Markus Sackmann

Markus Sackmann (2013)

Markus Sackmann (born March 1, 1961 in Roding ; † September 4, 2015 there ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CSU ). From 1990 to 2013 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the Cham constituency . From 1991 until his death he was a member of the CSU party executive. From 2007 to 2008 he was State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and from 2008 to 2013 in the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs . There he was particularly committed to strengthening voluntary work.

Professional and political career

After Roding elementary school, Sackmann attended the humanistic-modern language Robert-Schuman-Gymnasium in Cham and graduated from high school in 1981. He did basic military service with the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 4 in Roding, then was a regular soldier and lastly first lieutenant . He completed his law and political science studies at the University of Regensburg in 1989 with the state examination in law. From May 1990 he was a city councilor in Roding and a district councilor in the Cham district . In 1990 he became a member of the state parliament for the first time in the district of Cham ( constituency of Upper Palatinate ), and in 1991 a member of the CSU party executive. From 1991 to 1995 he was state chairman of the Junge Union Bayern.

In 1993 he became chairman of the CSU district association of Cham, and in 1995 he was deputy chairman of the CSU district association of Upper Palatinate . In the course of the investigation into Sackmann's parliamentary group colleague Hans Wallner , Sackmann's private use of the state parliament's office telephones came to light in 1997. He immediately paid around 600 DM for their non-official use. From 2003 to 2007 he was deputy chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament. From 2005 to 2007 he was treasurer of the CSU parliamentary group, from 2007 to 2008 State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology and Chairman of the State Secretary Committee “Rural Areas in Bavaria”.

On October 30, 2008, Sackmann became State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women . There Sackmann campaigned, among other things, for strengthening volunteer work and initiated the introduction of the Bavarian volunteer card . He gathered the key players in voluntary work in Bavaria at the “Round Table for Citizenship Commitment”, which under his leadership formulated a policy paper with recommendations for the future of voluntary work, which was approved by the state government in 2011. In 2014, the Bavarian volunteer card was awarded for the 50,000th time in a ceremony in the Bavarian State Parliament.

At the beginning of April 2013, Sackmann announced that he would no longer run for the Bavarian state elections in 2013 due to illness . In July 2013 he was re-elected as district chairman of the CSU in the Cham district. He was also re-elected to the CSU executive committee in December 2013 with the best result in the assessor elections. In the municipal elections in 2014, Sackmann was re-elected to the Rodingen city council and the district council of the Cham district.

Private

Sackmann was married and had two children. His father was the former Bavarian State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Franz Sackmann . In the summer of 2012 he was diagnosed with three brain tumors. On September 4, 2015, he died of cancer in Rodingen Hospital .

Honorary positions

• Chairman of the Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate District Association in the Bavarian Red Cross
• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Kolping Educational Institute in Regensburg
• Chairman of the Bavarian Working Group on Democratic Circles (since 1999, his father had been his predecessor since 1960)
• Vice President of the Bavarian Red Cross (1999 to 2005)
• Honorary ambassador for the Bavarian State Government

Awards

• Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver (2006)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (2010)
• Circle of honor in gold of the district of Cham (2013)
• Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Gold (2013)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2014)

Web links

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

• Website by Markus Sackmann
• Biography on the Landtag website
• Birgit Kruse: Hard-working quiet step . Southgerman newspaper. May 17, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Periscope: Great Groan Coalition . Focus Online. December 19, 1998. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
2. ^ Excerpt from the minutes of the 13th plenary session (PDF) Bavarian State Parliament. March 26, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
3. ↑ Dramatic explanation: Why Markus Sackmann no longer competes . Weekly paper. April 9, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
4. ↑ Peter Nicklas: Sackmann remains the spearhead of the CSU . Central Bavarian Newspaper. July 3, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
5. ↑ Peter Nicklas: 95 percent for Markus Sackmann . Central Bavarian show. November 25, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
6. ↑ Peter Nicklas: A quarter of the Roding City Council is new . Central Bavarian Newspaper. March 17, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 75, Easter 2013, p. 43.
8. ↑ Katja Auer: Fighting to the End . Southgerman newspaper. September 4, 2015. Accessed January 28, 2017.
9. ^ Constitutional medal for Markus Sackmann . Central Bavarian Newspaper. November 27, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
10. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Markus Sackmann . Central Bavarian Newspaper. October 21, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2017.