Reyk Seela

Reyk Seela (born September 14, 1964 in Rodewisch ) is a Thuringian politician ( CDU ) and was a member of the Thuringian state parliament from 1999 to 2009 .

Life and work

Between 1971 and 1979, Seela attended the “ Clara Zetkin ” polytechnic in Plauen in the Vogtland . He then completed a special class for foreign languages ​​at the extended secondary school in Plauen before taking his Abitur in Halle . From 1983 to 1988 Reyk Seela studied history in Voronezh, Russia, at the state university and graduated as a historian.

From September 1988, Seela worked for four years as a research assistant in the history department for the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and also worked as a translator . He then worked between September 1992 and May 1996 for the Thuringian State Parliament and the State Medical Association of Thuringia.

From July 1996 to the end of 1999, Seela worked as a book and documentary film writer, editor and translator for the Jena local television station Jena-TV, among others. In 2000, on behalf of Heron Verlagsgesellschaft , a cover company of the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the educational film Youth Extremism in the Middle of Germany - Scenes from Thuringia, in which, among others, André Kapke , member of the right-wing Thuringian Homeland Security , maintained close contact with members of the Terrorist group National Socialist Underground had a say as a protagonist of right-wing extremist groups. The film was criticized in an open letter from the State Youth Association of Thuringia to the state government, among other things for downplaying right-wing ideological violence.

Political career

In December 1993 Reyk Seela joined the CDU . In November 1998 at the age of 34 he was elected as the youngest district chairman of the CDU in the Free State of Thuringia.

Since the state election in Thuringia in 1999 , Seela was a member of the Thuringian state parliament for the CDU parliamentary group and was its media policy spokesman until 2004. In the 2004 state elections , he received a total of 8,209 votes (30 percent) in the constituency of Jena I and was re-elected.

In the local elections on June 27, 2004 in Thuringia, he was elected to the city council of Jena and was chairman of the CDU city council group from September 2006 to September 2010.

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 , Seela received only 22.5 percent of the first votes in the constituency and was thus behind both the SPD top candidate Christoph Matschie and Karin Kaschuba (Die Linke). Also on the CDU state list, where Seela only ran for 34th place, the re-entry into the state parliament was not successful.

Seela did not run for the election of the district chairman of the CDU Jena in April 2010. He resigned from the chairmanship of the city council. Since June 2010, Seela has been the state manager of the CDU Thuringia's local political association .

Works

• Diets and regional representations in the Russian states 1848 / 67–1923. Biographical handbook (= Parliaments in Thuringia 1809–1952. Part 2). Gustav Fischer, Jena a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-437-35046-3 .
• Youth extremism in the middle of Germany - scenes from Thuringia. 2000, educational film.
• The transitional state parliaments and regional representation in the Russian states and the People's State of Reuss 1919-1923. In: Harald Mitteldorf (Red.): The forgotten parliaments. Landtag and regional representations in the Thuringian states and territories 1919 to 1923. Published by the Thuringian Landtag, Hain, Rudolstadt / Jena 2002, pp. 233–274.
• The myth of a youth hostel. The Youth Hostel Association (DJH) in Thuringia - a historical outline. , Bussert & Stadeler: Jena / Leipzig / Quedlinburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942115-12-4
• The social and health policy as the subject of parliamentary debates in the two Russian state parliaments 1848/67 to 1918 , in: Harald Mitteldorf (Red.): The treatment of social and health policy in the Thuringian state parliaments since the first half of the 19th century , ed. v. Thüringer Landtag, Wartburg-Verlag: Weimar 2012, pp. 260–310.
• Hiking worlds. The migration movement in Thuringia - a historical outline. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations Landesverband Thüringen eV , ed. v. Christine Lieberknecht , Bussert & Stadeler: Jena / Leipzig / Quedlinburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-942115-42-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steffen Winter: Secret Services - alias Rubicon . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 2005, pp. 48-49 ( online ).
2. ↑ Erfurt: Open letter Landesjugendring Thueringen . Erfurt, July 13, 2000, nadir.org
3. ↑ Constituency results at the regional returning officer