Sepp Dürr

Sepp Dürr (2012)

Josef "Sepp" Dürr (born December 26, 1953 in Munich ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and former member of the Bavarian state parliament .

Dürr graduated from high school in 1974 and studied German and Italian literature and philosophy. After completing his doctorate, he and his sister converted their parents' farm in Germering to organic farming.

Dürr was a member of Germering's city council from 1990 to 2002 . In 1997 he joined the Alliance Greens and was elected to the state parliament in 1998 from his party's Upper Bavarian district list. First he was a member of the University, Research and Culture Committee from 1998 to 2001, then of the Agriculture Committee. From 2000 to 2003 he held the parliamentary group chairmanship of his party in the state parliament together with Christine Stahl , then until 2008 with Margarete Bause .

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing.

He lives in Germering, is married and has three children.

In the state elections in 2008 he ran as a direct candidate in the district of Landsberg am Lech, Fürstenfeldbruck-West and received the second-best result in this district with 15.3% after Thomas Goppel .

In December 2013, Sepp Dürr and his colleague Katharina Schulze temporarily covered a memorial on Marstallplatz in Munich, dedicated to “The rubble women and the building generation” with a brown cloth, printed with the statement “A memorial for the right people, not the old Nazis. Against Spaenle's misunderstanding of history ”. The action sparked a heated debate about the build-up generation in Munich.

Web links

Commons : Sepp Dürr - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.
Internet presence of Sepp Dürr
Literature by and about Sepp Dürr in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Jakob Wetzel: Debate about a memorial: The fairy tale of the Munich rubble women. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 9, 2013, accessed December 10, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dürr, Sepp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dürr, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (Greens), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

[1] Jakob Wetzel: Debate about a memorial: The fairy tale of the Munich rubble women. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 9, 2013, accessed December 10, 2013 .