Volkmar Zschocke

Volkmar Zschocke (September 2019)

Mathias Volkmar Zschocke (born January 19, 1969 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2010 to 2014 he was state board spokesman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Saxony and from 2014 to 2018 parliamentary group chairman in the Saxon state parliament .

Life and work

Zschocke completed a skilled worker training as a toolmaker from 1985 to 1988 . He then worked for a year in the youth work of the city mission and in 1990 as managing director of the association Selbsthilfe Wohnprojekt Further Straße e. V. From 1991 he worked as a social worker in the criminal welfare department of the Workers' Welfare Organization in Chemnitz and from 1993 to 1996 completed an extra-occupational diploma course in social education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Dresden. He stopped his work as a social worker when he became managing director of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Chemnitz city ​​council in 1999 , which he held until 2004. He then worked for half a year at the State Youth Welfare Office in Saxony, before becoming an employee of the Saxon state parliament member Johannes Lichdi in 2005 .

Zschocke has two children (one of them with Annekathrin Giegengack, who is now divorced from him ). He lives in Chemnitz.

politics

Zschocke was a district councilor in the Chemnitz district from 1991 to 1994 . He was then for five years from 1994 to 1999 City Council of Chemnitz, on which body he was represented again from 2004 to March 2010. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Chemnitz district board of his party. In the state elections in Saxony in 2009 , he missed entry into the Saxon state parliament, both in 20th place on the state list and as a direct candidate in the Chemnitz constituency 2 . On January 16, 2010, he was elected state board spokesman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Saxony , which he held until December 2014. In the Mayor election in Chemnitz on June 16, 2013, in which none of the candidates could achieve an absolute majority, he received 9.53% of the vote. In the necessary new election, in which Barbara Ludwig ( SPD ) was confirmed in office, he decided not to run again.

At the State Delegate Conference (LDK) in March 2014, he and Antje Hermenau were elected to be the top candidate in the 2014 state election campaign, in which he made it into the Saxon state parliament at number 2 . On September 16, 2014, he was elected by the parliamentary group of the Greens as group chairman for the 6th electoral term. On May 23, 2018, the parliamentary group named Wolfram Günther as his successor. With a view to the state elections in 2019 , the party's environmental profile should be sharpened. In September 2020, he will run again for Mayor of Chemnitz.

Web links

Volkmar Zschocke 2016

Volkmar Zschocke at the LDK in March 2014

Volkmar Zschocke (center) next to Claudia Maicher and Valentin Lippmann .

Commons : Volkmar Zschocke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography. Saxon State Parliament.
• Personal internet presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annekathrin Giegengack and Volkmar Zschocke said goodbye to Chemnitz City Council yesterday ( memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the City of Chemnitz from March 11, 2010, accessed on October 16, 2014 
2. ^ Official final result of the mayoral election of June 16, 2013
3. ↑ New Green Group leaders in the Saxon state parliament , accessed on November 23, 2018.
4. ↑ The Greens are looking for new momentum , accessed on May 31, 2018.