Paul Schäfer (politician)

Paul Georg Schäfer ( born January 18, 1949 in Mainz ) is a German politician (The Left ).

Life and career

After graduation in 1967 at the Neusprachliches High School in Shepherd Oppenheim holds a degree in political science and sociology in Mainz and Marburg, which he finished in 1978 with a degree in sociology. During his studies he organized in the MSB Spartacus, the deputy national chairman, he was (1975). From 1970 to 1971 he was a university lecturer in the student union of the University of Marburg from 1971 to 1972 and press officer of the Association of German student bodies. From 1979 to 1983 was a shepherd advisor to the board of the Association of Democratic Scientists and joined in 1983 as a journalist for the magazine Science and Peace.

From 1991 to 1994 was a shepherd scientific staff of Bundestag deputies Katrin Fuchs ( SPD) and from 1995 to 1998 from the deputies Gerhard Zwerenz (PDS ). He was then to 2002 Speaker of the PDS parliamentary group on foreign and security policy. Then he was unemployed until his entry into the German Bundestag.

Party

Shepherd belonged from 1970 to 1988, the DKP, and the Marxist Student Association Spartacus and from 1993 to 1999, the SPD. Since 2000 he is member of the PDS. From 2003 to 2007 he was with Ulrike Detjen state chairman of the PDS in North Rhine -Westphalia from May to October 2007 he was deputy chairman in the transitional Board. From 2004 to 2006 he also served on the executive committee of the Left Party.

Member of Parliament

From 2005 to 2013, Paul Shepherd member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the Left Party, the Defence Committee as well as their defense and disarmament policy spokesman.

He is always drawn on a state list North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag. 2013, did not occur for the parliamentary elections on the national list and retired the end of September 2013, the Parliament of.

Social offices

Shepherds heard " responsibility for peace and sustainability of natural scientists Initiative" and the Commission " European Security and the Future of the Bundeswehr" of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the Supervisory Board of the Centre for International Peace Operations, the Advisory Board of the.