Roland Vogt

Roland Vogt ( born February 17, 1941 in Gelnhausen, Hesse -Nassau ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ) and a pacifist. He was from 1983 to 1985 Member of the German Bundestag.

Education and work

Vogt was graduated from high school in 1960 and then made ​​from one years in the army medical corps. He then studied law and political science at the Universities of Heidelberg, Saarbrücken and Free University of Berlin. From 1970 to 1975 he was working community and project team leader at the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Berlin. He completed his law degree from the state exam in political science, he earned a diploma. From 1991 to 1993 he worked as head of the task force the agent of the Prime Minister of Brandenburg for the withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces and for conversion, from 1994 as Head of Unit for conversion of Economic Affairs of Brandenburg. Since his retirement, he moved back to his home town of Bad Durkheim ( Rhineland -Palatinate).

Vogt is married and father of three children.

Policy

Vogt made ​​his first political experiences in the SPD, which he joined in 1969. He was committed to the Young European Federalists ( JEF ), which he joined in 1961. Since the early 1970s, his political activism shifted to employees in civil initiatives for environmental protection and in the emerging resistance against nuclear power plants. In 1975 he was allies of Baden and Alsatian citizens 'initiatives (BI ) against the nuclear power plants Wyhl, Fessenheim (Alsace ) and Kaiseraugst at Basel, and in 1977 he became one of three chairmen of the Association of Citizens ' Initiatives for Environmental Protection ( BBU), where he served until 1982. Together with Michael Schroeren 1977 he was founding editor of the association's journal of the BBU, the " bbu - to-date ", since 1979, first appeared under the title of " environmental magazine ". In 1989 he was one among others with Petra Kelly and Theodor Ebert of the founders of the League for Social Defense ( BSV ) and in 1992 he co-founded the Citizens' Initiative Free Heath in Kyritz - Ruppin country against a bombing range of the Bundeswehr.

Parties, the Greens and Alliance 90/The Greens

As BBU board member since 1977 Vogt took an active role in the party formation process of the countryside. He called for an offensive handling of citizens' initiatives with the emerging green and colorful voter initiatives and contributed to the BBU in this phase, the discussion on the establishment of a Green Party co-determined. In 1978 he left the SPD in protest against their former attitude to nuclear energy and participated in the same year in Berlin at the foundation of the alternatives list for democracy and environmental protection. He was a founding member in 1979 and together with Petra Kelly, top candidate of the first nationwide list alliance under the name of The Greens, which participated as Other Political Association in the first direct elections to the European Parliament on 10 June 1979. Until 1981 he worked as a coordinator of cooperation between green and radical democratic parties in Strasbourg. From 1981 to 1982 he was Member of the Board of the Green Party and from 1986 to 1987 Speaker of the National Association of Rhineland- Palatinate. In 1983 he was elected on the regional list of Rhineland -Palatinate of the Greens in the German Bundestag. He was, until February 1984 a deputy, then decent to 1985 Member of the Defence Committee, where he was responsible for the issue of defense conversion. In addition, he was for a few months each as a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Legal Committee at. The principle adopted by the party following what Green Member of Parliament resign for half-term and will make their substitutes on the list space (rotation principle), Vogt retired from the Bundestag on 18 June 1985. Until 1990 he was a research associate of the Parliamentary Group of the Greens. Since 1996 he has served on the national board of directors of Alliance 90/The Greens in Brandenburg from 2000 to 2003 as the state chairman. After his retirement to Rhineland- Palatinate, he tried to obtain the nomination on the national list of the Greens for the federal election of 2005. In April 2008, Vogt initiated a state working group with the name " green 50 ", as their spokesman, he made ​​next to Ines Empire Hilweg Mainz was chosen.

Publications

  • Roland Vogt: vitalism as a first response to the urge to extinction ( ' exterminism '). Resistance strategies of the peace movement. http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/kuckuck/archiv/entruestet_euch/03/ # ent080
  • Roland Vogt: "Better than enemy of the good A critique of critique" civilian "peace services. ", W & F 1/1998, http://www.wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/seite.php?artikelID=1275
  • Roland Vogt:. " Be normal " means for us to reverse the Civil " speech for the Göttingen Peace Prize of the Foundation Dr. Roland Röhl on the citizens' initiative Free Heath on March 3, 2007 http://www.freieheide.de/friedenspreis2007- vogt.htm
  • Roland Vogt: " The Left, the Greens busy". Interview: Michael Schroeren (Hg): THE GREEN - 10 eventful years. Vienna: Carl Ueberreuter, 1990, pp. 171-179 (ISBN 3-8000-3352-6 )
  • Roland Vogt: A visit to the countryside 25 years after their entry into the Bundestag on 29 March 1983 with a subsequent discourse between Roland Vogt, Wolfgang Star Stone and Theodor Ebert. In: Nonviolent Action. Vierteljahreshefte for Peace and Justice, No. 153/154, 4th Quarter 2007 ( Vol 39 ) and Q1 2008 ( 40th born ), pp. 52-67. ISSN 0016-9390
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