Martin Clemens

Martin Clemens (born March 19, 1939 in Herrnhut ) is a Saxon politician ( CDU ) and former member of the Saxon state parliament .

education and profession

Martin Clemens attended secondary school in Neugersdorf and, after graduating from high school, studied opencast mining at the Bergakademie Freiberg . He graduated in 1963 as a Dipl.-Ing. Mining open pit from. In 1966 he completed an additional economic course at the Bergakademie. From 1963 to 1965 he worked as a research assistant at the Freiberg Fuel Institute and from 1966 to 1967 as an opencast mining technologist at the Oberlausitz lignite works in Hagenwerder . From 1968 to 1989 he was deputy production director at the lignite works in Oberlausitz.

Martin Clemens is a member of the Protestant Brothers University , is married and has 4 children.

politics

Martin Clemens had been a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany since 1957 . Until March 1990 he had no party functions other than working in the local group committee in Herrnhut. After the fall of the Wall he was a founding member of the economic association of the CDU Saxony in March 1990 . At the first free Volkskammer election in 1990 in March 1990, he was elected to the Volkskammer . In the People's Chamber he was chairman of the committee for economic cooperation. In the state elections in Saxony in October 1990 he was elected to the state parliament for constituency 30 ( Görlitz, Land II - Zittau II - Löbau III ) with 61.0% of the vote. In the state parliament, Martin Clemens was deputy chairman of the budget and finance committee , member of the petitions committee and energy policy spokesman for the CDU state parliamentary group. After one electoral term, he resigned from the state parliament in 1994.

Other offices

Martin Clemens is a union member and was a BGL member from 1972 to 1989 . From 1975 to 1990 he was a member of the mine rescue team in the lignite mine in Oberlausitz and there since 1976 he was a senior leader. He is also active in the church: from 1968 to 1980 he was a member of the Council of Elders of the Moravian Brethren , in 1980 he was a member of the Synod of the Herrnhut District of the European Continental Province of the Brethren and from 1981 Chairman of the Synod in the Herrnhut District and Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Synod.

literature

• Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994; People's Handbook. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , page 24 (as of May 1991)

Web link

• Martin Clemens' biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)