Hans-Heinrich Sander
Hans -Heinrich Sander ( born April 18, 1945 in Golmbach, county wood Minden ) is a German politician ( FDP). Since 2003 he is a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. From 2003 to 2008 he was Minister of the Environment of Lower Saxony, 2008-2012 Lower Saxony's Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
Private
Hans -Heinrich Sander was born the son of the farmer and politician Heinrich Sander. In his youth, the future politician student was at boarding school Pädagogium Bad Sachsa. He graduated as a land surveyor. After a work accident in which he lost his left forearm, he made up for the High School and studied at Göttingen University to become a teacher. During his studies he joined the student association Landsmannschaft Verdensia to the CC. After graduating, he became a teacher in 1973 and finally to February 2002 Principal of the primary and secondary school in Bevern.
Sander is married, has two children and runs a fruit operation in Golmbach as a sideline.
Party
Sander joined the FDP in 1968. He is deputy chairman of the FDP Lower Saxony as well as district chairman of the FDP wood Minden. He was mayor of the Samtgemeinde Bevern From December 2001 to 2003. Hans -Heinrich Sander was surprisingly elected with the support of the CDU faction, though he formed a coalition with the SPD in the district council. As deputy district administrator in the district council of Minden wood he sat down, inter alia, in 2000 for a planned gypsum mining area in Lüthorst by the company Knauf Gips plants and 2002 for a hunting tax cut in the county.
Member of Parliament
From 1973 to 2006 Sander was a member of the council of the district of Minden wood. Since 2003 he is a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.
Public offices
Of 4 March 2003 to 26 February 2008, he was the first cabinet of Prime Minister Christian Wulff, the Minister responsible for the Environment of Lower Saxony, since 26 February 2008, he was Minister for the Environment and Climate Change (Cabinet Wulff II, from 1 July 2010 in the Cabinet McAllister ). Sander was in October of 2011, on January 17, 2012 to resign as minister. On January 18, 2012, his former secretary of state, the FDP chairman Stefan Birkner, sworn in before parliament as his successor.
Positions
Sander describes himself as a practitioner who wants to enable citizens as much freedom. The opposition and environmental groups accuse him of lack of interest in environmental and climate protection.
Sander is a member of several associations and institutions, including the Society for Nature Conservation Germany ( NABU) and the Lower Saxony country people of the German Farmers' Association, and a board member of the German Federal Environmental Foundation ( DBU). However, his offer of patronage in NABU was withdrawn due to its supposedly " natural enemy " policy - Sander was declared opponent of environmental organizations, " Environment Minister Hans -Heinrich Sander had said at an event in Mulmshorn ( Rotenburg ) that he 's criticism by environmental groups no serious suppose. Consultant for him as Environment Minister rather be the economy, agriculture and industry. "
Nuclear energy
2003 Sander visited the Konrad mine. In this case, an employee handed him a T-shirt with the inscription " Bonny " that kept Sander in the cameras. This was felt by the anti -nuclear movement as an exceptional provocation.
In December 2009, Sander called " reasons of climate protection ," the global expansion of nuclear energy. Also during the debate to a maturity extension of German nuclear power plants in the fall of 2010, he reiterated this view.
On 20 October 2011, Sander said, for an aptitude test of a nuclear power plant Philipsburg than nuclear interim storage. Greenpeace and the Parliamentary Group of the Greens want also one for an interim storage facility in Phillipsburg, instead of further deliveries of the French reprocessing plant at La Hague to Gorleben.
Violation of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat Directive of the EU
In November 2006, Sander sawed by hand trees in the core zone of the biosphere reserve "Low Elbtalaue " from which obstruct his view, the infiltration of water that could interfere with flood control. Following a complaint by the German Environmental Aid, the European Commission called for a detailed information about the deforestation in the local area. One of the EU then aspired infringement proceedings ( violation of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat Directive ) ended with a settlement. Because the Abholzaktionen to be continued in the coming months, DUH informed with their complaint, the EU Commission, to prevent further irreversible intervention. DUH also intervened at Sanders employer, the Lower Saxony Minister President Christian Wulff at the time, but this remained without response. The then Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel ( SPD) Sanders approach then seen as hasty " action" and stresses that a compatibility test takes precedence.
Environmental zone Hannover
In January 2010, Sander tried to force the city of Hanover by a decree to suspend the implementation of the third stage of the environmental zone in Hanover, since the beginning of 2010 only allowed to drive cars with a green environmental badge in the center of Hanover. However, the Administrative Court of Hanover forbade the state capital, comply with this instruction, as in the determination of the court Sander the third stage entry into force trying to prevent in an unlawful manner.
Hunting in the Harz National Park
On leaving his post as Minister of the Environment Sander wanted to organize a farewell hunting for himself and companions. On 7 November 2011, the community hunting should have taken place in the Harz National Park. The farewell action was massively criticized by environmental groups and the opposition and eventually canceled. A spokesman for the National Park at that time informed the NDR that security concerns existed. Before hunting sticker had been with the photo of the Environment Minister found. It bore the inscription: "Well, then have fun in the hunt, Mr. Sander! "
The Saxony-Anhalt part of the Harz National Park rejected the hunt plans also decreases. This led to tensions between the National Park partners Saxony -Anhalt and Lower Saxony. The Magdeburg Environment Minister Hermann onco Aeikens had instructed its employees by decree, not to participate in the hunt and their preparations.
Others
In spring 2007, Sander put the fertilizer producer K S AG for a reduction in salt discharges into the Werra. K S plans to build a saltwater pipeline transporting saline water dump 63 km from Neuhof to Hattorf and wants to start there in the Werra.
In December 2009, the Lower Saxony SPD Sanders demanded resignation. They accused him of intentional acts manipulation.