Max Matthiesen

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Max Matthiesen in November, 2009

Max Matthiesen (born June 24, 1955 in Hanover ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and lawyer . From 2003 to 2017 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Matthiesen studied law from 1975 to 1981 at the universities of Zurich and Göttingen. He passed the second state examination in 1984 in Düsseldorf. He then worked as a lawyer in Düsseldorf and Hanover for a year and a half. In 1986 he received his doctorate with Harry Ebersbach at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on energy law; Hans Hugo Klein was the second corrector . From 1986 to 1988 Matthiesen was personal advisor to the Minister of Social Affairs Hermann Schnipkoweit , from 1989 to 1990 his ministerial office manager and was then from 1990 to 1992 health insurance advisor in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs . Subsequently, until 2002 he was department head for social affairs, order, health and youth of the district of Hanover , at the same time councilor of the city of Barsinghausen and from 2006 to 2011 first deputy mayor and since then alderman of the city of Barsinghausen. Since 2002 he has been working as a lawyer again. He has been the state chairman of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) in Lower Saxony since 1998 and has also been the CDA's deputy federal chairman since 2011.

Matthiesen became known for his candidacy for the CDU to elect the regional president for the Hanover region on September 10, 2006. In the state elections in 2003, 2008 and 2013 he won the Barsinghausen constituency ( Barsinghausen , Gehrden , Seelze ) as a direct candidate and thus moved again in the state parliament. In the state elections in 2017, he lost 36% to 41.8% of the first votes to the SPD applicant Claudia Schüßler . He was also unable to move into the state parliament again via the state list.

Web links

Commons : Max Matthiesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Our state chairman. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  2. Federal Board. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .