Klaus Gärtner (politician, November 1945)

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Klaus Gärtner (born November 8, 1945 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ) is a German educator and former member of the Hamburg citizenship for the Green Alternative List .

Life

After obtaining the secondary school leaving certificate, Klaus Gärtner began training as an industrial clerk with a qualification as a business assistant . He refused military service out of Christian conviction and instead helped in civil service in the Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel in the care of epileptics .

On the second educational path he passed his Abitur in 1971 at the Hansa College in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel . This was followed by a degree in physics and educational science at the University of Hamburg . Until his retirement in 2009, Klaus Gärtner worked as a teacher at the Winterhude Comprehensive School and later at the Lohbrügge Comprehensive School, both in Hamburg. He has three sons.

politics

In 1980 Klaus Gärtner was one of the co-founders of the Greens in Hamburg-Bergedorf and in 1982 one of the founding members of the Hamburg Green Alternative List. There he mainly worked in the fields of energy technology and energy management. Since studying nuclear physics at the university, he had become an opponent of nuclear power.

In June 1982 Klaus Gärtner was elected as a member of the Hamburg parliament. There he was responsible for public companies, energy and transport. Because of the rotation principle of his party, he resigned his mandate in August 1984.

In 2000 he resigned from the GAL after the Energy Section disbanded. His points of criticism included, among other things, the marginalization of green policy in the red-green coalition under Mayor Runde and, in his opinion, the party's too close to the Social Democrats.

Klaus Gärtner later rejoined his party and supported the black-green coalition under Mayor v. Beust and the red-green coalition under Mayor Tschentscher. Through his party's state working group on energy, Klaus Gärtner acted in an advisory capacity during the years of disputes over the buyback of the district heating network.

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personal data
SURNAME Gardener, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GAL), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Bergedorf