Jürgen Rochlitz
Jürgen Rochlitz (born July 24, 1937 in Wiesbaden ; † September 19, 2019 ) was a German politician and scientist .
Life and work
After graduating from high school in Wiesbaden in 1957, Rochlitz studied chemistry in Frankfurt am Main and Zurich . In 1961 he became a qualified chemist. Four years later he did his doctorate in Frankfurt and was then employed as a research assistant for two years. From 1967 to 1975 Rochlitz worked as a research chemist in Kalle AG , which is part of Hoechst AG . In 1975 he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim . From 1981 to 1983 he headed the biotechnology and chemical engineering department there. In 2001 he retired. Jürgen Rochlitz was married and had two children. He died on September 19, 2019.
Political party
In 1980 Jürgen Rochlitz co-founded several district associations of the Greens in Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1990–1992 he was a board member of the Mannheim district association and the Baden-Württemberg regional association. In 1999 he resigned from the party because of the policy of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in connection with the German participation in the Kosovo war .
MP
1984-1988 Rochlitz belonged to the council of the city of Mannheim. From 1988 to 1992 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the Weinheim constituency . 1994–98 he represented Mannheim in the German Bundestag . There he was deputy chairman of the environmental committee and chemical policy spokesman for the parliamentary group.
Social Commitment
Jürgen Rochlitz was a co-founder of the Alternative BASF shareholders campaign and a member of the Advisory Board of the Coordination against BAYER Risks ( CBG ). In 1998 he founded the Association for the Promotion of Freight Transport by Rail, which advocates shifting freight transport from road to rail. In 2000, at the suggestion of the PDS, he was appointed as a scientific expert in the Enquête Commission “Sustainable Energy Supply under the Conditions of Globalization” of the Bundestag. From 2002 to 2014 he was a member of the Commission for Plant Safety (KAS) at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety .
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| SURNAME | Rochlitz, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag and scientists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th September 2019 |