Manuel Kiper

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Manuel Kiper (born May 24, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

education and profession

Kiper studied chemistry , biology , education and philosophy at the University of Hanover and received his doctorate in 1977 on DNA sequence organization in the genome of Petroselinum sativum .

Since 1991 he has been a consultant specializing in occupational safety , health protection and information technology at BTQ Lower Saxony, which is part of the ver.di education center.

Political party

Kiper joined the Green List of Environmental Protection in 1977 and became its district chairman in Hanover in 1978 and district chairman of the Greens in 1980 . From 1984 to 1987 he was state manager and from 1992 to 1994 he was a member of the state board of the Lower Saxony Greens.

MP

Kiper was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 1998 . He was the research policy spokesman for the Green Group and was a member of the committees for post and telecommunications as well as for education, science, research, technology and technology assessment.

He was considered the most important Internet politician of the Greens, for whom he campaigned against restrictions on cryptographic procedures and against regulations on telecommunications surveillance in the Information and Communication Services Act .

As a result of Jürgen Trittin's candidacy , Kiper was only placed in sixth place on the list by the Lower Saxony Greens for the 1998 federal election, which was not enough for the Bundestag entry at the time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BTQ Lower Saxony: Consultant
  2. a b Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti : Back to the Stone Age. The Greens say goodbye to Internet politics. Spiegel Online , May 18, 1998.