Stefan Schmitt (September 19, 1963 – April 14, 2010) was a German

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. Schmitt was born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. He was a member of the SDP. Schmitt died of

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

Life

Stefan Schmitt studied law and worked as a lawyer in the law firm ''Wied, Schmitt and Partner'' from 1991. He was admitted to the Hamburg Regional Court in 1991 and to the

Hanseatic Higher Regional Court The (Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, abbreviated HansOLG, officially without a suffix "Hamburg") is the Higher Regional Court (OLG) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, and thus part of the Hamburg ordinary jurisdiction. It ...

in 1996. His main areas of work were labor law and tenancy law. From 1991 to 2001, he was a member of the Harburg District Assembly. In February 2008, he was elected to the Hamburg Parliament on the SPD state list. For his parliamentary group he became a member of the legal committee as well as the constitutional and district committee. In addition to his party-political commitment, he was a member of the Workers' Welfare Association and the trade union

Ver.di (''Verdi'' (stylized as ''ver.di''; �vɛʁdiː; German: ''United Services Trade Union'') is a German trade union based in Berlin, Germany. It was established on 19 March 2001 as the result of a merger of five individual unions and is a memb ...

. Stefan Schmitt fell ill with

leukaemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

in 2009. He died on 14 April 2010.

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Personal Website
1963 births 2010 deaths Jurists from Berlin Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians {{Germany-SPD-politician-stub