Alexander Bonde

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Alexander Bonde (2013)

Alexander Bonde (born January 12, 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). In the Kretschmann I cabinet , Bonde was State Minister for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection in Baden-Württemberg from May 2011 to May 2016 .

Life and work

During his school days, Bonde was a scholarship holder of the parliamentary sponsorship program of the US Congress and the German Bundestag at the Kahuku High School in Hawaii , where he obtained the high school diploma in 1993 . After graduating from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Freiburg in 1995, Bonde did civil service as a carer for severely disabled people and then began studying law at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 1996 . In 1999 he moved to the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of the State of Baden-Württemberg in Kehl to study for a degree in administrative management , which he gave up in 2001 to work as a personal advisor to Heike Dederer, member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament (then Greens) and as campaign manager to be able to work for various mayoral election campaigns. The election campaign agency public office - election management & strategy development GbR , which Bonde had built up with a colleague in 2002, was dissolved after his election to the Bundestag in the same year.

Bonde is Protestant and married to the CDU politician Conny Mayer-Bonde . The two have two sons and a daughter and live in the Mitteltal district of Baiersbronn

During his time as Minister, Bonde was President of the Baden-Württemberg Tourism Association and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Baden State Brewery Rothaus .

On November 30, 2017, the Board of Trustees of the German Federal Environmental Foundation appointed Bonde as Secretary General. Since February 1, 2018, he has been head of the DBU office.

Political party

Bonde at the Green Party Congress in Reutlingen (2015)

Bonds political engagement began u. a. as spokesman for the regional student council in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1994 to 1996 he was chairman of the Baden-Württemberg state student council, to which he was elected as a representative of the southern Baden grammar schools. During his studies he was elected twice for the alliance of independent student councils in the Great Senate of the University of Freiburg and thus in the General Student Committee.

Bonde became a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as a student in 1993. He was initially involved in the Green Youth and was a member of the state executive committee in Baden-Württemberg from 1993 to 1996 and from 1997 to 1998 . From 1994 to 1995 he was also a member of the federal executive committee of the Green Youth and from 1998 to 2001 the state chairman of the Green Youth in Baden-Württemberg. From 1995 to 1997 Bonde was and has been a member of the state board of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg since 1999.

At the federal level, Bonde just managed to get into the party council in 2013, a body that advises the federal executive committee. He received 50.8% of votes and sat down just short against then-Presidents of the Greens in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate , Daniel Kobler through. Two years later, however, Bonde failed at the federal party conference of the Greens in Halle in 2015 with his renewed candidacy for the body and resigned from the party council.

MP

From 2002 to 2011 Bonde was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was most recently a member of the budget committee and parliamentary group spokesman and chairman of the Greens for budgetary policy. He was also deputy chairman of the US parliamentary group of the German Bundestag and a deputy member of the Defense Committee, of which he was a full member until early 2008. From October 2009 he was also a deputy member of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection.

Since November 2008 Bonde was a member of the committee for the financial market stabilization fund in accordance with Section 10a of the Financial Market Stabilization Act , which controls the work of the € 480 billion special fund for financial market stabilization ( SoFFin ) in secret meetings . The committee should also help develop future financial market policy.

Bonde has always drawn into the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list and also ran as a direct candidate in the constituency 284 Emmendingen-Lahr . In the 2002 general election, he replaced Cem Özdemir , who was on the list but had not accepted his mandate due to the bonus miles affair . In the list of the Baden-Württemberg Greens for the 2005 federal election, he beat Oswald Metzger in 4th place . In the state list for the 2009 Bundestag election, he prevailed on October 11, 2008 in 8th place against the designated federal chairman Cem Özdemir. When he took over the ministerial office in Baden-Württemberg, Bonde resigned his parliamentary mandate in 2011. For him moved Harald Ebner according to the Bundestag.

In 2015, Bonde announced that he would run for the constituency of Freiburg I against his party friend Reinhold Pix in the state elections in March 2016 ; he soon withdrew this announcement after a violent conflict within the party.

State minister and withdrawal from top positions

On May 12, 2011, Bonde became a member of Kretschmann's cabinet as Minister for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection .

During his tenure, Bonde pushed ahead with the establishment of the first national park in Baden-Württemberg . In addition, he successfully campaigned for the prevention of the use of genetically modified plants in agriculture, modernized the Baden-Wuerttemberg hunting law and initiated a modern association law . In 2011, he also worked to ensure that the rural districts in Baden-Württemberg establish landscape conservation associations. The state has made financial resources available for employees to the sponsoring associations and district offices. After there were only six landscape conservation associations in Baden-Württemberg in 2011, there were LEVs in 31 rural districts at the end of 2015.

After the state elections in 2016, Bonde declared that he was no longer available for the ministerial office and other top positions. Shortly before, the then 26-year-old candidate for the Green Party, Kerstin Lamparter, announced that there had been an affair between her and Bonde for almost three years .

After a one-year waiting period, Bonde worked at the Berlin management consultancy DWR eco as a senior advisor in strategy consulting for cleantech companies and startups. On December 1, 2017, the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety , Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (SPD) announced that Bonde was elected Secretary General by the Board of Trustees of the German Federal Environment Foundation . He took up the post in Osnabrück on February 1, 2018.

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexander Bonde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ alex-bonde.de/ueber-mich ( Memento from November 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ DBU General Secretary Alexander Bonde starts today in office. February 1, 2018, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ www2.gruene-jugend.de/uploads/Chronologie_GJ.pdf ( Memento from September 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.alexander-bonde-gruene-brueckenkopf-der-realos-in-berlin.fcff1279-3cf4-41dd-99ff-8cf76375aa3b.html
  5. ↑ www.badische-zeitung.de
  6. ↑ www.landtag-bw.de: Law introducing the Hunting and Wildlife Management Act
  7. ↑ State supports municipalities in founding landscape conservation associations. Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection, July 18, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Landscape conservation associations (LEV) in Baden-Württemberg (district map - as of 12/2015) ( Memento from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Focus.de, May 2, 2016: After rumors of an extramarital affair, the Green Minister resigns from his office .
  10. ↑ welt.de , April 28, 2016: Greens come out as disappointed lover of their minister.
  11. ↑ DBU - Alexander Bonde from February 1st new DBU General Secretary | Home page. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bonde, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau