Frank Schwalba-Hoth

Frank Schwalba- Hoth ( born December 12, 1952 in Hamburg ) is a former Hessian politician (Greens ) and member of the Hessian Parliament and the European Parliament.

Education and work

Frank Schwalba -Hoth studied after graduating from the Otto -Hahn -Gymnasium in Geesthacht and abgeleistetem military service in 1974 at the University of Marburg and placed after the first state examination for teacher 1981 legal training.

Schwalba -Hoth has a daughter.

Policy

Extra-parliamentary political work

Schwalba -Hoth was already during his studies politically active, founded in 1980, the green - stained - Alternative List ( GBAL ), and was also a member of the student union of the University of Marburg and in the years 1979/80 President of the Student Parliament. He has worked, among other initiatives such as the " third International Russell Tribunal: On the situation of human rights in the Federal Republic of Germany "or the " information service for the dissemination of omitted News ".

Party

Schwalba -Hoth in 1978 was a co-founder of the Marburg Green List ( GLW ) and later the green list Hesse ( GLH). In 1980 he was one of the founding members of the Green Party and was the 1981/82 one of the two co- state chairman and spokesman of the Hessian Board. He was regarded as representative of the " fundamentalist " wing of the Greens, the so-called fundamentalists.

Diet

From 1 December 1982 to August 4, 1983, he was a member of the state parliament. He brought a bill on teacher training, making it the first initiated by the Greens law in a German parliament was in its adoption in August 1983.

Special attention was 1983, the blood spraying action of Schwalba -Hoth. On August 3, 1983, he splashed during a reception in the Hessian Parliament for the commanders stationed in Hessen U.S. forces stationed in Frankfurt U.S. General Paul S. Williams with blood. This action caused a considerable public impact. While the press criticized the action mainly as unworthy, received Schwalba -Hoth by large sections of his party as well as representatives of the peace movement praise.

European Parliament

From 1984 to 1987, Schwalba -Hoth Member of the European Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Petitions and 1986/87 one of the two Co- Presidents, before resigning because of the rotation principle.

Consulting and Lobbyismustätigkeit in Brussels

Since his resignation from the European Parliament Schwalba -Hoth works as a consultant and lobbyist in Brussels. He was for many years head of the local EU office of Greenpeace. In 1998 he founded together with Silvana Koch -Mehrin (FDP), the consulting firm conseille Partners and worked until 2002 for this company. For several years he also worked for the TACIS program of the European Commission in the states of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, on the TACIS Environmental Awareness Raising Program ( TEAP ), involved in the ratification of the Aarhus Convention in Moldova and Ukraine. Since 2002 he has been a self-employed Political Strategist with a focus on civil society, sustainable development, energy policy, development of the EU and institutional issues worked. Since 1989 he organizes monthly networking dinners ( "Soirée International " ), each with 60 to 80 participants from different professional, cultural, national and social backgrounds. Since 2006 he is board member, founded by Jakob von Uexküll " Right Livelihood Foundation", which in Stockholm in early December the Right Livelihood Award gives every year.

Since 2011 he is in Lexxion out the "Stakeholder Directory", an annual list of the key people in the European Union in Brussels.