Markus Rösler

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Markus Rösler in May 2013

Markus Rösler (born November 22, 1961 in Gerlingen ) is a German landscape ecologist , landscape economist, politician and member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

biography

Markus Rösler attended elementary school in Gerlingen and then the humanistic course at Korntal grammar school . This was followed by activities as a protected area supervisor on the North Sea ( Rantum basin Sylt and Norderoog ), in a tree nursery and as the founder and head of the NABU environmental center in the Ludwigsburg district . From 1985 to 1992 he studied landscape planning at the Technical University of Berlin including a practical semester in Greece , a scholarship stay in the GDR at the Institute for Landscape Research and Nature Conservation in Greifswald and a work contract with the municipality of Bad Boll on the subject of orchards, which led to the diploma thesis.

From 1993 to 1997, the German National Academic Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation sponsored a doctorate on the topic of jobs through nature conservation using the example of the biosphere reserves and the model region Middle Swabian Alb at the TU Berlin. From 1997 to 2000 he worked at the Chair for Landscape Economics at the University of Greifswald . From 2000 to 2006 he was managing director of the Saarland NABU, whose foundation Saarland Natural Heritage he co-founded.

From 2006 to 2011, Rösler worked in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg as a parliamentary advisor for the parliamentary group of the Greens, where he was responsible for agriculture and forestry, consumer protection, nature and environmental protection and tourism. From 2011 to 2016 he was a member of the state parliament in the finance and economic committee as deputy chairman as well as nature conservation policy spokesman for the Greens, member of the committee for rural areas and consumer protection .

In 2016 he won the direct mandate in the former constituency of Günther Oettinger . As a member of the finance committee responsible for banks and savings banks in the Greens, he is a member of the environmental committee as nature conservation policy spokesman.

Since 1982 Rösler has been active on a voluntary basis in various functions, first in the youth organization Naturschutzjugend , then in the general association at national and European level for NABU. Since 2007 he has lived in Vaihingen-Ensingen with his wife and three sons.

politics

Rösler has been a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party since 1998. In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2011 , he was elected for the state constituency of Vaihingen with a result of 25.5% (state-wide result 24.2%) . Until 2016 he was deputy chairman of the finance and economics committee as well as the reporter of the finance and economics committee for the budget of the Ministry of Rural Areas and Consumer Protection (MLR) and the memoranda of the state audit office. For the Greens, he has been responsible for savings banks and sustainable investments since 2011. In the Committee for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection, he was responsible for nature conservation until 2016, including for the national park in the northern Black Forest and the biosphere areas on the Alb and in the southern Black Forest , genetic engineering and beekeeping , orchards and grassland .

On February 4, 2015, he was nominated in his constituency of Vaihingen / Enz as the first green candidate in Baden-Württemberg for the state elections on March 13, 2016 - with 41 votes in favor and no dissenting with three abstentions. In the state elections in 2016, Rösler won the direct mandate with 33.1% (nationwide result 30.3%) in a constituency shaped by prominent CDU politicians for decades. He has been deputy spokesman for the Greens in the finance committee since 2016, where he is the reporter for the area of ​​responsibility of the Ministry of the Environment and mirror reporter for the MLR. He is responsible for banks and savings banks and represents the parliamentary group on the advisory board of Sparkassenversicherung Süd, on the supervisory board of Toto-Lotto BW and as a deputy member of the supervisory board of BW-Bank.

After relocating nature conservation to the Ministry of the Environment in 2016, he continues to be the nature conservation spokesman for the Greens and a member of the Environment Committee. He also represents the Green Party on the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservation Fund Foundation and in the State Advisory Council for Nature Conservation.

Honorary positions and memberships

  • 1980–1982: Founder and leader of the DBV youth group Gerlingen (today nature conservation youth )
  • 1982–1987: Treasurer in the federal board of DBV youth (today nature conservation youth)
  • 1990: Member of the German-German green table
  • since 1992: Spokesman for the NABU Federal Expert Committee for Orchards and editor of the NABU Orchards newsletter.
  • since 1994: Representative of the NABU federal association at the EUROPARC Federation .
  • 1996–2000: Member of the NABU Presidium
  • since 1999: Member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  • since 2002: Co-founder and board member of the Johannes Rebmann Foundation in Gerlingen

Web links

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