Lothar Binding

Lothar Binding ( born April 1, 1950 in Sandershausen ) is a German politician ( SPD).

Life and career

After attending elementary school in Sandershausen Binding made ​​from 1965 to 1968 an apprenticeship as an electrician at Siemens in Kassel, where he finished as a skilled worker. Then he acquired in 1969 in Kassel the college entrance. The subsequent visit to the Hessenkolleg he finished in 1972 with the Abitur. After completing his civilian service he graduated from in 1973 to study mathematics, physics and philosophy in Tübingen and Heidelberg, which he finished in 1981 with a degree in mathematics. In 1982 he began work as a technical employee in the computer center of the University of Heidelberg, where he was then in charge of 1987 as a research assistant for the planning, construction and operation of local area networks and high-speed networks for data processing until 1998. Since 1996, Binding board member since 2009 Chairman of the tenants association, founded in 1910 and around Heidelberg, which is the German Tenants' Association with 12,500 members, is the second largest tenant association in the National Association of Baden- Württemberg.

Lothar Binding is married and has two sons.

Policy

Since 1966 Binding is a member of the SPD. From 1986 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2000 he was chairman of the SPD district association Heidelberg. From 1989 to 2000 he was a member of the council of Heidelberg, where he was from 1994 to 2000 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1996 he was a candidate in the mayoral election in Eberbach, but lost in the second round against Bernhard Martin ( CDU)

Since 1998 ( 1998 election ) Binding is a member of the German Bundestag. He is drawn in 1998 and 2002 as a directly elected representative of the constituency of Heidelberg. In 2005, he missed the direct mandate by less than 600 votes ( 0.3 percent ), but was elected on the regional list Baden -Württemberg in the Bundestag. Even after the 2009 federal election, he moved about the country's list back in the Bundestag.

From 2002 to 2005 - at that time ruled the red-green Cabinet Schröder II - he was deputy speaker of the Finance of the SPD parliamentary group. In the Budget Committee, he is rapporteur for the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court.

Binding, 2006 was the initiator of the bipartisan group application for Non smoking protection, the 2007 and 2008 is considered as an impulse for the Non smoking protection law of the Federal Parliament in 2007 and for many countries laws of years to protect against passive smoking.

He is a member of the Finance Committee and financial spokesman of the group.

Publications

• Cold smoke. The beginning of the end of tilting Republic. Orange Press, Freiburg (Breisgau ), 2008, ISBN 978-3-936086-31-7.
• Fair taxes for Germany. Notes to the reform of corporate taxes in 2008. SPD Association Baden -Württemberg, Stuttgart, 2007.
• With Marco Winteroll. , the new inheritance tax law from 2009 heirs is fairer. SPD Association Baden -Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-9804710-3-9.