Thomas Jurk

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Thomas Jurk
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Thomas Jurk in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20132021
Personal details
Born (1962-06-19) 19 June 1962 (age 62)
Görlitz, East Germany
(now Germany)
Political party SPD

Thomas Jurk (born 19 June 1962) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony from 2013 until 2021. [1]

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Political career

From 1990 until 2013, Jurk served as a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony. He chaired the SPD parliamentary group from 1999 until 2004.

From 2004 until 2009, Jurk was the chairman of the SPD in Saxony. He also served as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Economic Affairs in the government of Minister-President Georg Milbradt of Saxony from 2004 until 2009.

Jurk became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. [2] In parliament, he was a member of the Budget Committee, [3] where he was the SPD parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

In October 2020, Jurk announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term. [4]

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References

  1. "Thomas Jurk | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  2. "Thomas Jurk, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  3. "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  4. Sebastian Beutler (October 4, 2020), Bundestag: Sachsens früherer SPD-Chef hört auf Sächsische Zeitung .
  5. Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Archived 2022-04-20 at the Wayback Machine Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of July 1, 2020.