Hermann Scheer (politician, 1944)

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Hermann Scheer (2008)

Hermann Scheer (born April 29, 1944 in Wehrheim , † October 14, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German politician . From 1980 until his death he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1993 to 2009 a member of the federal executive committee of the SPD . In 1999 he received the Right Livelihood Award for his commitment to renewable energies .

Life and work

In his youth Scheer was an excellent swimmer and member of the German national team in modern pentathlon . After graduating from high school in Berlin-Spandau in 1964 , he went to the Bundeswehr as a temporary soldier , attended Army Officer's School I in Hanover and was promoted to lieutenant in 1966 . From 1967 to 1972 Scheer studied law , politics , social and economic sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin and received his diploma in political science and public law. From 1972 to 1976 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Stuttgart and from 1976 to 1980 research assistant at the nuclear research center in Karlsruhe . In 1979 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the Free University of Berlin with the work parties versus citizens? The future of party democracy .

Scheer was one of the co-founders and curator of the Solidarity Modern Institute . He was also a member of the Foundation Board of the Energiewerk Foundation and a member of the World Future Council .

Since 1970 he was married to Irm Pontenagel, the long-time managing director of Eurosolar . Her daughter Nina Scheer , member of the Bundestag and SPD environmental and energy politician, was the managing director of UnternehmensGrün eV between 2007 and October 2013

Grave of Hermann Scheer in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Hermann Scheer died on October 14, 2010 after a brief serious illness in a Berlin hospital. The burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 16-A-20/21). The daily describes him as one of the most important personalities of the 21st century.

Political party

Scheer became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1965. As a student he was involved in the founding of the Social Democratic University Association in Heidelberg. Among the Young Socialists, at the Munich Federal Congress in 1969, Scheer supported the new, emphatically socialist course of the SPD youth organization, which was shaped by the student movement. As deputy federal Juso chairman, Scheer has been a supporter of a “reformist” line since 1974, which clearly distinguished itself from the “Stamokap” wing and the “anti-revisionists” (see the main article on the meaning of the wing: History of the Jusos ). In 1973 he became state chairman of the Baden-Württemberg Jusos and in 1974 their deputy federal chairman.

From 1993 to 2009 he was a member of the SPD federal executive committee. He significantly influenced the environmental and energy policy of the SPD. In 2009 he no longer ran for the federal executive committee and justified this in a letter, among other things, saying that “it had become all too common” to “play political power games, to produce sham solutions and to take unrelated personnel considerations” and that he did not want to be involved .

In connection with the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , he was in the shadow cabinet of Andrea Ypsilanti as Minister-designate for Economics and Environment and campaigned for a renewal of energy and economic policy based on renewable energies. Most recently, he was designated as Minister of Economic Affairs within the framework of a red-green minority government and should also receive the regional planning competencies for the implementation of the envisaged energy transition. After four members of the SPD parliamentary group declared that they would not vote for Ypsilanti as prime minister in a red-green minority government, the government under Ypsilanti was not formed. Scheer was no longer represented in the new shadow cabinet under Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel for the next election.

MP

Scheer had been a member of the German Bundestag since 1980 . From 1982 to 1990 he was spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group for disarmament and arms control and then from 1991 to 1993 chairman of the subcommittee on disarmament and arms control of the German Bundestag.

Since 1983 he has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . There he was chairman of the agriculture committee from 1994 to 1997. In the German Bundestag he was one of the initiators of many laws promoting renewable energies, including a. of the Electricity Feed Act for Renewable Energies (1991) and the Renewable Energies Act (2000), the amendment of the Federal Building Act for the Privilege of Renewable Energies (1996), the 100,000 Roofs Program (1999), the Renewable Energies Market Incentive Program (2000) and the Biofuels Tax Exemption Act (2003).

Scheer, along with Michaele Hustedt , Hans-Josef Fell (both Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and Dietmar Schütz ( SPD ), is counted among the mothers and fathers of the Renewable Energy Sources Act, which became a model for 47 countries around the world.

He was chairman of the International Parliamentarian Forum on Renewable Energy. The founding of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which he has been promoting since 1990, is considered to be his greatest success . IRENA was founded on January 26th, 2009 in Bonn.

Hermann Scheer was a direct candidate for the SPD in the Waiblingen constituency, but was always elected to the Bundestag via the SPD state list of Baden-Württemberg . After his unexpected death, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter moved up on the state list.

Political positions

Since the end of the 1980s Scheer has been campaigning for the general replacement of nuclear and fossil energies on a national and international level, so that conflicts and wars over energy resources could also be ended. In 1999 he distanced himself from the Bundeswehr's NATO mission during the Kosovo conflict, which the Red-Green coalition had approved.

In 1988 he was one of the co-founders of the non-profit association for renewable energies Eurosolar . Scheer has been its honorary president since then, and his wife full-time managing director. Since June 2001 Scheer has been co-founder and honorary president of the newly founded World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE).

His sponsor, former development aid minister and SPD politician Erhard Eppler , said about Hermann Scheer's achievements in raising awareness of the value of renewable energies :

“At that time, [...] Hermann Scheer belonged to my young guard, and he too was ridiculed for a long time as a weirdo like me. He endured every, but also every ridicule, lies, public attacks from all parties and headwinds from the energy companies - and in the end he was able to dictate the Renewable Energy Sources Act to the Ministry of the Environment thanks to his competence and that of his consultants. That was more or less the achievement of a single politician! "

- What you are planning would be a revolution ...: A debate about growth, politics and an ethics of enough (2016)

Scheer criticized the capital privatization of the Deutsche Bahn AG and got involved in the initiative Bürgerbahn instead of Börsenbahn . In 2007 he accused the SPD leadership of pressing ahead with privatization without democratic discussion, but gave in to the compromise proposal for partial privatization of the railways during later negotiations (2008).

In the documentary Let's Make Money (2008) on various aspects of the development of the global financial system, speeches by Scheer could be seen. So he said u. A. If we continue like this, there will be new selection mechanisms between states, between races, between religions, between legitimate and unjustified people, between valuable and unworthy people, then the monetary value of people will at some point be pushed into the foreground and then begins a new age of barbarism. That is inevitable. ”He also played a central role in the film The 4th Revolution - Energy Autonomy (released in March 2010, a few months before Scheer's death), where he advocated the global use of renewable energies.

Hermann Scheer was a critic of the desert electricity project DESERTEC , he saw in the project a strengthening of the monopoly of the energy companies and the transport and investment costs as too high. In the context of the discussion and protests about the Stuttgart 21 building project , Scheer spoke out in favor of more direct democracy and saw "an alienation between citizens and elected representatives".

Keynote at the congress "Power to the people!" (2010) - (transcription)

Lasting energy

Instead of the term renewable energy, Hermann Scheer often used the Danish term permanent energy .

“My starting point is not renewable energies, but society - from the knowledge of the elementary importance of energy change for its future viability. I didn't come to politics for renewable energies from renewable energies, but from my perspective of the problem and from my understanding of political responsibility for renewable energies. The change to renewable energies has a meaning in the history of civilization. So we need to know how to speed it up. Renewable energies are not scarce, time is scarce. "

- Hermann Scheer: THE ENERGETHIC IMPERATIVE (2010)

Awards

Publications

  • Parties versus citizens? The future of party democracy. Piper, Munich et al. 1979, ISBN 3-492-02449-1 (also: Berlin, Free University, rer. Pol. Dissertation, 1979).
  • Liberation from the bomb. World peace, the European way and the future of the Germans. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7663-0969-2 .
  • The saved sun. Hydrogen as a solution to the energy and environmental problem (= Piper series. Currently 828). Piper, Munich et al. 1987, ISBN 3-492-10828-8 .
  • as editor: The solar age. Dreisam-Verlag et al., Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1989, ISBN 3-89125-278-1 .
  • Solar strategy. Politics with no alternative. Piper, Munich et al. 1993, ISBN 3-492-03599-X .
  • Back to politics. The Archimedean turn against the collapse of democracies. Piper, Munich et al. 1995, ISBN 3-492-03782-8 .
  • Solar world economy. Strategy for ecological modernity. Kunstmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88897-228-0 .
  • with Carl Amery : Climate Change. A conversation with Christiane Grefe . Kunstmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88897-266-3 .
  • The politicians. Kunstmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-88897-343-0 .
  • Energy autonomy. A new policy for renewable energy. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88897-390-2 .
  • Hermann Scheer: The energy ethical imperative. 100 percent now: how to implement the complete switch to renewable energies . Kunstmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88897-683-4 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Scheer  - collection of images, videos and audio files
about Hermann Scheer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c SPD: Hermann Scheer is dead. They called him "Sun God" ; Süddeutsche.de, October 14, 2010
  2. ↑ Short biography in the special edition HS web eurosolar.de (pdf, p. 106; accessed from the archive on September 5, 2019)
  3. ↑ Voter mobilization: Ypsilanti reports back with the left “think tank” ; Handelsblatt, February 1, 2010
  4. ^ Nina Scheer at UnternehmensGrün eV
  5. ↑ a b Bundestag mandate: Scheer's successor ; Frankfurter Rundschau, October 15, 2010
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494. Position of the grave, Friedhof Heerstraße, Feld 16-A-20/21, Trakehner Allee 1, in Berlin-Westend on a map from OpenStreetMap. Retrieved July 25, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Peter Unfried : Bigger than the Beatles, faster than the rest. PIONEER Hermann Scheer was not just an SPD politician. He was a unique world politician. He didn't do it under. taz.de, October 16, 2010, accessed on October 16, 2016 : “If one day you have long forgotten the names of current top politicians, especially those of the SPD, then you will still remember an outstanding world politician, intellectual and Humanists of our time. To Hermann Scheer. "
  8. ↑ Peter Unfried: The transformer. Movement In the past, climate protectors thought: when EnBW is gone, everything will be fine. Today, if EnBW manages the energy transition, then we could all manage it. A day with CEO Frank Mastiaux. taz.de, July 9, 2016, accessed on October 16, 2016 : "Hermann Scheer is undoubtedly the Marx of the Renewable Age, and anyone who has read his Scheer has internalized that this system conflict means either / or."
  9. ↑ a b Sigrid Henke: Biographical information about Hermann Scheer. ( Memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Joachim Bücheler (Ed.): Practical Visions. Festschrift for Hermann Scheer's 60th birthday. Ponte Press, Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-920328-48-5 .
  10. ↑ Stern: SPD executive committee: Scheer also throws the chunks down ; October 24, 2009.
  11. ↑ Environmental politician Scheer no longer in the shadow cabinet ; Spiegel, November 13, 2008.
  12. ↑ Benjamin von Brackel: On into the last battle. EEG: The Renewable Energy Sources Act is nothing less than the future vision of the environmental movement. Now it should be tipped. What its inventors say about it. Friday , October 12, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Michaele Hustedt - The mother of the EEG. (PDF) Interview about the creation of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) in the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2005 (PDF; 0.5 MB). www.sonnenenergie.de, August 19, 2017, accessed on October 14, 2017 .
  14. ^ Christiane Grefe: Obituary: Hermann Scheer, practical visionary and original democrat. As an energy expert, he was in demand around the world - but political Berlin became alien to him. A personal memory of Hermann Scheer by Christiane Grefe. www.zeit.de, October 15, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Memorandum Beyond Coal and Atom ; eurosolar.de, March 9, 2007.
  16. ↑ Muslim-Markt interviews Dr. Hermann Scheer, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize ; Muslim Market , August 22, 2008.
  17. ↑ Jan-Philipp Hein: The Windmaker ; World April 14, 2008.
  18. ↑ a b In memory of Hermann Scheer. (PDF) Honors. (No longer available online.) EUROSOLAR European Association for Renewable Energy and Hermann Scheer Foundation, April 29, 2014, p. 118 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 21, 2015 .
  19. ↑ wcre.org
  20. ↑ Erhard Eppler and Niko Paech: What you are planning would be a revolution ... A debate about growth, politics and an ethics of enough. oekom, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-96006-166-3 (quotation from chapter 4 on page 148).
  21. ^ Hermann Scheer / Peter Friedrich: Memorandum against the planned privatization of the railway ; Backward recap, April 19, 2007.
  22. ↑ Ursel Sieber: Democracy in the SPD - critics of rail privatization quieted down ; RBB , October 11, 2007.
  23. ↑ Malte Kreutzfeldt: The last social democrat loyal to the base ; taz, April 17, 2008.
  24. ^ Hermann Scheer in the film "Let's Make Money" ; Quotes from Hermann Scheer in the film; eurosolar.de, as seen on October 15, 2010.
  25. ↑ Information about his role in the film The 4th Revolution
  26. ^ Matthias Kaufmann: Wüstenstrom: "DESERTEC's calculation is absurd" ; Interview in manager magazin on July 13, 2009.
  27. ↑ Michael Isenberg: Stuttgart 21: "Defuse the conflict" ; Interview with Hermann Scheer in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten on September 18, 2010.
  28. ^ A b Hermann Scheer: Power to the people - Hermann Scheer. We have noticed that the energy transition has been slowed down for years. The vast majority of energy experts cannot give us any satisfactory answers either. Why? This article is the transcription of the lecture - Power to the people - by Hermann Scheer for a basic understanding of the difference between old energies and new energies (central vs. decentralized). Strict reading requirement for all politicians who really want to protect the climate. In: energiewende.eu. January 10, 2020, accessed June 28, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Hermann Scheer: The energy ethical imperative . Verlag Antje Kunstmann, 2012, p. 272 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  30. ↑ Hermann Scheer: 100 percent now! - THE ENERGETHIC IMPERATIVE . How to implement the complete switch to renewable energies. Kunstmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88897-753-4 , p. 270 ( google.de [accessed on November 1, 2015] quote from the introduction on page 31). -
  31. ↑ EUROSOLAR has a new President: Professor Peter Droege press release of April 5, 2011.


personal data
SURNAME Scheer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehrheim
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2010
Place of death Berlin