Doro Pass-Weingartz

Doro Pass-Weingartz

Doro Pass-Weingartz (born September 17, 1951 in Gladbeck as Dorothea Pass ) is a German local politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Life

Doro Pass-Weingartz was involved in the women's movement and in the environmental protection movement during her studies in Bonn . In 1979 she was one of the founders of the Greens in Bonn and at the federal level. In the following years she worked to open up the women's movement and the Greens to women who live with children. In 1986 Doro Pass-Weingartz organized the mothers' congress in what was then the federal capital , in which several hundred women from all over Germany took part. In 1987 she and a dozen other women published the Mothers Manifesto . In the same year together with Gisela Erler at Rowohlt the pamphlet “ Mothers to power! ".

In the 1990s Doro Pass-Weingartz published a number of books and articles on children's subjects - including " Sometimes we know more than the Senator - Children's Parliaments in Germany " - (together with Jutta Sundermann). In 1993, with the support of Greenpeace , she organized the “Ecological Children's Rights” congress.

Doro Pass-Weingartz is married and has three children.

Political functions

From 1984 to 2015 she was a member of the Bonn City Council , from 1994 to 1999 - during the first Red-Green city government - mayor .

As the top candidate and spokeswoman for the parliamentary group , her goal was for the Bonn Greens to develop a profile in which the commitment to a child and family-friendly city plays an important role. In 2003 she campaigned for numerous rooms used by children that were contaminated with pollutants to be renovated.

In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in September 2004, Doro Pass-Weingartz received 4.8% of the votes as candidate for mayor. With her as the top candidate, the Greens achieved over 16% of the vote. After the election, she renounced another term as mayor. From 2004 to 2014 she was group spokeswoman for the Greens. In this function, she was part of the Green delegation, which in January 2006, together with the SPD and FDP, agreed a traffic light coalition in the city council. In the local elections in 2009 and 2014 she was again the top candidate of the Greens, who moved into the city council of Bonn with 18.6% of the vote. In 2015 Doro Pass-Weingartz left the council and resigned from the party.

Publications - as editor

• 1987, Mothers in Power , Rowohlt
• 1993, 'Sometimes we know more than the Senator' - Children's parliaments in Germany , Kid Verlag
• 1993, Ecological Children's Rights , Kid Verlag
• 2017, we do it! - Living with Refugees, Kid Verlag

Author

• 2014, The AKO and politics in Bonn , in: Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu: Unheiliger Berg - The Bonn Aloisius College of the Jesuits and the processing of the abuse scandal , Kohlhammer
• 2017, Amin, underage, unaccompanied refugee , feinschwarz.net

Web links

• Doro Pass-Weingartz homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ To the expanded and the core faction of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen - To the members of KV Bonn
2. ↑ Amin, underage, unaccompanied refugee