Martin Lindner

This article is about the politician. For the Indologist see Bruno Lindner .

Frank Martin Lindner (born March 22, 1964 in Grünwald , Munich district ) is a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ). From 2011 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.

Life and work

After graduating from high school , Martin Lindner first did military service in the Air Force (last rank: Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve) and then trained as an industrial clerk (head office apprenticeship at Siemens). He then completed a law degree at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed in 1993 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , he passed the Great State Examination in 1995. He has been working as an independent lawyer in Berlin since 1996 .

In 1999 his doctorate at Armin stone ridge at the Bundeswehr University in Munich with a thesis on legal relationships fortified service providing reservists in the European Union to Dr. rer. pole.

Martin Lindner is Catholic and has been married for a second time after his divorce in summer 2007. He has two sons from his first marriage and a daughter from his second marriage. His wife brought three other children from their first marriage.

He is a member of the German-Israeli Society and on the Hertha BSC Economic Council .

Political party

Lindner has been a member of the FDP since 1998. From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee. Until March 2009 he was the deputy speaker of the conference of the chairmen of the FDP parliamentary groups in the state parliaments, the German Bundestag and the European parliament, deputy chairman of the FDP media commission and chairman of the media working group of the FDP parliamentary group chairmen's conference. Lindner is a member of the Schaumburger Kreis , an association of the liberal-conservative economic wing in the FDP.

At the state party conference of the Berlin FDP on March 25, 2006, Lindner was nominated as the FDP's top candidate for the House of Representatives election in September 2006 , in which the FDP achieved 7.6% of the vote. In November 2007, Lindner publicly announced that he wanted to run for state chairman against the incumbent, Bundestag member Markus Löning , at the FDP Berlin state party conference in April 2008 . At the state party conference of the FDP Berlin on April 11, 2008, Lindner lost with 163 votes, Löning won with 180 votes. On March 28, 2009, however, Lindner won the top candidacy of the Berlin FDP for the Bundestag against Löning with 214 to 133 votes.

On March 2, 2012, Martin Lindner was elected regional chairman of the Berlin FDP. At the 64th Ordinary Federal Party Congress on 9/10 In March 2013 he was also elected to the FDP federal executive committee. On March 14, 2014 he ran again for election as state chairman of the FDP Berlin and was defeated in a fight vote to Alexandra Thein .

MP

With the re-entry of the FDP, Lindner became a member of the Berlin House of Representatives in 2001. From November 2001 to February 2002 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the House of Representatives before he was elected chairman in 2002. He held this office until March 2009. Lindner was also the media policy spokesman for the parliamentary group. His successor as chairman of the parliamentary group was Christoph Meyer .

In the 2009 Bundestag election he was elected to the German Bundestag as the top candidate on the FDP state list. He was elected by the FDP parliamentary group as spokesman for technology policy, in whose function he was also responsible for foreign trade. Its declared aim was to make it easier for technology companies to launch their products on the market and export them. Since May 2011 he was also the economic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group. On May 10, 2011, Lindner was elected deputy group chairman.

Lindner was a permanent member of the Committee for Economics and Technology and a deputy member of the Petitions Committee and the Interior Committee . In January 2010, Lindner gave his maiden speech in the German Bundestag. As an economic expert, he defended and justified the reduction in sales tax for hotel services as a necessity to eliminate competitive disadvantages and to strengthen investments in this industry. In April 2010, the FDP MP received a reprimand from the President of the Bundestag for a verbal attack against Gregor Gysi . Lindner replied that returning soldiers needed more psychiatrists: "You [Gysi] need one too." This was criticized by Norbert Lammert "expressly as unparliamentary".

On March 15, 2013, the Berlin FDP again presented Lindner as the top candidate for the 2013 federal election . However, the party failed at the five percent hurdle .

On November 24, 2018, Lindner was elected as the Brandenburg top candidate for the 2019 European elections at the state delegate assembly of the FDP Brandenburg in Potsdam . When the list was drawn up at the FDP's European party conference on January 27, 2019, however, the East German state associations decided to set up a joint "Eastern top candidate" with Robert-Martin Montag . Lindner initially lost a fight candidate against Monday and was then elected to the hopeless list position 21. He resigned from his candidacy a week later.

Positions

As a discussion partner, Lindner is known for his direct manner and often very clear choice of words. In the show Menschen bei Maischberger on September 28, 2010, Lindner explained, for example: "We have too long holidays, we have too long school holidays." On November 7, 2010, Anne Will asked for greater openness in society and politics towards new technologies and criticized the alleged attitude of green politicians .

