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(1946-02-21)21 February 1946 Merzig, Saarland, Germany
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 and left-wingpolitician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party, SPD.
Schreiner studied law at the University of Saarbrücken, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Lausanne. After his Abitur 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 the SPD. He was a founder of the JuSo Hochschulgruppen (Young Socialist Student Groups) and acted as chairman of the General Students' Committee (AStA) at Saarbrücken University, and from there was elected to the federal executive of the Verband Deutscher Studentenschaften, the national confederation of General Students' Committees.
Later he was elected to the Jusos' national leadership. In the election for federal Juso chairmanship in 1977, he was defeated by Klaus Uwe Benneter, who was later suspended from the SPD, and in 1978 he lost to Gerhard Schröder.
From 1980 until his death in April 2013, Schreiner was a member of the Bundestag. He received a direct mandate in the electoral districtSaarlouis, which he defended at the federal elections in 2005.
From 1991 to 1997 he was a speaker of the SPD's parliamentary group in the Ausschuss 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 was Bundesgeschäftsführer (executive director) of the SPD. He was the chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arbeitnehmerfragen, a study group inside the SPD, which is reputed to be leftist and closely connected to trade unions. Schreiner was a member of the metalworkers' union IG Metall.
Death[]
Schreiner died in April 2013 after a long battle with cancer.[3][4]
Speaker: , Petra Kelly, Otto Schily until 3 April 1984; , , Antje Vollmer until 30./31. January 1985;
, , Christian Schmidt until 1 February 1986; , , until 18 July 1986); (8 September 1986)
Die Grünen:
(from 17 April 1985)
(until 31 March 1985)
Bastian
(until 14 April 1985)
(from 1 April 1985)
(from 1 April 1985)
(until 15 March 1985)
(from 2 March 1985)
(until 31 March 1985)
(until 28 March 1985)
(from 17 April 1985)
Fischer (until 31 March 1985)
(from 20 January 1986)
(from 14 March 1986)
Gottwald (until 31 March 1985)
(until 31 August 1983)
(until 9 March 1985)
(from 13 April 1985)
Horácek (from 2 September 1983 until 3 October 1985)
Speaker: , , until 26 January 1988; , , until 30 January 1989, , Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Antje Vollmer until 15 January 1990; , (until 21 June 1990), Marianne Birthler (from 4 October 1990), Antje Vollmer