Reinhard Bütikofer

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Reinhard Bütikofer (2019)

Reinhard Hans Bütikofer (born January 26, 1953 in Mannheim ) is a German politician of the Greens . From 2002 to 2008 Bütikofer was one of the two federal chairmen of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 and was re-elected in 2014 and 2019. Between 2012 and 2019 he was one of the two leaders of the European Green Party .

education and profession

Bütikofer grew up in Speyer . From 1969 to 1970 he spent a stay abroad in Kenosha , Wisconsin , USA. Then he did his old-language Abitur in Speyer. In 1971 Bütikofer began studying philosophy and history , and at times Sinology in Heidelberg , but did not complete it. He also did community service .

He was active in the Society for German-Chinese Friendship (GDCF) in the 1970s . From 1981 he supported solidarity with Solidarnosc . A career as a politician followed.

family

Bütikofer's father was a postal worker, his mother a housewife. He is the father of three daughters (from the relationship with Henriette Katzenstein) and has been married to the Lower Saxony politician Renée Krebs since 2001.

Local, state and federal politics

At the federal party conference (2007)

In the student movement , Bütikofer was active in the Communist University Group (KHG) and in the Maoist Communist League of West Germany (KBW). He was u. a. Member of the AStA and the Senate of Heidelberg University. In the 1970s he was also a member of the Society for German-Chinese Friendship (GDCF). From 1982 he worked for the Green Alternative List (GAL) and the Municipal Political Forum (KoPoFo) in Heidelberg. In 1984, as a candidate for the GAL, he became a member of the Heidelberg municipal council. In the same year he joined the Greens . From 1988 to 1996 he sat as a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , where he was budgetary and financial policy spokesman for the group of the Greens. From 1997 to 1999, together with Monika Schnaitmann, he was state chairman of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg .

From December 1998 to 2002 he was political managing director in the federal executive committee, where he tried to mediate between the various wing of the party and was instrumental in bringing about the 30-year-old compromise concept to phase out nuclear power within the party. He was also chairman of the policy committee from 1999 to 2002 and was a member of the party council from 1998 to 2008. From December 8, 2002 to November 16, 2008, he was federal chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and thus the longest-serving chairman of his party. The other part in the management duo was initially played by Angelika Beer , who was replaced by Claudia Roth on October 2, 2004 , who returned to this position. His successor was Cem Özdemir .

On March 3, 2008, he announced that he would no longer run for the chairmanship of the party, but would run for the European Parliament . In January 2009 Bütikofer was elected together with Rebecca Harms as the top candidate of the Greens for the European elections on June 7, 2009.

European Parliament

Reinhard Bütikofer in the European Parliament (2018)

Reinhard Bütikofer was the top candidate of his party in the 2009 European elections and has been a member of the European Parliament since the seventh electoral term (from 2009). In 2009 Bütikofer was elected spokesman for the German delegation of the Greens in the European Parliament. His deputy was Helga Trüpel . He held this office until 2014. Until 2012 he was deputy group chairman and treasurer of the group The Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament . In the 2014 European elections , Bütikofer ran for fourth place on the nationwide list and successfully entered parliament again.

In both legislative periods - 2009–2014 and 2014–2019 - Bütikofer was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy for his parliamentary group , as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs . He was also vice-chairman of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a member of the delegation for relations with the United States .

In the 2019 European elections , he ran again in fourth place on the list and defended his mandate. In the ninth legislative period, his group is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Trade .

Regardless of his work as a member of the European Parliament, Bütikofer was elected chairman of the European Green Party on November 10, 2012 as the successor to Philippe Lamberts in a dual leadership with the Italian Monica Frassoni .

Bütikofer has offices in Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin and Schwerin.

Memberships

Bütikofer is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament , the NABU Club, the Europe / Transatlantic Advisory Board and the General Assembly of the Heinrich Böll Foundation as well as the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum . He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Aspen Institute Berlin, the Advisory Board of the AJC Ramer Center Berlin and the Executive Board of the European Green Foundation .

Social Commitment

Bütikofer is a member of the board of trustees of the Berlin branch of the American think tank Aspen Institute. From 2009 to 2011 he was also a member of the Presidium of the Europa-Union Germany and a co-opted member of the state executive committee of the Europa-Union Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Bütikofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Reinhard Bütikofer  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhard Bütikofer: CV. European Parliament, February 2, 2015 .;
  2. ↑ a b Vita. reinhardbuetikofer.eu, accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Bütikofer leaves. In: ZEIT online. February 28, 2008, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bütikofer and Trüpel elected speakers . Archived from the original on November 20, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  5. ↑ Green European List. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 9th legislative term | Reinhard BÜTIKOFER | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bütikofer becomes European leader of the Greens: “I don't care whether you call it a career”. tagesschau.de, November 10, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Reinhard Bütikofer. Heinrich Böll Foundation, accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ Board of Trustees. (pdf) In: Annual Report 2011/2012. Aspen Institute Germany, accessed April 19, 2019 (English, p. 25, p. 27).
  10. ↑ The Berlin delegation supports the “Düsseldorfer Programm”. 2012, accessed on April 19, 2019 : "The outgoing Presidium member Reinhard Bütikofer was passed by the Federal Congress"
personal data
SURNAME Bütikofer, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bütikofer, Reinhard Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim