Paul Ziemiak

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Paul Ziemiak (2014)

Paul Ziemiak (* 6. September 1985 in Szczecin , Poland as Paweł Ziemiak ) is a German politician of the CDU . He has been General Secretary of his party since December 8, 2018 . Before that, he was national chairman of the Junge Union from September 2014 to March 2019 . Ziemiak has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 general election .

Origin and youth

Ziemiak grew up in the People's Republic of Poland for the first years of his life ; in Polish his surname is [ ˈʑɛmʲjak / dt . pronounced like "Semjak"]. In 1988 his parents moved with him and his older brother to Germany as a resettler . At first the family lived in the repatriate camp in Unna-Massen and later in Iserlohn . After graduating from a boarding school, Ziemiak first studied law at the universities of Osnabrück and Münster . Ziemiak failed the First State Examination in two attempts and therefore remained without a degree. He then began studying corporate communications at the Business and Information Technology School in Iserlohn, which he did not complete. Until he moved into the Bundestag, Ziemiak worked alongside his studies as a student trainee in Düsseldorf for the auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers .

Ziemiak is a member of the Catholic student association AV Widukind Osnabrück in the CV and the KDStV Winfridia (Breslau) Münster .

Political career

Career in the Union

Ziemiak joined the Junge Union (JU) in 1999 and the CDU in 2001. From 1999 to 2001 he was the first chairman of the newly founded children and youth parliament of the city of Iserlohn. From 2009 to 2012 Ziemiak was district chairman of the Junge Union Südwestfalen and from 2012 to 2014 regional chairman of the Junge Union NRW. Since 2017 he has been a member of the executive board of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. From 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the Iserlohn City Council, where he was deputy parliamentary group leader until 2017.

Paul Ziemiak became known nationwide as the chairman of the Young Union of Germany. After weeks of electoral campaigns , he ran against Benedict Pöttering at the German Day in September 2014 at Germany's Day and won 63 percent of the vote. Ziemiak replaced Philipp Missfelder , who did not run again. It was the first candidate to fight for this office since 1973. On October 14, 2016, Ziemiak was re-elected Federal Chairman at the Junge Union's Germany Day in Paderborn with 85 percent of the vote. In October 2018, the Junge Union confirmed Ziemiak as federal chairman with 91.1 percent of the votes cast.

Federal Assembly and Bundestag

In February 2017, Ziemiak was a member of the 16th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President after the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament had sent him.

At the beginning of July 2016, the constituency assembly in the federal constituency of Herne - Bochum II nominated him as a candidate for the 2017 federal election with an approval of 97 percent . He became the successor to the previous CDU constituency candidate Ingrid Fischbach . Like his predecessor, Ziemiak made it to the Bundestag via the state list, as the constituency was won by the SPD candidate Michelle Müntefering .

In the Bundestag, Ziemiak is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and, among other things, a reporter on international terrorism.

Secretary General of the CDU

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer proposed Ziemiak as her successor as Secretary General of the CDU after her election as CDU chairwoman on December 8, 2018 at the 31st party congress . He was then elected as the only candidate with 62.8 percent of the delegate's votes. This made him the first active member of the Junge Union to switch directly to this position at the federal party. Since December 11, 2018, Ziemiak has suspended his duties as federal chairman. With the election of his successor, Tilman Kuban , his time as federal chairman of the Junge Union ended for good in March 2019.

Political positions

Ziemiak's political priorities include intergenerational equity, education, digitization and energy policy. Ziemiak criticized the grand coalition's introduction of the pension at 63 in several interviews. At the Germany Day 2014, Ziemiak called for the focus in education policy to be more on “non-academics”. He justified this with the consideration that Germany must be a land of opportunities for everyone. He also warned the federal government back then to invest more in broadband expansion and digitalization.

With a view to the Ukraine crisis , which has been going on since 2014 , Ziemiak calls for greater European coordination of energy policy. His demand for a tough crackdown on extremists and Islamists in Germany was also widely quoted : "Anyone who respects Sharia more than the Basic Law - no integration course will help, only prison will help."

At the CDU federal party convention on December 9th and 10th, 2014 in Cologne, Ziemiak, together with the CDU associations MIT and CDA, prevailed with the demand to “work out room for maneuver ... in order to allow citizens to take part in this legislative period. .. to relieve the cold progression ”.

Ziemiak advocates equality between homosexual and heterosexual partnerships and the possibility of adoption by homosexual couples.

Personal

Ziemiak is a Roman Catholic , married and has two children.

Fonts

  • Principle 18: Parliamentarism. In: Christoph Klausing (Hrsg.): The Cologne guidelines 1945 and today. A search for the core brand of Christian Democracy. LIT, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-14103-3 , pp. 193-200.

Web links

Commons : Paul Ziemiak  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A double-edged sword faz.net of December 8, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019
  2. ^ Paul Ziemiak nowym sekretarzem generalnym CDU wpolityce.pl of December 8, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Fabian Leber: Two want to be the successor to Philipp Missfelder. In: Der Tagesspiegel . 19th September 2014.
  4. ↑ Philipp Kinne: How Paul Ziemiak was promoted to the Junge Union. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , February 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ Dietmar Palan: Auditor PwC helps young CDU star to the best of his ability. In: Manager Magazin , June 23, 2014; Paul Ziemiak - Young conservative with a migration background should reconcile the CDU. In: Stern.de , December 8, 2018; Vita at the German Bundestag .
  6. ↑ AV Widukind Osnabrück, PDF file, p. 9
  7. ↑ KDSt.V. Winfridia - Breslau zu Munster, September 27, 2017
  8. ↑ Paul Ziemiak is the new chairman. In: Handelsblatt . September 19, 2014, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Merkel attacks the AfD. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 19, 2014, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Ziemiak re-elected with 91 percent. In: Spiegel Online , October 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ Hartmut Becker: Paul Ziemiak is a candidate for the Bundestag. In: ikz-online.de. May 18, 2016, accessed November 6, 2018 .
  12. ↑ CDU provides Ziemiak with 97 percent for the Herne-Bochum district. In: derwesten.de. July 2, 2016, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  13. ^ German Bundestag - Paul Ziemiak. In: German Bundestag. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ JU boss Ziemiak elected general secretary with poor results. In: Welt Online , December 8, 2018.
  15. ^ Paul Ziemiak: Head of the Junge Union elected as the new CDU General Secretary. In: Spiegel Online , December 8, 2018.
  16. ↑ Federal Chairman of the Junge Union: Paul Ziemiak Member of the Bundestag leaves office. Young Union. December 11, 2018.
  17. ↑ Tilman Kuban is the new chairman of the Junge Union. In: The time . 16th March 2019.
  18. ↑ Gregor Mayntz : Junge Union wants to abolish retirement at 63. In: Rheinische Post . September 22, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Paul Ziemiak is the new head of the Junge Union. In: The time . September 20, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  20. ↑ New JU boss calls for unity. In: Focus . September 22, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Andreas Herholz: We boys have to pay dearly for the pension package. In: Nordwest-Zeitung . September 22, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  22. ↑ dpa: Paul Ziemiak - constructive, not harmless. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . September 21, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  23. ↑ Robin Alexander , Claudia Ehrenstein, Miriam Hollstein : "Tax rebels" prevail against Merkel. In: The world . December 8, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  24. ^ Gaby Mayr: Equality in parties and politics - progress and breaking taboos. In: Deutschlandfunk - " Background " from April 15, 2017.
  25. ↑ bundestag.de: Biography Paul Ziemiak, CDU / CSU [1] , accessed on December 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ziemiak, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziemiak, Paweł (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin