Martin Henkel (politician)

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Martin Henkel, 2018

Martin Henkel (* 1975 ) is a German CDU politician . In the state elections in Thuringia in 2019 , he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament. Before that, he had been mayor of the city of Geisa in the far west of Thuringia since 2006 .

Professional background

Henkel completed a degree in electrical engineering, which he graduated with the title of graduate engineer .

Political career

Henkel has been a member of the district assembly of the Wartburg district since 2004 , in which he has been parliamentary group leader of the CDU district assembly since 2016. In 2004 he was also elected to the City Council of Geisa and in the local elections in Thuringia in 2006 as Mayor of Geisa. He was re-elected in 2012 and in the mayoral election in 2018 .

The CDU district association Wartburgkreis elected Martin Henkel with 88.9 percent of the votes as the CDU candidate for the CDU in constituency 5 - Wartburgkreis I in the 2019 state election, after Manfred Grob , member of the constituency, did not stand for re-election for reasons of age. In the election on October 27, 2019, he received 34.4 percent of the first votes in his constituency and entered the Thuringian state parliament.

Political positions

Henkel’s main political goal is to strengthen rural areas. He also speaks out in favor of reducing bureaucracy, more economic development and climate protection, but against the construction of wind turbines in forests.

Dealing with the AfD

After the AfD moved into the Geisa city council in the 2019 city ​​council elections, the city council decided, like the left, to have a seat on the city council's main committee. The left accused Henkel and the CDU Geisa of collaborating with the AfD. Henkel rejected this resolutely and referred to the city council's resolution on the allocation of committee seats, which was also passed with votes from the left. As part of his candidacy for the Thuringian state parliament, he again spoke out clearly against cooperation between the CDU and the AfD.

Private

Henkel is a Roman Catholic, married and has three sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Portrait of Martin Henkel , mdr.de, accessed on October 28, 2019
  2. ↑ Mayoral election 2018 , accessed on June 3, 2019
  3. ↑ Martin Henkel as candidate , accessed October 28, 2019
  4. ↑ State election 2019 , accessed on October 28, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Martin Debes: The AfD, your city council and neighbor? , Die Zeit .de, accessed on October 28, 2019
  6. ↑ Martin Henkel on parliamentary watch , accessed October 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Henkel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 1975