Winfried Hermann

Winfried Hermann (2018)

Winfried "Winne" Hermann (born July 19, 1952 in Rottenburg am Neckar ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ). Since May 12, 2016 he has been Minister of Transport in the Kretschmann II cabinet in Baden-Württemberg and since May 1, 2016 in the Stuttgart II constituency, he has been a directly elected member of the state parliament (MdL). Before that, he was Minister for Transport and Infrastructure in the Kretschmann I cabinet (May 12, 2011 - May 11, 2016).

Life and work

Hermann was involved in the student council at the Eugen-Bolz-Gymnasium Rottenburg and was temporarily the student representative . After high school in 1971 Hermann did his community service at the orphanage Diaspora House Bid Hausen at Haigerloch and started in 1973 a teacher training program of the subjects German , politics and sport at the University of Tübingen , which he in 1979 with the first state examination ended. After his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1981. He then worked as a teacher at a grammar school in Stuttgart until 1984 . From 1989 to 1998 he was head of the health and environment department at the Stuttgart Adult Education Center.

Winfried Hermann is married and has one daughter.

Political party

In 1982 Hermann became a member of the Greens. From 1992 to 1997 he was state chairman of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg .

MP

Hermann belonged to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1984 to 1988 and has been a member again since the state elections in 2016 . In the 1984 state elections , he won a second mandate in the Stuttgart II constituency, and his first mandate in the 2016 state elections in the same constituency .

From 1998 to 2011 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1998 to 2002 he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . Since 2002 he was spokesman for the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for sport policy. In addition, he was environmental policy spokesman from 2002 to 2005, and since 2005 also spokesperson for transport policy. In the 17th legislative period, he was chairman of the transport committee of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2011 .

Winfried Hermann has always entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list.

minister

Groundbreaking for the new Wendlingen-Ulm line on May 7, 2012

From May 2011 to May 2016, Hermann was Minister in the newly created Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure in the Kretschmann I cabinet in Baden-Württemberg. Since May 12, 2016, he has been Minister of Transport in the Kretschmann II cabinet in Baden-Württemberg and responsible for the topics of roads, local rail, local public transport, car, rail, ship, air, bicycle and foot traffic.

Hermann at the Innovation Center for Urban and Autonomous Goods Logistics, efeuCampus in Bruchsal (June 2019)

The Stuttgart 21 rail project is the responsibility of the minister. In an interview he had previously refused to take responsibility for the Stuttgart 21 project if the planned referendum should result in its continuation. Although the referendum later resulted in a continuation, he remained a minister and now represents the state government in this project, which in some cases provoked considerable criticism from the project's opponents.

The minister wants to expand the range of rail transport in Baden-Württemberg by a further 15 to 20 percent in the coming years. This is to be achieved in particular through increased competition.

Another focus in the ministry is the topic of sustainable mobility. The aim is to make Baden-Württemberg a pioneer state for electromobility, cycling infrastructure and better networking between modes of transport. In the field of road construction, the ministry is planning to shift the priorities away from new construction and towards more investments in renovation and upgrading. In addition, ten cycle superhighways are to be built in Baden-Württemberg by 2025. Hermann spoke out against the car toll proposed by the CSU in the form of a vignette . He advocates that the professional football clubs have to pay for the serious damage to property on trains that are regularly committed by their fans. In 2017 alone, the Baden-Württemberg Derby Karlsruher SC against VfB Stuttgart resulted in damage of more than 100,000 euros.

Further offices and engagements

• Winfried Hermann is chairman of the supervisory board of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG .
• He is a member of the Institut Solidarische Moderne e. V.

Web links

Commons : Winfried Hermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Winfried Hermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Winfried Hermann
• Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg
• Profile of a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament in the 16th electoral term

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Then I'll hand over the station" In: die tageszeitung , May 12, 2011.
2. ↑ "MP Kretschmann and Minister Hermann (...) hide behind the swindle of a referendum" . On: The demolition uprising, March 26, 2012.
3. ↑ »The expansion of the rail connections is no longer a sure-fire success« . In: International Transport . tape 65 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 32 f .
4. ↑ Ministry ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Ministry ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.radschnellwege-auf-der-ueberholspur.a2f2143f-e7fa-42f1-b66e-b06074690508.html
7. ↑ Car toll has friends not only in the CSU . Handelsblatt online , July 11, 2013.
8. ↑ http://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-laender-hermann-fussballvereine-sollen-sich-an-zugschaeden-beteiligen-_arid,1030976.html
9. ↑ Baden-Württemberg: HzL wins local rail transport routes Zollernalb Eurorailpress.de from August 5, 2013
10. ^ Institute Solidaric Modern: Members of the Institute Solidaric Modern , accessed on August 10, 2015.