Tom Koenigs

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Tom Koenigs (2009)

Tom Koenigs ( Thomas Carl Joerge Koenigs ; born January 25, 1944 in Damm, Pomerania ) is a German politician and was a member of the Bundestag for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen faction . He was a full member of the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization subcommittee. From November 2013 Koenigs was the human rights policy spokesman for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group. From 1997 to 1999 Koenigs was together with Sabine Giesa state board spokesman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hessen .

Life

Koenigs comes from a Cologne banking family . After graduating from high school in the old language at the Birklehof boarding school and a bank apprenticeship in Düren , Koenigs did his basic military service ; later he refused to do military service . He studied business administration at the Free University of Berlin and later in Frankfurt am Main . There he took part in the student movement and took part in squatting and street fights. In the context Koenigs early 1970s to the materially from Joschka Fischer organized plaster group have been active. After completing his studies, he worked in shifts as a welder at Opel for a year and a half . In 1973 he gave his inheritance to the Viet Cong and Chilean resistance fighters, according to his statements, "something between 500,000 and five million marks". He then worked as a bookseller.

In the state elections in Hesse in 1983 , he ran in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main I , where he received 6.1% of the vote. Koenigs was city treasurer from 1993 to 1997 and from 1989 to 1999 department head for the environment, energy and fire protection of the city of Frankfurt am Main . As the head of the environment, Koenigs played a leading role in the establishment of the Frankfurt Green Belt in 1991 , which, in retrospect, he regards as his greatest political success.

He then worked for the United Nations . As Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Kosovo , he was responsible for establishing the local civil administration. In 2002, Koenigs was sent to Guatemala as a special envoy to monitor compliance with the peace agreement by the former civil war parties as head of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUGUA .

2005 he became Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office .

From February 2006 to 2007 he was the UN Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).

On April 11, 2008 Koenigs was elected to the board of UNICEF Germany .

In November 2016 Koenigs took over a five-year guarantee for the legal entry of a Syrian war refugee as part of the initiative of the refugee sponsors Syria .

He is particularly fond of Latin American literature, especially the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Colombia. One of his sons was born in Colombia. The ex-politician speaks fluent Spanish and has translated some of Marquez's columns into German and published them.

Koenigs is the father of three adult children. His brother Wolf Koenigs is a building researcher and monument conservator.

MP

On March 28, 2009, the state assembly of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen elected him to fourth place on the Hessian state list for the 2009 Bundestag election. In the election to the 17th German Bundestag on September 27, 2009, he succeeded in entering the German Bundestag, as well as in the election for the 18th German Bundestag on September 22, 2013.

In the 18th Bundestag, Koenigs was the chairman of his parliamentary group in the committee for human rights and humanitarian aid and a full member of the subcommittee for the United Nations, international organizations and globalization.

Koenigs was Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid from 2009 to 2013 and a full member of the Defense Committee . Koenigs announced in 2017 that he would not run again as a member of the Bundestag election in 2017 . “We also need new ideas,” said the then 73-year-old Koenigs.

Publications

  • Are we making peace or are we at war? On a UN mission in Afghanistan . Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-3637-4 .

Web links

Commons : Tom Koenigs  - collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Tom Koenigs  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Members of the Bundestag - Biographies - 18th Bundestag ( Memento from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag , online, accessed on September 28, 2014
  2. ↑ Lexicon: Putzgruppe berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on December 23, 2016
  3. ↑ Lisa Nienhaus, Christian Siedenbiedel: visit on the assembly line: As Opel was still revolutionary . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 25, 2009, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 4, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b c Frankfurter Rundschau: Not always voluntarily. Outgoing members of the Bundestag 2017. p. 6, August 4, 2017
  5. ↑ "I did not invent the Green Belt, but implemented it." - Interview with Tom Koenigs in: City of Frankfurt am Main, Department for Environment, Health and Personnel (Ed.): 20 Years of the Green Belt Frankfurt - People, Data and Projects - 1991– 2011 . Festschrift, 82 pages, paperback. P. 6
  6. ↑ Report on Koenigs' commitment on the website of the refugee sponsors Syria , accessed on November 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Tom Koenigs in conversation , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, published and accessed January 10, 2019
  8. ↑ Members of the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization subcommittee - 18th Bundestag ( memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag , online, accessed on September 28, 2014
  9. ↑ The Bundestag is losing many familiar faces , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on June 23, 2017
  10. ↑ Review by Nils Minkmar
personal data
SURNAME Koenigs, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koenigs, Thomas Carl Joerge (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dam, Pomerania