Ralf Päsler

Ralf Päsler (born June 21, 1955 ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and former member of the state parliament in Thuringia .

Life

He attended the 3rd Polytechnic High School (today: Oststadtschule ) in Eisenach and subsequently completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith - but soon after completing his training turned to other employment opportunities. In 1978 he refused to serve in the National People's Army . Between 1981 and 1983 he was a construction soldier and developed measures to save energy and water for his unit.

He found a job at the Evangelical Church in the superintendent of Eisenach and helped out there, among other things, as a craftsman and in various other areas. In the mid-1980s, he joined the parish's environmental protection working group and subsequently took part in community activities such as collecting rubbish in the woods or planting trees. In the late summer of 1988, Päsler and Pastor Christhard Wagner organized a solidarity concert for the imprisoned songwriter Stephan Krawczyk, who was deported to the Federal Republic . However, he was also active against environmental pollution and the overexploitation of nature. So he wrote petitions and complaints in which he criticized, among other things, a heating power plant in Schönau , Thuringia , whose chimney was aimed directly at the Great Hörselberg . In addition, he drew attention to the pollution of the rivers Werra and Hörsel by uncontrolled chemicals from industrial plants. When employees in the Eisenach departments of the Ministry for State Security began destroying documents in the course of the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification , he was one of the group of demonstrators who prevented this and were also able to secure numerous files and weapons.

On January 10, 1990, Päsler was one of the founding members of the Greens in Thuringia and was subsequently nominated as the party's top candidate for the state election on October 14, 1990 , in which she ran in an alliance with the citizens' movements New Forum and Democracy Now . Together with five colleagues succeeded to the feed in the Thuringian state parliament , which he during the first term belonged and member of the faction Alliance '90 / The Greens Thuringia (correct fraction Name: New Forum / Green / Democracy Now, later Alliance 90 / The Greens ) in the first electoral term of the Thuringian state parliament (1990-1994) was. He lost his mandate in the state parliament when Alliance 90 / The Greens failed in the state elections in 1994 because of the five percent hurdle .

Later, Päsler worked for several years as a consultant for the environment, transport and energy in the Eisenach city administration and was a member of the board of the Association of Nature Park Thuringian Forest eV In 2011 he switched to the private sector to a project development company for energy supply systems from renewable energy sources and is there as a consultant and Regional manager Thuringia active.

Web links

• Rita Specht: "From someone who stayed there and wanted to change" in the Thuringian regional newspaper of October 1, 2010, on thueringer-allgemeine.de