Wolfram Günther

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Wolfram Günther (2019)

Wolfram Günther (born June 27, 1973 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer , art historian and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 2014 to 2020 and was chairman of the green parliamentary group there from 2018 to 2020 . Since December 20, 2019, he has been the Saxon State Minister for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture and the first Deputy Prime Minister in the Kretschmer II cabinet .

Life

From 1980 to 1990 Wolfram Günther was a competitive swimmer (1986 Vice- GDR champion). After graduating from high school in Leipzig in 1992, Günther completed a two-year apprenticeship as a banker at Dresdner Bank in Düsseldorf and from 1994 worked for a year in corporate marketing at Dresdner Bank in Leipzig. After his community service, he performed the in his hometown in the Protestant community center, he studied from 1994 to 1999 Law and from 1996 to parallel art history , cultural studies and philosophy in Leipzig . After his first legal state examination in 1999, he completed his legal clerkship, including positions in the district court , the Leipzig public prosecutor , the Berlin Senate for Culture, the Saxon State Chancellery in Dresden and the law firm "Heta" in Reval ( Tallinn ), Estonia . After taking the 2nd state examination in 2001, he continued his art history studies in Leipzig and Berlin and graduated in 2002.

In 2003 Günther became a lecturer in official training with a focus on administration, building planning, environmental and monument law and held seminars in cooperation with the municipal educational institute in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. In 2004 the branch was established as a lawyer in Leipzig. Since 2006 there have been teaching positions at the Bauhaus University Weimar for building planning law , road planning and environmental law.

In 2004 he was one of the initiators of the foundation of the Leipzig City Forum and has been one of the three speakers ever since. Since 2008 he has been one of the initiators of the foundation of the Leipzig Monument Foundation and has been chairman since it was approved in 2009. Since it was founded in 2011, Günther has been the spokesman for the Federal Network Transport with Sense .

As an art historian, Günther researches and publishes primarily on the history of architecture and sculpture in the late Gothic and Renaissance periods in Central Germany. Since 2003 he has been a member of the “Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg”, which advocates the preservation, restoration and restoration of church monuments. As a lawyer, Wolfram Günther focuses on environmental law and construction law .

In January 2020 Günther came under public criticism because his private sewage treatment plant does not comply with regulations. This aroused media interest, since at that time he was already Minister of the Environment of the Free State and advocates a stronger environmental policy.

Wolfram Günther lives in Königsfeld-Schwarzbach , is married and has six children.

politics

Günther has been active in Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1994 and has been a member of the party since 1997. From 2013 to 2019 he was chairman of the Central Saxony district association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.

In the state elections in Saxony in 2014 , Günther was elected to the Saxon state parliament via the state list (4th place) of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . He is a member of the committee for the environment and agriculture as well as the evaluation committee and spokesman for his group for the environment and nature conservation, agriculture and construction (state development, urban and regional development, rural areas) and monument protection. On May 23, 2018, the parliamentary group elected him to succeed Volkmar Zschocke as chairman of the parliamentary group.

On April 13, 2019, Günther was elected to second place in the list of the Greens by a state delegates conference of his party with 90.09 percent of the votes for the upcoming state elections and nominated together with Katja Meier as the top candidate of the Greens.

After the election success of the Saxon Greens in the state elections and the formation of a black-green-red coalition , Günther was appointed the new Minister of State for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture and the first Deputy Prime Minister in the Kretschmer II cabinet on December 20, 2019 . The new state ministry comprises the former state ministry for the environment and agriculture, expanded to include the responsibilities of energy and climate policy. On February 6, 2020, he resigned from his state parliament mandate. Petra Čagalj Sejdi replaced him .

Publications

  • Hieronymus Lotter. In: Arnold Bartetzky (ed.): The builders of the "German Renaissance". A myth in art history? Sax, Beucha 2004, ISBN 3-934544-52-5 , pp. 73-110.
  • with other authors: Current questions and problems of Leipzig's urban development. Published by Stadtforum Leipzig. Leipzig 2006.
  • The effects of the ECJ judgment C-98/03 on the inadequate implementation of the Habitats Directive. In: Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law. 2, 2006, pp. 94-100.
  • The importance of actions outside of nature reserves, VG Leipzig and OVG Saxony. In: Journal for Environmental Law. 1, 2007, pp. 28-30.
  • Citizen engagement and little loved monuments. In: Birgit Franz, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper (ed.): Social space and inventory of monuments. Procedures between preservation, loss, change and updating. Sandsteinverlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-42-5 , pp. 28–31.
  • Hieronymus Lotter - important architect of the German Renaissance or myth of art history? Hieronymus Lotter and the construction of the Old Leipzig City Hall. Norderstedt, Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-8012-4 .
  • The foremen on the construction of the St. Marien main church in Zwickau between 1476 and 1565 - smelters, council stone masons and building contractors. In: Stefan Bürger, Bruno Klein (Hrsg.): Werkmeister of the late Gothic. Position and role of architects in construction from the 14th to 16th centuries. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-22346-6 , pp. 37-58.

Web links

Commons : Wolfram Günther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Günther: curriculum vitae. January 8, 2015, accessed on December 29, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ See list of the supervised work by Topfstedt on the university website, accessed on February 9, 2017
  3. ↑ Günther law firm • Home. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New page 1. Retrieved on December 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Press and public relations department: Leipziger Denkmalstiftung eV - Honorary Office - Free State of Saxony. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Network page
  7. ↑ Bulletin of the sponsorship group
  8. ^ 'Saxony's green environment minister in need of explanation'
  9. ↑ Circle of the Greens
  10. ^ Wolfram Günther. In: gruene-sachsen.de. Retrieved August 31, 2014 .
  11. ↑ The Greens are looking for new momentum , accessed on May 31, 2018.
  12. ↑ Katja Meier and Wolfram Günther lead the Greens in the state election Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Sachsen April 14, 2019
  13. ^ Prime Minister Kretschmer introduces new government. sachsen.de, December 20, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Minister Wolfram Günther renounces the state parliament mandate - the successor is Petra Čagalj Sejdi from Leipzig Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Sachsen February 12, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, art historian and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig