Heinz Gruber

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Heinz Gruber (born May 7, 1950 in Schambach ) is a mechanical engineer , specialist teacher and politician . In 1986 he was the Bavarian state chairman of the Green Party . Gruber lives in Weißenburg in Bavaria and runs a guest house in the Weißenburg district of Kehl .

Life

Heinz Gruber learned the trade of machine fitter at Eckert & Ziegler in Weißenburg. This was followed by a degree in mechanical engineering, which he finished as a graduate engineer. This was followed by studies as a subject teacher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1983 he started teaching at the Weißenburg special school.

Political career

In 1967/68 he was a youth representative for IG Metall . In 1983 he joined the party “The Greens”, and in 1986 he was elected chairman. With him, the party made it into the Bavarian state parliament for the first time . After only one and a half years, he was voted out of office by the party leadership.

In 1990 he won a seat on the city council of Weißenburg. At the same time, he ran against the incumbent Mayor Reinhard Schwirzer and achieved a respectable success with 16% of the votes.

The break with the party occurred in 2005 after the Greens voted for the Bundeswehr to deploy in Afghanistan . Gruber switched to the electoral alternative work and social justice (WASG) in the city council and offered the Greens the task of his city council mandate. In the absence of alternatives in the party, he was able to keep his seat.

After the WASG and the PDS had merged, Gruber sat for Die Linke in the city council and from 2008 to 2014 in the district council of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . In 2014 there was a break with the district association. The Free Voters accepted him and Gruber moved into the city council for this political group for the fifth time. In 2020 he took up a sixth term.

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Individual evidence

  1. Julia Huber: This superhost believes in the original idea of ​​Airbnb. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 7, 2018, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  2. Heinz Gruber. In: fw-weissenburg.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .