Gerhard Schick

Gerhard Schick ( born April 18, 1972 in Hechingen ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ).

Life

After graduation in 1991 at the Gymnasium Hechingen Schick did his community service and graduated from in 1992 to study economics in Bamberg, Madrid and Freiburg, which he finished in 1998 as a graduate economist. Subsequently, he was until 2001 a researcher at the Walter Eucken Institute, Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, and then from 2001 to 2004 in the Market Economy Foundation in Berlin. In 2003 he doctorate. pol. at the University of Freiburg with the work Dual federalism in Europe - a constitutional economic study. In 2004 he joined as a project manager for the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh. Schick is Catholic and lives in a Pacte Civil de Solidarité, the French equivalent since 2003 registered partnership.

Policy

Career

Schick was 1996 member of the Green Party. He was from 2000 to 2001 Speaker of the Regional Working Group Economy and Finance of the Greens in Baden- Württemberg and was from April 2001 to September 2007 Speaker of the Federal Working Group Economy and Finance of Alliance 90/The Greens. In November 2008 he was elected by six votes ahead of Fritz Kuhn in the Party Council and re-elected in the party council in November 2012 with the second best result of the male candidates (after Trittin ).

Since 2005 he is member of the German Bundestag as the head of the working group " Economy and Employment " of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group. In September 2007 he was elected fiscal policy spokesman of his group. He serves on the Finance Committee and is a substitute member of the Budget Committee.

Gerhard Schick is drawn over the national list Baden- Württemberg in the Bundestag.

Positions

Schick is mainly active in the areas of financial markets and taxation. In the wake of the financial and Euro crisis, he is committed to, among other things for a European bank restructuring fund. This topic is now discussed under the term " banking union " that supports Schick. To deal with the euro crisis Schick calls including a old debt funds. He was also one of the initiators of a special convention of the Alliance 90/The Greens to the euro crisis. Schick is co-initiator of requests the Parliamentary Group of Alliance 90/The Greens calling for a sustainable alignment of financial markets and a ban on investment for manufacturers to international law weapons.

2010 Schick has published together with the Party Chairman Özdemir a paper that called for a substantial correction of social inequality in Germany. Schick is also active in the areas of consumer protection for financial products, tax enforcement, money laundering and tax evasion. Negotiated tax treaties with Switzerland, Germany, he refuses.

Schick is co-author of 2012 formulated by several green politicians Catholic paper " True Move" in which the introduction of a " cultural tax on the Italian model " is required. In the paper, the undersigned Greens propose a " cultural tax " to levy that will pay all people to a charitable institution of their choice. This is intended, inter alia, Taxpayers are prevented from leaking because of church tax from the Roman Catholic Church. Such a duty, in some media referred to as "additional tax on non-religious " had called jurists of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD ) in 2007 after an examination as a " disguised public finance " and therefore with the Article 140 of the Basic Law incompatible.

Publications

  • With Luder Gerken & Jörg Märkt: International tax competition. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-16-147457-0
  • Dual federalism in Europe. A constitutional economic study. Lang, Frankfurt [ et al ] 2003, ISBN 3-631-50858-1
  • (Ed.): Orientation - compensation - Tax exemption. Taxation of capital income in the rule of law. Market Economy Foundation, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89015-090- X
  • (Ed.): Economic Systems and fundamentalism. Market Economy Foundation, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89015-092-6
  • With Elmar Sing: value orientation and entrepreneurship - Towards a green economy policies. Heinrich- Böll -Stiftung, Berlin 2005 (PDF; 156 KB)
  • Economic power - no thanks!. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-39926-3
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