Nils Schmid
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Nils Schmid (born July 11, 1973, Trier) is the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Baden-Württemberg.
Professional career and party politics
After his A-levels at Eduard Spranger School, Filderstadt, in 1993, Schmid studied law at the University of Tübingen. He worked as a lawyer, and in 2006 he received his doctorate (summa cum laude) from Tübingen University. But then he gave up his professional career in favour of politics. [1]
Schmid joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1991 - and in 1993 he was already elected chairman of the Esslingen district of the Young Socialists in the SPD, becoming deputy chairman of the Young Socialists of Baden-Württemberg in 1996. In 1997 Schmid was elected as a member of Baden-Württemberg's state parliament. There he gradually developed into his party's main speaker on financial affairs.
He was elected deputy leader of the Social Democratic MPs in the Baden-Württemberg parliament, and, in 2009, he became the leader of his party in that state (after winning a poll among its members). After the Baden-Württemberg general elections of 2011 Schmid became Deputy Prime Minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg, as well as its Minister of Financial and Economic Affairs.[2] He is a member of the German-French Friendship Group set up by the German Bundesrat and the French Senate as well as of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up in cooperation with the Russian Federation Council.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition following the 2013 federal elections, Schmid was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on economic policy, led by Ilse Aigner and Hubertus Heil.
Other activities
- Baden-Württemberg International, Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- L-Bank, Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- EnBW, Member of the Supervisory Board
- KfW, Member of the Supervisory Board
- Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Member of the Supervisory Board
- Carlo Schmid Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
- Phi Delta Phi – Richard von Weizsäcker Inn Tübingen, Honorary Member
- Vereinigung Baden-Württembergische Wertpapierbörse, Member of the Board of Trustees
- Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Member of the Board of Trustees (2003-2011)
- Akademie Schloss Solitude, Member of the Board of Trustees (2007-2011)
References
- ↑ "Nils Schmid: Der Anti-Mappus - Nils Schmid - FOCUS Online - Nachrichten". Focus.de. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ↑ "Werdegang - Nils Schmid - Minister für Finanzen und Wirtschaft | Landesvorsitzender der SPD-Baden-Württemberg | MdL für Reutlingen". Nils-schmid.de. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
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