Gerald Häfner

Gerald Häfner ( born November 3, 1956 in Munich) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). He was three times 1987-2002 Member of the German Bundestag and 2009 Member of the European Parliament since the European elections. Haefner is a journalist, a Waldorf teacher and (co - ) founder of numerous initiatives and foundations.

Education, Occupation, Private

From 1978 to 1984 studied German Häfner, Waldorf education, social sciences and philosophy in Munich, Witten and Bochum.

He is a freelance journalist specializing in topics citizen participation and direct democracy.

Gerald Häfner lives in Munich, is single and has two children.

Party politics

He was one of the founders of the Green Party. In the early years of the party from 1979 to 1980 he was county chairman in Munich and from 1980 to 1981 Managing Director and Spokesperson of the National Association of Bavaria, later District Chairman in Swabia. From 1991 to 1994 Häfner was state chairman in Bavaria.

Member of the German Bundestag

Gerald Häfner was a total of ten years (1987-1990, 1994-1998 and 2001-2002) Member of the German Bundestag for the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The Greens. There he was quite spokesman for his group.

1994 to 1998 he was a member and chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, the Rules Committee and the Committee of German unity.

Haefner was from April 2001 to October 2002 for the third time Member of Parliament. He adjusted according to Claudia Roth, since these had to resign as party spokesperson because of the principle of the separation of office and mandate their parliamentary mandate. In the 14th Parliament, he was democratic political spokesman of the Green parliamentary group, a member of the Committee on European Affairs and substitute member of the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag.

Haefner has introduced a series of bills to strengthen democracy, civil rights and citizen participation in the German Bundestag. These included numerous concrete and worked out proposals for improving democracy, transparency and democratic participation opportunities for citizens of the improvement of the electoral law, the revision of the policy ( s) finance and the anchoring of freedom of information, and the introduction of popular initiative and referendum. He has also initiated many cross-party bills, the alternative draft law on transplantation up to the first draft of a Non smoking protection law and numerous advances on Parliamentary Reform. Haefner was also co-author of several constitutional drafts and expert on democracy and constitutional issues, citizen participation and parliamentary reform, among others, for the Diets of Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg, Schleswig -Holstein and Rhineland -Palatinate as well as several national parliaments in the European and international countries.

Member of the European Parliament

Gerald Häfner was elected on 7 June 2009 for the Alliance 90/The Greens in the European Parliament. He belongs to the Group of the Greens / EFA. As a parliamentarian he is a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs and substitute member of the Committee on Petitions. In addition, he is vice chairman of the Korean delegation and deputy member of ASEAN and the Caucasus delegation from the European Parliament.

Memberships

Häfner is (co - ) founder of various initiatives, particularly in the area of democracy, civil rights and the Constitution, and various foundations. Mention may be made, among others, more democracy (whose CEO in 1999 until 2009 was ), the Free International University, the action Third Way, Action referendum, Democracy International Association ( founding chairman since 2011 ), referendum against nuclear facilities, the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED dictatorship and the Petra Kelly Foundation). Between 1990 and 1992 he was a founder and member of the Board of Trustees for a democratic constitutional federation of German states.

Honors

Gerald Häfner received various awards, so in 2001 the " Silver Microphone " as the best speaker of the deputies of the German Bundestag in the 14th legislature or 2005 the " National Leadership Award for Political Innovation" Economic Forum Germany in the category of improving the political system.

Publications

• Gerald Häfner: experiences, status and prospects of direct democracy in Germany and Austria. In: Jos Verhulst & Arjen Nijeboer (eds. ): Direct Democracy. Facts, arguments, experiences. Democracy International, Brussels 2009, ISBN 9,789,078,820,024th
• Michael Efler, Gerald Häfner, Roman Huber, Percy Vogel: Europe: not without! Astray and ways of democracy in the European Union. VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 3,899,653,602th
• Gerald Häfner: fight for direct democracy. From the controlled democracy to the struggle for the rudder. In: Müller, U., Giegold, S., Arhelger, M. ( ed.): Controlled democracy? As neoliberal elites influence policy and the public. VSA -Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3,899,651,006th
• Gerald Häfner: The Renaissance of brotherhood. In: Jacques Attali: brotherhood. A necessary utopia in the era of globalization. Free Spirit Publishing Life, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3772522351st
• Gerald Häfner: German unit through the back door. In: W. Schulz, Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.): The Alliance case: political perspectives 10 years after the founding of the Alliance 90th Ed. Prying, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3861087960th
• Gerald Häfner: memorandum to the Constitution for the Federation of German States. In: From the Basic Law to the German constitution. Memorandum and draft constitution. Nomos, Baden -Baden 1999, ISBN 3789025062nd
• Gerald Häfner: Death in the Life of Petra Kelly and Joseph Beuys. In: Petra Kelly; Joseph Beuys: That night, in the people ... FIU -Verlag, cheeks, 1994, ISBN 3,928,780,077th