Thomas Griese

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The state chairmen of the NRW nature conservation associations present the then NRW Environment Minister Bärbel Höhn with their key points on the intervention regulation (from left: Klaus Brunsmeier (BUND), Mark vom Hofe (LNU), Bärbel Höhn, Josef Tumbrinck (NABU), Thomas Griese (State Secretary in the Environment Ministry )), 2005

Thomas Andreas Griese (born September 11, 1956 in Soest ) is a German lawyer and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

From 1995 to 2005 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for the Environment, Regional Planning and Agriculture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . He has held the same office since 2011 in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Food and Forests . Griese also worked as a judge at the labor courts in Aachen and Cologne and at the regional labor court in Cologne .

education and profession

Thomas Griese grew up in Bad Sassendorf , where his parents ran a farm (Herringser Höfe). After graduating from high school in 1975 and doing community service as a paramedic , Griese studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the Georg August University in Göttingen . He completed his studies in 1981 with the first state examination in law. He completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Celle, among others . After passing the second state examination in law in 1984, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Labor Law at the University of Göttingen until 1986 . During this time he also worked there on his dissertation on the necessity and effectiveness of improved data privacy protection in labor law , with which the Georgia Augusta Faculty of Law made him a doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) In 1986 . PhD .

Also in 1986 he was accepted into the judicial service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1993 Griese worked as a labor judge at the labor courts in Aachen and Cologne . From autumn 1986 until 1995 he also held a part-time teaching position at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences , Faculty of Business. From 1991 he was a member of the State Judicial Examination Office at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne . From 1993 to 1995 he was seconded to the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , where he was head of the labor law, staff representation law and co-determination law department .

After the interruption due to his political activities, he worked as a judge again from 2006 to 2011 and held the office of presiding judge at the Cologne Regional Labor Court. He was also a deputy member of the constitutional court for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . As a specialist in the field of labor law, he has also published scientific papers in specialist journals and books. He is co-author of the annual labor law standard work Personalbuch - Arbeitsrecht, Steuerrecht, Sozialversicherungsrecht .

family

Thomas Griese has been married to Anne Prolingheuer-Griese since 1982. The couple has two grown children. The family has lived in Aachen-Brand since 1986 .

Political party

Thomas Griese has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1997 . For the party, he worked as chairman of the Aachen district association, as a delegate for the green federal delegate conference (BDK) and the green state delegate conference (LDK).

Public offices

After the state elections in 1995, Thomas Griese was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry for the Environment, Regional Planning and Agriculture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , led by Minister Bärbel Höhn . Even after the state elections in 2000 he remained - again under Höhn, now in the Ministry for Environment, Agriculture and Consumer Protection - until the red-green coalition lost its majority in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 . During his ten-year tenure as State Secretary, he was involved, among other things, in the creation of the Eifel National Park and the transformation of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Forestry Administration into the State Forest and Wood Office in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the fact that another six waste incineration plants planned in North Rhine-Westphalia were not built.

In the 2005 Bundestag election , he ran for the Greens in the constituency of Aachen without success .

Since 2009 Griese has been a member of the Aachen City Region Conference and deputy City Region Council. He is also a member of the environmental committee of the Aachen City Region and is a member of the association assembly of the municipal special purpose association for the West Disposal Region (ZEW) .

Since May 18, 2011 he has been working again as State Secretary - this time in Rhineland-Palatinate in the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Food, Viticulture and Forests under Minister Ulrike Höfken . Despite this move to Mainz , he would like to remain rooted in the Aachen region and only to resign from his position as deputy city council.

Honorary positions and memberships

Thomas Griese's commitment in the agricultural and environmental sector developed from the influence of his parents' house and his membership as a youth in the Westfälisch-Lippischen Landjugend eV (WLL). He has been active in the anti-nuclear power movement since the mid-1970s and was involved in organizing tractor demos for the Hamm-Uentrop nuclear power plant through the rural youth - for him this also meant entering politics.

Griese remained loyal to this voluntary activity. In 1976 he was one of the co-founders of the Working Group on Farming Agriculture (AbL) . He is also an active member of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) . The main focus of Griese's work in these bodies was, among other things, the greening and democratization of land consolidation and genetic engineering .

In addition, the devout Protestant is involved in the Evangelical Church . He belongs to the management team of the Evangelical City Academy Aachen (ESA) and is appointed member of the district synod of the Evangelical Church District Aachen. In his home town of Brand, Thomas Griese was co-founder of the “BrandGlobalLokal” discussion forum and is a member of the Brand Citizens Association. He is also a member of the supervisory board of WABe eV, a member of the Presidium of the European Natural Heritage Foundation (EuroNatur) and a member of the Solar Energy Association Germany (SFV) and the association for the promotion of the Agenda 21 partnership Aachen-Cape Town eV

See also

Web links

Commons : Thomas Griese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the State Secretary in the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Food, Viticulture and Forests, Rhineland-Palatinate ; Retrieved June 10, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c d curriculum vitae with the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia ; Retrieved June 10, 2010
  3. ↑ in print under this title as Volume 84 of the series of publications on social and labor law , Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1987, 210 pp., ISBN 3-428-06174-8
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Personal details of Grieses on his résumé on his website : accessed on June 10, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Jutta Geese: Candidates for the municipal council: Thomas Griese (Greens) . In: Aachener Zeitung , online version of August 18, 2009 : accessed on June 11, 2011
  6. ↑ Thomas Griese: New task in Rhineland-Palatinate from May 18, 2011 , information on his website: accessed on June 10, 2010
  7. ↑ according to the short portrait of Grieses in: Klaus Nottmeyer-Linden, Stefan Müller, Diethard Horst and Burkhard Schweppe-Kraft (edit.): Future of contractual nature conservation . New concepts for cooperation between nature conservation and agriculture . BfN scripts 31st Federal Agency for Nature Conservation 2000, p. 10 (as PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Griese, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griese, Thomas Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen); State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest