Klaus Borger

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Klaus Borger

Klaus Borger (born September 19, 1958 in Wadrill ) is a German forester and Saarland state politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From November 2009 to January 2012 he was State Secretary in the Saarland Ministry for Environment, Energy and Transport.

Life

education

Klaus Borger attended the Realschule Schloss Wittgenstein and the Gymnasium Schloss Wittgenstein , where he passed his Abitur in 1980. After completing his military service, he did an internship in the field of fishery biology. Afterwards he began studying forest sciences in 1982 at the forest sciences faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which he graduated in 1988 with a degree in forestry. In 1985/1986 Borger also worked as part of a “research contract for the protection of migrating amphibians”, which was awarded by the Federal Ministry of Transport .

Klaus Borger is married and has two children. He lives in the Merzig neighborhood Hilbringen .

Professional background

From 1988 to 1990 Borger completed his forestry traineeship at the Saarland State Forest Administration, which he successfully completed with the Great State Forest Examination as an assessor of the forest service. In the course of further training he specialized from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Ljubljana in the field of "natural forest management". He then worked as a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . In 1991 Borger prepared an expert report on forest care for the Saarland state government and worked on the creation of the silvicultural framework guidelines for the management of public forests in Saarland .

From 1991, Borger deputy forestry chief officer in the Forestry Department Homburg . In the meantime, he also took on the business of a head of the forest office of the former Merzig Forestry Office. He then worked in the forestry department of the “Forests” department at the Saarland Ministry of Economics . From 1993 Borger was appointed deputy head of the forestry department at the Merzig-Mettlach forestry department. In 1996 he took over the management of the district environmental agency for the Merzig-Wadern district . In 2008 Borger was appointed head of environmental and regional management in the Merzig-Wadern district. Furthermore, until February 2010 he was managing director of the forestry management association in the Merzig-Wadern district.

Political career

Klaus Borger holds or held the following political offices:

  • Deputy state chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Saarland
  • Environmental policy spokesman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Saarland regional association
  • Member of the regional board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Saarland regional association
  • Member of the district board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Merzig-Wadern district association
  • Group leader of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Merzig City Council
  • In November 2009 Borger was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry for Environment, Energy and Transport, led by Simone Peter , in the Peter Müller III cabinet .

During the coalition negotiations for the nationwide first Jamaica coalition and in the later coalition agreement , the group around Klaus Borger was able to accommodate many positions of the ecological hunting association (ÖJV) . The Saarland state parliament opposition criticized the extent to which the subjects of “hunting law” and “near-natural and sustainable forest management” compared to subjects such as B. take "the municipalities" in the coalition agreement. However, these far-reaching agreements in the coalition paper were only implemented to a small extent due to the early termination of the coalition.

Borger attracted nationwide attention when, in a letter to the editor in the specialist newspaper Holz-Zentralblatt on May 29, 2009, he stood behind the Slovenian forest scientist Dusan Mlinsek and his comparison of deforestation and mass murder. He was then accused of quoting Mlinsek literally after the book Waldwende (p. 68, out of print) by Wilhelm Bode in his letter to the editor , without indicating this as a quotation. In December 2009, leading representatives of the wood and forestry sectors wrote him an open letter in which they protested against the "... inadmissible equality of the fate of the victims of the bombing wars with the everyday, sustainable and comparatively banal process of wood harvesting ..." . In the meantime, he has been reprimanded by Environment Minister Simone Peter (also Greens). Borger then publicly regretted any misunderstandings that might have occurred with regard to his statement. The Saarland SPD opposition assessed this declaration as "completely inadequate".

After the failure of the coalition government made up of the CDU, FDP and the Greens, Borger was put into temporary retirement on January 18, 2012.

voluntary work

Web links

Commons : Klaus Borger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coalition agreement for the 14th legislative period ( Memento of April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 545 kB)
  2. ↑ Hunters Association wants to take legal action against changes to the hunting law. In: sol.de. Saarbrücker VerlagsService GmbH, November 30, 2009, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Saar-SGK: "Saarmaika - A country without districts, cities and municipalities?" ( Memento from April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Green politician compares woodcutters with mass murderers , article from December 21, 2009 in "Bild"
  5. ↑ Washing up of the week - My friend, the tree , Article v. December 24, 2009 in "Stern"
  6. ↑ a b Green State Secretary in distress - deforestation equals mass murder , article in the "taz" of December 20, 2009
  7. ↑ Original open letter, as published in "Forst & Technik", at that time the association gazette of the German Association of Forestry Entrepreneurs ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 267 kB)
  8. ↑ Literally: “The quotations listed should not, however, at any time insult or insult professional groups or groups of people. Should this be wrongly understood, I regret it. "
  9. ↑ REINHOLD JOST: "Borger didn't understand anything - dismissal is still mandatory" ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Borger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Wadrill (waders)