Rico Gebhardt
Rico Gebhardt (born May 27, 1963 in Schlema , Aue district ) is a German politician ( PDS / Die Linke ). He has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2004 . From 2009 to 2017 he was chairman of the Saxon state association . From August 2012 to August 2019 he was chairman of his parliamentary group “ opposition leader ” in the Saxon state parliament.
Life
Rico Gebhardt graduated from the polytechnic high school after the 10th grade and then completed an apprenticeship as a cook. He did three years of military service in the National People's Army . From 1984 to 1987 he was a full-time FDJ functionary. Subsequently, he worked as a sales point manager, division manager in retail and managing director of a fish wholesaler. In the 1990s he was a personal assistant to a member of the Bundestag. Since 2000 he has been the state manager of the party Die Linke in the state association of Saxony.
Gebhardt lives in Dresden, is married and has four children.
politics
Rico Gebhardt joined the SED in 1981 (from 1990 PDS ). After reunification, he was a local councilor in the Aue-Schwarzenberg district for his party from March 1990 to April 2003 and a city councilor in Aue from June 1994 to April 2003 . In the local elections in 1994 and 1999 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Aue.
From 1999 to 2009 Gebhardt was regional manager of the PDS (or after the renaming in 2007 Die Linke Sachsen ). Since October 2004 he has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament . There he is a member of the Committee on Rules of Procedure and Immunity Matters as well as the Constitutional, Legal and European Committee and a deputy member of the Presidium. He is the domestic policy spokesman in his parliamentary group . In September 2009 he ran for the office of parliamentary group chairman, but lost significantly to André Hahn .
On November 7, 2009, he was elected as the successor to Cornelia Ernst with 156 of 202 votes as the state chairman of the Left in Saxony and was confirmed in this office on November 5, 2011. On July 17, 2012, he was elected to succeed André Hahn as chairman of the Left Party in the Saxon state parliament. He took over this chair on August 1, 2012.
On November 16, 2013, a state party conference in Leipzig nominated him as the top candidate of his party for the state election on August 31, 2014 . In November 2017 he was replaced as chairman of the state party - at his suggestion - by Antje Feiks , but Gebhardt retained the chairmanship of the parliamentary group. For the 2019 state election , he again ran as the top candidate of the left.
Web links
- Short biography. Saxon State Parliament.
- Entry about Gebhardt in the left-wing fraction of Saxony
- Rico Gebhardt's blog
Individual evidence
Klaus Bartl (1990-1991) | Peter Porsch (1991–1995) | Reinhard Lauter (1995–1997) | Peter Porsch (1997-2001) | Cornelia Ernst (2001–2009) | Rico Gebhardt (2009-2017) | Antje Feiks (2017–2019) | Susanne Schaper , Stefan Hartmann (since 2019)
Bundestag: Dietmar Bartsch and Amira Mohamed Ali
Berlin: Anne Helm , Carsten Schatz | Brandenburg: Kathrin Dannenberg , Sebastian Walter | Bremen: Sofia Leonidakis , Nelson Janßen | Hamburg: Sabine Boeddinghaus , Cansu Özdemir | Hessen: Janine Wissler | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Simone Oldenburg | Saarland: Oskar Lafontaine | Saxony: Rico Gebhardt | Saxony-Anhalt: Thomas Lippmann | Thuringia: Susanne Hennig-Wellsow
Klaus Bartl (1990-1994) | Peter Porsch (1994-2007) | André Hahn (2007–2012) | Rico Gebhardt (since 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebhardt, Rico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Die Linke), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlema |