Walter Schwenninger

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Walter Schwenninger (born August 4, 1942 in Munich ; † September 24, 2010 in Tübingen ) was a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

Life

Schwenninger practiced decathlon in his youth . Schwenninger studied Protestant theology and sport and became a teacher at the grammar school, most recently in Herrenberg . A voluntary service in development aid shaped his political interests and his political commitment. Together with his Lima- born wife Nani Mosquera, he carried out educational work in Germany on the relationship between the First and Third World and on unjust regimes such as the apartheid regime in South Africa or that of the Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and promoted the development of fair trade in the German-speaking area .

In Tübingen Schwenninger was a founding member of Club Voltaire , co-initiator of the Cine Latino and the Weltladen . Schwenninger was elected to the 10th German Bundestag as a candidate for the Green Party in 1983 , where he gave his maiden speech on Third World politics. A picture in which Schwenninger in a chunky alpaca with a beard and long-haired Prinz Eisenherz hairstyle stood next to Chancellor Helmut Kohl , dressed in a suit and tie , was printed in the world press. Due to the rotation principle agreed at the time , he was replaced at the halfway point of the legislative period on April 16, 1985, but remained active in federal politics as a "forerunner" through an employment with the parliamentary group until 1987. In 1994 he ran again for the Bundestag in the Tübingen constituency, but had no promising place on the list. Schwenninger stayed out of the inner-party squabble of the Green Party at the time.

Schwenninger was from 1989 to 1994 and 1999 to 2004 a council member in Tübingen of the "Alternatives and Green List". In Tübingen he was responsible for a Peru working group and in 2006 for the town partnership with Villa El Salvador , a district of Lima with 350,000 inhabitants. He was with Daimler-Benz - general meetings known as a critical shareholder.

Schwenninger died of cancer on September 24, 2010. He is buried in the Tübingen city cemetery.

Tübingen city cemetery

Fonts

  • Tea doesn't fill you up . ed. from the World Trade Working Group of the Action Center Arms World eV, Tübingen. Photos: Walter Schwenninger. Caricatures: Sepp Buchegger , Tübingen 1979.
  • Susanne Bausch; Walter Schwenninger u. a .: Anahi: a campesino girl from Paraguay . Diaconal working group "Bread for the World", Stuttgart 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Walter Schwenninger died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2010 ( online - 4 October 2010 ).

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SURNAME Schwenninger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag, 3rd world activist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2010
Place of death Tübingen