Matthias Höhn

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Matthias Höhn at the 4th Left Party Congress on May 10, 2014 in Berlin

Matthias Höhn (born August 19, 1975 in Stolberg (Harz) ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). He was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 2002 to 2017 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 . From June 2012 to November 2017 he was federal manager of the party Die Linke.

Life and work

Matthias Höhn was born in Stolberg in the Harz Mountains, but grew up in Sangerhausen from 1977 , where he also completed his entire school career. In 1982 he was enrolled in the polytechnic high school (POS) "Bernhard Koenen". From 1984 to 1991 he then attended the POS “Juri Gagarin” and from 1991 to 1994 the state high school “Geschwister Scholl”, which he left with the Abitur.

He completed his military service in 1994/95 . From 1995 to 2003 he studied journalism and communication sciences and Slavic philology at the Free University of Berlin .

Höhn lives in a registered civil partnership .

politics

Matthias Höhn at the election party of the left for the 2013 federal election.

Höhn joined the PDS in 1992 . From 1995 to 2000 he was active as a member of the district executive committee of the PDS Sangerhausen. In 1999 he was elected to the state board of Saxony-Anhalt and in 2003/04 worked as editor- in- chief at klartext , a magazine of the PDS Saxony-Anhalt. In 2003 he also became deputy state chairman and two years later chairman of the PDS Saxony-Anhalt. Since 2007 he has been a member of the executive committee of the party “Die Linke.” And was state chairman of the new left in Saxony-Anhalt until 2012 . In 2010 he was elected to the party executive for the first time. Höhn is also a member of the editorial committee of the party executive board and is therefore jointly responsible for revising the draft program presented.

From the state elections in 2002 until the end of October 2017, he sat for the party ( 4th electoral period ) in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . Höhn became an elected member of the state parliament via the state list. He sat for his group in the Committee on Education, Science and Culture. He was also the education policy spokesman for his parliamentary group.

In terms of federal politics, he first showed ambitions in 2002, when he and Dietmar Bartsch wanted to run for a new board at the PDS federal party congress after the defeat in the federal election. This attempt failed.

Höhn is one of the reformers and pragmatists in his party. So in 2006 there were sometimes violent and public disputes between Matthias Höhn and Wulf Gallert (chairman of the Left in Saxony-Anhalt ) on the one hand and Oskar Lafontaine on the other about the course of the new party "Die Linke." Lafontaine threw the state association Saxony-Anhalt proposed a departure from left-wing principles and neoliberal politics. The trigger was a lead proposal submitted by Höhn's board of directors for the program debate. Lafontaine, who himself traveled to Saxony-Anhalt to decide on this lead application, was unable to assert his opinion. The state party conference followed Höhn's request with over 80 percent.

During the change in leadership at the left in 2010, Höhn expressed massive criticism of the actions of Gregor Gysi , the chairman of the parliamentary group, and clearly defended the federal managing director Dietmar Bartsch . During a leadership crisis in April 2011, Höhn is said to have mediated between the conflicting parties in order to prevent the board of directors around Klaus Ernst and Gesine Lötzsch from breaking up .

He largely rejected the draft for a basic program of the party “Die Linke.” Presented in March 2010. Subsequently, however, as a member of the editorial committee of the party executive committee, he played a key role in the revision of this draft.

Matthias Höhn is a member of the Forum for Democratic Socialism , an internal party movement in which key representatives of the reformist camp have gathered.

In the general election in 2017 he was elected to the Bundestag. Höhn is chairman and chairman of the subcommittee on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation. He is a member of the Defense Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs, as well as a member of the committee of inquiry into the advisory affair . In November 2017, he resigned as managing director of the Left and thus resigned from the party executive committee. The alleged reason for Höhn's resignation are supposed to be differences with party leaders Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger . Since 2018 he has been the Eastern Commissioner of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Höhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ die-linke.de: Editorial Committee ( Memento from August 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ https://www.landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de/2017/landtagsnachruecker-nach-bundestagswahl/
  3. ↑ Dietmar Bartsch: Back to society !? Back to politics !? (No longer available online.) Forum Democratic Socialism , November 4, 2002, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 12, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.forum-ds.de  
  4. ^ Matthias Meisner: Revolution without revolutionaries. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 23, 2006, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  5. ^ D. Brössler, U. Ritzer: Klaus Ernst and Gesine Lötzsch: Protest against the new top. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 17, 2010, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Kai Gauselmann: Die Linke: «We are very satisfied with Bartsch». In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . January 12, 2010, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Markus Decker: Parties: Left Board of Directors agrees on truce. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. April 20, 2011, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  8. ^ Program of the DIE LINKE party (draft)
  9. ↑ There is too much black and white Volksstimme.de from March 25, 2010
  10. ↑ The submitted draft program of the LINKE requires contradiction! ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dielinke-sachsen-anhalt.de
  11. ↑ Dirk Hautkapp: Die Linke: " End times mood and crisis". In: derwesten.de . July 14, 2010, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Editorial committee advises on draft of new party program. Die Linke, May 5, 2011, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  13. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ http://www.bundestag.de/abteilunge/biografien#url=L2FiZ2VvcmRuZXRlL2Jpb2dyYWZpZW4vSC8tLzUyMDQyMA==&mod=mod525246&dir=ltr
  15. ^ Patrick Pehl: Matthias Höhn (left). In: Consultant affair. Retrieved October 26, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_82670660/linken-geschaeftsfuehrer-matthias-hoehn-tritt-zurueck.html
  17. ↑ Die Linke / Party Executive Committee / Matthias Höhn
  18. ↑ Linken managing director Höhn resigns . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 9, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  19. ↑ No reason for jubilation reports Interview with Matthias Höhn in Neues Deutschland, March 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Höhn, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Harz)