Thomas Nord
Thomas Nord (born 19 October 1957 in Berlin ) is a German politician (The Left ) and a member of the German Bundestag.
From 2005 to 2012, he was state chairman of the PDS in Brandenburg. During his tenure, united in Brandenburg, the PDS and the WASG to party The Linke.Brandenburg. The Left was in Europe - formed and the Bundestag elections in 2009 the largest party and the first red - red coalition with the SPD. North is a member of the Federal Executive of the Left since 2009 directly elected representative of the constituency 64 in the German Bundestag since 2012.
Life
Thomas Nord grew up in East Berlin and graduated after graduating from the polytechnic high school training as a machine and system installer. From 1976 to 1980 he did his military service in the People's Navy of the GDR as a sergeant. He then spent four years as a youth club leader in the Prenzlauer Berg and studied at the School Martin Andersen Nexo "Cultural Studies ". From 1984, worked full-time at North of the Free German Youth ( FDJ) as Secretary for Culture and Sport, and later as second secretary of the FDJ district headquarters in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg.
After the turn of 1989, Thomas Nord district chairman of the PDS in Prenzlauer Berg and 1991, the country manager of the party in Berlin. The following year he finished his full-time job and became a clerk in a printing company. He was an honorary deputy chairman of the Berlin PDS 1993. He organized the 1994 election campaign by Stefan Heym, whose staff he was ab1995. After Heym's departure from the North of the PDS Bundestag parliamentary group people was. From 1999 to 2002 he worked as a constituency member of the Bundestag Wolfgang Gehrcke. After the electoral defeat of the PDS in 2002 was Thomas North Country Manager of the PDS in Brandenburg and 2005 state chairman. In 2009 he ran for the German Bundestag in constituency 63, which he won with just 32.3 %. In the federal elections of 2013 North was defeated by the former Lord Mayor of Frankfurt ( Oder) Martin Patzelt (CDU ), but was elected on the regional list Brandenburg in the 18th Bundestag.
Family
Thomas Nord is divorced and has two daughters.
Party and political commitment
Thomas North in 1976 was a member of the SED, and practiced until 1984 volunteer functions. In the same year his appeal followed in the FDJ district leadership, as full-time functionary of the Youth League and the party. The political changes in 1989 resulted in the North to a dispute with his party communist past. He is committed to a break with Stalinism and the open and public dealing with their own biographies in the PDS.
1998 North dedicated volunteer for the Erfurt Declaration - standing up for a different policy. 1999 Nords began involvement in Brandenburg. After honorary functions in the Ostprignitz 2003 he was the country manager of the PDS and sit there by a party reform. He was regional chairman and campaign manager of his party in 2005. The Left was able to prevail in Europe and 2009 parliamentary elections as the strongest party in Brandenburg. In the local elections of 2008 and the parliamentary election in 2009 was THE LEFT clear the second largest party in the state. North was a member of the delegation of his party in the exploratory talks with the SPD after the state elections 2004. 2009 he served as state chairman of the negotiating team of the Left to the development of the coalition agreement with the SPD Brandenburg. Together with Kerstin Kaiser, Matthias Platzeck and Günter Basque he signed the coalition agreement for the red - red coalition.
On the Göttingen Congress 2012 North was elected to the National Executive Board.
Member of the German Bundestag
North since 2009, directly elected representative of his constituency in the German Bundestag. He works there in the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union. He is deputy member of the Committee on Culture and Media and the Defence Committee. He is Vice Chairman of the German - Polish and German - French Parliamentary Group on the Left faction. 2013, a candidate in the constituency of Frankfurt ( Oder) / Oder-Spree district again as a direct candidate for the Left and is situated on the country's list of the party at No. 2.
Unofficial activities as employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
In March 1990, Thomas Nord did his job as a public informer in connection with the local elections in Berlin. "I was out of political conviction unofficial member of the Stasi. " North speaks of a personal failure. " Since that time I pointed at each running for office or mandate on this part of my biography. " Nords past was repeatedly examined critically by the media in the course of his political career.
On 25 February 2010, the Parliamentary Group of the CDU / CSU requested after a recent hour a review process referred to in point 3 of the " agreement to carry out the directives issued pursuant to § 44c AbgG ". SPD and FDP joined in the request. The Greens put the insights of the method in question. On 24 February 2011 the hearing of the deputies Thomas Nord followed. On 30 June 2011, the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure has completed the review process. The review found a proven activity of the Members of the MfS.
It says in the report: " North was first addressed during his time at the People's Navy and in 1984 recruited by the Ministry of State Security. From these documents it follows that the Stasi in 1977 attracted the attention of Lord North, the ableistete a voluntary four-year military service in the People's Navy of the GDR from 1976 to 1980. According to a file note of lieutenant in 1982 it was from September 1978 until October 1980 to a " contact " by Mr. North. He signed out of political conviction an undertaking for the Stasi and worked under the code name Marc Schindler. "
As a youth club manager in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, he reported on young people and colleagues who were critical of the GDR. By order of 28 February 1984, the IM- flow record has been archived and obliged Mr. North as GMS ( employee Social Security ) and remained so until the political change in the GDR in 1989.
The Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections closed as North itself also has a damaging effect on sufferers not. " In the investigation of the Committee but no concrete evidence could be found that the deputy Thomas Nord has directly injured by his work for the Stasi other people. "