Ralf Fücks

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Ralf Fücks (born August 3, 1951 in Edenkoben ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . From 1991 to 1995 he was Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection in Bremen , from 1993 also Mayor, and from 1997 to 2017 a member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's board of directors, initially three and from 2001 two .

Since February 17, 2006 he has been married to his long-term partner, the Green politician Marieluise Beck , with whom he has two daughters. After retiring from the Heinrich Böll Foundation's board of directors and leaving the Bundestag on November 15, 2017, he and his wife founded the Center for Liberal Modernism .

biography

education and profession

Fücks studied social science , economics and history. He was involved in the student movement in Heidelberg and Bremen and was a member of the Communist League of West Germany in the 1970s . In 1973 he was one of three ringleaders in the Rector's occupation in the spring of 1972 by the University of Heidelberg relegated . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a lecturer at the University of Bremen and as a lecturer in adult education .

politics

Fücks was a leading member of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW) in the 1970s and was then active in the committees for democracy and socialism . In 1982 he joined the Greens . From 1985 to 1989 he gained his first parliamentary experience as a member of the Bremen citizenship . In 1989 he was elected spokesman for the federal executive committee of the Greens. He advocated turning the Greens into a reformist party that would form a new political majority with the SPD .

In 1991 he returned to Bremen politics and became Bremen Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection and from 1993 to 1995 Bremen Mayor in the traffic light coalition under Klaus Wedemeier (SPD), which broke up in 1995 in the conflict with the FDP over urban development and land policy. The reason for this was the so-called birdie affair , in which the environmental department, without the involvement of the political bodies, registered the Hemelinger Marsch industrial park as a bird sanctuary with the EU, although intensive commercial use of the area was intended.

He was a member of the basic program commission of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and co-author of the party program 2002. In the summer of 2000 Ralf Fücks was appointed by Interior Minister Otto Schily to the Independent Commission on Immigration , which presented its final report in July 2001.

Heinrich Böll Foundation

From 1997 Ralf Fücks served as a board member of the new Heinrich Böll Foundation . The focus of his work was on the topics of sustainable development , migration , the future of Europe and international politics. He was responsible for strategy and program development in the areas of political education in Germany, Europe and North America, for the Green Academy , the Studienwerk of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and for the archive of Green Memory . On July 1, 2017, Ellen Ueberschär replaced him in this role .

Center for Liberal Modernism

After leaving the Heinrich Böll Foundation, he founded the non-governmental organization Zentrum Liberale Moderne together with Marieluise Beck , and acts as its managing partner. “A new think tank. Their program sounds as if they could provide the ideological superstructure for a Jamaica coalition , ”said the Frankfurter Rundschau , describing his institute. The center is dedicated to the defense of the open society against authoritarian developments and anti-liberal forces in Germany, the European Union and beyond.

Memberships

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literature

Web links

Commons : Ralf Fücks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors and Management . ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 12, 2008
  2. ^ Website of the Center for Liberal Modernism
  3. ↑ Marieluise Beck & Ralf Fücks Zwei Greens have a central idea for Jamaica by Thorsten Jungholt, " Die Welt " November 16, 2017
  4. ↑ Green ex-politicians set up think tank Transatlantic Retirement by Tobias Schulze, TAZ November 16, 2017
  5. ↑ Change of leadership at the Heinrich Böll Foundation: Argumentable green liberal , Der Tagesspiegel , June 24, 2017
  6. ↑ Thorsten Jungholt: Green Marieluise Beck and Ralf Fücks found a liberal think tank . In: THE WORLD . November 16, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed April 12, 2018]).
  7. ↑ https://libmod.de/ueber-uns/team/
  8. ↑ Holger Schmale: Think tank with green roots. In: fr.de . 17th November 2017.
  9. ↑ Who we are and what we want . Center for Liberal Modernism, November 15, 2017
  10. ↑ Bruno Heidlberger. Review of July 12, 2017 to: Ralf Fücks: Defend freedom. How we win the fight for an open society. Hanser Verlag (Munich) 2017. ISBN 978-3-446-25502-9 . In: socialnet reviews, ISSN 2190-9245. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Fücks, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens) and foundation official
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Edenkoben