Maurice Conrad

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Maurice Conrad (* 17th April 2000 in Mainz ) is a German climate protection - activist and politician (former Pirate Party ). He is an initiator of the Fridays for Future movement in Mainz. He appeared as a speaker at various large-scale demonstrations and gained greater attention through his work in the Fridays for Future movement.

Life

Conrad grew up in Mainz-Gonsenheim . He attended the Frauenlob-Gymnasium and passed the Abitur there in June 2019. He joined the Pirate Party in 2017, where he was the Federal Commissioner for Environment , Climate and Animal Welfare and a member of the State Board of the Pirate Party of Rhineland-Palatinate. Since May 26, 2019 Conrad Member of the Mainz city council and party leader of the pirates-and Volt - faction in the Council. He is the youngest council member to date in Mainz. After 3 years, Conrad announced his resignation from the Pirate Party in May 2020 , but remained a member of the parliamentary group in the Mainz city council. As part of his work he was featured in the SWR - Landesschau .

On June 22, 2020, he announced via the short message service Twitter that he had received threats in an email that was apparently sent by a Hessian police officer. However, the State Criminal Police Office and the Wiesbaden public prosecutor's office announced in a press release on the same day that it could be established beyond doubt within the framework of the first investigations that the e-mail address was falsified and the message was not sent by the Hessian police. Who actually sent the mail is still being determined (as of July 2020).

Act

Conrad is active on various levels for the Fridays for Future movement. He is responsible for organizing school strikes in his hometown of Mainz, where 1000 demonstrators were mobilized for the first school strike there on January 18, 2019. He works to establish the movement in the state capital in the long term and to give it local political weight. In addition, he represented Fridays for Future Mainz to the press and other political organizations.

He gained greater fame through his work in the nationwide Fridays for Future movement. He gave a number of speeches at large-scale demonstrations in Berlin, Aachen and Mainz that were widely used on social networks and, together with Therese Kah and Franziska Wessel, moderated the international Friday For Future demonstration "Climate Justice without borders" in Aachen on June 21, the With over 40,000 participants, the largest pan-European environmental demonstration to date. On November 29, 2019, he appeared at the fourth international climate strike by Fridays for Future as the opening speaker at one of the largest demonstrations in the history of the Federal Republic.

His speeches were used, among other things, in some contemporary history documentaries about Fridays for Future, such as the contribution of the public service Y-collective . In addition to his involvement in the environmental and climate movement, Conrad also appeared as a speaker at Wir sind mehr and the Seebrücke .

Positions

Conrad appeared politically alongside the fight against climate change in movements such as the pier and in the protests against the copyright reform of the European Union. Politically, he is also next to Fridays for Future Extinction rebellion and end terrain close. He calls for a quick phase-out of coal by 2030 at the latest as well as a general generation change in politics. In a speech on May 5, 2019, he called the current climate policy a "crime against the children of this world". In the context of a panel discussion in Kirchheimbolanden together with Lisel Heise, Conrad explicitly asked young people to claim political offices.

“The majority of political officials and mandate holders in Germany are no longer able to perceive the real problems of this time as such, let alone solve them. In principle, these people only manage the status quo themselves. To change that, young people have to go to the barricades even more and claim these political offices on which the thread of their future hangs. "

- Maurice Conrad: Press release from the Pirate Party on the panel discussion with Lisel Heise

In his speeches he expressed himself increasingly critical of capitalism and current politics. He attacked politicians like Winfried Kretschmann and Christian Lindner, sometimes sharply. He commented on Kretschmann's reaction to the regular school strikes, in which Kretschmann questioned whether these should become a permanent event , arguing that striking students can best be combated with an effective climate policy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ @Maurice_Conrad. In: Twitter. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Our new topic officers. In: Pirate Party Germany. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Jürgen Grothof: Cross- generational board. In: Pirate Party Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Council information system. In: State capital Mainz. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ As a 19-year-old in the Mainz city council. In: ARD . Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Nils Lünser: Issued as a Hessian police officer: Mainz politician receives threatening mail. In: Münchner Merkur . June 22, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Threatening mail to activists and politicians: sender used a fake police e-mail address. In: Berliner Zeitung. June 22, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ LKA Hessen: Mail not sent from police account. In: SWR Aktuell . June 24, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ Fridays for Future. In: SWR. January 25, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  10. ^ Annika Sinner: Climate strike in Mainz despite summer vacation. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. July 6, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Volker Pietzsch: # 78 Maurice Conrad - Sunday talk with Volker Pietzsch. Antenne Mainz, April 20, 2019, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 1,000 Fridays for Future demonstrators in Rhineland-Palatinate. In: SWR. April 12, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Die Welt (ed.): Hundreds of students strike before the European elections for climate protection . May 24, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed July 16, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Call for a nationwide “Fridays for Future” demo in Mainz. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 3, 2019, accessed August 21, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Thousands of students for climate protection on the streets. In: t-online.de. March 15, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Fabian Jannsen: 'Fridays for Future': “We are here, we are loud because you are stealing our future!” In: SWR. February 22, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Panel discussion "Europe as a solution - migration and climate change from a European perspective". In: University of Mainz. May 9, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Viviane Chartier: Doesn't have to use curd soap to remind politicians of their goals. In: Südwestrundfunk. SWR Aktuell, July 31, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ a b Wolfgang Pomrehn: Come together. In: young world. June 22, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Jasmin Siebert Berlin: Five to twelve? Quarter past twelve! In: sueddeutsche.de . January 25, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 16, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Thousands at the climate protection demo: new campaigns planned. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Anniversary demo of “Fridays for Future” should be a new wake-up call. In: ARD . Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Fridays for Future brings 40,000 to Aachen. In: n-tv. June 21, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  24. ^ "Fridays for Future" in Berlin: Tens of thousands of schoolchildren demonstrate in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  25. ^ Björn Brinkmann: Friday For Future Berlin: Before the demo in the Spree . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 29, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 27, 2020]).
  26. ↑ "We are here because we think the climate package sucks". Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Y-collective: Fridays for Future - Schoolchildren strike to save the world. January 31, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Speech by Maurice Conrad #wirsindmehr. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Pirate Party: Speech # Seebrücke - Maurice Conrad. June 4, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  30. ↑ speech #FridaysForFuture - Maurice Conrad. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  31. ^ Political discussion of the generations in Kirchheimbolanden. In: SWR. June 12, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Invitation to a panel discussion with Lisel Heise and Maurice Conrad. In: Pirate Party Germany. June 11, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  33. ↑ FridaysForFuture Mainz speech #FridaysForFuture Berlin - Maurice Conrad. January 26, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  34. ↑ FridaysForFuture Mainz speech Maurice Conrad - #FridaysForFuture. March 16, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  35. ↑ a b FridaysForFuture Mainz: Speech #FridaysForFuture - Maurice Conrad. May 5, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climate protection activist and politician of the Pirate Party
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz