Thorsten Wirth

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Thorsten Wirth (2013)

Thorsten Wirth (born June 5, 1968 in Langenberg ) is a German software developer and was chairman of the Pirate Party Germany from November 2013 to June 2014 .

Life

Wirth studied physics and computer science for natural scientists in Bielefeld , but did not graduate. By his own admission, he worked as a programmer.

From 2006 to summer 2014 Thorsten Wirth was a member of the Pirate Party. He was a co-founder of the State Association of Hesse. For the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , the Pirate Party ran for the first time in Germany with Thorsten Wirth as the top candidate and state chairman. For the European elections in Germany in 2009 he ran for fourth place in the federal list. From 2009 to 2010 he was an assessor on the national board of pirates. For the general election in 2013 , he joined in the constituency 182 Frankfurt I to. In November 2013 he was elected national chairman with 78.1% at the federal party conference in Bremen . In June 2014, Stefan Körner succeeded him in this position. Wirth resigned from the party that same summer.

Until its dissolution in October 2014, he worked as a consultant for the ELF Piraten faction in Frankfurt's Römer .

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Wirth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Party congress elects IT experts as new boss Körner is supposed to lead pirates out of the crisis ( memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ARD Tagesschau from June 28, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Timecodex: The compass candidate grill: Thorsten Wirth. In: Kompass - Die Piratenzeitung. November 18, 2013, accessed November 30, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Profile Thorsten Wirth for the European elections 2009. abgeordnetenwatch.de , 2009, accessed on 1 December 2013 .
  4. ↑ Thorsten Wirth profile on the 2013 federal election. Abrichtenwatch.de, 2013, accessed on December 1, 2013 .
  5. ↑ dpa-infocom: Pirate Party elects Thorsten Wirth as the new chairman. In: The world . November 30, 2013, accessed November 30, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Hanning Voigts: The brand has been destroyed. Frankfurter Rundschau , September 24, 2014, accessed on September 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German software developer and politician (pirates)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenberg (Gütersloh district)