Wolfgang Raufelder

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Wolfgang Raufelder (2013)

Wolfgang Raufelder (born July 16, 1957 in Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld ; † November 28, 2016 near Brühl ) was a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

After graduating from high school in Mannheim, Raufelder studied architecture and biology in Darmstadt and Frankfurt. Professionally, he worked for the State Building Authority Mannheim / Heidelberg, the Darmstadt Regional Council and the City of Viernheim . He became known since the 1980s for his commitment to environmental protection and nature conservation in the Rhine-Neckar region.

In 1999, Raufelder was elected to the Mannheim municipal council for the Greens . In 2001 he became parliamentary group chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the association assembly of the Rhine-Neckar Region Association . In 2004 he was also elected chairman of the Greens in the Mannheim municipal council.

He ran for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2006 , but was not elected with 14.6 percent. When he was elected Lord Mayor of Mannheim in 2007, he achieved 13.4 percent. He ran again in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2011 and won the direct mandate in the Mannheim II constituency , which he defended in 2016 , with 29.6 percent . Most recently, he was a member of the transport and finance committees and chairman of the parliamentary group's transport working group.

Raufelder was married and had two children. His burning body was found on the morning of November 28, 2016 on the banks of the Rhine on Brühl's Koller Island ; the police assume a suicide by self-immolation .

In memory of Wolfgang Raufelder, the Wolfgang Raufelder Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded for nature conservation, mobility, alternative energies as well as ecological urban planning and urban development.

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Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Raufelder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Passer-by finds dead Mannheim Green politicians. In: Focus , November 28, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Mannheim: Great mourning for Green politician Wolfgang Raufelder . Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen , November 28, 2016, accessed on November 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/wolfgang-raufelder--gruenen-politiker-tot-am-rheinufer-auffind-7215322.html
  4. ↑ https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Abendunger-wird-tot-am-Rhein-find-article19204116.html
  5. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/mannheim/Mannheim-Wolfgang-Raufelder-Preis-wird-verliehen,meldung-34844.html SWR aktuell
personal data
SURNAME Raufelder, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2016
Place of death Bruehl (Baden)