Erik Marquardt

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Erik Marquardt (2019)

Erik Marquardt (born October 20, 1987 in Neubrandenburg ) is a photographer, photojournalist and German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). Marquardt was the spokesman for the Green Youth and has been a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party council since November 2015 . Since the 2019 European elections he has been a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Berlin-Friedrichshagen, Marquardt studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin from 2008 to 2013 without obtaining a degree. Marquardt is currently studying politics, administration and sociology at the Fernuniversität Hagen .

As a photojournalist, Marquardt has made several trips along the escape routes and to Afghanistan and presented his pictures and experiences in lectures nationwide. He took part in the Sea-Eye relief mission and was able to help over 1,000 people on the Mediterranean. He was arrested by police officers around the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 and then criticized that criticism of the police operation had been rejected.

politics

In addition to his studies, Marquardt was a member of the board of the free association of student bodies (fzs) from 2011 to 2013 . From 2010 to October 2014 Marquardt was a member of the TU Berlin Board of Trustees. On January 25, 2012, Marquardt took part in a public hearing of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment of the German Bundestag on the subject of tuition fees as an expert. He is a board member of the Solidarity Modern Institute (ISM) and was a board member of the Association of Democratic Scientists (BdWi) from 2015 to 2019 .

Commitment to Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

From 2009 to 2015 Marquardt was a member of the Green Youth and has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2011. In 2013 he was elected political director of the Federal Association of Green Youth. On October 11, 2014, Marquardt was elected spokesman for the federal association. At the federal congress in November 2015 , Marquardt was unable to run again due to the age limit for members of the Green Youth.

In parallel to his involvement in the youth organization, Marquardt also began to get involved with the party himself; he sees his thematic focus in the areas of migration , education and science policy . At the assembly meeting for the election list of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin for the Bundestag election 2017 he was elected to 6th place, and ran parallel in the Bundestag constituency Treptow-Köpenick , but did not move into parliament.

Change to the European Parliament

In November 2018, he ran for the party's federal delegate conference for the European election list, and the delegates nominated him for 8th place on the list. His party won 21 of the 96 German mandates in the European elections with 20.5 percent of the vote, so Marquardt moved in straight away. He joined the group Die Grünen / EFA , for which group he is a member of the Development Committee , of which he was elected vice-chair. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .

reception

Because of his travels on the escape routes, he repeatedly takes part in debates and criticizes that the "EU does not allow safe escape routes". He also contradicted Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière that refugee organizations would work with people smugglers.

Marquardt is responsible for the #Civilfleet project, which raised money for chartering a boat for sea rescue in the Mediterranean. The fundraising organized by Klaas Heufer-Umlauf raised almost 300,000 euros. The money was mainly used for a several month charter of the Golfo Azzurro as well as its conversion and registration. The ship was not used.

He currently lives in Lesbos, Greece, and experiences the situation in the Moria refugee camp and the shift to the right in the population first hand and reports on it on his Twitter account. Thereupon he and other activists started the campaign "Leave no one behind".

Web links

Commons : Erik Marquardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marquardt on the fzs page ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fzs.de
  2. ↑ Bärbel Schoen: Experienced Afghanistan with my own eyes. March 18, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Erik Marquardt: Hope also lives in Idomeni. Der Tagesspiegel, April 1, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Afghanistan - Safe Country of Origin? Photo lecture by Erik Marquardt followed by a discussion | Heinrich Böll Foundation Brandenburg . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation Brandenburg . ( boell-brandenburg.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  5. ^ NDR: Portrait: Photographer and helper Erik Marquardt. August 3, 2017, accessed December 9, 2017 (German).
  6. ↑ Erik Marquardt: Police operation at G20: Questions must be allowed . In: The time . July 8, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  7. ↑ FOCUS Online: Again too few rooms for students . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  8. ^ Yalda Franzen: Debate on fees in the Bundestag: “You don't buy human rights”. In: SPIEGEL online. January 30, 2012, accessed October 10, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Article on bundestag.de with video of the meeting , accessed on October 10th.
  10. ↑ Jana Anzlinger: Green politicians on deportations: "We are fueling a sham debate" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 23, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Profile building, good teaching, knowledge transfer - lived reality or unreal vision? Interview with Erik Marquardt . In: podcampus.de . ( podcampus.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag GmbH: Greens chose their direct candidate: With Erik Marquardt to the federal election . In: berliner-woche.de . ( berliner-woche.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Green European List. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Home | Erik MARQUARDT | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "It is just pathetic that the EU does not allow safe escape routes": Erik Marquardt in an interview about the Balkan route . In: Blogrebellen . November 30, 2015 ( blogrebellen.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  16. ↑ De Maizière and the sea rescuers: "That is shabby" . In: Spiegel Online . July 18, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
  17. ↑ “Now we're saving!” Rp-online.de, July 9, 2018
  18. ↑ Now we save! - #Civilfleet at leetchi.com , accessed September 23, 2019
  19. ↑ What happened to Klaas Heufer-Umlauf's appeal for donations welt.de, 23 September 2019
  20. ↑ A cry for help from Moria
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Green Youth)
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg