Thomas Zimmermann (politician)

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Thomas Maria Zimmermann (born September 9, 1946 in Munich ) is a doctorate Bavarian surgeon and state politician of the CSU . Between 1994 and 2013 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Zimmermann studied medicine in Munich and Innsbruck . In 1977 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich on the subject of "Diagnostics and therapy of breast tumors with special consideration of carcinoma " . From 1976 to 1988 he worked at the Klinikum rechts der Isar , the university hospital of the Technical University of Munich. At the same time he was an emergency doctor for the municipal fire department in Munich. Until September 1994 he headed rehabilitation clinics in Upper Bavaria.

Zimmermann is a board member of Health Base Medizindaten AG and Health Care Bayern e. V. He has been a member of the study days AV Austria Innsbruck and KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV . He is also an honorary member of the KÖStV Lebenberg Kitzbühel secondary school association .

Thomas Zimmermann is married to Brigitte Zimmermann and has two children.

Political party

He has been a CSU member since 1970.

MP

On September 25, 1994 he was elected for the first time for the Munich-Bogenhausen constituency in the Bavarian state parliament, to which he was a member until October 7, 2013.

He was the health and drug policy spokesman for the CSU parliamentary group, a member of the committee for social, health and family policy and a member of the committee for universities, research and culture.

Public offices

From 1978 to 1988 Zimmermann was an honorary Munich city councilor and from 1988 to 1993 he headed the health department of the state capital Munich as a full-time city councilor.

From 1999 to 2004 and from 2008 to 2019 Zimmermann was Chairman of the Bavarian State Health Council . Since 2002 he is a member of the District Committee Bogenhausen.

Others

At the beginning of November 2002, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Abendzeitung reported that auditors had found out during a routine examination that the CSU district association Bogenhausen was missing notices for donation receipts from the 1990s .

As chairman of the district association, Thomas Zimmermann acknowledged donations without the amounts being posted later. After he had already come under fire in February 2002 for not being reported to the state parliament as a lobbyist for the medical company Nova Med , the party’s fear of a donation affair grew.

The CSU party presidium instructed the district association to postpone the nomination of the Landtag candidate Zimmermann and CSU general secretary Thomas Goppel called on the district association to "consider the issues discussed in public now politically and with regard to the reputation of the CSU" .

Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse requested an audit report from the CSU because of a possible violation of the party financing law . In January 2003, however, the Bundestag administration only complained that the obligation to keep donation documents set out in the Political Parties Act was not complied with.

Nevertheless, the CSU leadership feared that the direct mandate could be lost because of the affair with the SPD applicant Hans-Ulrich Pfaffmann .
Therefore, several opposing candidates were under discussion, but only Munich city councilor Hans Wolfswinkler stood for election. Against the concerns of the CSU leadership, Zimmermann was nominated as a candidate for the state parliament in March 2003 with a two-thirds majority of the delegates.

On September 13, 1998 Thomas Zimmermann was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament with 49.6% of the first votes (1994: 44.7%), on September 21, 2003 with 45.2% and on September 28, 2008 with 31.0% .

Awards

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich CSU denies affair , taz / AP , November 12, 2002
  2. ↑ In the CSU the fear of a donation scandal is supposedly growing , Die Welt , November 13, 2002. In the following weeks, the Munich press revealed new details almost every day: Zimmermann case: Questionable donation , Münchner Merkur, December 16, 2002
  3. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: CSU slows down Zimmermann , Münchner Merkur , November 19, 2002
  4. ↑ Matthias Kristlbauer: Zimmermann case: Goppel calls for intervention by the Munich CSU , Münchner Merkur, November 29, 2002
  5. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: Thierse demands test report from the CSU , November 27, 2002
  6. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: Thierse leaves CSU unscathed , Münchner Merkur, January 9, 2003
  7. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: CSU top: With Zimmermann threatens defeat , Münchner Merkur, March 5, 2003
  8. ↑ Matthias Kristlbauer: Successors for Zimmermann stand in line , Münchner Merkur, December 10, 2002
  9. ↑ Zimmermann nominated against the will of the CSU party leadership , Münchner Merkur / dpa , March 11, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Thomas Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich