Willfried Maier

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Willfried Maier (born April 30, 1942 in Schwelm ) is a German politician on the Green Alternative List (GAL) and former Senator of the Hamburg Senate .

Life

After graduating from high school, Willfried Maier studied philosophy , German and history at the universities of Göttingen and Kiel at the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium in Wuppertal . He completed his studies with the graduation to the Dr. phil. from. He later completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker . He then worked as a lecturer in adult education from 1981 to 1996 . He is married to Eva Hubert .

politics

Maier was initially a member of the SPD , but then joined the Communist League of West Germany (KBW) and was temporarily a leading member there. From 1973 to 1976 he was the chief editor of its central organ, the Communist People's Newspaper (KVZ) . After leaving the KBW in 1979, he co-founded the Committee for Democracy and Socialism and editor of the magazine hefte für Demokratie und Sozialismus , from 1981 editor of the magazine Moderne Zeiten .

Maier is a founding member of the Greens and has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since October 6, 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he took over the office of parliamentary group leader of the GAL.

From 1997 to 2001 Maier was Senator for Urban Development, Federal and European Affairs. During this time of the Senate under Mayor Ortwin Runde , the citizenship mandate was suspended . From October 31, 2001 until the state elections in Hamburg in 2008 , he was again a member of the GAL parliamentary group .

From 2002 to 2008 Willfried Maier was deputy chairman of the GAL citizenship parliamentary group, spokesman for the parliamentary group for budgetary , cultural and scientific policy and chairman of the citizenship culture committee.

He is a member of the board of trustees of parliamentwatch.de.

Since 2008 he has been a member of the Foundation Council of the Hamburg Historical Museums and the Supervisory Board of the Hamburg State Opera.

Since 2018 he has been the first chairman of the Patriotic Society of 1765 in Hamburg.

Fonts

  • Life, deed and reflection. Investigations into Heinrich Heine's aesthetics. In: Literature and Reality 5; also dissertation at the University of Kiel, Bouvier, Bonn 1969.
  • Jugendhof Dörnberg. Political education in the shadow of the scandal. Hessischer Jugendring, Wiesbaden 1970.
  • With Erik Kühl: Theses on the tactics of the West German communists. Supplement to the truth. Monthly newspaper of the Communist League of Bremen , No. 5/6 (May / June) 1973.
  • (As ed.): Class struggle and program. The dispute with the right liquidator faction in the Bremen local branch of the KBW. Kühl, Mannheim 1973.
  • Theses on the Critique of Capitalist Productive Power Development. In: Jan Robert Bloch, Willfried Maier (Ed.): Growth of the borders. Self-organization in nature and the future of society. Sendler, Frankfurt am Main 1984, pp. 21-49.
  • Democratic legitimation in transition , presentation for the BÖLL Forum NRW on October 14, 2011 in Dortmund ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Jürgen Fink: Willfried Maier - A politician with the courage to break . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 5, 2013.
  2. ^ Heinrich Böll Foundation : Short biography of Willfried Maiers , accessed on March 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ Petra Bornhöft, Norbert F. Pötzl, Gerd Rosenkranz, Wilfried Voigt: Salt in the green soup: How far the old communists infiltrated, dominated and financed the eco-party . In: Der Spiegel , 5/2001, p. 78f.
  4. ^ The board of trustees of parliamentwatch.de , accessed on October 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Rebecca Kresse and Jule Bleyer: Altonaer Museum: Black-green against black-green . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 15, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Willfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GAL), Member of the Bundestag, Senator
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm