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In contrast to his work in the European Parliament, Martin Schulz’s time in the Bundestag was short. After four years, he will not race again in 2021. The 64-year-old already has a new position.
Former SPD leader Martin Schulz does not want to run for the Bundestag again in 2021. The 64-year-old told “Aachener Nachrichten.” Schulz had previously been elected as the new president of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, affiliated with the SPD.
“With the decision to this office comes the decision not to run again for the Bundestag in the fall of 2021,” said Schulz. Until the end of the current legislature “he will continue to fulfill the functions of his mandate with dedication.”
Schulz succeeds Beck
Schulz has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017. He was also a candidate for chancellor in 2017. Before that, he was active in the European Parliament for 23 years, and Schulz became its president in 2012. At the head of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Schulz succeeds to the former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Kurt Beck, who has led the foundation since 2013. Schulz spoke of an “honorable task.”
Beck was simultaneously elected honorary president of the foundation and the former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft (SPD), chaired the board of directors.
Contribution to political education
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung claims to be the oldest German political foundation. Therefore, it defends the support and defense of democracy, the promotion and right to fair educational opportunities and international cooperation and solidarity.
Party-affiliated foundations contribute to political education, for example through publications and grants, and are largely financed from public funds. National-level foundations also include the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Hanns Seidel Foundation (CSU), the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Greens), the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FDP), and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Foundation (left).
