Wilhelm Schmidt (politician, 1944)

Wilhelm Schmidt (right) 1990

Wilhelm Schmidt (born May 13, 1944 in Barbecke bei Peine ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and President of the Workers' Welfare Association . Schmidt was a member of the state parliament in Lower Saxony from 1978 to 1986 and a member of the German Bundestag from 1987 to 2005 .

Life

Schmidt attended secondary school in Wolfenbüttel from 1954 to 1960. In April 1960 he started to work for the city of Wolfenbüttel. Until 1962 he was a trainee in administration and then until 1965 a civil servant candidate. From 1965 until his entry into the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1978, he worked as a municipal civil servant in the senior service of the city of Wolfenbüttel , most recently as head of the human resources department and training manager. Schmidt has lived in Thiede (Salzgitter) since 1968 . He is married and has two children.

Political activity

Schmidt has been a member of the ÖTV trade union (today ver.di ) since 1962 - and a member of the SPD since 1964 . In 1970 he founded a citizens' initiative (“Aktion Grüne Lunge”) to save a forest area. He became active in local politics in 1972 (Local Councilor Salzgitter) and from 2006 to 2013 local mayor of Salzgitter . He has been honorary chairman of the SPD Salzgitter since 2013. On June 21, 1978, he entered the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he belonged for two terms until June 20, 1986. During these two legislative periods he was chairman of the state parliament's committee for youth and sport and a member of the committee for science and art (spokesman for university policy). After leaving the Landtag, he was elected to the Bundestag for the first time in 1987. Until 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag for five electoral terms ; he was always directly elected in the Salzgitter - Wolfenbüttel constituency. In 1988 Schmidt was the first child representative in a parliament worldwide for the SPD parliamentary group . He enforced the Bundestag Children's Commission . From 1990 to 1994 he was also the SPD's sports policy spokesman. As the first parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group and thus first deputy of the parliamentary group chairmen Peter Struck and Franz Müntefering and negotiator of the governing coalition in the mediation committee since 1998, Schmidt was one of the most important politicians of his party during Gerhard Schröder's chancellorship and was also the church commissioner of the SPD -Fraction. He did not stand for the 2005 Bundestag elections , whose first vote results were among the best nationwide (1998: 58.9%, 2002: 56.8%), and by renouncing his direct mandate, Sigmar Gabriel paved the way for federal politics . He was a member of the government commission for the nursing reform from 2007 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2015 a member of the expert commission for the 7th report on the elderly of the federal government. In the local elections in Lower Saxony in September 2006, the nationally known SPD politician ran for the City Council of Salzgitter . He was then also elected in these. However, shortly after the election, Schmidt announced that he would not accept this mandate because Helmut Knebel had not been elected mayor. At the same time he resigned from his position as chairman of the Salzgitter community foundation .

Voluntary work in social organizations

Schmidt has been a member of the AWO since 1973. He was elected to the AWO board in 1989. He was Deputy Chairman from 1992 to 2004 and Chairman of the Board of Management from 2004 to 2008. In 2008 he became chairman of the executive committee of the AWO federal association. In addition, from 1990 to 2016 he was a member of the board of directors of the AWO district association Braunschweig. From 2006 to 2014 Schmidt was President of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare, and has been an honorary member there ever since. From 1989 to 2000 he was President of the German Children's Fund. Schmidt was the founder and chairman of the sponsoring associations for a children's / junior university in Salzgitter ( AWO Junior University ), for the energy competence center in Salzgitter and for the volunteer agency for youth, social and sport in Wolfenbüttel (all in 2002). He is a board member of the Bürgerwald Thiede association. Schmidt was chairman of the shareholders' meeting of the AWO Psychiatry Center Königslutter of AWO Niedersachsen gGmbH.

Club and association work in sport

Schmidt was an active boxer (in the BAC Wolfenbüttel) as well as swimmer and water polo player (in the Wolfenbüttel swimming club from 1921). Since 1962 youth warden, water polo warden, secretary, press attendant of the Wolfenbütteler swimming club from 1921, from 2004 to 2012 first chairman, since 2013 executive board member. From 1983 to 1987 he was Vice President and Head of Sport of the German Swimming Association .

• 1972 to 1983 chairman of the Braunschweig swimming area
• 1976 to 1982 Vice President of the Lower Saxony Swimming Association
• 1983 to 1987 Vice President and Head of Sports of the German Swimming Association (Head of Delegation at European Championships 1983 and 1985, Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984 and World Championships Madrid 1986)
• 1993 to 2004 chairman of the Braunschweig District Sports Association

Awards

• 2013: Willy Brandt Medal of the SPD
• 2004: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
• 1997: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1997: Cavalier Cross of the Republic of Poland

Foundations

• Friedrich Ebert Foundation Bonn / Berlin: Member since 2004
• Initiator of the "Wolfenbüttel Talks - Religions in Civil Society" in the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (2002 to 2014)
• Norddeutsche Landesbank / Braunschweig Public Insurance Foundation : Founding member 1995, member of the Permanent Advisory Board since 2010
• Wolfenbütteler Heimatstiftung: Board member since 1982 (Chairman from 1984 to 2009, since then Deputy Chairman)
• Curt Mast Jägermeister Foundation Wolfenbüttel: Member of the Board of Trustees since 2009
• Braunschweiger Land Foundation Braunschweig: Member of the Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2012
• Marie Juchacz Foundation of the AWO Federal Association Berlin: Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 2004
• Foundation of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare Berlin: Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 2006
• Salzgitter Community Foundation: Initiator / founder 2002, Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2006
• Schmidt Foundation for Youth and Sport Wolfenbüttel / Salzgitter: Founded together with brother Armin Schmidt in 2007, since then Chairman of the Board of Management

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 337.
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 .

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography of Wilhelm Schmidt on the AWO website. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
2. ^ ^{A b} Biography of Wilhelm Schmidt in the archive of the German Bundestag. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography of Wilhelm Schmidt in the history of the AWO website. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
4. ^ Information about Wilhelm Schmidt in the library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn . Retrieved April 11, 2018.
5. ↑ Michael Ahlers and Christian Kerl: Wilhelm Schmidt stops - Gabriel wants to go to Berlin. Free choice of candidates in the constituency of Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel. Braunschweiger Zeitung . May 30, 2005, accessed April 11, 2018.
6. ^ The members of the Seventh Committee on Elderly Reports. Website for the German government’s seventh report on the elderly . Retrieved April 11, 2018.
7. ↑ Schmidt renounces a council mandate ( Memento of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
8. ↑ District Administrator Johannes Fuchs new President of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare eV ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2018 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. German Association for Public and Private Welfare . Press release of October 2, 2014, accessed on April 11, 2018. 
9. ↑ FOCUS Online: No money for children . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on November 15, 2018]).
10. ↑ About us. Friends of the Bürgerwald Thiede. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
11. ↑ Voluntary work recognized. Cross of Merit 1st Class for Salzgitters Bundestag member Wilhelm Schmidt. Braunschweiger Zeitung . April 29, 2004, accessed April 11, 2018.