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Ottmar Schreiner | |
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 Schreiner in 2007 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 1980–2013 | |
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| Born | (1946-02-21)21 February 1946 |
| Died | 6 April 2013(2013-04-06) (aged 67) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Ottmar Schreiner (21 February 1946 – 6 April 2013) was a Germanlawyer andleft-wingpolitician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party,SPD.
Schreiner studied law at theUniversity of Saarbrücken, theFree University of Berlin and theUniversity of Lausanne. After hisAbitur he was a temporary-career soldier (Zeitsoldat); he served as paratrooper officer.[1] After his active career he became a reserve officer. He did reserve officer training in the German Airborne troops (Fallschirmjäger) until his fifties.[2]
In 1969, he became a member of theSPD. He was a founder of theJuSo Hochschulgruppen (Young Socialist Student Groups) and acted as chairman of theGeneral Students' Committee (AStA) atSaarbrücken University, and from there was elected to the federal executive of theVerband Deutscher Studentenschaften, the national confederation of General Students' Committees.
Later he was elected to theJusos' national leadership. In the election for federal Juso chairmanship in 1977, he was defeated byKlaus Uwe Benneter, who was later suspended from the SPD, and in 1978 he lost toGerhard Schröder.
From 1980 until his death in April 2013, Schreiner was a member of theBundestag. He received a direct mandate in theelectoral districtSaarlouis, which he defended at thefederal elections in 2005.
From 1991 to 1997 he was a speaker of the SPD's parliamentary group in theAusschuss für Arbeit und Sozialordnung (Committee on work and social order). From 1997 to 1998 he was deputy chairman of his party's group in the Bundestag. From 1998 to 1999 he wasBundesgeschäftsführer (executive director) of the SPD. He was the chairman of theArbeitsgemeinschaft für Arbeitnehmerfragen, a study group inside the SPD, which is reputed to be leftist and closely connected totrade unions. Schreiner was a member of the metalworkers' unionIG Metall.
Schreiner died in April 2013 after a long battle with cancer.[3][4]
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