Torsten Lange

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Torsten Lange, 2012

Torsten Lange (born March 16, 1945 in Drangstedt ) is a German politician ( AUD , The Greens , CDU , Instead of Party , pro NRW , citizens in anger ). The former teacher was a member of the German Bundestag from 1985 to 1987 .

Political career

Alliance 90 / The Greens

A long political career began with the Action Group for Independent Germans (AUD). This dissolved in favor of the Greens and Lange became a founding member of the Greens in 1980. From 1982 to 1983 he was spokesman (chairman) of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg . On April 17, 1985, Lange replaced Christa Reetz in the German Bundestag , who resigned her mandate due to the principle of rotation . Lange was a member of parliament until the end of the 1987 electoral term. He was chairman of the Greens in the Defense Committee and in the Subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control (his deputy was Petra Kelly ), as well as a member of the Inner German and Sports Committee. His main focus was on disarmament, the prevention of the NATO double decision and separation of the FRG and GDR from the respective military blocs in the direction of a Central European peace union. In this sense he also worked as a member of the North Atlantic Assembly. In 1985, Lange received a call to order from the then Bundestag Vice -President Richard Stücklen when he described US President Ronald Reagan as the “most dangerous terrorist in the western world”, as he said on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima that he would be thrown off in a similar case Arrange atomic bombs.

Instead of party

In 1987 Lange left the Greens after the dispute between the fundamentalists and Realos escalated and manifested itself in the 1987 march through the left in the election for parliamentary group chairmanship won by Thomas Ebermann (Hamburg) against Otto Schily . In 1994 Torsten Lange joined the Statt party and was first deputy state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia, then deputy federal chairman. To a large extent he developed the program of this party, which, however, could not develop further at the federal level due to a lack of support from the Hamburg parliamentary group.

In 2008, Lange joined the CDU, but left the party after a year.

per NRW

In autumn 2009, Lange joined the pro NRW citizens' movement and was its educational policy spokesman. He formulated the school policy program, which was passed unanimously at a state assembly in Leverkusen in March 2011. In May 2011, however, he left the party, which was classified as right-wing extremist party a few months later, because former leaders from the NPD and DVU had been elected to the new state executive , and the claim to be a serious right-wing conservative party could no longer be upheld.

Citizens in anger

From December 2011 to October 2013, Lange was a sustaining member of the voters' association Bürger in Wut (BIW).

literature

Web links

Commons : Torsten Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Political opponents are violent , General-Anzeiger, May 15, 2014
  2. ↑ GrüneBW
  3. ^ German Bundestag, Dept. Scientific Documentation, Section Subject and Speech Registers, Activities, from June 23, 1987, Lange, Member of the Bundestag, the Greens
  4. ↑ Peter Kratz: "Right Comrades. Neoconservatism in the SPD", Chapter 4, 1999, ISBN 3-88520-552-1
  5. ↑ German Bundestag, 10th electoral period, printed matter 10/6758 of December 17, 1986, p. 20, p. 30
  6. ↑ Die Bunte , No. 28/1987, p. 6
  7. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 5, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens, Instead of Party, pro NRW), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Drangstedt