Christoph Erdmenger

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Christoph Erdmenger (born April 2, 1970 in Braunschweig ) is a German environmental scientist and politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ).

Life

job

After studying geoecology and a few semesters of economics at the University of Karlsruhe , Erdmenger became an environmental scientist at the ICLEI city ​​network . Between 1996 and 1999, he developed the municipal environmental management system ökoBUDGET together with Konrad Otto-Zimmermann and Holger Robrecht . From 2000 he built up the area of ​​“eco-efficient management” with a focus on environmentally friendly procurement and developed the Procura + campaign for sustainable procurement. He then worked at the Federal Environment Agency from 2004 to 2008 as head of the "Sustainable Energy Supply" department and in 2007 played a key role in the strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions by 40% in Germany by 2020. From 2008 until his move to the state parliament, he headed the “Environment and Transport” department, which in 2009 presented a strategy for sustainable freight transport in Germany. In his role as head of the 'Sustainable Mobility' department of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport, which he took over in 2013, he was responsible for the concept and implementation of air pollution control, including in Stuttgart and Reutlingen.

politics

He has been a member of the Green Party since 1990. From 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the district executive in Karlsruhe , and from 1998 to 2000 the state executive in Baden-Württemberg . From 1996 to 2000 he was spokesman for the party's federal working group on economics and finance. Afterwards he was a member of the national board of the Verkehrsclub Deutschland from 2000 to 2002 . As a member of the economic policy commission of the Heinrich Böll Foundation , in 2005 he developed the concept of “resource-light management”. Since 2006, he has been one of the two chairmen of the Saxony-Anhalt state association alongside Undine Kurth , and from 2008 alongside Claudia Dalbert . In 2008 he was re-elected with 93.5%. While Dalbert was re-elected in 2010, Erdmenger narrowly failed because he remained one vote below the necessary quorum. In a by-election on September 25, 2010, he ran again and was able to prevail with 62% of the votes against an opposing candidate (36%). After their election to the state parliament, Ms. Dalbert and Mr. Erdmenger resigned from their offices as state chairmen in June 2011.

Christoph Erdmenger ran in the Bundestag election 2009 on September 27th in the Bundestag constituency Börde - Jerichower Land (constituency 68) as a direct candidate and achieved 3.5% of the first votes. For the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2011 , he ran for second place on his party's state list and was elected to the state parliament. There he was, among other things, the economic policy spokesman for his parliamentary group and a member of the committees for science and economics as well as for finance. In September 2013 Erdmenger resigned from the state parliament to take over the management of the “Sustainable Mobility” department in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from Mitteldeutsche Zeitung from June 20, 2010 on mz-web.de
  2. ^ Website of the State Statistical Office at stala.sachsen-anhalt.de
  3. ↑ Christoph Erdmenger: Green politician goes to Baden-Württemberg on mz-web.de
personal data
SURNAME Erdmenger, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental scientist and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH April 2nd, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig