had to be answered.

In November 2016, the Bavarian Constitutional Court again granted Rinderspacher's complaint in full and declared the regulations on so-called referendums to be incompatible with the Bavarian constitution.

In December 2019, Rinderspacher achieved another partial success with his lawsuit against the Bavarian Integration Act, which he had brought two years earlier as chairman of the BayernSPD parliamentary group. The Bavarian Constitutional Court found individual provisions to be unconstitutional.

Evangelical regional synod

In the synodal period from 2014 to 2020, Rinderspacher was an appointed member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. The 108-member body is responsible for church legislation including the adoption of the budget. The regional synod is also responsible for electing the regional bishop. Rinderspacher was elected by the church parliament to the committee for education, upbringing and youth.

Sea rescue

In the summer of 2019 Rinderspacher was on the rescue ship Eleonore of the Dresden sea rescue organization Mission Lifeline . The ship recovered 102 shipwrecked people in distress and brought them to the Sicilian port of Pozzallo after days of resistance from the Italian government . Rinderspacher brought parliamentary motions for sea ​​rescue in the state parliament several times .

Honors

• 2017 Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver

Web links

Commons : Markus Rinderspacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The pictures from the red carpet in Bayreuth. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 25, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
2. ^ Page by Markus Rinderspacher in the Bavarian SPD parliamentary group
3. ↑ Markus Rinderspacher gives up the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group. In: welt.de. October 15, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 . 
4. ^ BR24: Arnold new SPD parliamentary group leader in Bavaria. October 25, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Mike Schier: Rinderspacher: Germany should completely switch to postal voting. Münchner Merkur, March 27, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Local elections: Will we soon only vote by postal vote? BR24, March 30, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Permanent abolition of polling stations? SPD politician with revolutionary proposal. tz, March 29, 2020, accessed on March 29, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Landtag Vice-President Rinderspacher only wants postal votes. BR24, March 29, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 . 
9. ↑ State Chancellery is subject to court. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. June 7, 2011, accessed June 7, 2011 . 
10. ^ Relatives affair : State government wants to answer. Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Non-binding referendums are unconstitutional. In: sueddeutsche.de. November 21, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2016 . 
12. ^ SPD: Constitutional lawsuit against the Integration Act. In: Passauer Neue Presse. Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Integration law of the CSU in Bavaria partly unconstitutional. In: zeit.de. December 3, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Sea rescue: Rinderspacher appeals to the state government. In: br.de. September 7, 2019, accessed September 7, 2019 . 
15. ↑ "We were scared to death on board". In: merkur.de. September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Application: Make sea rescue possible: EU distribution mechanism for refugees now! In: bayern.landtag.de. September 24, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 . 
17. ^ Motion: Sea rescue is not a crime. In: bayern.landtag.de. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Barbara Stamm awards citizens with constitutional medals.