Günter Matthes (politician)

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Günter Matthes (born December 18, 1936 in Kiel ; † January 29, 2019 ) was a German politician . From 1985 to 1986 he was a member of parliament in Lower Saxony for the Greens. He was also a local politician in Delmenhorst .

Matthes attended elementary school and then a grammar school in Hamburg. There he passed his Abitur in 1956. He then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter until 1958, before completing a degree in professional education at the University of Hamburg for the next four years until 1962 . From 1962 to 1964 he was a student trainee in Hamburg. From 1964 he finally worked as a vocational school teacher in Delmenhorst, where he became head of department in Oldenburg in 1973. Since 1971 he was a member of the Education and Science Union, where he held various functions. In 1971 he became a member of the SPD. From 1974 he worked in the citizens' initiative for environmental protection in Delmenhorst. Thereupon he resigned from the SPD in 1976 to become a member of the Green List of Environmental Protection and finally to join the Greens in 1978.

From 1981 to 1984 Matthes was councilor and alderman of the Delmenhorst city council. On June 5, 1985, he moved up to the state parliament of Lower Saxony, to which he belonged until the end of the tenth electoral term on June 20, 1986. After leaving the state parliament he was again active in Delmenhorst local politics in the city council. In 2001 he was nominated for mayoral election for the Greens, but had no chance against the CDU candidate. After differences with the district association of the Greens, he resigned from the Green parliamentary group in the Delmenhorst city council in 2008 and joined the FDP parliamentary group. However, he emphasized that he wanted to continue to belong to the regional association of the Greens and merely to withdraw from the district association.

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 248.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Welt online: An era is coming to an end in Delmenhorst on August 6, 2001
  2. ↑ NZW online: "Greens have mutated into sects" - Günter Matthes resigns on June 11, 2008.
  3. ↑ Current distribution of seats in the Delmenhorst City Council ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of August 17, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.delmenhorst.de
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 29 January 2019