Richard Dewes
Richard Dewes (born July 12, 1948 in Alsweiler , Saarland ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1994 to 1999 he was Interior Minister of the Free State of Thuringia and the top candidate of the SPD in the state election in Thuringia in 1999 .
Life
Dewes has been a member of the SPD since 1968. From 1968 to 1972 he studied law and Catholic theology in Saarbrücken and Tübingen .
1985 to 1990 he was a member of the state parliament in Saarland, 1990/91 State Secretary in the Saarland Ministry of Social Affairs, then until 1994 State Secretary in the Saarland Ministry of the Interior.
In 1994 Bernhard Vogel appointed him as Thuringian Minister of the Interior in the grand coalition that came about through the Thuringian state elections in 1994 .
As such, Dewes was the top candidate for the state election on September 12, 1999 . Since the CDU achieved an absolute majority in this election, while the SPD fell from 29.6 percent to 18.5 percent and was only the third strongest force behind the CDU and PDS, Dewes resigned from his ministerial office in October 1999 and resigned also the SPD state chairmanship, which he took over in 1996, to Christoph Matschie .
Between 1999 and 2001 Richard Dewes was a member of the state parliament in Thuringia. In the summer of 2001, he resigned from his state parliament mandate. Since 2001 he has been working as a lawyer and management consultant in Bechstedt in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district.
On November 24, 2007, at the SPD state party conference in Schmalkalden, he announced his return to state politics through his candidacy as the top candidate of the Thuringian SPD for the upcoming state elections in 2009, thereby calling on the parliamentary and state chairman of the Thuringian SPD, Christoph Matschie, to out. In contrast to Matschie, Dewes advocated a possible coalition with the left , in which the SPD could only function as a “junior partner” and the left could provide the prime minister. The two applicants answered questions from SPD members in more than 20 constituency events. On February 24, 2008, the Thuringian SPD elected Matschie as their top candidate in a strike vote with 71.6 percent of the vote (63.2 percent turnout). Dewes received 27.0 percent.
Dewes is married to Marion Rosin . He has two sons from his first marriage.
Web links
- Presentation of Dewes on the website of the law firm Halm & Preßer
Individual evidence
- ^ Matschie SPD top candidate in Thuringia , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 24, 2008
- ↑ Primary election in Thuringia - Matschie wins with an overwhelming majority , SPD Thuringia, February 24, 2008
State of Thuringia (1920–1952): Carl Eduard Freiherr von Brandenstein | Karl Hermann | Georg Sattler | Arnold Paulssen | Karl Riedel | Wilhelm Frick | Erwin Baum | Fritz Sauckel | Fritz Wächtler | Walter Ortlepp | Ernst Busse | Werner Eggerath | Willy Gebhardt
Free State of Thuringia (since 1990): Willibald Böck | Franz Schuster | Richard Dewes | Christian Köckert | Andreas Trautvetter | Karl Heinz Gasser | Manfred Scherer | Peter M. Huber | Jörg Geibert | Holger Poppenhäger | Georg Maier
Hermann Leber (in the 1920s) | Georg Dietrich (1929–1933)
Hermann Brill (1945) | August Frölich (acting) (1945–1946) | Heinrich Hoffmann (1946)
Wilfried Machalett (1990) | Bernd Brösdorf (1990) | Peter Laskowski (1990-1991) | Gisela Schröter (1991–1994) | Gerd Schuchardt (1994-1996) | Richard Dewes (1996-1999) | Christoph Matschie (1999–2014) | Andreas Bausewein (2014–2017) | Heike Taubert (acting) (2018) | Wolfgang Tiefensee (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dewes, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alsweiler , Saarland |