Thomas Schmidt (politician, March 1961)
Thomas Gottfried Schmidt (born March 7, 1961 in Burgstädt ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2004 and Saxon State Minister for Regional Development since 2019 . From 2014 to 2019 he was Saxon State Minister for Environment and Agriculture .
life and career
In addition to graduating from high school, Thomas Schmidt trained as an agricultural engineer and studied from 1982 to 1987 at the Martin Luther University in Halle to become a qualified agricultural engineer. From 1987 to 1991 he held various management functions in the LPG (plant production) Hartmannsdorf and from 1991 to 2014 he was operations manager of Gruma agrar GmbH Tauscha .
Thomas Schmidt is an Evangelical Lutheran, married and has two children.
politics
Thomas Schmidt joined the DBD in 1985 and became a member of the CDU with the merger in 1990. In the CDU he was deputy chairman from 1995 to 2007 and chairman of the CDU district association Mittweida from 2007 to 2008 . He is a member of the state board of the Saxon Union.
In local politics he was active as a member of the Taura municipal council near Burgstädt until 2010. Since the 4th legislative period from 2004, he has been a directly elected member of the Saxon State Parliament for constituency 22 (Mittweida 2 and Mittelachsen 5) . In the state parliament he was a member of the Committee on Environment and Agriculture from 2004 to 2014, of which he was deputy chairman from 2009 to 2014. In addition, during the legislative period from 2004 to 2009, he was a member of the Petitions Committee and the Sächsische Landesbank investigation committee . From 2009 to 2011 he was Chairman of the Committee on Immunity and Rules of Procedure. He was also a member of the CDU parliamentary group on economy, work and transport. From 2010 to 2013 Schmidt was chairman of the study commission on strategies for a future-oriented technology and innovation policy in the Free State of Saxony , which presented its final report in the first quarter of 2013. From 2011 to 2014 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.
On November 13, 2014, Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich appointed him Minister of State for Environment and Agriculture in the Saxon state government.
From November 28, 2014 to June 30, 2016, as a representative of the Federal Council and a member of the Saxon State Government, he was a full member of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste (Repository Commission) in accordance with Section 3 of the Site Selection Act .
Thomas Schmidt was a member of the 15th Federal Assembly for the election of Federal President Joachim Gauck on March 18, 2012 and the 16th Federal Assembly for the election of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on February 12, 2017. He is also a deputy member of the Federal Council for the Free State of Saxony . He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Saxon State Foundation for Nature and Environment . Thomas Schmidt is a member of the supervisory board of the Saxony Economic Development Corporation and the Saxon Energy Agency (SAENA) . In addition, he is an honorary member of the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems ( ENAS ) in Chemnitz .
In the state elections in Saxony in 2019 , he was again elected constituency member in the constituency of Central Saxony 5 with 36.9 percent of the direct votes.
In the Kretschmer II cabinet he was sworn in as Saxon State Minister for Regional Development on December 20, 2019 .
Web links
- Short biography. Saxon State Parliament.
- Literature by and about Thomas Schmidt in the Saxon Bibliography
- Own website
- Website at the CDU parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Saxon State Chancellery of November 13, 2014: Tillich's new government is in place , accessed on November 13, 2014.
- ^ Final report of the Bundestag's Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste Materials , page 551
- ↑ State election Saxony 2019 results constituency central Saxony 5 , accessed September 5, 2019
- ^ Prime Minister Kretschmer introduces new government. December 20, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
Prime Minister: Michael Kretschmer (first deputy: Wolfram Günther , second deputy: Martin Dulig )
State Minister: Wolfram Günther ( Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture ) | Martin Dulig ( Economy, Labor and Transport ) | Roland Wöller ( Interior ) | Hartmut Vorjohann ( Finance ) | Katja Meier ( Justice, Democracy, Europe and Equality ) | Christian Piwarz ( cult ) | Sebastian Gemkow ( science ) | Barbara Klepsch ( Culture and Tourism ) | Petra Köpping ( Social ) | Thomas Schmidt ( regional development ) | Oliver Schenk ( State Chancellery, Federal Affairs and Media )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Thomas Gottfried (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgstädt |