Monika Ganseforth

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Monika Ganseforth (* 15. December 1940 in Gliwice as Monika Dessel ) is a German politician ( SPD ). As a member of the German Bundestag (1987–2002), she was involved in laying the foundations for the energy transition.

Life and work

Monika Ganseforth was born on December 15, 1940, the second daughter of Kurt and Alice Dessel. After fleeing East Prussia and attending the modern-language grammar school for girls in Peine, she studied mechanical engineering in Braunschweig and graduated in 1966 with a degree in engineering. She then worked as a development and construction engineer in industry and from 1971 to 1987 professor at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences in the mechanical engineering department, specializing in control engineering.

Monika Ganseforth has two sons, Frank Ganseforth (* 1971) and Olaf Ganseforth (* 1973).

Political work

Party career

In 1974 she joined the SPD, from 1976 to 1986 she was a member of the city council of Neustadt am Rübenberge and ran for the European Parliament in 1979 without success. For the first time in the federal election in 1980 she applied for the candidacy in the constituency of Hanover Land I , but was defeated by 40 to 56 votes to her internal party competitor, the later Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . From 1987 to 2002 she was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1998 she won the direct mandate in the Bundestag constituency of Hanover-Land I. In the other legislative periods, she moved into parliament via the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony.

energy transition

In addition to social and women's policy, during her work as a member of parliament she increasingly developed energy and climate policy topics as her main focus. She was a member of the Transport Committee, the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Enquete Commission on Sustainable Energy Supply .

Monika Ganseforth was an advocate of the nuclear phase-out . She can be seen as a pioneer of the so called "energy turnaround" in energy policy .

Later offices

Monika Ganseforth was a member of the Federal Board of the Verkehrsclub Deutschland from 2002 to November 2014 .

Literature (selection)

  • Monika Ganseforth: Political implementation of the recommendations of the two climate inquiry commissions (1987–1994): an evaluation . In: Hans Günter Brauch (ed.): Climate policy . Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 978-3-642-64680-5 , pp. 215-224 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-61072-1_16 .
  • Monika Ganseforth u. a .: Does technology have a gender? In: Doris Janshen (Ed.): Does technology have a gender ?: Memorandum for another technical civilization . Orlanda-Frauenverl, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-922166-64-1 , p. 6-30 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Ganseforth ends her committed professional life. In: spectrum 1/2003. Personal details. P. 69. PDF with portrait ( memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 14, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hs-hannover.de
  2. ↑ Schöllgen, Gregor: Gerhard Schröder. The biography, Munich 2015, p. 78.
  3. ↑ The federal board on vcd.de. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ganseforth, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dessel, Monika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice