Sylvia Kotting-Uhl

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl (2019)

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl (born December 29, 1952 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005. She was the environmental and nuclear policy spokeswoman for her group, and since January 2018 she has been chairwoman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

Life and work

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl spent her childhood in northern Baden. After graduating from high school , she studied German , English and art history in Heidelberg , Edinburgh and Saragossa . She then worked as a dramaturge at the Badische Landesbühne, but when she started a family, she decided on an " alternative life in Kraichgau with self-sufficiency tendencies".

In a second career, from 1985 onwards, she set up a children's workshop, which she headed for over ten years and which is now also affiliated with a women's workshop. In addition, she worked as a lecturer at independent educational institutions and completed a distance learning course in psychology.

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl has two grown sons and three granddaughters.

Political party

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl became a member of the Greens in 1989 and was active at local and district level in the first few years. From 1995 to 1999 and 2001 to 2013 she was a member of the state board, from 2003 to 2005 state chairman of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg . After the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2011 and 2016, she was a member of the negotiating committee for the formation of a government. For the 2013 federal election, Sylvia Kotting-Uhl was elected to third place on the Baden-Württemberg state list.

Kotting-Uhl is assigned to the left wing of the party. She appeared vehemently in the past with representatives of the political wing of the party.

MPs

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005. It was drawn in via the Baden-Württemberg state list. Your home constituency is Karlsruhe-Stadt , where your constituency office is also located. In the 16th electoral term (2005–2009) she was the environmental policy spokesperson for the Green parliamentary group , in the 17th and 18th electoral terms she was the spokesperson for nuclear policy.

She is chairing committee for the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety.

She was the chairwoman of the first parliamentary committee of inquiry (Gorleben committee of inquiry, 2010–2012). She is a deputy member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.

In terms of content, she works on the topics of nuclear phase-out , nuclear waste and search for a final repository , nuclear transport , nuclear power plants at home and abroad, uranium , energy research and radiation protection / mobile communications .

Among other things, the answer to a small inquiry from Sylvia Kotting-Uhl prevented the transport of nuclear waste from Germany to the Russian interim storage facility Mayak in 2010 .

In the Gorleben investigative committee, Sylvia Kotting-Uhl campaigned for the complete clarification of the circumstances under which the government of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl decided in 1983 to test only the salt dome in Gorleben in Lower Saxony for suitability for the final storage of nuclear waste.

After the reactor disaster in Fukushima , Sylvia Kotting-Uhl traveled to Japan several times to get an idea of ​​the local situation and to exchange ideas with those affected, representatives from politics, science, the media and civil society. She spoke at large demonstrations and conferences about the risks of nuclear power, the German decision to phase out and the chances of an energy transition towards renewable energy , energy saving and energy efficiency .

In 2014 she came under fire for not paying any second home tax for her residence in Berlin .

From 2014 to 2016 she was also a member of the German Bundestag in the function of a full member of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste Materials (Repository Commission) in accordance with Section 3 of the Site Selection Act .

Memberships

Sylvia Kotting-Uhl is a member of BUND , Greenpeace , WWF , Amnesty International , Society for Threatened Peoples and various cultural and social institutions in Baden-Württemberg.

She is a member of the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag , on the supervisory board of the Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE), on the board of trustees of the DBU - German Environmental Foundation, on the advisory board of the Society of the German Federal Environmental Foundation for the Protection of National Natural Heritage and in German-Japanese Forum (DJF).

Positions on nuclear energy

In an opinion piece in Die Welt , Sylvia Kotting-Uhl took the view that new reactor concepts, in particular for reducing nuclear waste, essentially only existed on paper.

Web links

Commons : Sylvia Kotting-Uhl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Sylvia Kotting-Uhl
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Sylvia Kotting-Uhl on abgeordnetenwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of May 14, 2014
2. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434430/35fc29d72bc9a98ee71162337b94c909/drs_268-data.pdf , page 550
3. ↑ PM - 06/17 - BGE supervisory board appointed. Retrieved July 30, 2017 . 
4. ↑ https://www.dbu.de
5. ↑ https://www.dbu.de/naturerbe/
6. ↑ 4th-Generation Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors - The Astrid Technological Demonstrator, CEA , page 13, December 2012 [1]
7. ↑ Nuclear power is a thing of the past, WELT.de, November 26, 2019 [2]