Wilfried Telkamper

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Wilfried Telkämper at the 2nd Frankfurt Aid Conference (2014)

Wilfried Telkämper (born January 16, 1953 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a German education manager and politician ( Die Linke ).

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In 1984, Wilfried Telkämper ran for the Greens in 8th place on the federal list for the first time for the European Parliament. In 1987 he moved to the European Parliament as part of the rotation of the green parliamentarians. From 1987 to 1999 he was co-chairman of his group. In 1989 he was elected as a candidate for the Greens in the European Parliament , to which he belonged until 1999 - first in the Rainbow and later in the Greens group . From 1989 to 1992 he was Vice-President of the European Parliament.

In 2000 he ran as a non-partisan candidate from the SPD , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , FDP and independents in his native Lingen (Ems) in the first direct mayor election, but was defeated by the CDU candidate Heiner Pott . In 2002 he resigned from the Alliance Green. In 2006 he was a candidate for the WASG in constituency 47 Freiburg II for the state elections and achieved the best result for the party nationwide. His political priorities include education policy and environmental policy .

On June 16, 2007, he joined the party congress of Die Linke. For the European elections in 2009 , Telkämper was placed on the 14th place on the list on March 1, 2009 at the European Congress of the party Die Linke .

Since July 1, 2010 he has been director of the Center for International Dialogue and Cooperation (ZID), an institution of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . Before that he was head of the industrial and transition countries division and in the extended management team at InWEnt . Telkämper lives in Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin .

Publications

  • South expansion at any cost? The “Mediterranean Policy” of the European Union . Thesis paper, Freiburg November 1995.
  • Opinion for the Development Committee on the Dury / Maij-Weggen report on the Intergovernmental Conference . March 13, 1996.

Web links

Commons : Wilfried Telkämper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DIE LINKE: Election of the federal list for the European elections 2009
personal data
SURNAME Telkämper, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, WSAG, Die Linke), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen