Johannes Gerlach
Johannes Gerlach (born January 12, 1954 in Zschopau ) is a German radiation physicist and politician of the SPD .
Life
After visiting the POS in Krumhermersdorf , Gerlach completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a locomotive fitter. From 1975 he studied physics at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated in 1980 with a diploma. He then worked as a radiation physicist in health care and began to get involved in the church's peace and environmental movement. During the fall of the Berlin Wall , he was one of the founders of the New Forum in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district and took part in the district's round table .
He is married for the second time, has five children and lives in Paulo-Lopez (Brazil).
politics
In January 1990 Gerlach joined the local SPD association Limbach-Oberfrohna and was elected to the last GDR People's Chamber on the Karl-Marx-Stadt district list. Gerlach was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1990 to 1999 and from 2002 to 2009 . He was always drawn into parliament via the state list , where he represented constituency 18 Middle Ore Mountains . In the parliamentary group, he initially took on the role of environmental and energy policy spokesman, but then acted as head of working group I - education, culture, media, health, social affairs, family, women, youth and as a disability policy spokesman. Gerlach represented the parliamentary group as a member of the “Environment and Agriculture” committee and as a member of the “Social, Health, Family, Women and Youth” committee.
He was a member of the state board of the Saxon SPD from 1994 to 2000, and headed the local SPD association Limbach-Oberfrohna between 1992 and 1999. Between 2000 and 2002 he was studying in Rio de Janeiro and worked on various social and environmental projects. His attempts to move up to the parliamentary group committee failed both in 2004 and 2007. In 2008 he ran as a district administrator candidate for the SPD for the new Erzgebirge district . With a share of the vote of 8.0 percent, he took 5th place and withdrew for the new election in favor of the candidate of the Left Party , Klaus Tischendorf . From 2008 he was chairman of the SPD / GRÜNE parliamentary group in the Erzgebirgskreis.
To state election in 2009 Gerlach did not occur again, and resigned from the parliament in September of 2009.
In February 2010 he took up a position as a consultant for renewable energies and climate protection in an international energy agency and resigned from his local political mandates because he moved to Santa Catarina in Brazil . His departure from the district assembly of the Erzgebirgskreis was confirmed by the committee on March 4, 2010.
Honors
On October 13, 2009 he was awarded the Saxon Order of Merit on the occasion of "20 Years of Peaceful Revolution " ; in April 2012 the Saxon Constitutional Medal .
literature
- Christopher Hausmann: Biographical Handbook of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (1990). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-02597-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of the Saxon State Parliament on the award of the Saxon Constitutional Medal of June 4, 2012, Saxon Official Gazette No. 25/2012
- ↑ Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg of February 5, 2010: SPD veteran wants to give up mandates - District and City Councilor Gerlach from Zschopau has work to do - he would prefer Brazil
- ↑ Freie Presse, local edition Schwarzenberg of March 9, 2010: Günther's farewell is not a purely formal matter - the return of the Seiffer's mandate is not accepted by all citizens' representatives in the district council
- ↑ Awarded the Saxon Order of Merit ( Memento from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Dulig congratulates Johannes Gerlach on the Saxon Constitutional Medal ( memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerlach, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radiation physicist and politician (SPD), MdV, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zschopau |