Grégory Engels

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Grégory Engels (2012)

Grégory Engels ( Russian Григорий Энгельс ; born November 1, 1976 in Moscow ) is a German politician of the Pirate Party Germany . He was three times co-chair of the international umbrella organization of pirate parties ( Pirate Parties International (PPI)).

politics

Functions in the international umbrella organization PPI

Engels has been a member of the Pirate Party Germany since 2009. Since November 2009 he has been the international coordinator of the Pirate Party Germany. In the international umbrella organization (PPI) he acted as co-chair alongside the Luxembourgish Jerry Weyer in 2010/2011 , in 2012/2013 alongside the Russian Lola Voronina and most recently in 2013/2014 alongside the Czech Vojtěch Pikal . He has been a member of the PPI board since 2014 .

On June 23, 2020, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled in a case in which Engels sued the Russian government that Russia, with its current practice of network blocking, was deemed incompatible with Articles 10 (the right to freedom of expression) and Article 13 ( the right to a fair trial) of the European Charter of Human Rights.

Functions in the Pirate Party Germany

Since September 2011 he has been a judge at the State Arbitration Court of the Pirate Party of Hesse. He played a key role in organizing the federal party conference of the Pirate Party in Offenbach am Main in 2011. Within the pirate party, Engels advocates adherence to the basic democratic principle. He is one of the driving forces behind the international coordination of the pirate movement.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , he ran in the Offenbach-Stadt constituency , where he received 2.7% of the first votes. On January 5, 2014, Engels was elected to 6th place on the list of candidates for the 2014 European elections. In the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , he ran in the Offenbach Land I constituency , but only received 0.8% of the first votes there.

Local politics

Engels has been a member of Offenbach's city ​​council since March 2011 . He was chairman of the pirate group and a member of several committees. Through his mandate, he was a member of the German-French and German-Polish committees of the German section of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions . Since he has been the only pirate member in Offenbach's municipal parliament since the 2016 local elections, he joined the CDU parliamentary group.

In spring 2013, Engels was the main organizer and confidant of the citizens' initiative for a petition against the sale of the Offenbach clinic .

biography

Angel with a pirate hat (2012)

Grégory Engels was born in the Soviet Union and attended school in Russia from 1984 until he emigrated to Germany in 1989. From 1995 to 2001 he studied physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After working for O2 and DaimlerChrysler , he is now an independent entrepreneur. He is the founder and owner of the IT company Kompurity and IT head of Engels Reisen .

Grégory Engels lives in Offenbach am Main and is the father of two children, whose primary school he co-founded.

Other

Engels gained public attention with a cover page of the news magazine Der Spiegel in April 2012. It shows him, wearing a pirate hat and with a raised voting card, at the federal party conference of the Pirate Party Germany in Offenbach.

Web links

Commons : Gregory Engels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Spiegel" title on the Pirate Party - "You can make serious statements with a hat" by Antonie Rietzschel on Süddeutsche Online , accessed on April 24, 2012.
  2. ^ Pirate Parties International Board of the PPI. From pp-international.net , accessed April 24, 2012.
  3. ^ ECHR: Network blocking in Russia violates human rights. In: Pirate Party Germany. June 24, 2020, accessed on June 24, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ a b Interview with Engels on the website of the Pirate Party Hesse ( memento of the original from May 25, 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. , accessed April 24, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.piratenpartei-hessen.de
  5. ↑ Individual results of the elections at the Federal Party Congress 2014.1 of the Pirate Party Germany
  6. ↑ Website of the pirate faction in Offenbach ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2012 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. , accessed April 24, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.piratenpartei-offenbach.de
  7. ^ Members of the Franco-German Committee (DFA). In: RGRE.de , accessed on November 1, 2013.
  8. ^ Members of the German-Polish Committee (DPA). In: RGRE.de , accessed on November 1, 2013.
  9. ↑ Martin Kuhn: Pirate Gregory Engels now part of the CDU parliamentary group in Offenbach. In: op-online.de. March 29, 2016, accessed September 4, 2017 .
  10. ^ Marc Kuhn: Despite false signatures: Citizens' petitions on the way. In: Offenbach Post , January 9, 2013, accessed on November 1, 2013.
  11. ↑ Григорий Энгельс Russian
  12. ^ "Spiegel" title on Piraten - This is Lutz Kinkel's "Dilettante" on Stern.de , accessed on April 24, 2012.
  13. ^ Title page Der Spiegel from April 23, 2012 , accessed on April 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (pirate party)
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union