Manfred Meinsen

Manfred Meinsen (born July 17, 1938 in Gronau ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament.

Meinsen graduated from high school in Herford in 1957. He first worked in civil engineering and in a brewery before he began studying chemistry in Münster, which he completed in 1967 with a diploma. He then took over activities at the university and in the agricultural investigation office. Since 1971 he was in school service. Initially he was employed in Coesfeld , since 1975, after a legal clerkship in Wilhelmshaven , he was employed as a teacher at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Friesoythe . Meinsen joined the SPD in 1976 , from which he left in 1977 after differences in nuclear policy. He was involved in the founding of two district associations of the Action Group of Independent Germans (AUD) in Oldenburg and Cloppenburg. In 1978 he ran as a candidate for the AUD state parliament in Cloppenburg. The AUD was dissolved in 1980 in favor of the Green Party. Meinsen was a member of the district council in the district of Cloppenburg from 1981 to 1982 and was a member of the Greens in the state parliament of Lower Saxony from 1982 to 1986 in the subsequent tenth electoral term. From 1984 to 1985 he was chairman of the parliamentary group. Meinsen is a member and was also the co-founder of several environmental protection organizations, such as the Cloppenburg environmental protection initiative and the Emsland citizens' initiative against nuclear power plants. He was also an assessor on the Lower Saxony board of the World Association for the Protection of Life.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 249–250.