Tarek Al-Wazir
Tarek Al-Wazir (born January 3, 1971 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). Al-Wazir has been Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Volker Bouffier since January 18, 2014 . In the Bouffier II cabinet , he was responsible for the areas of economy, energy, transport and regional development before he was appointed Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Housing in the Bouffier III cabinet . Since 2019 he has been the constituency member in the Offenbach-Stadt constituency and thus, as from 1995 to 2017, a member of the Hessian state parliament , in which he was parliamentary group leader of the Greens from 2000 to 2014. In the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , he was again the top candidate for the Greens.
Youth and Studies
Al-Wazir is the son of the German teacher Gerhild Knirsch and the Yemeni Mohamed Al-Wazir. He is a citizen of both countries. First he grew up with his mother in Offenbach, at the age of 14 he moved to his father in the Yemeni capital Sanaa for two years and attended an international school there. In 1987 he returned to Offenbach. He describes the time in Yemen as very formative in his development. After graduating from the Max Beckmann School in Frankfurt a. M. Al-Wazir completed his community service from 1991 to 1992 and then studied political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University , where he was involved in the university's convent . Al-Wazir graduated with a degree in political science while he was already a parliamentarian. His diploma thesis is titled: "The stopable path to the country of immigration."
Tarek Al-Wazir is married and has two sons.
His great-uncle was the insurgent leader Sayf Abdullah Ibn Ahmed Al-Wazir , who proclaimed himself king in Yemen in February 1948 and was executed shortly afterwards.
Green politician since 1989
As a high school student, Al-Wazir became a member of the Greens in 1989. From 1992 to 1994 he was chairman of the Green Youth Hesse. In December 2006 Tarek Al-Wazir was elected to the federal party council of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. He was a member of this without interruption until 2015. From September 2007 to December 2013 he was, together with Kordula Schulz-Asche , state chairman of the Hessian Greens .
MP
From 1993 to 1997 and again from 2000 to 2016, Tarek Al-Wazir was a member of the Offenbach am Main city council .
From 1995 to 2017 Al-Wazir was a member of the Hessian state parliament. From May 2000 to January 2014 he was chairman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group . As spokesman for media policy, he was also a member of the broadcasting council of Hessischer Rundfunk .
After the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , he wanted to lead his parliamentary group into a red-green government that should be tolerated by the left. He himself was to become Environment Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The planned tolerance by the Left, which had been excluded before the election by the SPD and its top candidate Andrea Ypsilanti , was rejected by the SPD MP Dagmar Metzger from the start. Shortly before the decisive state parliament session, three other members of the SPD parliamentary group announced that they would not vote for the government. Thereupon the parliament dissolved and new elections were scheduled.
In these new elections on January 18, 2009 , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen achieved the best result ever achieved in a federal German state without being considered for the formation of a government. Al-Wazir ran as a direct candidate in the Offenbach-Stadt constituency , but was defeated by Stefan Grüttner (CDU) and Heike Habermann (SPD).
In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , he ran in the Offenbach-Stadt constituency . Here he lost to Stefan Grüttner. However, he succeeded in re-entering the state parliament via a list of the party. On October 16, 2017, he resigned from his state parliament mandate. In the state election in Hesse in 2018 , he won in his constituency with 27.5 percent of the constituency votes and thus received a direct mandate.
Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister since 2014
Tarek Al-Wazir was the lead candidate in the state elections in Hesse in 2013 and was the negotiator in the exploratory talks and coalition negotiations that followed. On January 18, 2014, when the Bouffier II cabinet was sworn in, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister Volker Bouffier and Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development .
After the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , Al-Wazir had the theoretical possibility of striving for the office of Prime Minister himself as the top candidate of the party with the highest vote in a traffic light coalition . However, the FDP Hessen did not want to sound out a state government led by the Greens. Therefore, a black-green state government was formed again. Al-Wazir's Ministry of State was renamed the Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing in January 2019 when the Bouffier III cabinet was formed .
Others
In November 2014, Al-Wazir and Volker Bouffier were named “Politician of the Year” by the specialist journal Politik & Kommunikation . A survey by the research group Wahlen on behalf of the radio station FFH and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung showed in October 2018 that Al-Wazir is the most popular politician in Hesse.
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 53.
Web links
- Short biography. Hessian state parliament.
- Tarek Al-Wazir's website
- Georg Löwisch : Tarek, not Fritz , Die Tageszeitung , October 27, 2008
- Evelyn Roll : Der kann Kanzler , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , June 11, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Born here, at home here! Tarek Al-Wazir. On: al-wazir.de ( Memento from September 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Georg Löwisch : Tarek, not Fritz , Die Tageszeitung , October 27, 2008, accessed on October 18, 2018.
- ↑ Georg Löwisch : Tarek, not Fritz , Die Tageszeitung , October 27, 2008, accessed on October 24, 2018.
- ^ Result of the state elections in 2009 in constituency 43 ( memento from September 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (constituency votes)
- ↑ Press release of the Hessian state government from November 25, 2014: [1]
Prime Minister: Bouffier (Deputy: Al-Wazir )
Minister of State: Beuth ( Interior and Sport ) | Michael Boddenberg ( Finance ) | Kühne-Hörmann ( Justice ) | Klose ( social affairs and integration ) | Lorz ( cult ) | Dorn ( science and art ) | Hinz ( environment, climate protection, agriculture and consumer protection ) | Wintermeyer ( State Chancellery ) | Puttrich ( Federal and European Affairs ) | Al-Wazir ( Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing ) | Sinemus ( digital strategy and development )
Rudolf Mueller (1945–1946) | Werner Hilpert (1946) | Harald Koch (1946–1949) | Albert Wagner (1949–1951) | Heinrich Fischer (1951–1955) | Gotthard Franke (1955–1963) | Albert Osswald (1963–1964) | Rudi Arndt (1964–1970) | Heinz-Herbert Karry (1970–1981) | Klaus-Jürgen Hoffie (1981–1982) | Ulrich Steger (1984–1987) | Alfred Schmidt (1987-1991) | Ernst Welteke (1991–1994) | Lothar Klemm (1994–1999) | Dieter Posch (1999-2003) | Alois Rhiel (2003-2009) | Dieter Posch (2009–2012) | Florian Rentsch (2012–2014) | Tarek Al-Wazir (since 2014)
Iris Blaul (1982–1985) | Jochen Vielhauer (1985–1987) | Joschka Fischer (1987–1991) | Rupert von Plottnitz (1991–1994) | Friedrich Karl Hertle (1994–1996) | Alexander Müller (1996-1999) | Priska Hinz (1999–2000) | Tarek Al-Wazir (2000-2014) | Mathias Wagner (since 2014)
State chairwoman: Maria Marx (1991–1995) | Hiltrud Hofmann (1995–1997) | Sabine Giesa (1997–1999) | Daniela Wagner (1999–2000) | Evelin Schönhut-Keil (2001–2005) | Kordula Schulz-Asche (2005–2013) | Daniela Wagner (2013–2017) | Angela Dorn-Rancke (2017–2019) | Sigrid Erfurth (since 2019)
State chairman: Jürgen Frömmrich (1991–1993) | Frank-Peter Kaufmann (1993–1995) | Reimer Hamann (1995-1997) | Tom Koenigs (1997-1999) | Hartmut Bäumer (1999–2000) | Hubert Kleinert (2000–2002) | Matthias Berninger (2003–2007) | Tarek Al-Wazir (2007-2013) | Kai Klose (2013–2019) | Philip Krämer (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Al-Wazir, Tarek |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | al-Wazir, Tarek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd January 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |