Stefan Wenzel

Peer Stefan Wenzel ( born May 5, 1962 in Nakskov, Denmark ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ) and a Member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony. His constituency is Göttingen- town in the district of Göttingen. After the parliamentary elections January 20, 2013, he was appointed as the new Lower Saxony Environment Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Weil Weil on 19 February 2013.

Career

Stefan Wenzel attended primary school in Resse in Hannover and completed his schooling at the Gymnasium Melle village; for two years he worked as a lumberman and in agriculture. Then he studied Agricultural Economics at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen; In his thesis he presented a comparison of the tenancy and land prices in the European Community. For a year he worked in South America, among others, in an SOS Children's Village and in a cooperative business start-up project. Wenzel was then Green Group Managing Director in the district of Göttingen and lived in at several years of subsistence farming. In addition, Wenzel was ten years involved until 1998 as a partner in a wholesale and retail outlet for organic wine.

Wenzel, 1986 Green Party member who was a member from 1993 to 1995 in the Lower Saxony state board. From 1995 to 1998 he was secretary for transport policy of the parliamentary group Alliance 90/The Greens in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Between 1986 and 2001 he was a member of the Göttingen district assembly, 2001-2006 Member of the Ortsrates or 2003-2006 Deputy Mayor of Great Lengden. Since the election of 1998 he has been Member of Parliament since 2004 as the successor to Rebecca Harms Group Chairman. Many years Wenceslas became involved in youth work and anti-nuclear initiatives. Since July 2005 he has been a deputy member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD ).

In January 2006, he was set up by the Alliance 90/The Greens candidate for the mayoral elections in Göttingen on 10 September 2006. He received the first ballot 19.9 per cent of the vote and missed the runoff.

For the state election in 2008 Wenzel was chosen along with Ursula Helmhold top candidate of the Green Party. He entered as a direct candidate in the constituency of 17 Göttingen City against the past and current incumbent of the direct mandate Gabriele Andretta (SPD ) and Fritz Güntzler (CDU ) and achieved 18.8 % of the primary vote. He took over the national list again in the Parliament. Since March 2008, he was there, Chairman of the Committee on Environment and climate protection. The Group of the Greens in the Lower Saxony state parliament nominated him in March 2009 as a member of the 13th federal assembly, which elected the President. On April 17, 2012 Stefan Wenzel was re-elected at the Green election meeting in the constituency Göttingen for the state election January 20, 2013 by a majority of 88 % as a direct candidate. In the state elections in 2013 Wenzel was again leading candidate, this time with Anja Piel. In his constituency Wenzel reached in this election 23.5 % of the primary vote, the direct mandate was again won by Gabriele Andretta (SPD ) with 37.7 %.

In the inaugural session of the 17th Lower Saxony state parliament Stefan Wenzel on February 19, 2013 was sworn in as Minister for Environment, energy and climate of Lower Saxony. He is also Deputy Prime Minister Stephan Weil ( SPD).

Family and Private

Wenzel lives in Great Lengden in the same community in the district of Göttingen, is married and has three daughters. The family lives in a housing project consisting of eight low-energy homes that are powered by a common cogeneration plant that excess electricity fed into the regional grid. In addition, the inhabitants are supplied by a common photovoltaic system. In addition, Wenzel held some shares in wind power Diemarden, which built in 1993 one of the first citizens wind turbines inland and today supplies about 2700 households with electricity. In addition, Wenzel gave a cooperative share of bioenergy village Jühnde.