Ulrich Thomas

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Ulrich Thomas (born March 22, 1968 in Quedlinburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

After graduating from the Polytechnic High School in 1984, Ulrich Thomas trained as an electrician from 1984 to 1987. In 1987 and 1988 he did his military service . Then from 1988 to 1990 Thomas worked as an electrician. Since 1990 he has been a self-employed driving instructor and driving school owner .

Thomas has been chairman of the Friends' Association of the Quedlinburg District Adult Education Center since 2005. He is Protestant, married and has two children.

politics

Ulrich Thomas joined the CDU in 1998. From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the Quedlinburg district council . Between 2002 and 2004 he was chairman of the Quedlinburg branch. Thomas has been a member of Quedlinburg City Council since 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was CDU district chairman in Quedlinburg and since 2006 he has been CDU district chairman in the Harz district .

In the state elections in March 2006 , Thomas was elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt via constituency 30 ( Quedlinburg ). There he is a member of the Committee for Economics and Labor and has been the economic policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group since 2011. In the 2011 and 2016 elections, too , he was able to win the Quedlinburg constituency and move into the state parliament for another legislative period. Thomas has been deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt since 2016.

Controversy

In June 2019, Thomas attracted attention by considering future coalitions of his party with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) , especially with regard to the time after the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2021 . In an interview with the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung he said: “In any case, we shouldn't rule out a coalition. As of now it is not possible - but we do not know how the situation will be in two or five years. ”There are indeed many radical politicians in the AfD, but there are also“ liberal forces ”and one has to see“ which current is moving enforced. ”Referring to the grand coalition in the federal government and the Kenya coalition in Saxony-Anhalt, Thomas said that they destroyed the identity of his party. With the CDU member Lars-Jörn Zimmer , who is also deputy group leader, he published an eight-page paper in which the two argue that the voters of the CDU and AfD have similar goals and that the majority in Germany vote conservatively. However, the CDU had alienated voters by not opposing “multicultural currents of left parties and groups” decisively enough. In addition, it is a "historical mistake" not to have defended the longing for home, and it must be possible again to "reconcile the social with the national."

The interior minister of Saxony-Anhalt and CDU state chairman Holger Stahlknecht, on the other hand, considered opening up to the AfD to be wrong and warned against “shifting the CDU to the right”. CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak also rejected Thomas and Zimmer's initiative and referred to the current resolution of the CDU party congress after alliances between the CDU and AfD have been excluded.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landtag constituency 30 Quedlinburg, 2011 results , State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt: State election in Saxony-Anhalt on March 13, 2016. Accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Thomas. Accessed June 20, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt: CDU politicians bring coalition with AfD into play . In: Spiegel Online . June 20, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 20, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Hagen Eichler: Flirting with the AfD: High-ranking CDU officials consider coalition to be conceivable. June 20, 2019, accessed June 20, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ CDU Secretary General: Ziemiak excludes any cooperation with AfD . In: Spiegel Online . June 20, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 20, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas, Jens Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg