Michael Kellner (politician)

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Michael Kellner (2014)

Michael Kellner (born May 8, 1977 in Gera , GDR ) is a German politician . Since October 19, 2013 he has been the federal political director of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Life

Michael Kellner grew up in Thuringia in his native Gera. After graduating from school, he lived and worked in an Israeli kibbutz . He then studied political science in Potsdam until 2005 , as an Erasmus scholar in Canterbury and as a Fulbright scholar in East Lansing . In his diploma thesis he dealt with the relationship between the states of Berlin and Brandenburg .

Michael Kellner is married, has two children and lives with his family in Berlin .

Political career

In 1997 Michael Kellner joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and has been concerned with peace and security policy since the Bielefeld special party congress on the mission in Kosovo in 1999.

During his studies in Potsdam he was on the state board of the Brandenburg alliance greens and spokesman for the state working group for science and ran as a direct candidate in the 2004 state election campaign in Potsdam .

From 2004 to 2009 he worked as Claudia Roth's office manager on the federal executive board and was a member of the election campaign staff in 2005 and 2009. He then became a research assistant for Frithjof Schmidt, member of the Bundestag . From 2011 to 2013 he was the spokesman for the Federal Working Group on Peace and International Politics .

He is assigned to the left wing of the party and for a time belonged to the coordination team of the party’s internal movement Grün.Links.Denken .

On October 19, 2013, Michael Kellner was elected as the successor to Steffi Lemke as the federal political manager at the 36th federal delegates' conference of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Berlin . He received 88.5 percent of the vote without an opposing candidate. In 2015 he was confirmed in this office with 86.0 percent. On January 27, 2018, Kellner was re-elected with 74.19% at the Federal Conference of Delegates. On November 16, 2019, he was confirmed as political director with 87.3%.

In his role as Federal Political Director, Michael Kellner reformed participation processes within the party and introduced new, digital participation formats, such as member surveys.

Michael Kellner was the campaign manager for the 2014 European elections , in which Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen achieved a double-digit result after the party received a disappointing result of 8.4% in the 2013 federal election . Michael Kellner led the election campaign for the 2017 federal election again. The party achieved its second-best result in a federal election here. Kellner was then responsible for the election campaign for the 2019 European elections, in which the party achieved its best result so far in a nationwide election.

Following the general election, there were exploratory talks about a so-called Jamaica coalition between Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, CDU, CSU and FDP. Kellner was a member of the 14-person exploratory group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and, as the federal political director, played a key role in organizing the process.

In his role, Kellner is also responsible for the basic program process that the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party launched in March 2018.

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Kellner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kellner's biography (PDF file; 32 kB) on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's website , accessed on October 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c Application for political director Michael Kellner (PDF file; 136 kB), accessed on October 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Michael Kellner on the website of the BAG Peace and International Affairs , accessed on October 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ Michael Kellner: Green, left, argumentative . In: Zeit Online from October 18, 2013.
  5. ↑ Imprint Grün.Links.Denken , accessed on October 19, 2013.
  6. ^ Party convention in Berlin: Simone Peter and Cem Özdemir now lead the Greens . In: Zeit Online from October 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ gruene.de: Federal executive board confirmed, new party council elected ( memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 17, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruene.de
  8. ↑ Green generation change: party congress elects new board . January 27, 2018 ( gruene.de [accessed January 30, 2018]). Green generation change: party congress elects new board ( memento of the original from January 29, 2018 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruene.de
  9. ^ By Michael Fischer and Teresa Dapp dpa: Federal party conference in Bielefeld: Baerbock and Habeck re-elected to the top of the Greens. November 16, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Greens - The Participation Party . ( gruene.de [accessed on October 16, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Green additions to AfD election posters are allowed. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Jamaica sounding: "Election campaign ended, meeting important, atmosphere ok" In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on October 16, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Waiter, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera , GDR