Reinhardt Thomas

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Namibian athlete of the same name, see Reinhardt Thomas (athlete) .

Reinhardt Thomas (born May 1, 1946 in Großörner , Mansfelder Gebirgskreis ) is a German politician ( SPD , CDU ).

Thomas worked as a fitter, machine attendant and master in mechanical engineering. In 1964 he joined the Deutsche Seereederei before he was banned from working there. He switched to the Rostock-Schwedt pipeline , where he was shift supervisor for oil terminal storage facilities and in 1984 took on a position as a dispatcher for heat supply at the Rostock public utility . In 1996 he became an administrative employee and deputy department head at the Güstrow University of Applied Sciences .

Thomas joined the SDP in 1989 , which later became part of the SPD. In 1990 he was elected directly to the state parliament in the first state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Rostock I constituency , where he was the domestic political spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. In 1992 he left the SPD because, from his point of view, it should have come close to the PDS . In 1993 he joined the CDU, also became a member of the CDA , where he was also a member of the Federal Police Working Group, deputy chairman of the state committee for domestic affairs and member of the working group on foreigners law of the CDU / CSU parliamentary groups in Germany. After losing his state parliament mandate in the 1994 elections, he moved to the Schwerin state parliament in 1997, where he was a member of parliament until 2006. From 1993 on he was the security policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group.

Thomas is married and has one child.

Web links

• http://www.landtag-mv.de/landtag/03ababe/cdu/thomas.htm ( Memento from October 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive )