Matthias Zimmer

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Matthias Zimmer (2014)
Room at the CDU party conference in 2012

Matthias Rainer Zimmer (born May 3, 1961 in Marburg ) is a German political scientist , journalist and politician ( CDU ).

Training and professional positions

After graduating from high school in Traben-Trarbach (1980), Matthias Zimmer studied political science, modern history and international law in Trier , at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and at LMU Munich . After completing his MA in 1986, he did his basic military service. In 1991 he was at Christian Hacke at the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg Dr. rer. pole. PhD . In 2006 he completed his habilitation with Thomas Jäger at the University of Cologne . In 2013, at the suggestion of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, he was named honorary professor by the rector of the University of Cologne.

1990-1993 room was a researcher at the Research Institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , 1994 to 1998 he was DAAD - Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta , 1998-1999 lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt . From 1999 to 2009 he was an employee of the city of Frankfurt am Main.

Zimmer has been married since 1991 and has two children. He has been a member of the Christian student union Munich Wingolf since his student days .

politics

Matthias Zimmer in the Bundestag, 2019

Zimmer has been a member of the CDU since 1979 and of the CDA since 2003 . Zimmer has been the district chairman of the CDA Frankfurt am Main since 2005. He has been state chairman of the CDA Hessen and deputy federal chairman of the CDA since 2011. He won the direct mandate in constituency 182 (Frankfurt am Main I) in the 2009 Bundestag election , the 2013 Bundestag election and the 2017 Bundestag election .

Zimmer has been a member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee since 2009; since 2018 he has been chairman of his parliamentary group in the committee. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the council of elders. From January 2017 to January 2018 he was chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid .

Zimmer advocated the introduction of a minimum wage as early as 2006. In the Bundestag debate on a statutory minimum wage on December 16, 2010, Zimmer spoke out in favor of a statutory minimum wage with a collective opening clause . As the final speaker of a debate on the effects of a legally stipulated minimum wage on February 10, 2011, he brought a link between it and pension development as an indexed instrument to the discussion. On January 20, 2012, Zimmer in the Bundestag designated a draft law by the SPD to introduce the statutory minimum wage as a "minimum wage policy enabling law " because it gave the ministry the power to reject a minimum wage proposed by a minimum wage commission and to set its own. As the CDU / CSU rapporteur on the minimum wage, when the law was passed on July 3, 2014, he described the minimum wage as a further development of the social market economy from the system of the social market economy.

Since the summer of 2012, Zimmer and twelve other Union Members of the Bundestag have been campaigning publicly for tax equality for registered same-sex partnerships with marriage . In the vote on opening up marriage to same-sex couples on June 30, 2017, Zimmer voted “Yes”. Together with his parliamentary group colleagues Marcus Weinberg and Andreas Nick, Zimmer warned in October 2017 in a policy paper against a shift to the right by the CDU.

From the point of view of the publicist and television presenter Roger Willemsen , who observed the debates in the German Bundestag for a year and wrote a book about it, Zimmer gave the “best speech” in 2013 at the presentation of the final report of the study commission on growth, prosperity, quality of life : “ It was about the limits of growth. An almost philosophical speech in the Bundestag, a masterpiece. ”In another interview he also put into perspective that he“ praised a very multiple person, because the same room also said some of the ugliest things. ”

Publications (selection)

  • The entire German people remain challenged ... The German policy of the Federal Republic 1949-1990 . Melle 1991
  • National interest and reason of state. On the Kohl government’s policy in Germany from 1982 to 1989. Paderborn 1992
  • with Udo Margedant : Property and Freedom. Property Theories in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Idstein 1993
  • as publisher: Germany - Phoenix in Trouble? Edmonton 1997
  • as edited by Angelika Sauer: A Chorus of Different Voices. German-Canadian Identities. New York 1998
  • Modern, State and International Politics. Wiesbaden 2008
  • with Thomas Scheben: The dog on the parachute. Forays into Frankfurt's history. Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • as ed. with Michael Thielen: The future of work. Christian-Social Perspectives. Berlin 2013
  • Sustainability! For a policy based on a fundamental Christian conviction. Freiburg 2015
  • Distant relationship: social teaching and CDU. (Königswinterer Notes, booklet 15). Königswinter 2016
  • On the verge of politics. Frankfurt am Main 2016
  • Person and order. Introduction to the social market economy. Freiburg 2020 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter Wingolfiten e. V. (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 25th edition, Hannover 2012, p. 199.
  2. ↑ minimum wage? Minimum wage! In: Civis with probe . Volume 4, 2006, pp. 78-82 .
  3. ↑ Coalition fails applications for minimum wages. merkur-online, January 20, 2012, accessed on March 23, 2013 .
  4. ↑ dip21.bundestag.de (PDF) p. 4109; Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ Member of the Bundestag Jens Spahn calls for more rights for homosexuals - the initiative towards homosexual marriage is met with skepticism , Westfälische Nachrichten of August 9, 2012.
  6. ↑ hin / ds / göc / sew / bt / arz / dpa: The Bundestag resolves marriage for everyone: cheers, but also concerns . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . ( fnp.de [accessed on July 27, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Robin Alexander: Four-page document: CDU MPs resist the party's shift to the right. In: Welt Online . October 30, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Matthias Zimmer: Our problems were caused by technology and technical thinking . cducsu.de, June 6, 2013.
  9. ^ German Bundestag - 17th electoral term - 243rd session. Berlin, June 6, 2013. Plenary minutes 17/243 (PDF) pp. 30791–30792.
  10. ↑ The people love to stand still . Hamburger Abendblatt , April 3, 2014; accessed on October 8, 2015
  11. ↑ The Chancellor chloroforms the country . In: Tagesspiegel , February 8, 2016; accessed on February 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Zimmer, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmer, Matthias Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, journalist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg , Lahn