Volker Schimpff

Volker Schimpff (born October 16, 1954 in Ballenstedt ) is a German museologist , historian and politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 1990 to 2004 and again from 2008 to 2009 .

education and profession

Volker Schimpff was born the son of a German and history teacher and a bookseller. He studied museology in Leipzig , prehistory and early history at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg , worked at the museum in Quedlinburg , Zeitz , Weimar and Gera as well as a teacher for museology in Leipzig. He is editor of the Lindenau articles on politics, law and history and co-editor of the journal for museology and museum source studies CURIOSITAS.

politics

From 1990 to 2004, Schimpff was a member of the Saxon state parliament and chairman of the constitutional and legal committee as a directly elected member of the Leipzig-Grünau prefabricated building area . From 1991 to 1997 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU Saxony . From 1997 to 2004 he was the European policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group and deputy member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union. In 2004 he resigned all political offices for health reasons and renounced the Leipzig-Grünau constituency , which was won in the 2004 and 2009 state elections by Dietmar Pellmann , PDS district chairman who was defeated by Schimpff in 1990, 1994 and 1999 . In August 2008, Schimpff moved back into the state parliament as a successor for Helma Orosz , he did not stand for the state elections in 2009 and consequently left the state parliament in September 2009.

Schimpff was deputy chairman of the CDU Leipzig, was regional chairman of the OMV East and Central German Association of the CDU Saxony and is an assessor on the federal board of the Paneuropean Union Germany.

honors and awards

• 1992: Honorary member of the Junge Union
• 1999: Professor hc at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bihać , Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2000: Order of Croatian Wickerwork
• 2004: Order Maarjamaa Rist ( Cross of the Land of Mary, 5th Class) of the Republic of Estonia for his work for Estonia's independence and EU accession
• 2005: Medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe of the Free State of Bavaria
• 2007: Federal Cross of Merit for his commitment to war victims in the Balkans (aid organization "Saxony helps Croatia")

Controversy

Representatives of the SPD and Die Linke protested against the award of the Federal Cross of Merit. The criticism relates, for example, to a state parliament debate in 2000, in which he - as chairman of the constitutional and legal committee - in support of a decision of the conference of justice ministers on the transfer of convicted criminals to their home country said that his sympathy would be limited if a Criminals in his home country "would have chains on their feet at work" or for violations of discipline "received the lashes prescribed in Africa and Asia" . Schimpff later came under fire after the death of the Carinthian governor (Prime Minister) Jörg Haider , whom he described in an obituary as “perhaps the most prominent politician with a German tongue” . His group colleagues then made the " muzzle " given to him when he returned to parliament public. Schimpff caused another sensation during the budget debate in the Saxon state parliament on December 10, 2008, when he wanted to respond to a lengthy series of speeches by the LINKE about the admissibility of the resolution on the budget accompanying law and Steffen Flath , the chairman of his own CDU parliamentary group , with reference to the “ muzzle ” of the microphone.

Publications

• Associate Editor: Teaching - Collecting - Publishing. Dedicated to the university professor, museum man and publisher Hans-Jürgen Beier on the occasion of his 60th birthday by friends and colleagues . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-86583-980-0 .
• Ed .: Historia in Museo: Festschrift for Frank-Dietrich Jacob . Verlag Beier and Beran, Langenweißbach 2004, ISBN 978-3-930036-94-3 .
• Committed to the common good in our Free State of Saxony. Requests to speak from the years 1990-2000 in the Saxon state parliament . Atwerb-Verlag, Grünwald 2002, ISBN 978-3-928561-60-0 .
• with Jürgen Rühmann (Ed.): The minutes of the constitutional and legal committee for the creation of the constitution of the Free State of Saxony . NDV, Rheinbreitbach 1997, ISBN 978-3-87576-384-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Schimpff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Volker Schimpff in the Saxon Bibliography
• Schimpff's publications in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
• CV on your own homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Executive Board - Paneuropa-Union Germany eV
2. ↑ Saxon LEFT parliamentary group: Awarding the Federal Order of Merit to Schimpff is disgrace ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 25 kB), March 25, 2008 
3. ↑ State Parliament Protocol 3/11, pp. 701–704
4. ↑ kurier.at: CDU politicians under pressure because of Haider ( memento of October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), October 13, 2008
5. ↑ State Parliament Protocol 4/125 (2)