Ulrich Maurer (politician)

Ulrich Maurer, 2005

Ulrich Maurer (born November 29, 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( Die Linke , before that SPD ). From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag , a member of the executive board of the party Die Linke and from 1980 to 2005 a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . He is a member of the G 10 Commission (2005-2018 full member, since 2018 deputy member).

From 1987 to 1999 Maurer was chairman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg and from 1992 to 2001 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 2005 he left the SPD and, while maintaining his state parliament mandate, became a member of the WASG , which entered into an alliance with the PDS and ran for the 2005 Bundestag election on the state lists of the Left Party .

Life

Ulrich Maurer attended school in Stuttgart until he graduated from high school , studied law at the University of Tübingen until 1974 and settled as an independent lawyer in Stuttgart after the assessor exam . He is Catholic, has two children and is married to Christine Rudolf for the second time .

politics

Ulrich Maurer was 1971 to 1980 for the SPD member of the municipal council of the city of Stuttgart. In the mayor election in 1982 he was defeated by Manfred Rommel . From April 10, 1980 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg and from 1992 to 2001 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the early 1980s he supported demands of the peace movement against the NATO double resolution against the then SPD leadership under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . In 1993 he worked on an alliance to prevent Gerhard Schröder from becoming party leader of the SPD.

From 1987 to 1999 Maurer was also chairman of the state SPD Baden-Württemberg and from 1990 to 2003 domestic policy spokesman in the SPD federal executive committee. In the 1994 German election Maurer was in the shadow cabinet of Rudolf Scharping as Minister of the Interior set up. From 1995 to 1999 and from September to November 2001 he was also a member of the SPD presidium. During this time, Maurer was assigned to the right wing of the SPD because of conservative statements on security issues.

After withdrawing from the front row of the federal and state SPD, he then turned increasingly to economic and socio-political issues and represented positions that were further to the left compared to the SPD executive committee. Most recently, Maurer surprisingly applied for first place in the state list in Baden-Württemberg for the 2004 European elections as a candidate for Evelyne Gebhardt, who was favored by the SPD party executive . He lost the vote with 27.1 percent of the vote and announced that he would no longer run in the next state election.

On May 24, 2005, Maurer wrote a letter to the members of the SPD party executive; The party leadership had betrayed basic social democratic values ​​and bowed to the irresponsible and non-social democratic policies of Gerhard Schröder . Maurer warned: "There is no eternity guarantee for the people's parties, and certainly not for those that no longer represent the parts of the people who need them most."

On June 27, 2005, Maurer left the SPD and joined the WASG, which entered into an electoral alliance with the renamed PDS for the 2005 Bundestag election.

Since he retained his state parliament mandate won through the SPD, he was the first WASG member in a German state parliament . After his election, he resigned this state parliament mandate in the 16th German Bundestag. Edeltraud Hollay (SPD) was his successor in the state parliament .

For the 2005 Bundestag election on September 18, 2005, Maurer ran for first place on the state list of the Baden-Württemberg Left Party . In the Left faction he shared until October 2009 with Dagmar Enkelmann the Parliamentary Board , after he was Group Vice Chairman.

Since 2007 he has been the representative for party building West for the executive board of the party Die Linke.

He did not run for the 2013 federal election . After leaving the Bundestag, the chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group Gregor Gysi hired him as an advisor in 2014 .

Ulrich Maurer published a critical analysis of the change of the SPD from a people 's party to a party of small size in November 2018 in the Hamburg publishing house VSA .

Publications

• as editor with Hans Modrow : Overtaking is on the left. What can, what wants, what is the Left Party supposed to do. edition ost, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-360-01068-X .
• Ice age. Coup d'état of capital or renaissance of the left. Riemann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-50070-5 .
• That's it? An obituary for the SPD. VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-89965-840-8 .

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Maurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ulrich Maurer on parliamentwatch.de
• Ulrich Maurer on the side of the parliamentary group Die Linke
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Personal details in the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament Handbook ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 125 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-laender-was-macht-ulrich-maurer-_arid,1261855.html
2. ^ Portrait of Ulrich Maurer, in Der Freitag , August 10, 2005
3. ↑ Ulrich Maurer: To the members of the SPD party executive ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Letter from May 24, 2005. Excerpt from the letter in Friday , June 10, 2005. 
4. ↑ Felix Kurz: SPD man Maurer changes to WASG. In: Spiegel Online . June 27, 2005, accessed January 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ WASG welcomes Maurer's decision. WASG Landesverband NRW, June 28, 2005, archived from the original on October 27, 2005 ; accessed on January 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Matthias Meisner: Ulrich Maurer will no longer run for the Bundestag in 2013. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 20, 2912. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
7. ↑ "I am a specialist in unsolvable tasks"
8. ^ Announcement in VSA-Verlag.