Jürgen Suhr

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Jürgen Suhr (born April 9, 1959 in Remscheid ) is a German politician . From 2001 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2011 he was state chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and from 2011 to 2016 parliamentary group chairman in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania .

Life, education and work

After graduating from high school, Suhr completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk and then studied economics . At the beginning of the 1980s he worked as a foreign exchange trader for the Mannesmann Group, from 1987 to 1998 he was the managing director of a social service provider in Remscheid, which in addition to kindergartens and youth centers also ran several commercial businesses in various industries.

Jürgen Suhr has lived in Stralsund since 1998 and was initially managing director of the Produktionsschulen gGmbH MV. Between 2004 and 2009, Suhr was the full-time managing director of the forum for local politics in the Stralsund citizenship. From 2009 to 2011 he worked again as managing director with sole power of representation for the production schools gGmbH and at the same time as headmaster of the production school in Barth.

Political work

Suhr was a member of the FDP until 1982, and since 1991 he has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . He is currently a member of the Vorpommern-Rügen District Association of his party.

Between 1989 and 1996 he was a member of the Green Council in Wermelskirchen ( Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis ), where he held the office of parliamentary group chairman. Since June 2004 Suhr has been a member of the citizenship of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund through the “Forum Kommunalpolitik”, which he co-founded in 2002 . In the Mayor election of Stralsund on May 18, 2008, Suhr came third out of six candidates with 11.4% of the votes cast. Since 2011 he has also been a member of the Vorpommern-Rügen district council.

Jürgen Suhr was elected for the first time in 1998 as a member of the state board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and from 2001 to 2002 he was state board spokesman. In the state elections in 2002 he was, together with Ulrike Seemann-Katz , one of two top candidates for the Greens.

From 2004 to 2011, Suhr was again the board spokesman and chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Before the 2005 Bundestag elections, he was defeated by Harald Terpe from Rostock , who subsequently moved into the Bundestag, in the vote on number 1 on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state list . In 2006, 2008 and 2010 he was confirmed as the party's state board spokesman. His co-spokesperson or co-chair was Ulrike Berger from 2006–2008 and Silke Gajek from 2008–2011 . Since 2001, Suhr has been a regular member of the executive committees of the alliance green federal delegate conferences as well as of the state council, which is comparable to a "small party congress", and was a member of the economic policy commission and the democracy commission at the federal level.

For the state election on September 4, 2011 , he was elected to second place on the state list by the state delegates' conference of the Greens with 68% of the votes against the Greifswald antiquarian Ulrich Rose. In October 2011 he resigned from the state executive and was then parliamentary group leader of his party in the state parliament.

family

Suhr is married for the second time. He has two children with his second wife Ingrid. The family includes two other, older children who study in Wuppertal and Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Suhr  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PDF on Stralsund.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Stefan Ludmann: Top duo should lead Greens in the election campaign. In: Ndr.de . November 7, 2010, archived from the original on July 30, 2011 ; accessed on June 30, 2014 .