Joachim Paul (politician, 1957)

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Joachim Arthur Josef Paul (born August 19, 1957 in Cologne ) is a former politician of the Pirate Party Germany .

Short biography

After graduating from the Theodor-Schwann-Gymnasium in Neuss in 1976 , Paul studied physics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and graduated with a diploma, majoring in applied physics / biophysics . From 1984 to 1986 Paul was doing community service in the electrophysiological research department of a hospital in the Ruhr area.

From 1988 to 1991 Paul was a research assistant in the Neurocybernetics project at the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Economics . At the same time, activities for various scientific institutions and research projects in the field of neurocybernetics and artificial intelligence were carried out from 1989 to 1993. a. for the Institute for Cybernetics and Systems Theory eV

The projects included in particular the StatLog (ESPRIT II project 5170: Comparative testing and evaluation of statistical and logical learning algorithms on large-scale applications to classification, prediction and control) and PAPAGENA projects funded by the European Union's ESPRIT programs II and III (ESPRIT II project 6857: Programming Environment for Applications of Parallel Genetic Algorithms).

1993 Paul has been at the / Herdecke University Witten on exploration of medical data using computer-simulated neural networks using the example of thermoregulation diagnosis doctorate .

This was followed from 1994 to 1998 as a freelance author, consultant and speaker in the field of multimedia / internet for various adult education providers .

In March 1998 Joachim Paul moved to the Rhineland Media Center (renamed LVR Center for Media and Education since 2009), a cultural department of the Rhineland Regional Council , and worked there until May 13, 2012 as a scientific advisor and media pedagogue for the field of “New Media ".

Pirate politician since 2009

Joachim Paul joined the Pirate Party in 2009 and subsequently became involved in the education working group of the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia and in drafting the election programs. On March 24, 2012, he was nominated at number 1 on the state list of the Pirate Party for the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Member of the NRW state parliament (2012-2017)

In the early NRW state elections on May 13, 2012 , Paul moved into the NRW state parliament with number 1 on the NRW state list of the Pirate Party. There he was elected chairman of the parliamentary group . In the board elections on August 18, 2015, he did not run again, so Michele Marsching became the new chairman of the parliamentary group. When his party left the state parliament after the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , he lost his mandate.

In addition to the parliamentary group chairmanship, Joachim Paul performed other political tasks for the pirate group. As a full member of the respective committees "Europe and One World" and "Innovation, Science and Research", he was the European and university policy spokesman for his group from 2012 to 2017. After his colleague Daniel Schwerd left the parliamentary group in 2015, Paul also became spokesman for economic policy and a full member of the Committee on Culture and Media, and retained these functions until the end of the 16th electoral term and the departure of the pirates.

Furthermore, he was spokesman for his parliamentary group in the inquiry commission requested by the parliamentary group of the CDU to assess the sustainability of public budgets in North Rhine-Westphalia under the conditions of the debt brake and demographic change in the decade 2020 to 2030 (inquiry committee III). As an expert at his side, the economist Prof. Dr. Heinz-Josef Bontrup . A refusal by the commission to also include the boundary conditions of the debt brake and demographic change in the consideration led to extensive special opinions by the expert and the pirate faction in the final report of the study commission.

The big request from the pirate faction about the political influence of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Bertelsmann Group goes back largely to Paul's initiative and preliminary work . The state government's answer was debated in the state parliament on December 1, 2016.

Activity according to politics

After finishing his work as a member of the state parliament, Paul returned to his old job as a scientific consultant at the LVR center for media and education of the Rhineland Regional Council. There he is entrusted with the operational management of the state-wide media service for schools, EDMOND NRW, in cooperation with a consultant from the LWL media center for Westphalia .

In addition, Joachim Paul is still committed to journalism on political and scientific topics, in particular on issues relating to the digital revolution and on the philosophy of technology .

Since 1996 he has been publishing www.vordenker.de, a web forum for innovations in science, business and culture, in which many authors and thought leaders from various fields are published and which was expanded to include a blog in 2010. www.vordenker.de contains u. v. a. the complete bibliography of the philosopher and logician Gotthard Günther and the digital archive of the logician, philosopher and mathematician Rudolf Kaehr .

Paul resigned from the Pirate Party in December 2018 and has been non-party ever since.

Private

He lives in Neuss , is married and has a son.

Memberships

First signatory Scientists for Future 2019
Member of the GMK - Society for Media Education and Communication Culture 2017
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation 2016
Member of the Peira - Society for Political Venture eV 2016
Member of the Pirate Party Germany 11/2009 - 12/2018
Member of the Media Philosophy Working Group of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences (2002–2009)
founding member of the Institute for Cybernetics and System Theory eV, Dresden, Bochum 1991

Publications, excerpts

2014 Rethinking Leibniz - Transhumanism in Deconstruction , in: Kluge, Sven; Lohmann, Ingrid; Steffens, Gerd (Red.) - Yearbook for Pedagogy 2014 - People Improvement - Transhumanism , Yearbook for Pedagogy (Volume 29), Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna, 2014. pp. 191–204, ISBN 978-3631657645
2013 TRANS- reflections on people, media, networks and machines , essays 1996–2013, ISBN 978-3 -8442-5502-7

Extract from IT publications

Editing

together with Eberhard von Goldammer, introduction and foreword to the third edition of The Consciousness of Machines by Gotthard Günther , Agis-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 978-3870070090
co-initiator and editor of the eJournal www.vordenker.de , 1996, ISSN 1619- 9324

Prizes and awards

Web links

Commons : Joachim Paul  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Paul leads NRW pirates in state elections . In: Rheinische Post of March 24, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ Piratenfraktion-nrw.de: Pirate faction in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved March 20, 2013 .
  3. ↑ NRW pirates react to low polls - Politics - WDR.de. In: www1.wdr.de. Retrieved August 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Final report of the study commission on the assessment of the sustainability of public budgets in North Rhine-Westphalia under the conditions of the debt brake and demographic change in the decade 2020 to 2030 (study commission III) printed matter 16/9500. In: www.landtag.nrw.de. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Major Inquiry 21 by the pirate faction on activities and political initiatives of the state government in direct and indirect connection with the Bertelsmann Foundation, its subsidiaries, its company shares and associated initiatives, institutions and people as well as Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, its subsidiaries, their company shares and related initiatives, institutions and people - printed matter 16/11660. In: www.landtag.nrw.de. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  6. ^ Answer from the state government - printed matter 16/12436 - reprint. In: www.landtag.nrw.de. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Verbatim transcript of the plenary debate and link to the video. In: www.vordenker.de/blog. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  8. ↑ thought leader webforum. In: www.vordenker.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ online
  10. ↑ Complete chronological list of publications
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul, Joachim Arthur Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Pirate Party) and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne