Raymond Walk

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Raymond Walk (born March 22, 1962 in Fulda ) is a German CDU politician and member of the Thuringian state parliament , to which he was first elected in the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 . Walk has been Secretary General of the CDU Thuringia since 2017 .

Professional background

Walk completed training as a law enforcement officer , worked as such for a number of years for the Hessian police and graduated in 1991 from the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences with a degree in administrative management (FH) . He switched to the Thuringian police in 1991 and was head of the police stations in Bad Langensalza and Erfurt- Süd from 1992 to 1994 . From 1994 to 1996 he studied at the police college in Münster and in 1996 became head of the police station in Eisenach . In 2002 he moved to the Gotha police department as head of the authorities , then in 2006 in the same function in the state capital Erfurt. In 2008 he was appointed Chief Police Director of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior . Here he was initially employed as head of the division , transport tasks. In 2014, Walk was appointed acting representative of the public security department and also took on the duties of department head.

Political career

The then non-party Walk competed in the local elections in Thuringia in 2012 for the CDU as a candidate for the post of Lord Mayor of the city of Eisenach, but was narrowly defeated in the runoff election by his competitor Katja Wolf ( Die Linke ). In 2012, Walk joined the CDU and became district chairman of the Eisenach district association.

In the local elections in Thuringia in 2014 , Walk successfully ran for the Eisenach city council and became chairman of the CDU parliamentary group as the successor to Gerhard Schneider . In 2019 he was re-elected to the city council.

For the 2014 state elections , he ran in the constituency of Wartburg District II - Eisenach as a direct candidate for the CDU and prevailed with 37.4 percent of the vote. In the Thuringian state parliament he was from 2014 to 2019 deputy chairman of the Interior and Local Committee. In the 7th Thuringian State Parliament, Walk is again a member of the Parliamentary Control Commission and chairman of the G10 commission .

Walk was appointed General Secretary of the CDU Thuringia in 2017 after this post had been vacant since December 2014. Walk was confirmed in office by election at the state party conference in November 2017. On October 20, 2018, he was re-elected with 93.96 percent and thus the best result of all board members.

In the 2019 state elections , he again won the direct mandate in his constituency with 26.9 percent, this time just ahead of the left candidate . There he is domestic policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group. On March 2, 2020, he was elected deputy group leader.

Volunteering

Raymond Walk is chairman of the Point Alpha Association . Walk has been an elected member of the Catholic Council of the Diocese of Erfurt since 2015 .

From 2014 to 2019 Walk was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wartburg Foundation .

Private

Walk is married and has two grown daughters. He is Catholic and lives in Eisenach .

Web links

Commons : Raymond Walk  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "CDU board nominates Raymond Walk as OB candidate" August 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Local elections 2012. Preliminary results of the runoff elections in the Free State of Thuringia. (PDF; 288 kB) May 6, 2012, accessed on July 2, 2012 .
  3. ↑ City council election 2019. Accessed on December 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ State election 2014 in Thuringia - final result in constituency Wartburgkreis II - Eisenach , Thuringian state returning officer, accessed on March 7, 2020
  5. ↑ Walk was elected to the Parliamentary Control Commission with 69 out of 88 votes
  6. ^ G-10 Commission. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Walk is to become the new General Secretary of the Thuringian CDU ( Memento from July 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Website of the CDU Thuringia, accessed on August 22, 2018@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cdu-thueringen.de
  9. ^ CDU Thuringia: Results 28th state party conference. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
  10. ^ Elections in Thuringia. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ MDR THÜRINGEN / seg: Mario Voigt elected head of the CDU parliamentary group in Thuringia. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Vita on his website , accessed on March 7, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Walk, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda