Thomas Schmid (politician)

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Thomas Schmid, 2013

Thomas Schmid (born January 31, 1961 in Oberammergau ) is a German local politician ( CSB ).

Career

Schmid put 1981 on Werdenfels-Gymnasium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the High School from. After completing basic military service in the Bundeswehr , he studied political science at the University of Munich . This was followed by postgraduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges , Belgium , from which he completed a Master of European Studies. He joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic in 1989 and was most recently head of the legal and consular department of the German Embassy in Ottawa.

From 2002 to 2014 he was First Mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen . After he was accused in Garmisch-Partenkirchen of harming the CSU with his party's high-handed leadership style, the party did not re-run him as a candidate for mayor in 2007. As a reaction to this he resigned from the local grouping of the party and founded the so-called Christian Social Alliance (CSB) with other former members of the local association.

After Schmid could not achieve an absolute majority in the first ballot in the 2014 local elections and a runoff against the SPD candidate Sigrid Meierhofer was pending, he announced in an email that he would no longer be available for the office of mayor would. Even in the event of a possible victory in the runoff election, he would not accept the election. After that, Schmid could not be reached for several days. Schmid received 32.5 percent of the vote in the runoff election.

Thomas Schmid has been General Manager of the Bavarian Construction Industry Association since July 1, 2014 .

Trivia

Schmid caused a sensation not only in the regional press when he asked his wedding guests to donate money for a luxury holiday instead of gifts. It was only in response to protests that he refrained from this idea.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Schmid (politician, * 1961)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Then stop without the CSU . Süddeutsche.de, May 17, 2010
  2. ^ Christian Social Alliance eV: History . Retrieved December 23, 2014
  3. ↑ Mayor Schmid is taking vacation . Garmisch-Partenkirchener Tagblatt, March 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ Communication from the Construction Industry Association , accessed on February 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (CSB)
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau