Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt

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Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt (* 1950 ) is a German local politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and former mayor of Aachen as well as a committed environmental activist .

Live and act

Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt studied comparative literature at RWTH Aachen . She soon joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and was particularly active in the field of environmental protection. In the local elections in 1989 she made the leap to the council of the city of Aachen and was elected to the office of mayor by Lord Mayor Jürgen Linden ( SPD ) together with Dieter Philipp ( CDU ) during the first legislative period .

But already in 1991 she resigned after receiving an offer as a project manager at Geoplan EDV - Gesellschaft für die Abfallwirtschaft mbH Aachen , and her party colleague Margret Ortstein took her place as mayor. After the sudden death of the Aachen entrepreneur Kathy Beys in 1995, Weis-Gerhardt gave up this position and, together with the husband and widower of Kathy Beys, Stephan Baldin, took over the "Mensch und Natur" foundation founded by Kathy Beys in 1988. Both of them redesigned this foundation, developed contemporary goals and projects in the field of sustainability , linked the foundation with important networks and renamed it the Aachen Foundation Kathy Beys .

In 2008 Weis-Gerhardt left the foundation after 13 years and started her own company "4links-Consulting" based in Aachen. With this non-governmental organization (NGO), it has since offered a network forum for environmental activists whose focus is on dealing with environmentally compatible systems and whose goal is to demand structural changes in order to preserve life-sustaining ecosystems . She is also a member of the Expert Committee of the World Resources Forum Association. She also contributed to the publication: The Limits of Thought - How We Can Recognize and Overcome Them Systematically by Donella Meadows and Diana Wright.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weis-Gerhardt on World-resources-forum ( Memento from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Donella Meadows: The limits of thinking - how we can recognize and overcome them with a system , revised. by Diana Wright with the assistance of Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt; Oekom-Verlag, Munich, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Weis-Gerhardt, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH 1950