Roland Vogt

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Roland Vogt - BDK Erfurt 2008

Roland Vogt (born February 17, 1941 in Gelnhausen , Hessen-Nassau , † May 20, 2018 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and pacifist . From 1983 to 1985 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

education and profession

Vogt passed his Abitur in 1960 and then did a year of medical service in the Bundeswehr . He then studied law and political science at the Universities of Heidelberg , Saarbrücken and Free University of Berlin . In 1972 he wrote his thesis at Faculty 15 of the Free University of Berlin on aspects of social defense. From 1970 to 1975 he was a working group and project group leader in the Law Faculty of the Free University of Berlin. He completed his law studies with the state examination and obtained a diploma in political science. From 1991 to 1993 he worked as head of the task force at the representative of the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg for the withdrawal of the Russian armed forces and for conversion, from 1994 as head of the conversion department in the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics. Since his retirement he lived again in his hometown Bad Dürkheim ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).

Vogt was married and the father of three children.

politics

Vogt made his first political experiences in the SPD , which he joined in 1969. He was committed to the Young European Federalists (JEF), which he had already joined in 1961. Since the beginning of the 1970s, his political commitment shifted to working in citizens' initiatives for environmental protection and in the emerging resistance against nuclear power plants. In 1975 he was a member of the Baden-Alsatian citizens 'initiatives (BI) against the nuclear power plants Wyhl , Fessenheim (Alsace) and Kaiseraugst near Basel and in 1977 he became one of three chairmen of the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU), of which he was a member until 1982 . Together with Michael Schroeren , he was the founding editor of the BBU's association magazine in 1977, which was initially published under the title bbu-aktuell and since 1979 as an environmental magazine. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the Bund für Soziale Defense (BSV), along with Petra Kelly and Theodor Ebert , and in 1992 he was a co-founder of the FREIeHEIDe citizens' initiative against an air-to-ground firing range of the Bundeswehr at the Wittstock military training area .

In 2015 he co-founded the Stop Ramstein Air Base campaign .

Parties The Greens and Alliance 90 / The Greens

As a member of the BBU board of directors, Vogt took an active role in the party formation process of the Greens since 1977. He advocated an offensive approach by the citizens' initiatives to the emerging green and colorful voter initiatives and contributed to the BBU having a say in the discussion about the establishment of a green party in this phase. In 1978 he left the SPD to protest against their attitude towards atomic energy at the time, and in the same year he took part in the founding of the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection in Berlin . In 1979 he was a founding member and, together with Petra Kelly, the top candidate of the first nationwide list alliance under the name Die Grünen , which took part in the first direct elections to the European Parliament on June 10, 1979 as the other political association . Until 1981 he was the coordinator of the cooperation between green and radical democratic parties in Strasbourg . From 1981 to 1982 he was a member of the federal board of the Greens and from 1986 to 1987 spokesman for the Rhineland-Palatinate regional association. In 1983 he was elected to the German Bundestag via the state list of Rhineland-Palatinate of the Greens. He was a deputy member of the Defense Committee until February 1984, and then a full member until 1985, where he was responsible for arms conversion. He was also a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Legal Committee for a few months. Following the principle adopted by the party, according to which members of the Greens should resign their mandate halfway through the legislative period and make room for their successors on the list ( rotation principle ), Vogt resigned from the Bundestag on June 18, 1985. Until 1990 he was a research assistant in the parliamentary group of the Greens. Since 1996 he has been a member of the state board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Brandenburg, from 2000 to 2003 as state chairman. After retreating to Rhineland-Palatinate, he tried unsuccessfully to be a candidate for the Greens' state list for the 2005 Bundestag election . In April 2008, Vogt initiated a state working group called "green + 50", as its spokesman he was elected alongside Ines Reich-Hilweg from Mainz .

Publications

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 902.
  • Without weapons - but not defenseless - the Bund für Soziale Defense introduces itself. Minden 1989, p. 2.

Web links

Commons : Roland Vogt  - Collection of Images

supporting documents

  1. ^ Former Green Party member Roland Vogt has died. In: sueddeutsche.de =. May 21, 2018, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ The resistance of Czechoslovakia 1968 against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact states. Successes and failures, measured against concepts of social defense .
  3. ↑ Reiner Braun, Pascal Luig: We mourn Roland Vogt. Campaign Stop Ramstein Air Base, May 22, 2018, accessed May 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen , Hessen-Nassau
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 2018
Place of death Bad Dürkheim