Regine Günther

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Regine Günther (2010)

Regine Günther (born December 26, 1962 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and political scientist . Günther has been Senator for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection in the Berlin Senate since December 8, 2016 . Before that , she headed the climate and energy department at WWF Germany for 16 years . Then she was Director General Politics and Climate of the organization.

Life

Günther graduated from high school in 1982 and studied history in Heidelberg , Madrid and Berlin and from 1986 to 1990 political science at the Free University of Berlin . From 1995 to 1998 she worked for the Berlin Energy Agency , and since 1999 she has been working for WWF Germany. One of her central topics is the implementation of the energy transition . Günther is a recognized expert for national and international climate protection policy. In June 2019 she joined the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Günther has lived in Berlin since 1986. She is married and has one grown daughter.

reception

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In December 2018, Regine Günther was criticized many times for putting her State Secretary Jens-Holger Kirchner into temporary retirement because of his cancer. In June 2019 she came under fire because she refused to allow 20 “cherry bombers” to land on the tarmac of the former Berlin-Tempelhof airport on the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift . In July 2019, Regine Günther was criticized for her agreement with the dual system because, against the will of the Berlin House of Representatives, she decided to abolish a third of the more easily accessible waste glass bins in the inner courtyards and, in return, to set up more street igloos with separate sorting according to white -, green and brown glass .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Regine Günther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZEIT Conference: Green Cities - Cities of the Future. (PDF; 2.3 MB) From megatrends to real solutions. May 5th and 6th 2011. Hamburg. (No longer available online.) In: baumev.de. Federal German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management , February 21, 2011, p. 6 , archived from the original on November 24, 2016 ; accessed on October 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The authors . In: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Hrsg.): Klima im Wandel (= Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung [Hrsg.]: The Political Opinion . No. 451 ). June 2007, p. 80 ( kas.de [PDF; 211 kB ; accessed on November 13, 2018] Memento in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b Regine Günther's career. (No longer available online.) LinkedIn , archived from the original on November 23, 2016 ; accessed on November 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Daniel Wetzel: Reduce the pace for climate protection. In: The world . March 19, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Regine Günther is to become the Senator for Transport and the Environment. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , November 16, 2016, accessed on November 23, 2016 : "With information from Ute Schuhmacher" .
  6. ↑ Regine Günther: Giving the energy transition a direction. Heinrich Böll Foundation , January 24, 2014, accessed on November 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Rogalla: This is Berlin's new Senator for the Environment and Transport. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 23, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Hildburg Bruns: Regine Günther becomes Berlin's new, green transport senator. In: BZ November 23, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Jochen Gößmann: Retired because of cancer: Outrage over the heartless dismissal of State Secretary Kirchner. In: BZ-Berlin.de, December 6, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018;
    Hildburg Bruns: Because he has cancer! Berlin senator dismisses her vice. In: Bild.de, December 5, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018;
    Joachim Fahrun: Transport Senator Günther dismisses State Secretary who is ill. In: Morgenpost.de, December 5, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018.
  10. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: Sick State Secretary dismissed: Greens reap criticism. In: Berliner Morgenpost. December 6, 2018, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The airlift show in Wiesbaden disgraces the Berlin Senate. In: BZ June 11, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Hildburg Bruns: Senate steals the waste glass bins from the yard. In: BZ July 30, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Regine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Berlin Senator
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern