Martin Schmidt (politician, 1933)

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Martin Schmidt (born November 23, 1933 in Friesenhausen ; † November 19, 2011 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was a German Graecist and politician of the Green Alternative List Hamburg .

Life

Martin Schmidt, son of a Protestant pastor, was a member of the Windsbach Boys Choir during his school days and studied classical philology and history in Erlangen , Berlin , Oxford and Heidelberg . In 1956/57 he was chairman of the entire Berlin Evangelical Student Congregation in Berlin , 1958/59 AStA chairman at the Free University of Berlin and 1969–1971 chairman of the Republican Club .

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. (1969 in Heidelberg) he worked as a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of Hamburg on the creation of the lexicon of the early Greek epic . He continued this during his political mandates - the Hamburg Citizenship is the last German state legislature to be the after-work parliament for those working during the day - and later as a pensioner until the lexicon was completed in 2010. Schmidt also dealt with the history of the Blankenese Jews. He was chairman of the association he co-founded in 2003 for research into the history of the Jews in Blankenese.

Schmidt had two children from his previous marriage and lived with the former member of parliament, Sabine Boehlich .

politics

Martin Schmidt was for the Green Alternative List from June 1982 to January 1985 and from November 1986 to May 1987 a member of the Altona district assembly and from June 1991 to 2001 a member of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . In 1993 he was parliamentary group chairman, otherwise he was deputy group chairman for many years. As a member of parliament , he was a member of the building and transport, constitution and legal committees (1997 to 2001 as chairman of the building and transport committee). Schmidt was particularly interested in bicycle politics (almost 100 small inquiries on the subject of 'cyclists in Hamburg'), and he also came up with the idea for the Hamburg bicycle house . In 1990 he suggested the (re-) introduction of the Hamburg Stadtbahn .

An extraordinary situation occurred in 2003. Schmidt was named by the GAL as a candidate for the Hamburg Constitutional Court (for the outgoing constitutional judge Inga Schmidt-Syaßen ). He was elected by the citizens and sworn in immediately. However, a professional judge should have been selected for the retiring Schmidt-Syaßen. Schmidt did not meet this requirement. There are 4 professional judges and 2 fully qualified lawyers and 3 people from other areas in the Hamburg constitutional court. Schmidt would only have been allowed to take a seat in the constitutional court if one of the three people had left another area.

In recent years, Martin Schmidt has mainly dealt with the Hamburg election legislation ( electoral law reform ) and the Hamburg referendum . Schmidt was a clear opponent of the electoral laws of the CDU. He supported the residents' initiative Stresemannstrasse in the endeavor to find a sustainable solution to the traffic problems in this densely populated main road.

On May 23, 2004, Schmidt sat for the GAL in the Federal Assembly , in which Horst Koehler was elected Federal President for the first time.

Publications (selection)

  • The explanations of Homer's worldview and the culture of the heroic era in the BT scholia for the Iliad . Munich 1976 ( Zetemata , issue 62).
  • The Homer of the Scholia: What is explained to the Reader? . In: F. Montanari (Ed.): Omero tremila Anni dopo . Rome 2002, pp. 159-183.
  • The scientific location of the LfgrE . In: Th. Städtler (Ed.): Scientific lexicography in German-speaking countries . Heidelberg 2003, pp. 83-91 ( online as PDF).
  • Some remarks on the semantics of anax in Homer . In: S. Deger-Jalkotzy u. a. (Ed.): Ancient Greece 1200–700 BC . Edinburgh 2006, pp. 439-447.
  • The world of Eumaios . In: Andreas Luther (Ed.): History and fiction in the Homeric Odyssey . CH Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 117-138
  • More than 600 articles in the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic, Delivery 8, 1976 to 25, 2010, Göttingen.

Web links

literature

  • Citizens' Handbook - Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , 15th electoral period, Hamburg 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See viermalleben.de and the association for research into the history of the Jews in Blankenese (ed.): Cherries on the Elbe . Klaus Schümann, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-9810907-5-6 .
  2. ↑ Hamburg Citizenship (Small Written Inquiry): Cycling in Hamburg (94) - Unfinished Creation on Steinstrasse. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and politician (GAL), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Friesenhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2011
Place of death Hamburg-Blankenese