Sepp Daxenberger

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Sepp Daxenberger (October 2008)

Josef "Sepp" Daxenberger (born April 10, 1962 in Waging am See , † August 18, 2010 in Traunstein ) was a German politician of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party in the Bavarian state parliament .

Life

After completing secondary school , Daxenberger trained as a blacksmith and passed the master's examination. He later became a farmer in the Nirnharting district of Waging am See.

In December 2003 he was diagnosed with a plasmacytoma , a cancer of the bone marrow, which repeatedly impaired his political activities. In June 2010, he suffered a minor stroke. On August 18, 2010, he succumbed to cancer. His wife Gertraud (* 1961) died of cancer three days before him on August 15, 2010, at the age of 49. They left three sons. The Sepp Daxenberger Prize was launched in memory of Sepp Daxenberger .

Political career

Sepp Daxenberger during the election campaign (2005)

Sepp Daxenberger was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1990 to 1996 . In the group of the Greens he was the agricultural and youth policy spokesman. From 1998 to 2003 he represented the Greens in the district assembly of Upper Bavaria .

From 1996 to 2008 he was the full-time mayor of Waging am See and thus the first green mayor in Bavaria. During this time the Greens became the strongest faction in the local council . From November 2002 to October 2008 he was state chairman of the Bavarian Greens (since November 2003 together with Theresa Schopper ).

In 2006, Daxenberger was confirmed in his office as state chairman for two more years at the state delegates' conference despite illness-related absence with 92.5%. On June 7, 2008, Daxenberger was elected the sole top candidate of the Bavarian Greens for the 2008 state election with 93% at the state delegates' conference . He ran in the constituency of Berchtesgadener Land and achieved a record result for his party with 26.5% of the first votes. The constituency was won by the CSU and Daxenberger was elected to the state parliament via the Upper Bavaria district list . Due to the Green Party statutes, which provide for a separation of office and mandate , Sepp Daxenberger resigned from the state executive . Dieter Janecek was elected as his successor as state chairman at the state delegates' conference in Rosenheim in October 2008 . Since the 2008 election, Daxenberger was chairman of the parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament together with Margarete Bause . On June 9, 2010 Daxenberger resigned from this office due to illness.

He was also a member of the Bayernbund advisory board .

literature

  • Heike Mayer, Hans Mayer (eds.): Der Daxei, Sepp Daxenberger (1962-2010). Liliom Verlag, Waging 2011, ISBN 978-3-934785-62-5
  • Franz Kohout: Sepp Daxenberger - A green biography. Volk Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86222-143-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Ramelsberger, K. Auer, B. Kruse: Sepp Daxenberger is dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online. August 18, 2010, accessed August 18, 2010 .
  2. ^ Daxenberger: Stroke. In: Welt-Online. June 24, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2010 .
  3. ^ Mourning and sadness over the death of Sepp Daxenberger. In: evening newspaper. August 18, 2010, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger: Sepp Daxenberger's wife died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online. August 16, 2010, accessed August 16, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Grief: Sepp Daxenberger is dead. In: Rundschau. Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 18, 2010, archived from the original on August 21, 2010 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 (is no longer available).
  6. ↑ District results
  7. ↑ Election to the 16th Bavarian State Parliament on September 28, 2008. Final results. Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing, accessed on August 25, 2010 .
  8. ^ New leader of the Greens. Cap has the hat on. Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 16, 2010, archived from the original on June 12, 2010 ; Retrieved June 9, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Daxenberger, Sepp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daxenberger, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Waging by the lake
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2010
Place of death Traunstein