In December 2008, Lindner achieved a nationwide media presence in connection with the request of the Baden-Württemberg CDU politician Thomas Volk to grant church taxpayers a “right to sit” in Christmas services. The proposal was also criticized by the church because it contradicts the essence of Christmas. Martin Lindner, however, had demanded that parishioners z. B. to grant priority seat rights via reservation cards.

In the context of the debate on Hartz IV , Lindner advocates increasing additional income opportunities to create incentives for recipients of basic income support in order to encourage re-entry into the labor market. Furthermore, Lindner is strictly in favor of lowering the standard rates if offers for work are not accepted. Even before the current debate, Lindner, as leader of the FDP parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, demanded a 30% cut in social benefits if employable social benefit recipients refuse offered activities. To this end, he suggests charitable activities, such as cleaning parks. Exceptions to this should be made for older people and single parents, among others. The FDP parliamentary group later spoke out against it. For example, the labor market spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Johannes Vogel, contradicted Lindner's proposal and said a cut would not be an option, and the deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group Heinrich Kolb said that suggestions of this kind do not correspond to the group's opinion.

In the debate about the introduction of a minimum wage , Lindner speaks out in favor of an industry-specific and region-specific minimum wage and against a nationwide generally binding, politically fixed lower wage limit. The level of the respective minimum wage should be worked out together with the state labor ministers from collective agreements.

Lindner advocates the decriminalization of soft drugs like cannabis. He gained media attention by trying a supposed joint on the TV show Stuckrad-Barre .

In the debate about Berlin's air traffic connection and the completion of Berlin Brandenburg Airport , Lindner takes the view that Berlin-Tegel Airport should be kept open as a commercial airport, at least temporarily, for two to five years. Together with other FDP members of the Bundestag, he commissioned the Bundestag's scientific service to assess a possible extension of flight operations in Tegel. As a result, the continued operation of Tegel depends on political will.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Lindner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Lindner's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Martin Lindner on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Lindner remarried . Berliner Morgenpost. October 16, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
2. ↑ FDP circles plan the time after Westerwelle
3. ↑ Lindner wants to run as FDP leader, November 20, 2007
4. ↑ Udo Leuschner: The history of the FDP: Metamorphoses of a party between right, liberal and neoconservative . MV-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-86991-049-9 , p. 361.
5. ↑ Berlin FDP: Lindner wins in the power struggle
6. ↑ [1]
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Berlin FDP elects Alexandra Thein as the new country manager , March 14, 2014, Berliner Morgenpost
9. ^ ^{A b} Sandra Schmid: From attacker to defender: Martin Lindner . ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Christoph Meyer officially takes over the chairmanship of the FDP parliamentary group . In: tagesspiegel.de , April 27, 2009.
11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Lammert issues reprimand: FDP politician insults Gysi . In: n-tv.de , April 22, 2010.
13. ↑ Berlin FDP: Martin Lindner again top candidate . In: Berliner-Zeitung.de , March 15, 2013.
14. ↑ Three candidates want to lead the FDP back into the state parliament. (No longer available online.) In: rbb24.de (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). November 24, 2018, archived from the original on November 25, 2018 ; accessed on November 25, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Who is the Brandenburg top candidate for Europe? In: FDP-OPR.de (FDP Ostprignitz-Ruppin). December 25, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Fabian Klaus: Robert-Martin Montag could become the first member of the Thuringian FDP in Brussels. In: Thuringian General. May 23, 2019, accessed July 2, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Federal List of Free Democrats for the 2019 European Elections. Accessed July 2, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Brandenburg's FDP lost the top candidate for the European elections. Retrieved July 2, 2020 . 
19. ^ Riots at Maischberger: Talk guests out of control
20. ↑ WDR Aktuell: Entrance ticket for a church visit on Christmas Eve?
21. ↑ Politicians want Christmas mass only for church members
22. ↑ FDP parliamentary group is considering reducing the standard rates for Hartz IV ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ^ FDP politicians: Hartz IV cut by 30 percent
24. ↑ "Don't want to work"
25. ↑ Hartz IV dispute reaches its own ranks: FDP parliamentary group is rowing back
26. ↑ FDP social politicians against lowering the Hartz IV rates
27. ↑ [2]
28. ↑ [3]
29. ↑ [4]
30. ↑ [5]
31. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ber-eroeffnung-zum-trotz-flughafen-tegel-koennte-laut-gutachten-offen-bleiben/8036076.html
32. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/ Bezirk/reinickendorf/rechts-wirrwarr-um-tegel-zukunft- article1656253.html
33. ↑ http://www.fdp-berlin.de/Konsequenzen-aus-dem-Gutachten-zum-Flughafen-Berlin-Tegel/1663c2727i1p9/index.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.