Reinhard Loske

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Reinhard Loske (born February 15, 1959 in Lippstadt ) is a German economist and former politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

Loske is best known for his research work at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (1992–1998) and at the Institute for Ecological Economic Research (1990–1991), especially through the books “Zukunftsbaren Deutschland” (1996), “Klimappolitik "(1997) and" Greening the North "(1997). He was a member of the German Bundestag (1998–2007), where he was among other things deputy parliamentary group leader and environmental policy spokesman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. From 2007 to 2011 he was Senator for Environment, Building, Transport and Europe of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . From April 2013 to March 2019 he was Professor of Politics, Sustainability and Transformation Dynamics at the University of Witten / Herdecke . Reinhard Loske has been President of the Cusanus University in Bernkastel-Kues since April 1, 2019, where he is also Professor of Sustainability and Society.

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school in 1975, Loske first completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1980 he was on the second-chance education , the High School and then studied economics and political science in Paderborn , Nottingham and Bonn . In the 1980s Loske was active in voluntary nature conservation. From 1977 to 1984 he examined the eastern part of the Soest district in Westphalia for the occurrence of amphibians and reptiles. Loske and Peter Rinsche published the results of the research carried out by himself and other employees in 1985 in the book “The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Soest District”. In 1986 he finished his studies with a degree in economics at the University of Paderborn . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Paderborn and then from 1987 to 1990 as a speaker for the Green parliamentary group. After that, he was project manager at the Institute for Ecological Economic Research in Berlin until 1991 and then special advisor at the Ministry of Economics, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Technology of North Rhine-Westphalia until 1992 . From 1992 to 1998 he was a project manager for international climate policy at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. In 1996 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the University of Kassel with the thesis "Climate Policy in the Field of Tension Between Short-Term Interests and Long-Term Requirements" and in 1999 his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis "Sustainability as Politics". From 1998 he was a lecturer and since November 1999 private lecturer for political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

Loske was strongly influenced scientifically by his years at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy in the Science Center North Rhine-Westphalia (1992–1998), where he headed the study group “Sustainable Germany” and various research projects on national and international climate policy. During this time work and research stays in the USA, China and southern Africa as well as participation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also take place . With his numerous publications and lectures on sustainability and climate protection, Loske has had a major impact on the environmental policy debate in Germany.

After moving into politics, he was significantly involved in various legislative processes of the red-green coalition in the Bundestag, such as the law on ecological tax reform, the law on emissions trading, the nuclear phase-out law, the law on the promotion of renewable energies, the law on flood prevention and the amendment to the Federal Nature Conservation Act. Other focal points of his work were the ecological realignment of the state Hermes loan guarantees , the limitation of bio-patenting and the definition of sustainability criteria for biofuels .

Reinhard Loske has a daughter and two sons.

politics

Loske is a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. From 1989 to 1990 he was a member of the Green State Executive in North Rhine-Westphalia as environmental policy spokesman. He has been a member of the party council since 2000. From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Geseke City Council and was the spokesman for the “Greens” parliamentary group.

Loske was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 until his resignation on September 1, 2007 . Since October 2002 he has been deputy chairman of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and at the same time coordinator of the parliamentary group working group on environment and energy, building and transport, consumer protection and agriculture, research and technology, tourism, sport . He resigned from both offices on March 14, 2006 after an internal vote defeat.

On June 29, 2007 Loske was appointed Senator for Environment, Building, Transport and Europe to the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , which was headed by Senate President Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) .

In the state elections on May 22, 2011 , he ran for second place on the Alliance 90 / The Greens list, but announced his retirement from politics on May 25, 2011. The reasons are personal, Joachim Lohse became his successor on June 30, 2011.

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Reinhard Loske new professor ... uni-wh.de, April 29, 2013, accessed on April 29, 2013 .
  2. ↑ https://www.volksfreund.de/region/mosel-wittlich-hunsrueck/aerger-um-die-cusanus-hochschule-in-bernkastel-kues_aid-38961713
  3. ↑ Personal statement by Senator Dr. Reinhard Loske , Senate Press Office, May 25, 2011
  4. ↑ Peter Unfried: Reinhard Loske on Gruhl-Gesellschaft: “A cover organization of the AfD” , taz, June 15, 2020 , accessed on June 15, 2020
  5. ↑ FÖS awards the Adam Smith Prize to Barbara Hendricks and Reinhard Loske (PDF; 38 kB), press release by the Ecological Tax Reform Association
personal data
SURNAME Loske, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt