Jerzy Montag

Jerzy Montag [ jεʒɨ ] ( born February 13, 1947 in Katowice, Poland ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ).

Life and career

Jerzy Montag is the son of Polish Jews who immigrated in the 1950s in the Federal Republic of Germany, and a Catholic mother. In an interview he described himself " as a man who is committed to the values ​​of the Enlightenment and humanism " and continued: ". I'm not religiously bound and belong to no denomination "

After graduation in 1966 at the Moll Gymnasium in Mannheim graduated from Monday to study sociology, political science and law at the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim and Munich, which he finished in 1973 with the first legal state exam. After completing the clerkship, he was in 1975 and the second state examination. Monday has since worked as a lawyer. He is a specialist in criminal law.

The focus of its activities is in the range of legal policy, the European justice and home affairs and the promotion of German -Israeli relations and the fight against right-wing extremism. Monday is a member of the German Bar Association, the initiative Bavarian defense lawyers and defense lawyers, prosecutors and the Republican Lawyers' Association and the Federation conservation.

Jerzy Montag is married and has two children.

Party

Monday is since 1986 a member of the Green Party and was from 1998 to 2002 state chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens Bavaria.

Member of Parliament

From 2002 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag and spokesman for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group for legal policy. Monday was the 15th electoral term chairman of the Greens in the visa inquiry committee and since 2005 Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee and legal policy spokesman of the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The Greens. He was chairman of the German -Israeli parliamentarian group.

Monday was always drawn over the national list Bavaria in the Bundestag. His constituency was Munich -South, where he scored in 2009 13.3 per cent of the primary vote in the general election.

In the 18th German Bundestag ( from 22 October 2013) is Monday no longer a deputy, as he ran at number 16 on the state list of Bavaria Alliance 90/The Greens and only the first nine Bavarian candidates moved into the Bundestag on the country list.