Michael Wendt (politician)

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Michael Wendt, 2002

Michael Wendt (born December 1, 1955 in Berlin ; † January 22, 2011 ibid) was a German politician and founding member of the Alternative List in West Berlin, which later became the Berlin regional association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Life

The trained mechanical engineer was initially a member of the West Berlin youth organization Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands - Die Falken with a clear substantive distance to the SPD . Wendt was involved in youth work . As a 23-year-old, he took part in the founding meeting of the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection (AL) in 1978 and organized that he received ID no. 1 of the 400 party members got.

In 1981 he moved into the Berlin House of Representatives as one of nine elected representatives for the AL ( 9th electoral term ). Due to the rotation principle prevailing in the party at the time , he resigned his mandate in 1983. 1986–1987, Wendt was elected to the party's executive committee.

In 1989, in Neukoelln , a deprived area of the city, not like on an opportunistic in other districts usual, the position of the Health City Council , but that of the Youth City Council was offered the green alternatives, the choice of the party district across fell to Michael Wendt. However, he was seriously ill in 1987 and has since been dependent on a wheelchair because of the "inexplicable blood flow blockage in the spine". After a period of reflection, Wendt ran for office, became head of the “largest youth welfare office in Europe” and tried what was still almost impossible at the time: to work and survive as a young politician with a left-wing alternative commitment in terms of content and form in a group of older, more conservative and often technocratic district councilors ; despite the most violent disputes and resistance in the administration, he was re-elected and remained in office until 1995. In addition to Wendt's special policy field of youth work, the responsibility for child and youth welfare also included the difficult-to-manage tasks of helping people with upbringing and day-care centers . In 1995 there was a change of department and Michael Wendt was city councilor for education and art until 1999. Then from 1999 to 2000 he was asked for a transitional period to act as the youth department head in the Berlin district of Tiergarten . Afterwards Wendt was also active on the board of the HVD Berlin for a few years .

In 2001 he was elected to the state board of the Berlin Greens, of which he was a member until 2003. Because of his illness, he reduced his commitment and since then has been a member of the extended state board. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, he ran as a direct candidate in the Neukölln 2 constituency and received 20% of the first votes. Wendt was the 2nd chairman of the "Neighborhood Home Neukölln" association. Wendt avoided doctors and died from a severe flu.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Founding member of the Greens Michael Wendt dies In: Welt Online . January 23, 2011.
  2. Information on the homepage of the Berlin Greens ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Information: 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 January 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gruene-berlin.de
  3. Michael Wendt in: Der Tagesspiegel , April 15, 2011
  4. “In life and in politics, I let myself be guided by values ​​such as solidarity, justice or people's rights to freedom. I orient my compass of values ​​more towards an 'enlightened humanism' ”(Wendt in Parliamentary Watch )
  5. Michael Wendt died . In: Der Tagesspiegel online , accessed on January 24, 2011
  6. See Der Tagesspiegel , January 30, 2011, p. 15