Rüdiger Sagel

Rüdiger Sagel ( born August 9, 1955 in Lünen ) is a German politician (The Left, before the Alliance 90/The Greens ). From 1998 to 2012, he was a deputy in the parliament of NRW. On June 30, 2012, he was elected to the Country Representative of the "left " in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Life

After leaving school, he spent in the years 1968 to 1970 in the German school in India Rourkela ( Orissa ), Sagel made ​​in 1975 in Lünen graduated from high school and studied after one year of internship Mining at Clausthal University and RWTH Aachen. In 1983 he completed his studies as a graduate engineer.

In the following two years he was CEO of Hambach Group in Aachen, a citizens' initiative against brown coal mining. By 1987, Sagel worked for the German Union project in Essen. 1988 Sagel spent in Nicaragua, where he served in Granada project work within the framework of the literacy campaign in Rama and in the restoration of the cultural project Casa de los tres mundos. He then traveled to several Central and South American countries, especially the Amazon region in Brazil.

After his return to Germany was Sagel project of the Working Group operating social work and from 1995 to 1998 Employees in the constituency office of the Green Party MPs Winfried Nachtwei.

Policy

Rüdiger Sagel was politically active already in the seventies. Since 1976 and the calcar demonstration against the fast breeder nuclear reactor, he became involved in the anti-nuclear movement. So he was all the time in the summer of 1980 in the Free Republic of Wendland ( Gorleben ) to the evacuation of the camps active resistance. In addition, with friends, colleagues, he founded the Hambach Grupe, an initiative against the social and environmental impacts of lignite mining. He was also active in the squatter scene in Aachen, including Templergraben and John Höver house. In 1982 he was one of the founding members of the Ecology Center Aachen eV Since the founding of the Green Party in 1980, he supported the political work of the party. In 1980 he was involved in the election campaign for the then North Rhine-Westphalia top candidate Joseph Beuys. After the entry of the Greens into the Bundestag in 1983, he worked on behalf of the Group of a study against lignite mining and for an energy turnaround in Germany. After his return from Central and South America (1987-1989), he joined in 1989 at the Greens. In the following two years he was a board member of GAL / GREEN in Stadtverband Münster, Münster until 1994 in the district association. From 1993, Sagel was also a member of the state party council of Alliance 90/The Greens. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a member of the city of Munster Council. Since 2003 he was also a member of the Green Länderrat, but failed in 2006 with his candidacy for the party council. From 1998, Sagel sat in parliament of North Rhine- Westphalia, where budgetary and financial policy spokesman of the Green parliamentary group was.

On 15 June 2007 Sagel resigned from the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The Greens, but belonged to the parliament continue as a non-attached Member. At the same time he declared resignation from the party Alliance 90/The Greens. On 16 June 2007 he was a guest of the founding congress of the Left Party in Berlin. On 23 October 2007, he announced that he would be joined the party Die Linke. In the federal elections in 2009 Sagel candidate in the Bundestag constituency Hochsauerlandkreis and reached there for The Left 6.2%. In the state elections in North Rhine -Westphalia in 2010, he ran for the direct mandate in the constituency of Munster I. About the state list of the party he pulled the Left in the state legislature. At the inaugural meeting of its parliamentary group on 11 May 2010 Sagel and Carolin Butterwegge were elected as Vice-Chairman. In the state elections in North Rhine -Westphalia in 2012, he ran for the direct mandate in the constituency of Munster II, but not on the national list. The Left Party failed in choosing the re-entry into the state parliament. Sagel even scored in the constituency of 2.3 percent of the vote and thus retired in May 2012 from the parliament from.

, 2009, Sagel a historiographical study commissioned in the repressed Nazi past of the CDU and FDP MPs was investigated in North Rhine -Westphalia after 1945. Sagel is a member of Verdi and the GGUA ( Non-profit organization to support asylum seeker eV).

In November 2013 Sagel joined with the call to the public, " Sun Moon and Stars Festival" rename the Martin's and the history of St.. Will no longer be asked Martin at the center, since the celebration of St. Martin's Festival could be felt in schools and kindergartens by members of the Muslim cultural sphere as "discriminatory". The proposal met with widespread opposition, including on the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. The Left in North Rhine -Westphalia distanced itself from the demand now its chairman.

Publications

• Outline of the problem lignite, hrsg.v. of the Parliamentary Group of the Greens, Bonn 1983/84.
• Dissipated home ( Alano -Verlag) Aachen 1985.
• Alternative waste management plan for the district of Unna, ed. v. The Greens, Unna 1984.
• Outline of the problem of coal, The Greens NRW, Dusseldorf 1984.
• Social impact of resettlement in the Rhenish lignite mining area, ed. v. NRW Environment Ministry, Dusseldorf 1987.
• 60 years Diet, The Forgotten brown heritage, ed. by Rüdiger Sagel, Münster, 2009.