Michael Gwosdz

Michael Gwosdz [ gvoːt͡s ] (born November 14, 1974 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hamburg and was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2008 to 2011 . In 2020 he was re-elected to the citizenship.

Life

Michael Gwosdz grew up in Nuremberg and was active there in Protestant child and youth work. He did his community service from 1994 in Erlangen . In 1998 he moved to Hamburg with his wife to study . From 2002 to 2010 he worked as a political scientist at Haus Rissen , an institution for political adult education with a focus on European and environmental policy. Since 2010, Gwosdz has headed the central contact point for recognition of Diakonie Hamburg .

politics

Michael Gwosdz joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party in 1994 and one year later became a member of the district executive in Erlangen. He held this office until 1998. From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the district board of GAL ¹ in Altona , from 2007 as treasurer.

In 2008 he moved up as a constituency candidate for Christian Maaß in constituency 4 Blankenese in the Hamburg citizenship. Winfried Sdun, who was in second place ahead of Michael Gwosdz on the GAL constituency list, had rejected the mandate. He represented the GAL parliamentary group as spokesman for schools, vocational training and further education and was a member of the school committee and a deputy member of the European and environmental committee. From January 26, 2010, he represented Hamburg as a deputy member of the Committee of the Regions . In the 2011 election , he missed re-entry into the state parliament.

In October 2011 he was elected treasurer to the board of the Hamburg regional association of the green party. At the state members' meeting on November 29, 2014 to draw up the state list for the 2015 citizenship election , Gwosdz was elected to 6th place on the list, but missed a renewed entry into the citizenship. He did not accept a possible mandate in the Eimsbüttel district assembly as a replacement for the district representative Anna Gallina , who was elected to the citizenry .

After the start of the red-green coalition in Senate Scholz II , the entire state board resigned under the chairmanship of Katharina Fegebank . At a state members' meeting on May 30, 2015, Gwosdz ran for the office of deputy state chairman and was elected with 93.2% of the votes. In this position, Gwosdz succeeds Manuel Sarrazin , who did not run again. He held this office until June 2017.

For the 2020 citizenship election , Gwosdz ran again in constituency 5 Rotherbaum-Harvestehude-Eimsbüttel-Ost and in state list place 14. He was re-elected as a member of the state list. From April to June 2020 he was chairman of the submission committee there . Since June 15, 2020, he has been part of the parliamentary committee of the green parliamentary group as parliamentary managing director .

Controversy about the perpetrator profile of rapists

On January 9, 2016, Gwosdz caused outrage in social media and in parts of the German press for opposition when he said in connection with the sexually motivated attacks in Cologne on hundreds of women around Cologne Central Station on New Year's Eve 2015/2016: “As Man, I know, every well-mannered and tolerant man is a potential rapist. I as well. We men have to be aware of this - only then are we able to recognize when sexual violence and coercion begins. (...) Those who do not accept this for themselves will have difficulties recognizing limits. "

Gwosdz did not take back the statement, which was wrongly shortened to “all men are potential rapists”, but apologized on the same day with the words, among other things, that he did not want to play down the violence experienced by the women in Cologne and that he is sorry when men felt personally attacked by his words. Since the statements did not fall under a criminal offense, investigations were discontinued after a short time due to some criminal charges.

Web links

• Alliance 90 / The Greens Hamburg: Michael Gwosdz

Individual evidence

¹Before the regional association of the Greens was renamed in 2012: Green Alternative List GAL .

1. ↑ Preliminary result of the 2020 parliamentary elections: elected members of the 22nd Hamburg parliament. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein - Institution of Public Law - (Statistics Office North)., February 24, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ 2009/1014 / EU: Council decision of December 22, 2009 appointing the members of the Committee of the Regions and their alternates for the period from January 26, 2010 to January 25, 2015, in: Official Journal of the European Union, L 348 , December 29, 2009, page 39
3. ↑ GRÜNE compile country list ( memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 29, 2014 
4. ↑ Change of mandate in the Eimsbüttel district assembly, in: Official Gazette, Part II of the Hamburg Law and Ordinance Gazette, No. 30, Friday, April 17, 2015, C1160B, page 758
5. ^ Jens Meyer-Wellmann: Anna Gallina new Hamburg Greens boss . Hamburger Abendblatt . May 30, 2015. Accessed May 30, 2015.
6. ↑ Sven-Michael Veit: Greens fight for posts . the daily newspaper . June 23, 2017. Accessed February 28, 2020.
7. ↑ Profile Michael Gwosdz , parliamentwatch.de (accessed on February 16, 2020)
8. ↑ Hamburg Citizenship: Submission Committee , hamburgische-buergerschaft.de (accessed on April 5, 2020)
9. ↑ Marco Carini: surprise at Hamburg Greens . the daily newspaper . June 16, 2020. Accessed July 17, 2020.
10. ↑ DW: "All men are potential rapists" . The world . January 10, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
11. ↑ mta: Michael Gwosdz from Hamburg: "All men are potential rapists" - Green politicians reported for sedition. In: Focus Online . January 10, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Jens Meyer-Wellmann: Investigations against Hamburg Green boss stopped . Hamburger Abendblatt . March 8, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.