Rolf Schlierer

Rolf Schlierer ( born February 21, 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German doctor, lawyer and politician. He is since 1994 the Republican national chairman.

Professional career

Schlierer was born in 1955 the son of a Silesian physician in Stuttgart. He grew up in a national-liberal environment and completed his high school education in 1973 at the grammar Eberhard -Ludwigs -Gymnasium in Stuttgart. He studied medicine at the Justus -Liebig- University Giessen, he finished in 1979 with the license to practice medicine. From 1980 to 1981 he did his military service as a medical officer in the army. His last rank was chief medical officer of the reserve in an Airborne unit. In 1982 he was awarded his doctorate for Dr. med.

From 1981 to 1988 he studied law and philosophy at the University of Tübingen. In 1988 he completed the first legal state exam. After the traineeship at the Regional Court of Stuttgart in 1992 he laid off the second legal state examination.

Schlierer has worked as a doctor and journalist; He is also established lawyer ( lawyer specializing in medical law ) in a law firm in Stuttgart since 1991.

Political career

Before the Republicans

His political career began with the presidency of the Higher Education Policy Committee of the German fraternity (1975 /76) as a member of the Giessen fraternity Germania. From 1976 to 1979 he was active higher education policy in the RCDS; short time he was also a member of the " National Democratic Student Association" ( Association of Higher Education of the NPD ). From 1982 to 1985 he was press officer of the German fraternity.

From 1985 to 1989 he was a member of the executive committee of the CDU related study center Weikersheim. This " think tank ", he left again after a pressurized concluded the press -down four-eye conversation with Hans Filbinger, who had co-sponsored as a former Prime Minister of the center. Purpose of the meeting was that Schlierer remain at the study center and should emerge among the Republicans again. The result of the conversation was reversed: Schlierer withdrew from the study center and stayed with the Republicans.

Membership in parliaments

He was a town councilor and leader of the Republicans in the Stuttgart municipal council of 1989 until 1992.

From 1992 to 2001 Schlierer was a member of the Landtag of Baden- Württemberg and was at this time also group chairman of his party. Since 2004, he is again a member of the Stuttgart municipal council.

Careers at the Republicans

1987 Schlierer joined the party a Republicans. Already on 19 October 1988, he left them again, because they seemed too far to the right; in the course of electoral success in early 1989 but was on May 10 of the same year a member again. A little later he became a member of the Federal Program Commission of the Republicans. From 1989 to 1991 he was deputy chairman of the Republicans in Baden- Württemberg.

In July 1990 he became deputy national chairman. Since the party on 17 December 1994 in Sindelfingen, he is national chairman of the Republican as the successor of Franz Schönhuber. Here he was able to prevail in a crucial vote against Nice Huber's preferred candidate, Rudolf Karl Krause. Despite the efforts to consolidate the party and the electoral successes in the following years (1996 in the regional elections in Baden- Württemberg and 1997 in the municipal elections in Hesse ) the party could not be permanently anchored parliament. Particularly indicative of the failure of 2001, in Baden- Württemberg, as it was not possible the Republicans once again move into the state legislature.

Already in the years prior to 2004 REP prominent members, such as the member of the "White Rose" Hans Hirzel and former Mayor Klaus Zeitler Würzburg, some initially Schlierers trailer itself had made ​​against him. Nevertheless, he was able to repeatedly push through at the federal party in late 2006 with the election of the Federal Presidency against challenger Björn Clemens, who was like rival candidate for the second time.

Positions

Schlierer belonged from the beginning to moderate, right-wing conservative wing of the party. This rejects a shoulder circuit to Right Wing, which was discussed internally party again and will, from time trying outwardly to a serious appearance of the party. So it is to follow the idea of ​​an accepted role in the party system and at least from the perspective of the CDU and CSU coalition capable long term.

For this reason Schlierer was also heavily involved in 1994 in the overthrow of his predecessor Schönhuber as National Chairman, after he had met with the DVU chairman Gerhard Frey, to make choice arrangements. However, this definition Schlierer has not always kept. For since his inner-party opponents wanted a cooperation with other right-wing parties, he decided in late 1998 to accommodate this by denying themselves with the DVU chief Frey, not unnecessarily to compete in elections against each other. This move was done mainly with the intention to keep the upper hand in the intra-party power struggles, because similar claims of other officials are rigorously punished with expulsion from the party process.

A collaboration of his party with the 2004 closed alliance of NPD and DVU rejects Rolf Schlierer in a ' clear rejection of the "brown people's front " ' from. Both intra-party opponents and activists of the right-wing scene outside the party throw Schlierer years ago, He would operate an " adaptation course at the center."

Private

Rolf Schlierer is evangelical and has two children.