Michael Hartmann (politician)

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Michael Hartmann (2016)

Michael Hartmann (born May 11, 1963 in Pirmasens ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Hartmann is a specialist politician for internal security and was the domestic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group as well as chairman of his parliamentary group in the internal affairs committee and a member of the parliamentary control body .

education

After graduating from high school in 1982 at the modern language grammar school in Pirmasens, he began studying political science , sociology and German folklore at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Party functions

Hartmann joined the SPD in 1983. He was initially involved in the Juso university group in Mainz and was chairman of the local SPD associations in Wackernheim and Heidesheim am Rhein . From 1995 to 1999 he worked as a consultant for the support of the subdivisions and commissions as well as advice on local and primary elections at the Rhineland-Palatinate state association of the SPD . From 1999 to 2002 he was press spokesman for the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior under the then Minister Walter Zuber .

He was chairman of the SPD sub-district Mainz-Bingen from 1999 to 2014 and was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD in Rhineland-Palatinate from 2004 to 2014.

From 1996 to 2005 he was chairman of the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics (SGK) in the Mainz-Bingen district.

Hartmann received the Willy Brandt Medal in November 2017 .

Member of Parliament

Hartmann was from 1999 to 2004 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group of the local council in Wackernheim . He has been a member of the district council of the Mainz-Bingen district since 2004 and was last re-elected in 2019.

Since 2002 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 2006 to November 2007 Hartmann was deputy chairman of the BND committee of inquiry and from November 2007 to 2009 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in this committee. From October 2011 to July 2014 he was the domestic political spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Hartmann first moved into the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Mainz constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he defended his direct mandate with 40.9% of the first votes . In the 2009 federal election , Hartmann lost this to Ute Granold from the CDU, but entered the 17th German Bundestag via the state list. In the 2013 federal elections, he lost 34.9 percent of the first vote to the CDU candidate Ursula Groden-Kranich in the constituency, but moved back into the Bundestag via the state list.

Hartmann was a member of the Interior Committee from October 2002 to July 2014, and from 2011 chairman of his parliamentary group. From December 2009 to July 2014 he was a member of the parliamentary control body for the control of the intelligence services and from January to July 2014 he was a deputy member of the G10 commission , which controls the communications monitoring of the intelligence services. He has been a deputy member of the Legal Affairs Committee since January 2014 and a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs since November 2014 . In July 2016, Hartmann announced that he would not apply for a mandate again in the 2017 federal election .

Political positions

In the election campaign for the 2013 federal election, Hartmann spoke out against the legalization of soft drugs .

Public offices

From 1994 to 1999, Michael Hartmann first councilor of the municipality Wackernheim.

Social offices

Hartmann is a member of the "Basic Political Issues" working group of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Board of the "Magenza Foundation for Jewish Life in Mainz"

, Member of the Board of Trustees of the “High Cathedral of Mainz Foundation ” and active as a satchel guard at Carnival. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Education in the Ingelheim Training Center and a member of the Rheinhessen gegen Rechts eV association

From 2007 to 2014 Hartmann was President of the Mainz-based German Baseball and Softball Association .

Controversy

drug consumption

On July 2, 2014, the German Bundestag lifted MP Hartmann's political immunity , clearing the way for an investigation into a violation of the Narcotics Act . He then resigned as domestic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group and as a member of the parliamentary control body. His home was searched the same day. No drugs were found. Michael Hartmann admitted to the public prosecutor's office that in the autumn of 2013 he had “acquired and consumed crystal meth ” for about a month “in low self-consumption quantities [...]”. At the time, he hoped to be “more productive” through drug use. The public prosecutor's office in Berlin closed the investigation in September 2014 against payment of a monetary requirement.

Edathy affair

In the affair of the former SPD member of the Bundestag Sebastian Edathy , Hartmann came under pressure again since the end of 2014. Edathy is alleged to have obtained child pornography and, according to Edathy, it was Hartmann who informed him of the investigation against him in November 2013. Hartmann again have this information from the former BKA Chairmen Joerg Ziercke received. Ziercke denied having informed Hartmann directly. Hartmann said that Edathy revealed to him at the SPD party conference in November 2013 that he was a customer of the Canadian company in question. In order to substantiate his statements, Edathy disclosed the SMS communication with Hartmann in mid-December 2014. On December 18, 2014, Hartmann was questioned before the committee of inquiry investigating the Edathy affair. The public prosecutor's offices in Berlin and Hanover initiated preliminary investigations against Hartmann at the beginning of February 2015 on suspicion of having thwarted punishment in the Edathy case, whereupon Hartmann refused to make any further statements before the Edathy investigative committee. The Lüneburg public prosecutor's office conducted an investigation into suspected criminal prosecution and closed on June 6, 2016 due to a lack of sufficient suspicion. A preliminary investigation conducted by the Berlin public prosecutor's office on suspicion of undecided false testimony was also discontinued due to a lack of sufficient suspicion, which means that all preliminary investigations initiated against Hartmann in connection with the Edathy affair in accordance with Section 170 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO) have been discontinued. Hartmann's legal fees were taken over by the SPD parliamentary group.

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Hartmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography at the German Bundestag, 18th electoral term
  2. ↑ Michael Hartmann honored, announcement from the SPD local association Ingelheim from November 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Preliminary final result of the Mainz-Bingen district assembly 2019 SV Bingen
  4. ↑ Michael Erfurth: Four Mainz residents to Berlin? In: Allgemeine Zeitung , September 28, 2009.
  5. ↑ Profile on spdfraktion.de
  6. ↑ Markus Schug: Michael Hartmann throws in the towel. In: FAZ.net . July 21, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Who to choose: Michael Hartmann. In: Wen-waehlen.de , accessed on July 6, 2014; Immunity lifted after drug allegations / SPD interior expert Michael Hartmann resigns. In: SWR.de , July 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bundestag printed matter 18/1990. Bundestag online, PDF.
  9. ↑ Hartmann is said to have acquired drugs for personal use. In: sueddeutsche.de , July 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ Search of apartment: Investigators find no drugs at SPD politician Hartmann. In: Spiegel Online , July 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Michael Hartmann admits drug use. In: Zeit Online , July 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ Michael Hartmann admits consumption of crystal meth. In: Spiegel Online , July 9, 2014.
  13. ^ Proceedings against Michael Hartmann discontinued. In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 25, 2014.
  14. ↑ Tim Braune: An abysmal affair - Sebastian Edathy and the SPD. In: stern.de , December 14, 2014.
  15. ↑ Political affair: Edathy reveals alleged tipster. In: Spiegel Online , December 13, 2014.
  16. ^ Hubert Gude: Edathy affair: Michael Hartmann testifies before the investigative committee. In: Spiegel Online , December 15, 2014.
  17. ↑ Wigbert Löer, Oliver Schröm: Edathy reveals communication. The SPD and their SMS. In: stern.de , December 16, 2014.
  18. ^ Veit Medick : Edathy affair: Witness Hartmann lurches through the interrogation. In: Spiegel Online , December 19, 2014.
  19. ↑ Katharina Schuler: The silence of Michael Hartmann. In: Zeit Online , February 5, 2015.
  20. ↑ Preliminary proceedings for thwarting criminal offenses against MP Michael Hartmann suspended. Notification from lawyer Eisenberg with an extract from the employment order
  21. ↑ Success for Michael Hartmann: Public Prosecutor stops investigations. In: Allgemeine Zeitung from June 1, 2016
  22. ↑ Press release from lawyer Eisenberg from June 21, 2016 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ zeit.de dpa news ticker from February 27, 2015: SPD parliamentary group pays Hartmann's lawyer in Edathy affair ( memento from March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ),


personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens