Udo Hergenröder

Udo Hergenröder (born September 21, 1935 ) is a former German politician ( GAL ). From 1982 to 1984 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Udo Hergenröder has a degree in electrical engineering and worked as an engineer until 1964. He then worked as an editor for various magazines, including a. the left-wing concrete , active. Finally, he became a vocational school teacher and from 1974 taught first as a trainee lawyer, then as a teacher at the G10 trade school for energy technology in Altona . He was active in the IG Druck and the Education and Science Union (GEW). From 1976 to 1979 he headed the editorial department of the Hamburger Lehrerzeitung (hlz), the members ' magazine of the GEW Hamburg. Hergenröder then belonged to the state board of the GEW Hamburg.

Politically, Hergenröder was initially a social democrat, later he joined the German Communist Party (DKP). Therefore, from 1977 to 1979 professional bans were brought against him. In the spring of 1982 he resigned from the DKP after nine years of membership, while at the same time his expulsion from the party was imminent, partly because of his dissenting attitude towards GDR nuclear power plants. In 1981 Hergenröder was one of the founding members of the Alternative List (AL), a political grouping in Hamburg that was dominated by KB members. In view of the upcoming state elections in Hamburg in June 1982 , AL and Grüner Landesverband Hamburg drew up a joint list. The Green Alternative List (GAL) formed in this way was able to obtain nine mandates and Hergenröder moved into the 10th Hamburg parliament as a GAL parliamentary group member . After failed coalition and tolerance negotiations and the emergence of ungovernability (“ Hamburg conditions ”), new elections were held in December 1982 , in which the SPD won back an absolute majority. The GAL achieved eight seats and Hergenröder retained his seat in the citizenry. On August 9, 1984, he resigned from his mandate. He distanced himself from the Greens, whose member he said he had only become a member through external circumstances: in 1984 the AL had dissolved and the GAL became the regional association of the Green Party. According to Hergenröder, former AL members automatically became party members of the Greens without explicit objection. “That's how I became 'greener', but I never was,” he said in an interview published in Jungle World in 2013 .

After the end of his political career, Hergenröder continued to be involved in the anti-nuclear power movement .

literature

• Hergenröder, Udo In: Handbook of the Hamburg citizenship: Personalalien. Election period 11th 1982. Citizenship, Hamburg 1982, pp. 155–156.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hergenröder, Udo In: Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship. Citizenship, Hamburg 1982, p. 155.
2. ↑ GREEN. Insanely normal. In: Der Spiegel July 19, 1982. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
3. ↑ The great error. In: Jungle World . No. 46, November 14, 2013. Retrieved November 15, 2015.