Frank Schwalba-Hoth

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Frank Schwalba-Hoth (born December 12, 1952 in Hamburg ) is a former German politician ( Die Grünen ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament and the European Parliament .

education and profession

Frank Schwalba-Hoth grew up in Dassendorf ( Duchy of Lauenburg ), studied after graduating from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Geesthacht and completing military service in 1974 at the Philipps University of Marburg and completed his legal clerkship in 1981 after the first state examination for teaching.

Schwalba-Hoth has a daughter.

politics

Extra-parliamentary

Schwalba-Hoth was already politically active during his studies, founded the GBAL (Grün-Bunt-Alternative List) in 1980, the first green university group in Germany and was, among other things, a member of the AStA of the Philipps University of Marburg and president in 1979/81 of the student parliament. Among other things, he was active in initiatives such as the “3. International Russell Tribunal : On the Situation of Human Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany ”and the“ Information Service for Disseminating Missed News ”.

Political party

Schwalba-Hoth was co-founder of the Marburg Green List (GLW) in 1978 and later of Green List Hessen (GLH) . In 1980 he was one of the founding members of the party Die Grünen and in 1981/82 was one of the two co-state chairmen and spokesman for the Hessian state executive ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hessen ). He was seen as a representative of the “fundamentalist” wing of the Greens, the so-called Fundis .

Parliament

From December 1, 1982 to August 4, 1983 he was a member of the state parliament. He introduced a draft law on teacher training, which, when passed in August 1983, became the first law initiated by the Greens in a German parliament.

In 1983, Schwalba-Hoth's blood injection campaign attracted particular attention . On August 3, 1983, during a reception in the Hessian state parliament for the commanders of the US armed forces stationed in Hesse, he splattered US General Paul S. Williams, stationed in Frankfurt, with blood. This action had a significant public impact. While the press mostly criticized the action as unworthy, Schwalba-Hoth received praise from parts of his party. In the subsequent legal disputes he was represented by lawyers Sebastian Cobler and Eberhard Kempf .

European Parliament

From 1984 to 1987 Schwalba-Hoth was a member of the European Parliament, deputy chairman of the Committee on Petitions and 1986/87 one of the two co-group chairmen before he resigned because of the rotation principle .

Advisory and lobbying activities in Brussels

Since leaving the European Parliament , Schwalba-Hoth has been working as an advisor and lobbyist in Brussels . For many years he was the head of Greenpeace's EU office there . In 1998 he founded the consulting firm Conseillé + Partners together with Silvana Koch-Mehrin (FDP) and worked for this company until 2002. For several years he also worked for the TACIS program of the EU Commission in the states of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, on the TACIS Environmental Awareness Raising Program (TEAP) and participated in the ratification of the Aarhus Convention in Moldova and Ukraine. Since 2002 he has been working as a freelance political strategist with a focus on civil society , sustainable development , energy policy, further development of the EU and institutional issues. Since 1989 he has organized monthly networking dinners (“Soirée Internationale”) with 60 to 80 participants each with different professional, cultural, national and social backgrounds. Since 2006 he has been a member of the advisory board of the "Right Livelihood Foundation" founded by Jakob von Uexküll , which awards the Right Livelihood Award every year in Stockholm in early December .

In 2011 and 2012 he published the “Stakeholder Directory” at Lexxion Verlag, an annual directory of key people in the European Union in Brussels.

Since 2015 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Caucasian Chamber Orchestra together with Roswitha Fessler-Ketteler, MEP Heidi Hautala , Vytautas Landsbergis and Aleksi Malmberg.

literature

  • Group of the Greens in the Hessian Landtag: Brochure The dignity of a uniform can be touched - a documentation . August 1983
  • Lothar Bembenek; Frank Schwalba-Hoth: Hessen behind barbed wire, displaced and forgotten: concentration camps, camps, external commandos , Frankfurt, Eichborn Verlag, 1984.
  • Katja Ridderbusch: The entourage of Brussels , Vienna, Czernin Verlag, 2006.
  • Frank Schwalba-Hoth: Stakeholder.eu, The Directory for Brussels , Berlin, Lexxion Verlag, 2011 and 2012.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Ridderbusch: He calls himself Brussels' Clint Eastwood on the folding bike. In: welt.de . May 1, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 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. , Stakeholder Directory  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belgieninfo.net
  3. ↑ http://foerderverein.caucasianco.com/
personal data
SURNAME Schwalba-Hoth, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg