Bernhard Braun (politician)

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Bernhard Braun, 2014

Bernhard Braun (born June 30, 1958 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ).

Life

Braun attended elementary school in his home town of Altrip and graduated from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen in 1977. After studying Catholic theology for a semester in Tübingen , he worked as a community service provider for the Christian youth workers in the Diocese of Speyer . He then studied philosophy and political science at the University of Mannheim . After receiving his doctorate on Gustav Landauer , Braun worked in various areas of PR in 1990 . Braun was press spokesman for the Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and from 1995 to 1996 advisor to the building and environmental department of the city of Ludwigshafen.

politics

Bernhard Braun

He has been a member of the Greens since 1982. From 1984 to 1989 as well as 1994/1995 and again since 1999 he is a member of the Ludwigshafen city council. In the city council he was group leader of the Greens from 2004 to 2012. From 1996 to 2006 Braun was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament in Mainz , deputy parliamentary group chairman and spokesman for environmental, energy and media policy. From 2007 to 2010 he was state chairman of the BUND -Rhineland-Palatinate. In the state elections in 2011 he was re-elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. There, the parliament elected him vice-president of the state parliament . In the parliamentary group he is the spokesman for climate and energy policy and a member of the media committee. He is also chairman of the subcommittee on monitoring the energy transition in Rhineland-Palatinate. On May 11, 2016, he was elected parliamentary group leader in the state parliament.

Works

  • The utopia of the mind. On the function of utopia in Gustav Landauer's political theory . Idstein: Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, 1991.
  • The settlement - the beginning of socialism: social criticism, settlement, utopia for Gustav Landauer . In: Hanna Delf / Gerd Mattenklott (ed.): Gustav Landauer in conversation. 191-201. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 90–91 .
  • Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The members of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate: 14th electoral period . Mainz 2003.

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Braun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website BUND Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. Bernhard Braun elected the new leader of the Greens. In: volksfreund.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .