Thomas Hartung (politician)

This article describes the SPD politician Thomas Hartung. There is also the journalist and AfD politician Thomas Hartung (journalist) .

Thomas Hartung, May 2011

Falk Thomas Hartung (born September 5, 1970 in Weimar ) is a German politician ( SPD ; previously Die Linke ). From 2009 to 2014 and from 2017 to today he was or is a member of the Thuringian State Parliament .

Life

In the year Hartung was born, his family moved with him to the Worbis district in Eichsfeld . Here he attended the Polytechnic High School in Niederorschel and the Extended High School in Leinefelde .

After graduating from high school, Hartung studied medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1991 to 1998 and then worked as an intern in Jena and as an assistant doctor in the field of surgery in Blankenhain and Weimar . In 2002 he started work on the development of smallpox vaccination at the University of Jena, with a special focus on Thuringia in the 18th and 19th centuries . PhD . In August 2007 he became Head of Infection Protection at the Erfurt Health Department .

Political career

After Hartung had been involved in the New Forum and Alliance 90 / The Greens from 1990 to 1992 , he became a member of the PDS in 2000 (since 2007: DIE LINKE). Since 2002 he has been a member of the board of the Apolda - Weimar district association , and since 2004 has been deputy district chairman. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the state executive committee of the DIE LINKE party in Thuringia.

In 2004 Hartung was elected to the Weimar City Council for the PDS. After his re-election in June 2009, he became co-chair of the left-wing parliamentary group on the city council. In November 2009, Hartung founded the “New Left” faction together with three other city councilors, so that the left faction split. The split was preceded by a month-long dispute within the left faction and the foundation of the “New Left” association on October 31, 2009.

Thomas Hartung was one of the supporters of the anti-capitalist left and the Red Aid .

MP

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 , Hartung was elected to the Thuringian state parliament as a direct candidate for DIE LINKE in the Weimar constituency. He received 28.4% of the vote. On August 11, 2010, he declared his resignation from the DIE LINKE party and the parliamentary group and switched to the SPD parliamentary group as a non-party member. On August 14, 2010 it was announced that Hartung had previously considered moving to the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen faction after he had been invited to convert from this faction. This conversion did not occur because Hartung "did not want to move from one conflict to another".

Initially, Hartung was also in the SPD parliamentary group, as was previously the case in the left parliamentary group, health policy spokesman. Since August 2011, he has been assigned the areas of universities and science. Hartung worked in the Thuringian state parliament in the committee for education, science and culture as well as in the justice and constitutional committee. Since December 2011 he has also been a member of the SPD.

In the state election in 2014 Hartung lost his mandate. Neither the 14th place on the state list of the SPD nor the first vote result in his constituency Weimar II (19.1%) were sufficient for re-election. After Uwe Höhn , who had been appointed State Secretary, resigned, Hartung returned to the state parliament on September 9, 2017. In the 2019 state elections , he first missed re-entry into the state parliament. Since Wolfgang Tiefensee resigned from his mandate in order to devote himself to his work as minister and state party chairman, Hartung moved in again as a successor in the state parliament with effect from December 5, 2019.

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1. ↑ Thomas Hartung: On the development of the smallpox vaccination with special consideration of Thuringia in the 18th and 19th centuries , dissertation
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://thomas-hartung.info/impressum/lebenslauf/
4. ↑ http://www.tlz.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Austritt-Thomas-Hartung-heuert-bei-der-SPD-an-1987269351  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://www.linksnet.de/de/artikel/25802
6. ↑ http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/177355.wechseller.html
7. ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Das-gruene-Herz-des-Thomas-Hartung-52695134
8. ^ Constituency 032 Weimar II at the regional returning officer Thuringia
9. ↑ https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/politik/wolfgang-tiefensee-lege-offiziell-landtagsmandat-nieder-id227825147.html

Web links

Commons : Thomas Hartung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Thomas Hartung
• Biography at the Thuringian Parliament