Stefan Wenzel

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Peer Stefan Wenzel (born May 5, 1962 in Nakskov , Denmark ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . His constituency is Göttingen-Stadt in the district of Göttingen . After the state elections on January 20, 2013 , Prime Minister Stephan Weil appointed him Environment Minister of Lower Saxony in the Weil cabinet on February 19, 2013 . He resigned from this position on November 22, 2017.

Career

Stefan Wenzel attended elementary school in Resse near Hanover and graduated from high school in Mellendorf ; For two years he worked as a forest worker and in agriculture. Then he studied agricultural economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ; In his thesis he made a comparison of the rent and land prices in the European Community . He worked in South America for a year, including in an SOS Children's Village and in a cooperative start-up project. Wenzel then became the leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the district of Göttingen and lived for a few years on subsistence farming . In addition, for ten years, until 1998, Wenzel was a partner in a wholesale and retail business for organic wine.

Wenzel, a member of the Greens since 1986, was a member of the Lower Saxony state executive from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was the transport policy advisor in the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Lower Saxony state parliament . Between 1986 and 2001 he was also a member of the Göttingen district council , from 2001 to 2006 a member of the local council and from 2003 to 2006 deputy mayor of Groß Lengden . He has been a member of the state parliament since the 1998 election and has been the leader of the parliamentary group since 2004 as the successor to Rebecca Harms . For many years Wenzel was involved in youth work and anti-nuclear initiatives . Since July 2005 he has been a deputy member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

In January 2006 he was nominated by Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as a candidate for the mayoral election in Göttingen on September 10, 2006. He received 19.9 percent of the vote in the first ballot and thus missed the runoff election .

For the state elections in 2008 , Wenzel and Ursula Helmhold were elected as the top candidate for the Greens. He ran as a direct candidate in constituency 17 Göttingen-Stadt against the previous and current direct mandate holders Gabriele Andretta ( SPD ) and Fritz Güntzler ( CDU ) and received 18.8% of the first votes. He moved into parliament again via the state list. Since March 2008 he has been chairman of the committee for the environment and climate protection . The parliamentary group of the Greens in the Lower Saxony state parliament named him in March 2009 as a member of the 13th Federal Assembly , which elected the Federal President . On April 17, 2012, Stefan Wenzel was re-elected as a direct candidate for the state elections on January 20, 2013 at the Green election meeting in the Göttingen constituency with a majority of 88%. In the state elections in 2013 , Wenzel was again the top candidate, this time together with Anja Piel . In his constituency, Wenzel received 23.5% of the first votes in this election, the direct mandate was again won by Gabriele Andretta (SPD) with 37.7%.

The evening after the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 with Stefan Birkner, David McAllister, Stephan Weil (from left to right)

Stefan Wenzel was Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Protection for the State of Lower Saxony from February 13, 2013 . He was also deputy to Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD). After the reorganization of the SPD-CDU state government on November 22, 2017, Prime Minister Weil dismissed him from his office.

From 2014 to 2016, as a member of the state government, he was also a full member of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste (Repository Commission) according to Section 3 of the Site Selection Act .

Since November 2017, Wenzel has been chairman of the budget and finance committee of the state parliament and spokesman for his parliamentary group for this department.

Family and private

Wenzel lives in Groß Lengden in the municipality of Gleichen in the district of Göttingen , is married and has three daughters. The family lives in a residential project consisting of eight low-energy houses , which are supplied by a joint combined heat and power plant, which feeds surplus electricity into the regional grid. In addition, the residents are supplied by a shared photovoltaic system. In addition, Wenzel held some shares in Windkraft Diemarden , which built one of the first citizens' wind turbines in the inland in 1993 and today supplies around 2,700 households with electricity. Wenzel also held a cooperative share in the bioenergy village of Jühnde .

See also

Publications

  • Stefan Wenzel (ViSdP) a. a .: Buried for all eternity ?! The nuclear waste disaster in the Asse and the consequences. Alliance 90 / The Greens in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: Hannover 2009, 43 pp. ISBN 978-3-9813981-0-6
  • Hans-Heiner Schmidt-Kanefendt; Stefan Wenzel (Ed.): Green energy scenario - energy supply suitable for grandchildren for Lower Saxony. Sun - wind - biomass. Investigation on behalf of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Lower Saxony. Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: Hannover 2011, 56 pp. ISBN 978-3-9813981-1-3

literature

Web links

Commons : Stefan Wenzel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The red-green coalition in Lower Saxony stands on February 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e http://www.wenzel-goe.de/leben-wahlkreis-bilder/
  3. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434430/35fc29d72bc9a98ee71162337b94c909/drs_268-data.pdf , page 551
personal data
SURNAME Wenzel, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzel, Peer Stefan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Nakskov , Denmark