Thorsten Geissler

Thorsten Geißler (born October 16, 1959 in Bad Schwartau ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Thorsten Geißler was born in Bad Schwartau ( Ostholstein district ). In 1976 he joined the Junge Union and the CDU the following year. After graduating from high school in 1978 at the cathedral in Lübeck, he served in the armed forces until 1979. He is a lieutenant colonel in the reserve.

Geißler studied law and political science at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He passed the first and second state exams and has been a lawyer since 1991.

When he was elected to the citizenship of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck on March 7, 1982, he entered the city parliament via the CDU list. Geissler was re-elected in the general election on March 2, 1986. He held the mandate until the end of July 1987.

In the Schleswig-Holstein state election on September 13, 1987, he was elected to the state parliament via the CDU state list. Geißler was re-elected in the state elections in 1988 , 1992 , 1996 and 2000 and entered the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament via the CDU state list . In the 13th , 14th and 15th electoral terms he was deputy CDU parliamentary group chairman. Geissler belonged to a large number of state parliament committees, including the Interior and Legal Affairs Committee, the Social Committee, the First Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry and the First Committee of Inquiry for the 13th electoral term. He resigned from the state parliament on April 30, 2004; for him Volker Nielsen moved up.

From 1996 to 2002 Geißler was district chairman of the CDU Lübeck.

On April 23, 2004, Geissler became Senator for the Interior and Environment of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. He succeeded Beate Hoffmann, who had not run again. His term of office ended in April 2010. Since December 1, 2010, Geissler has been head of the Rule of Law Program Southeast Europe of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Bucharest .

literature

• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918–2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 93

Web links

• Thorsten Geißler in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament information system

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanseatic City of Lübeck: 60 years of elected citizenship in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . Lübeck October 2006 (PDF file; 295 kB)
2. ↑ Julia Paulat: What Lübeck expects from the new Senator for the Interior In: Lübecker Nachrichten of April 24, 2004, p. 11
3. ↑ Torsten Teichmann, Kai Dordowsky: “ I'm too young for a pensioner ” In: Lübecker Nachrichten of April 18, 2010, p. 14
4. ↑ Sebastian Prey: Senator Thorsten Geißler is now retired , in: Lübecker Nachrichten , April 30, 2010.
5. ^ Geissler's farewell with midday prayer , in: Lübecker Nachrichten , October 20, 2010, p. 9.