Nils Schmid
Nils Schmid ( born July 11, 1973 in Trier) is a politician of the SPD. Since 2009 he has been state chairman of the SPD in Baden- Württemberg.
For the state election on 27 March 2011, he ran as SPD's top candidate in the constituency Reutlingen. In the cabinet Kretschmann he is since May 12, 2011 Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.
Education and work
After graduation in 1993 at the Eduard- Spranger -Gymnasium in Filderstadt and his community service in a nursing home Schmid holds a degree in Law at the Eberhard -Karls- University Tübingen, which he finished with the first legal state exam in 1999. The subsequent clerkship, during which he was temporarily working for the power company energy services, he finished 2001 with the second legal state examination. Since then, he is admitted to the bar. In 2006 he completed his PhD at the Department of Ferdinand Kirchhof.
Political activity
Party race
Since 1991, Nils Schmid is a member of the SPD. He first became involved with the Young Socialists and was from 1993 to 1997 Young Socialists county chairman in Esslingen. In addition, he was from 1996 to 1998 deputy chairman of the Young Socialists in Baden- Württemberg. 1993 to 2011 he was a member of the SPD District Executive Esslingen and 1999 to 2010 he was chairman of the SPD Nürtingen local association.
After the former state chairman of the SPD Baden- Württemberg, Ute Vogt, who resigned from her post as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Nils Schmid was defeated on 10 January 2008 with 18 to 20 votes narrowly in a vote by their successor in that office against Claus Schmiedel. In 2009, he was beside Claus Schmiedel and Hilde Mattheis one of three candidates for the succession of Ute Vogt as chairman of the SPD state association. To this end, a survey of members in the Baden-Württemberg SPD took place on 21 November 2009. With a turnout of 47.35 % he received in the second count, taking account of the second votes 56% against 37 % for Hilde Mattheis. The first votes 46.2% of votes were cast for him, 29.1% to Hilde Mattheis and 22.8% to Claus Schmiedel. Then Nils Schmid was elected at the state party of the SPD in Karlsruhe on 27 November 2009 with 265 of 299 votes of the delegates ( 88.63 %) to the state chairman. On October 16, 2010 Nils Schmid was elected at the state party of the SPD in Ulm with over 92 % of the vote to tip the SPD's candidate for the parliamentary election in 2011 and thus to the challenger to Prime Minister Stefan undersecretary.
Deputies activity and public offices
1997 moved Schmid, succeeding Werner Weinmann, who died after a heart attack on 13 February 1997, in the state parliament of Baden -Württemberg after. Here he was from June 2001 financial spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group. After re- entry into the state legislature in 2006 he moved up to deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Nils Schmid is collected in 2001 and 2006 on a second mandate in Parliament constituency Nürtingen in the state legislature. In the state elections in 2001 it reached 32.0 % of the vote here, in 2006 it was 23.0 %. In 2011 he stood as a candidate in the parliamentary constituency of Reutlingen, where he again achieved a second mandate with 24.7 % of votes.
In the cabinet Kretschmann Nils Schmid took over after the election of Winfried Kretschmann Prime Minister on 12 May 2011, the role of Deputy Government and the Office of the Minister of Finance and Economy.
Other offices, honors and awards
In 2003 he was a founding member of the Board of Werner -Weinmann Foundation, which primarily supports facilities for the elderly as well as children and youth services in the area Nürtingen and Filderstadt. Since 2003 he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Foundation Baden- Württemberg until 2011 as its Chairman. In 2004 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Landesbank Baden- Württemberg. In 2006 he was elected the members of the Wilhelma development association to the Board, from which he retired in 2011. 2007 to 2011 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Akademie Schloss Solitude. In 2008 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the German - Turkish Forum Stuttgart. Since 2011 he is honorary member of the Phi Delta Phi legal union. Since the establishment of the "Action Sterntaler " 2012, which works in the district of Reutlingen for disadvantaged children and young people, he is a member of the board of trustees.
Family and Private
Schmid's ethnic Turkish Tulay wife brought a son into the marriage, the couple also has a daughter. Schmid is a protestant and lives in Reutlingen. His mother is a professor at the University of Education Ludwigsburg.