Raju Sharma

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Raju Sharma (2008)

Raju Sharma (born July 28, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German politician (formerly DKP , SPD and Die Linke ) and was the office manager of the Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Albig (SPD) from the beginning of 2015 to 2017 .

During the 17th electoral term from 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag for Die Linke . In addition to his mandate as a member of the Bundestag , he was federal treasurer of the Left Party until May 2014 . After resigning from Die Linke (2014), Sharma applied for membership in the SPD again.

Life

origin

Raju Sharma was born in Hamburg to an Indian father and a German mother. After graduating from high school in 1983, he studied law ( one-stage legal training ) at the University of Hamburg and in Mumbai . In 1990 he worked briefly as a resident lawyer in Hamburg.

Professional career

Since July 1990 Raju Sharma was in the Schleswig-Holstein state service, u. a. As head of the ministerial office, legal advisor, European representative in the Ministry of Social Affairs, group leader at the Landesrechnungshof Schleswig-Holstein (chairman of the staff council) and head of section in the state chancellery (budget, administrative modernization). From 2003 to 2005 Sharma was Managing Director of the DFB Culture Foundation. There he was responsible for the arts and culture program for the 2006 World Cup under André Heller . In 2006 he was a short-term EU expert on the twinning project to develop public financial control in Bulgaria .

From 2005 to 2009 Sharma was in the Schleswig-Holstein State Chancellery (cultural department) head of the department for national minorities, heritage, churches and religious communities, socioculture, EU cultural affairs and monument preservation as well as deputy chairman of the main staff council and the working group of main staff councils at the highest state authorities . After the end of his mandate in the Bundestag, Sharma returned to the Kiel State Chancellery. From January 2014 to December 2014, he was head of the department for the coordination of justice, culture and Europe.

Political career

Raju Sharma has been involved in the peace movement since the 1970s . He was a member of the SDAJ , the DKP and the MSB Spartakus .

In 1992 he joined the SPD .

In 2005 he switched to the Left Party in Schleswig-Holstein. Since June 2007 he has been a member of the Federal Finance Audit Commission of the Left (Deputy Chairman since May 2008). In 2009 Raju Sharma was candidate for mayor of the Left in Kiel and competed against the SPD candidate Torsten Albig. From 2009 to 2013 he was the religious policy spokesman for his party's parliamentary group. He was elected to the 17th German Bundestag in the 2009 Bundestag election via the Schleswig-Holstein state list of the Left . At the federal party conference in May 2010, Raju Sharma was elected federal treasurer. At the Göttingen federal party conference of the left on June 3, 2012, Raju Sharma prevailed against Heinz Bierbaum again as federal treasurer. At the 4th party congress on May 10, 2014, he was defeated by Thomas Nord and thus resigned from the party executive. In the general election in 2013 his candidacy failed. In 2014 he resigned from the Left Party .

From January 2015 until his election in 2017, Sharma was the office manager of Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Torsten Albig (SPD). He had already submitted a membership application for this party after self-disclosure.

Works

  • INRI - Thorsberg's casket (historical thriller). 2. revised Edition. Eckernförde 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042008-5
  • together with Christoph Müller: Hineni - Abrahams Messer (Thriller). Eckernförde 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062522-0

Web links

Commons : Raju Sharma  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die-Linke.de: Left nominate Raju Sharma as OB candidates 17 November, 2008
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100227045430/http://lafontaines-linke.de/2010/02/kaessmann-ruecktritt-ramelow-sharma/
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Directory of the provisionally elected state list applicants ( memento of October 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , September 28, 2009
  5. ↑ Election of the party executive committee. Die Linke, accessed May 15, 2010 .
  6. ↑ die-linke.de ( Memento from May 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ a b Sharma's new job , Neues Deutschland, January 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Sharma, Raju
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg