Martin Thomas (politician)

Martin Thomas (born May 1, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German politician . From 1986 to 1999 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the party The Greens and from 1991 to 1993 its parliamentary group spokesman.

biography

education and profession

After attending a grammar school up to the secondary school leaving certificate , Thomas completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk from 1968 to 1971 , which he completed with a passed examination. He then worked as an industrial clerk and machine setter until 1980. In a retraining measure , he was trained as a machine fitter from 1980 to 1982 . Since 1983 Thomas was assistant to the Greens parliamentary group in the Bremen citizenship. He was on leave during his later membership.

After leaving the citizenry, Thomas was employed in the Bremen party office of the Greens.

politics

Even during his training as an industrial clerk, Thomas was doing union youth work and was a shop steward . He later joined the Maoist KPD , for which he ran in the 1976 federal election in the then constituency 051 Bremen-West and at number 1 on the KPD's state list of Bremen. He became a member of the Greens in 1983.

Thomas got into the Bremen citizenship by rotation during the 11th electoral term on August 1, 1986. Afterwards he belonged to the Bremen citizenship from the 12th to the 14th electoral term (1987 to 1999). From 1987 to 1988 he was chairman of the parliamentary group and from 1991 to 1993 group spokesman for the Greens. In Parliament, Thomas dealt with domestic political issues. Among other things, from 1987 he was a member of the Parliamentary Control Commission , which was supposed to control the protection of the constitution , and in the following years also dealt with the issue of secret services .

literature

• Bremen Citizenship Handbook. Personal details , 12th to 14th electoral term

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ede: plumbers, teachers and pastors. About Bremen Greens who have to return to the cold professional world . Die Tageszeitung , Bremen, June 19, 1999, p. 29 (Bremen Aktuell)
2. ↑ Jens Scheer was in second place on the KPD's state list , and Willi Jasper was third in the LL
3. ↑ Irmgard Kern: Green VS controller . Die Tageszeitung, Bremen, February 27, 1989, p. 18
4. ↑ Frank Drieschner: Secret Service: Green Awakening . Die ZEIT, March 3, 1989