Thomas Freund (State Secretary)

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Thomas Freund (born January 29, 1958 in Gelsenkirchen ; † October 9, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German political official .

Since 2002 he has represented the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at the federal level as State Secretary for Federal Affairs and Commissioner , until he was replaced in this role on October 25, 2011 by Angelika Peters .

Career

After graduating from high school in Essen in 1976, Freund studied Romance and German studies in Bonn, Lisbon and Cologne until 1984. He graduated with the first state examination for teaching at upper secondary level. The civil service with the German Red Cross was followed by a research stay in Lisbon (1985–1987). Financed by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , he worked on his dissertation on the politician Pombal , receiving his doctorate in May 1988.

From 1987 to 1988 Freund was a trainee at the Hamburg School of Journalism , after which he became an editor in the political department of the business magazine "impulse" . In 1993, Freund went to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to head the press office of the SPD parliamentary group. In January 1995 he became deputy government spokesman . After the red-red coalition under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff (SPD) took office following the state elections in 1998 , Freund rose to become government spokesman. He held this position until his appointment as State Secretary in November 2002.

In December 2009, he publicly attacked the CDU, in particular Berndt Seite , because of their " turning necks " from the time as a bloc party . At the age of only 53, he was put into provisional retirement in 2011 by Prime Minister Erwin Sellering (SPD). He was no longer assigned any new paid job.

Fonts

  • Pombal myths in Portuguese literature: com um resumo em português: "Mitos pombalinos na literatura portuguesa" , Cologne 1988 ISBN 978-3-926135-04-9
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Handbook of the state and local government with task descriptions and addresses : Edition 2008, Heymanns, Cologne 2007 ISBN 9783452266583

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Freund passed away. SVZ, October 11, 2019, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sellering appoints three women as state secretaries ( memento from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Nordkurier from October 26, 2011
  3. ^ Volgmann: SPD State Secretary snubbed the CDU. SVZ, December 7, 2009, accessed January 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Citizen pays for five state secretaries. In: Nordkurier. August 22, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Friend, thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, State Secretary in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2019
Place of death Berlin