Ewald Groth
Ewald Groth (born October 10, 1953 in Lünen ) is a German politician and was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen until 2010 .
education and profession
Ewald Groth obtained his secondary school leaving certificate in 1969 at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Lünen. He then attended the technical college for social work and social pedagogy in Lünen, from which he graduated in 1973 with a technical diploma.
From 1973 to 1975 he studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and at the same time completed his high school diploma at the evening grammar school in Dortmund, after which he studied at the curative education college in Dortmund until 1981 . After completing the state examination and training as a special school teacher, Groth worked as a hospital teacher in child and adolescent psychiatry in Osnabrück. From 1989 to 1995 he worked as a special school teacher at the Albert Schweitzer School in Münster, the Montessori school for people with learning disabilities, where he also obtained his Montessori diploma.
politics
Ewald Groth has been active with the Greens since the late 1980s, first he founded the Ostbevern local association in the Warendorf district together with Heinz Kock in 1989 and moved into the Ostbevern municipal council as parliamentary group leader in the same year. From 1994 he was a member of the Warendorf district council.
In 1995, Groth was elected to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia as a member of the green parliamentary group. There he was active as a local political spokesman, spokesman for administrative reform and spokesman for sports policy.
In May 2005, Groth left the state parliament and temporarily returned to his old profession. After Michael Vesper switched to the German Olympic Sports Confederation , he moved into the state parliament for the second time on October 1, 2006.
Among other things, he was chairman of the Committee on Innovation, Science, Research and Technology (AIWFT) and spokesman for the budget and finance committee and for sports policy. He was a member of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the investigation of the torture murder in the juvenile detention center Siegburg and was a member of the study commission on violence prevention among children and adolescents, which was founded as a result of the dissolution of the committee of inquiry. As a member of parliament, he also looked after the green district associations of Bochum, Borken, Bottrop, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Recklinghausen and Steinfurt. He is no longer a member of the state parliament elected in 2010.
Groth is married, has three children and lives in Bochum.
Web links
- Webpage from Ewald Groth
- The Greens in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia - Entry on Ewald Groth
- Ewald Groth at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groth, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luenen |