Nils Schmid

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Nils Schmid (2013)

Nils Schmid (born July 11, 1973 in Trier ) is a German politician . From 2009 to 2016 he was state chairman of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg .

For the state elections on March 27, 2011 , he ran as the SPD top candidate in the Reutlingen constituency and became the third strongest party with the party. In the Kretschmann I cabinet , he was State Minister for Finance and Economics and Deputy Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann from May 2011 to May 2016 . In 2017 he was elected to the Bundestag . There he has been the foreign policy spokesman for his group since 2018.

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1993 at the Eduard-Spranger -Gymnasium in Filderstadt and doing his community service in a nursing home, Schmid completed a law degree at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , which he completed in 1999 with the first state examination in law. The subsequent legal clerkship, during which he temporarily worked for the energy supply company Energiedienst , he finished in 2001 with the second state examination in law. Since then he has been a lawyer admitted, however, the action has been suspended since 2011. 2006 was called by the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on State Property Management, public debt and state assets at Ferdinand Kirchhof with summa cum laude doctorate .

Political activity

Party career

Nils Schmid at the SPD state party conference 2011

Nils Schmid has been a member of the SPD since 1991. He initially got involved with the Jusos and was Juso district chairman in Esslingen from 1993 to 1997 . In addition, he was deputy state chairman of the Jusos in Baden-Württemberg from 1996 to 1998. From 1993 to 2011 he was a member of the SPD district executive in Esslingen and from 1999 to 2010 he was chairman of the SPD local association in Nürtingen .

After the then state chairwoman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg , Ute Vogt , resigned from her position as chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group, Schmid was defeated on January 10, 2008 in a battle vote for her successor in this office by just under (18 to 20 votes) against Claus Blacksmith . In 2009, alongside Schmiedel and Hilde Mattheis, he was one of three candidates to succeed Ute Vogt as chairman of the SPD regional association. To this end, a member survey was carried out in the SPD Baden-Württemberg on November 21, 2009. With a turnout of 47.35%, he received 56% in the second count, taking into account the second votes, compared to 37% for Hilde Mattheis. In the first vote he accounted for 46.2% of the votes, 29.1% for Hilde Mattheis and 22.8% for Claus Schmiedel. As a result, Schmid was elected regional chairman at the state party conference of the SPD in Karlsruhe on November 27, 2009 with 265 of 299 votes from the delegates (88.63%). On October 16, 2010, Schmid was elected the SPD's top candidate for the 2011 state election and thus the challenger to Prime Minister Stefan Mappus at the state party conference of the SPD in Ulm with over 92% of the votes . Mappus had succeeded the previous Prime Minister Oettinger in February 2010 , so not long in office . On June 4, 2016 Schmid announced that he would soon be vacating his post as SPD state chairman. Leni Breymaier was elected as his successor on October 22nd .

Membership and public office

In 1997 Schmid succeeded Werner Weinmann , who died on February 13, 1997 after a heart attack, in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . From June 2001 he was the financial policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group . After moving back into the state parliament in 2006, he became deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Nils Schmid entered the state parliament in 2001 and 2006 through a second mandate in the Nürtingen electoral district . In the 2001 state elections, he received 32.0% of the votes; in 2006 it was 23.0%. In 2011 he ran in the state electoral district of Reutlingen , where he again achieved a second mandate with 24.7% of the vote. From 2016 he was the art-political spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. In 2016, Schmid also obtained a second mandate in Reutlingen. After the 2017 federal elections, he resigned his state parliament mandate in October 2017.

In the Kretschmann I cabinet, after Winfried Kretschmann was elected Prime Minister on May 12, 2011 , Nils Schmid took over the role of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economics . Schmid is considered to be the originator of the referendum on the Stuttgart 21 rail project , which he made a condition for a coalition with the Greens. Further demands from the SPD's election program, which Schmid pushed through in the coalition negotiations, were the abolition of tuition fees , the introduction of community schools and the creation of an independent integration ministry . Immediately in his department the introduction of the collective agreement and minimum wage law as well as a law on educational leave . To finance the expansion of all-day care, Schmid increased the real estate transfer tax by 1.5 percentage points. In the course of the new regulation of inheritance tax for companies , Schmid demanded that the lower limit for the “needs test” prescribed by the Federal Constitutional Court be set at € 100 million. With the comprehensive “company value” it should be excluded that by splitting to many family members values ​​of several hundred million or even billions of euros can be transferred without inheritance tax without proof of need. Schmid sparked a controversial debate when he set new priorities in the state's funding policy and wanted to cut subsidies for agriculture and tourism in favor of infrastructure, education and care. Critics accused it of weakening rural areas, while supporters saw the need to set priorities in the course of budget consolidation. Schmid himself pointed out that there was consensus in the coalition that the question of rural areas was an infrastructure question.

With Schmid as the top candidate in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg on March 13, 2016 , the SPD achieved its worst election result in the state's existence with 12.68%.

For the 2017 federal election , Schmid stood as a candidate for the SPD in the Nürtingen constituency . At a general assembly on December 6, 2016, it was nominated by 92.6% of the members. He was elected to the Bundestag via the SPD's state list. In March 2018, Schmid was elected his parliamentary group's foreign policy spokesman. He is also a member of the Franco-German working group on the Élysée Treaty , which consists of nine members of the German Bundestag and nine members of the French National Assembly in order to work out a “Franco-German parliamentary agreement”. Nils Schmid has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

In his constituency, Schmid and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation established the “summit meeting” at Hohenneuffen Castle , where Klaus Wowereit was guests in 2018 and Michelle Müntefering in 2019.

Other offices, honors and awards

In 2003 he was a founding member of the board of trustees of the Werner Weinmann Foundation, which primarily supports institutions for the elderly as well as children and youth welfare in the Nürtingen and Filder area. In January 2019 he took over the honorary chairmanship of the foundation. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation since 2003, as its chairman until 2011 and again since 2016. In 2004 he was appointed to the administrative board of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg , from which he resigned in 2016. In 2006 the members of the Wilhelma support association elected him to the board; Because of his government office, this mandate was suspended between 2011 and 2016. From 2007 to 2011 and again since 2016 he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Akademie Schloss Solitude . In 2008 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the German-Turkish Forum Stuttgart . He has been an honorary member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Association since 2011 . When he founded the “Aktion Sterntaler” in 2012, which campaigns for disadvantaged children and young people in the Reutlingen district, he was a member of its board of trustees until 2017. From 2016 he was a member of the administrative board of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and of the foundation board of the Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe. In connection with his mandate in the Bundestag and his membership in the Foreign Affairs Committee, he took on a number of memberships and honorary posts in organizations that maintain international cooperation.

Family and private

Schmid's wife Tülay, of Turkish origin, brought a son into the marriage and the couple also have a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Nils Schmid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nils Schmid wants an open SPD: SPD state chairman in the editorial meeting. In: Badische Zeitung . November 3, 2010.
  2. ↑ State property management, national debt and state assets (= Tübingen writings on constitutional and administrative law. Volume 76). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-12196-0 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Preuss: SPD man from Baden-Württemberg: The quiet and hardworking Nils Schmid . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 7, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Election results according to district associations
  5. ↑ Election result on www.spd-bw.de
  6. ↑ zeit.de: SPD state chairman Nils Schmid gives up office
  7. ^ Kretschmann presents his cabinet , Südwestrundfunk , May 4, 2011
  8. ^ SPD: Stuttgart-21 plebiscite condition for coalition. April 1, 2011, accessed November 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Michael Schlieben: The underestimated Dr. Schmid. March 10, 2011, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ dpa: Green-Red increases real estate transfer tax. October 26, 2011, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Michael Hartmann : The lifted off. How the elites endanger democracy. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 2018. S. 145 ff.
  12. ↑ Reiner Ruf: Funding Policy. Farewell to rural areas. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. July 31, 2012, accessed March 26, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Pure reputation: Agriculture in the southwest. Schmid gets criticism. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. July 31, 2012, accessed March 26, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Schmid is completely wrong - leading article. In: focus.de. August 3, 2012, accessed on November 4, 2017 : "Then a valley grows in the Black Forest."
  15. ↑ Pure reputation: The savings debate. Retreat to the lawnmower. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. August 6, 2012, accessed March 26, 2020 .
  16. ^ Dapd : Rural area. Schmid checks subsidies. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. August 2, 2012, accessed March 26, 2020 .
  17. ↑ State elections: SPD debacle in Baden-Württemberg - AfD celebrates in Saxony-Anhalt. In: ksta.de. March 13, 2016, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Thomas Schorradt: Four to Berlin: In constituency 262, a car pool count . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  19. ^ German-French working group on the Élysée Treaty of the German Bundestag , accessed in June 2020
  20. ↑ Hohenneuffen summit - Politics with a vision: How can politics reach people (again)? Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Hohenneuffen summit: Far-sighted politics Think globally, act locally. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  22. ^ The Foundation - Werner Weinmann Foundation. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  23. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/abiminale/biografien#url=L2FiZ2VvcmRuZXRlL2Jpb2dyYWZpZW4vUy8tLzUyMzM4Mg==&mod=mod525246&dir=ltr
  24. ↑ Sandra Tjong: wife Tülay as a positive example. In: Focus Online . March 25, 2011, accessed January 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH trier