Alliance 90 / The Greens Lower Saxony

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Alliance 90 / The Greens Lower Saxony
Alliance 90 - The Greens Logo.svg
Chairperson Anne Kura
Hans-Joachim Janßen
Deputy Heiner Scholing
Heiko Sachtleben
Nadja Weippert
Treasurer Brigitte Deyda
executive Director Josef Voss
Establishment date December 9, 1979
Place of foundation Hanover
Headquarters Odeonstrasse 4
30159 Hanover
Landtag mandates
12

/ 137

Number of members 7,505 (as of December 31, 2018)
Website www.gruene-niedersachsen.de

Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Niedersachsen are the Lower Saxony state association of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party .

history

Stefan Wenzel, former Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection
Christian Meyer, former Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

In 1979 the Greens were founded in Lower Saxony as the legal successor to the Green List Environmental Protection (GLU). In 1980, through the reorganization of the districts of Ammerland , Friesland and Wittmund, they each won two district council seats in the new elections . In 1982 the party succeeded in entering the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first time, and in 1986 it was re-entered. In the local elections in the same year, she won around 500 seats nationwide.

After the state elections in 1990 , the Greens formed the first red-green state government with the Lower Saxony SPD . The later Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) became Prime Minister . The party sent two ministers to the government : Jürgen Trittin took over the Ministry for Federal and European Affairs, Waltraud Schoppe became Minister for Women.

After the SPD in state elections in Lower Saxony in 1994 , the absolute majority was attained, the Green Party withdrew from the government. In the following state elections, they always succeeded in re-entering the state parliament . The top candidacy was taken over by Rebecca Harms in 1998 and 2003 . For the Lower Saxony state election, 2008 were Ursula Helmhold and Stefan Wenzel as a top candidate. The respective election results, however, did not make it possible for Lower Saxony to participate in government again.

After the federal election in 1998 , the first red-green coalition was formed at the federal level. Gerhard Schröder became Federal Chancellor and Jürgen Trittin, Member of the Lower Saxony Bundestag, took over the office of Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety , which he held until the end of the coalition at state level in 2005.

After the federal election in 2009 , Trittin became chairman of the Greens parliamentary group alongside Renate Künast . Rebecca Harms ran as the top candidate in the 2004 and 2009 European elections . In July 2010 Harms was unanimously elected chairman of the Greens / EFA group. Since then she has shared the chairmanship with Daniel Cohn-Bendit . In addition to Rebecca Harms, Jan Philipp Albrecht from Wolfenbüttel moved into the European Parliament for the Lower Saxony regional association .

At the state delegates' conference in February 2011, Anja Piel was confirmed in her office as state chairwoman. Jan Haude , the previous state treasurer, became next to her new state chairman, replacing Stefanie Henneke . In August 2011, the party welcomed its 6,000th member in Lower Saxony. This meant that the number of members had risen by 20 percent in just eight months.

In the Lower Saxony local elections on September 11th, the party was able to celebrate its historically best result with 14.3 percent and an increase of 6.5 percentage points compared to the local election in 2006 . In addition, all three full-time mayors were confirmed in their office. This means that 1,500 Greens have been elected as local politicians, which corresponds to an increase of two thirds compared to the 2006 election.

At the state delegate conference in February 2013, Anja Piel no longer stood as state chairwoman. Her successor was Julia Willie Hamburg , who resigned in February 2014 for health reasons and was replaced by Meta Janssen-Kucz in May 2014 .

At the state delegate conference in February 2015, Jan Haude was replaced by Stefan Körner in the office of state chairman, Meta Janssen-Kucz was confirmed in office.

Elke Twesten announced her departure from the party at a press conference on August 4, 2017 in Hanover. She had not previously been nominated again for the state election in her constituency in Rotenburg. She accused her party of not taking her criticism of the party's course seriously. With her transfer to the CDU she brought down the red-green state government of Prime Minister Stephan Weil . One consequence was the early state elections on October 15, 2017 , in which the Greens suffered a significant loss of votes: they lost around 5 percentage points and are only represented by 12 members in the state parliament.

Meta Janssen-Kucz resigned from her position as state chairwoman on November 29, 2017. The reason she named was her election as Vice President of the state parliament. In her view, a party chairmanship is not compatible with the tasks of a vice-president. At the party congress on 10/11. March 2018 in Oldenburg, Anne Kura and Hans-Joachim Janßen were elected as state chairmen.

District associations

The Lower Saxony state association consists of 46 district associations, which are mostly also subdivided into local associations:

Ammerland, Aurich-Norden, Braunschweig, Celle, Cloppenburg, Cuxhaven, Delmenhorst, Diepholz, Emden, Emsland-Nord, Emsland-Süd, Friesland, Gifhorn, Goslar, Grafschaft Bentheim, Göttingen, Hameln-Pyrmont, Hanover, Harburg-Land, Helmstedt , Hildesheim, Holzminden, Leer, Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lüneburg, Nienburg, Northeim-Einbeck, Oldenburg-Land, Oldenburg-Stadt, Osnabrück-Land, Osnabrück-Stadt, Osterholz, Peine, Rotenburg (Wümme), Salzgitter, Schaumburg, Soltau- Fallingbostel, Stade, Uelzen, Vechta, Verden, Wesermarsch, Wilhelmshaven, Wittmund, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg.

fraction

Group leaders

Group leader Julia Hamburg
Rebecca Harms, former group leader in the state parliament and current member of the European Parliament
Period Chairman
1982-1983 Martin Mombaur
1983-1984 Helmut Neddermeyer
1984-1985 Manfred Meinsen
1985-1986 Jürgen Trittin
1986-1987 Ruth Hammerbacher
1987-1988 Marion Schole
1988-1990 Jürgen Trittin
1990-1994 Thea Dückert
1994-1998 Erwin Jordan
1998-2004 Rebecca Harms
2004-2013 Stefan Wenzel
2013-2020 Anja Piel
since 2020 Julia Willie Hamburg

Composition in the 18th Lower Saxony State Parliament

The parliamentary group of the Greens is represented by 6 female and 6 male MPs in the 18th Lower Saxony state parliament .

Parliamentary group

Miriam Staudte, deputy group leader

The parliamentary committee was last elected on March 17, 2020.

  • Julia Willie Hamburg , parliamentary group leader, spokeswoman for education, queer politics, anti-fascism, memorials
  • Helge Limburg , deputy parliamentary group chairman, parliamentary manager, spokesman for legal and constitutional issues and the protection of the constitution
  • Miriam Staudte , deputy group leader, spokeswoman for agriculture and food, nuclear policy, animal welfare, forestry, hunting and fishing
  • Christian Meyer , deputy chairman of the parliamentary group, spokesman for nature conservation, civil rights, building, regional development, network politics and the media

Other MPs

  • Volker Bajus , spokesman for social policy, children, youth, family, penal system (replacement for Anja Piel )
  • Imke Byl , spokesperson for the environment, energy, climate protection and women's policy
  • Meta Janssen-Kucz , spokesperson for health, demography, care and seniors, psychiatry, ports and shipping
  • Susanne Quantity , spokesperson for domestic politics, local politics, migration and refugees, sport, data protection (successor for Belit Onay )
  • Dragos Pancescu , Spokesperson for Consumer Protection, Federal and European Affairs, Petitions
  • Detlev Schulz-Hendel , spokesman for business and transport
  • Eva Viehoff , spokeswoman for science & universities, culture, adult education, monument protection, labor market, tourism, religion and one-world politics
  • Stefan Wenzel , spokesman for budget and finance

State election results

State election results
year be right Seats
1978 3.9% 1 0
1982 6.5% 11
1986 7.1% 11
1990 5.5% 8th
1994 7.4% 13
1998 7.0% 12
2003 7.6% 14th
2008 8.0% 12
2013 13.7% 20th
2017 8.7% 12
1 as a green list environmental protection

Member of the Bundestag

Member of the European Parliament

literature

  • Teresa Nentwig and Christian Werwath (eds.): Politics and government in Lower Saxony . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-05075-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ welt: SPD and CDU lose members. welt, January 21, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ludger Fertmann: End of the Rebecca Harms era. In: Abendblatt.de. March 16, 2004. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stefan Körner new head of the Lower Saxony Greens. In: welt.de. February 21, 2015, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Early election: Lower Saxony elects on October 15th. In: tagesschau.de. August 7, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ biography. (No longer available online.) In: rebecca-harms.de. Archived from the original on August 10, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 .
  6. ^ Julia Willie Hamburg new chairwoman of the Greens in the state parliament. In: fraktion.gruene-niedersachsen.de. March 17, 2020, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  7. ^ Results of the state elections in Lower Saxony .