Gero Karthaus

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Gero Karthaus (born July 29, 1960 in Bergneustadt ) is a German politician , he was a member of the state parliament of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2007 to 2009 and has been the mayor of the Engelskirchen community since then . He is a biologist, geographer and author and lives in Ründeroth in the Oberbergisches Kreis .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979 at the Aggertalgymnasium in Engelskirchen and completing military service, he studied biology, geography and education at the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1987 . Gero Karthaus obtained his doctorate in 1988. rer. nat. in the field of bioecology. His dissertation is on creek bank trees as ornitope structures in the urban cultural landscape using the example of the urban area of ​​Bonn .

In 1987 he became a scientific adviser in the environmental protection / landscape management department of the Rhineland Regional Council, of which he was deputy head from 1991 to 1995. In 1992, Gero Karthaus held a lectureship at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn on topics in settlement ecology. As a landscape architect, he has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Architects since 1994. In 1995 he was entrusted with the job of deputy head in the environmental office of the Rhineland Regional Council. In 2000 Gero Karthaus was appointed regional administrative director. After he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2007 to 2009, he now acts as mayor in Engelskirchen.

Gero Karthaus lives in Engelskirchen, a municipality in Oberberg, in the locality of Ründeroth. He is married and has two children.

politics

Gero Karthaus joined the SPD in 1987. In 1988 he became a member of the environmental, building and planning committee of the Engelskirchen community . He also worked in the Engelskirchen council group, as well as in the SPD parliamentary group of the landscape assembly of the Rhineland Regional Council. Between 1989 and 1995 he was a member of the board of the SPD operating group of the LVR. From 1990 to 2009 he was a member of the committee for the environment, agriculture and consumer issues of the Oberbergischer Kreis. In 1992 he became a member of the board of directors of the Oberbergische SPD, to which he belonged for three years. Since 2006 he has been the deputy chairman of the Oberbergische Social Democrats. He has been a member of the state party council of the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD since 2007. In 2005, Gero Karthaus was nominated as a candidate for the SPD state parliament in the constituency of Oberberg II. On April 3, 2007, he replaced the MP Axel Horstmann in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. In the SPD parliamentary group his main focus was on science and research, culture and environmental policy. In the 2009 local elections, Karthaus ran for the post of mayor of the SPD in his home town of Engelskirchen and was elected on August 30, 2009 with 59.7% of the votes cast. Shortly after taking office as mayor, he had to leave the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. Dr. Gero Karthaus is active on various boards of directors, association assemblies, advisory boards and boards of trustees.

Honorary positions

From 1983 to 2006 Gero Karthaus was the landscape guard for the Oberbergischer Kreis. Between 1987 and 1994 he acted as synodal commissioner for the environment of the Evangelical Church District An der Agger. In 1987 the city of Bonn awarded him the environmental protection prize as an award for the development of the basis for a brook development plan. Since 1987 Gero Karthaus has played a key role in the establishment and development of the Oberberg Nature Conservation Union (OBN / NABU), of which he was deputy chairman until 2005. Gero Karthaus was a member of various landscape advisory boards, from 1985 to 2005 in the landscape advisory board of the Oberbergisches Kreis, from 1987 to 2002 in the landscape advisory board of the Cologne district government and from 1996 to 2002 in the landscape advisory board of the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1990 he has been a member of the evaluation committee " Our village should become more beautiful / Our village has a future " in the Oberbergischer Kreis, where he has been the deputy chairman since 2005. Gero Karthaus is also a member of the selection committee for the Steeger scholarship in the Rhineland.

Publications

• Oberbergische Habitat - The flora and fauna of the most valuable biotopes in the Oberbergisches Kreis (1988)
• Nature on the doorstep - living with landscape, plants and animals in Oberberg villages then and now (1993)
• Pearls of the Landscape - Forays through nature reserves in Oberberg (1994)
• Greetings from back then (with Hartmut Neuhoff) Engelskirchen, Ründeroth and the surrounding area on old postcards (2001)
• A strong piece of home - Oberbergische Dörfer (2008)

Web links

Commons : Gero Karthaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gero Karthaus at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Literature by and about Gero Karthaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage