Michael Paris

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Michael Paris at the New Year's reception of the Bornheim gymnastics community in 2013

Michael Walter Paris (born April 29, 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician ( non-party , formerly SPD ). From 1999 to 2003 and from 2008 to 2009 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament .

Life

Paris was a student at the Frankfurt Helmholtz School , where he graduated from high school in 1974 . 1974 to 1977 he studied law and social sciences at the Goethe University . He began his political career in Frankfurt, where he joined the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken in 1967 and the SPD in 1972 . Paris took on several paid posts with the falcons, he was an employee of the Bundestag member Frolinde Balser . For the SPD he sat from 1990 to 1999 and since 2005 in the Frankfurt city council or as an honorary councilor in the magistrate .

The SPD politician - representative of the right wing of the party - was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1999 to 2003 . In the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , he won the direct mandate in constituency 38 - Frankfurt am Main V and moved back into the state parliament. In the early state elections in Hesse in 2009 , he lost the constituency and mandate again.

In 2011, he applied within the party as a candidate for the mayoral election in 2012 . However, his competitor Peter Feldmann won a membership decision with 53.8%, Michael Paris received 46.2% of the votes cast. In the list of the direct candidate for the state elections in Hesse 2013 in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main V, he was defeated by the party left Jürgen Gasper . On July 1, 2013, he announced as an independent candidate for the general election in 2013 in the federal constituency Frankfurt II to compete. According to the statutes of the SPD, there is a risk of party exclusion in this case . In the 2013 federal election, however, he only achieved 3% of the votes in the constituency. After the election he was expelled from the SPD.

In the local elections on March 6, 2016, he ran his own list as the top candidate. Despite the lack of a blocking clause, his grouping “Politics without a party” did not achieve the required number of votes for a seat in the city ​​council and clearly failed to make it into the Römer . With that his political career came to an end for the time being.

Michael Paris is co-founder and chairman of the Abenteuerspielplatz Riederwald e. V. He was President of the International Play Association: Promoting the Child's Right to Play (IPA).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sensational victory for Jürgen Gasper ; in: FR-Online from January 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Paris wants to run as an independent candidate for the Bundestag ; in: FAZ from July 1, 2013
  3. ^ Paris is out of the SPD ( Memento from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); in: FNP of December 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Paris, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paris, Michael Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main