Thomas Knapp

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Thomas Knapp (born March 28, 1959 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Pforzheim , Knapp studied mechanical engineering at the Technical College in Esslingen until 1989 . He then worked for Porsche as a test engineer for six years . In 1995 he went into business for himself with Unomondo Knapp . Thomas Knapp is married to Patricia Knapp for the second time and has two grown sons from his first marriage.

politics

In 1994, Knapp joined the SPD. In the same year he was appointed to the council of Mühlacker chosen which he belonged by 2002. From 1996 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Mühlacker City Council again. He has also been a member of the district council of the Enzkreis and the association assembly of the Northern Black Forest region since 1999 . From 2001 to 2011 Knapp was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . There he represented constituency 44 (Enz) and was energy policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. Thomas Knapp was a member of the economic committee and the environmental committee of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.

Thomas Knapp was district chairman of the SPD in the Enzkreis from January 1999 to November 2008.

In the course of the controversial funeral speech that the then Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Günther Oettinger held in 2007 on the occasion of the death of Hans Filbinger, Thomas Knapp gained nationwide attention. Knapp had the then chairman of the CDU state parliamentary group, Stefan Mappus MdL, on May 2 at a district delegate conference of the SPD district association Enzkreis in Keltern-Ellmendingen, in connection with the CDU's role in the affair of Oettinger's funeral speech for Hans Filbinger and the events criticized around the study center Weikersheim. Among other things, he spoke of “brown sauce” in the minds of some CDU politicians. He had also said that Mappus was fishing on the right edge and "if the earth were flat, Mappus would fall over the edge, it is already that far to the right". Stefan Mappus then tried to have these statements prohibited under civil law, but failed with his application for an injunction on May 31, 2007 before the Karlsruhe Regional Court.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mappus with brown sauce. ka-news.de, June 10, 2007, accessed on March 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Mappus has to put up with violent attacks - application for an injunction rejected Badische Latest News from June 1, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Knapp, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg