Thomas Blenke

Thomas Blenke (* 17th April 1960 in Ludwigshafen ) is a Baden-Wuerttemberg politicians of CDU and member of the state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg .

education and profession

After primary school in Gechingen and attending the Hermann-Hesse-Gymnasium in Calw , he switched to the commercial high school in Calw, where he graduated from high school. After an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in Stuttgart , he studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen . After the assessor exam, he worked from 1991 to 1993 at the Tübingen regional council and from 1993 to 1995 at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport. From 1995 to 2001 he was parliamentary advisor to the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg.

Political activity

Thomas Blenke has been a member of the CDU since 1978. From 1984 to 1991 he was a member of the local council in his home town of Gechingen. Since 1995 he has been chairman of the CDU district association in Calw. He is also a member of the district board of the CDU North Baden, and deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the district council of the Calw district . Since 2004 he has been a member of the community council in Gechingen again. He was elected deputy mayor there after the local elections in 2004 and 2009.

Since April 17, 2001 he has been a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. There he exercised the following functions, among others:

13th parliamentary term 2001–2006	Member of the Standing Committee Member of the interior committee Member of the petitions committee Member of the committee according to Art. 10 GG Deputy in the committee for science, research and art
14th electoral term 2006–2011	Member of the interior committee Member of the European Committee. Member of the committee according to Article 10 of the Basic Law. Chairman of the European Policy Working Group in the CDU parliamentary group. Police spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group
15th parliamentary term 2011–2016	Member of the interior committee Member of the Committee for European and International Member of the Board pursuant to Art. 10 GG deputy in the Standing Committee deputy in the Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs deputy in the Committee on Culture, Youth and Sports deputy in the Committee on Science, Research and Arts alternate member of Labor and Social order, family, women and senior citizens Deputy in the Committee for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection
16th electoral term from 2016	Member ... Member of the committee - to be added -

Private life

Thomas Blenke is Protestant and married.

Web links

• Website by Thomas Blenke
• Profile of a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament in the 16th electoral term
• Profile page at the CDU parliamentary group
• Thomas Blenke on parliamentwatch.de