Gregor Hackmack

Gregor Hackmack in Berlin, 2014

Gregor Hackmack (* 1977 in Winsen ) is a German social entrepreneur and political activist.

Life and work

Gregor Hackmack is the co-founder and managing director of the internet platform parliamentwatch.de and Germany boss of Change.org , an international online petition platform . He studied International Relations and Political Sociology at the London School of Economics , was established in 2008 as a leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka awarded -Fellow and 2010 in the network Young Global Leaders of the Schwab Foundation added.

Political work

Since 2004, Gregor Hackmack has been the co-founder and managing director of parliamentwatch.de for more citizen participation and more transparency in politics.

From 2004 to 2014 he was a member of the state board of Mehr Demokratie in Hamburg. He played a key role in popular initiatives to make referendums binding , to change Hamburg's electoral law and to introduce a Hamburg Transparency Act (HmbTG).

At the end of February 2014 he was elected to the plenum of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce for the alliance of the Chamber of Commerce rebels “The Chamber is WE” . For the 2017 Chamber of Commerce election - 55 out of 58 seats in the “The Chamber are WE” - he could not be re-elected.

As Country Director, Germany , he has been heading the German section of the petition platform change.org since October 2014 .

Gregor Hackmack is one of the first signatories of the Change.org petition "2017: A New Beginning for Democracy and Justice!" And in the initial phase was the spokesman for Democracy in Motion , an initiative that took part in the 2017 federal election and resulted in 60,914 second votes reached, which corresponds to 0.1%.

Fonts

• Make democracy easy. An update for our politics , Hamburg: edition Körber-Stiftung, 2014; 160 pages; ISBN 978-3-89684-158-2

Web links

• Short portrait of Gregor Hackmack at Ashoka Germany
• Short portrait of Gregor Hackmack in the Berliner Morgenpost from September 19, 2015 (Annette Kuhn: "Fighters for a modern democracy")
• Video: Debate between Gregor Hackmack and Heribert Prantl about the future of democracy on December 8, 2014 in Hamburg (organized by the Körber Foundation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gernot Knödler: Democracy can be learned. Coup in the Chamber of Commerce , taz.de from February 28, 2014 (accessed April 29, 2017)
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 30, 2015 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. 
3. ↑ change.org Team (accessed April 30, 2017)
4. ↑ Article on politik-kommunikation.de
5. ↑ These activists want to join the Bundestag - with a new anti-AfD party , bento.de from April 3, 2017 (accessed April 29, 2017)
6. ^ New party "Democracy in Motion" , taz of March 7, 2017 (accessed on April 29, 2017)
7. ↑ Countdown to founding a party: These activists want to go to the Bundestag presseportal.de from April 20, 2017 (accessed on April 29, 2017)
8. ↑ Bundestag election 2017 Table: first votes and second votes. Final result . bundeswahlleiter.de (accessed April 13, 2018)
9. ↑ Make democracy easy ( memento of the original from July 24, 2015 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. on the Körber Foundation, online, accessed on July 24, 2015.