Winfried Nachtwei

Winfried Nachtwei Maria ( born April 15, 1946 in Wulfen ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ) and an expert on peace and security policy.

Life and career

After graduating from the Max - Planck -Gymnasium in Dusseldorf Nachtwei made ​​from 1965 to 1967 his military service and then completed a teaching degree in history and social sciences in Munich and Münster, which he finished with the state examination for the higher teaching. He then worked from 1977 to 1994 as a teacher at the Clemens -Brentano -Gymnasium in Dülmen.

Winfried Nachtwei is married.

Party

Nachtwei was in the 1970s a member of the Maoist Communist League West Germany, after which he was active in the peace movement since 1980 and was among the founding members of the Green Party in Münster, where he was several times a member of the District Board.

Member of Parliament

Nachtwei from 1994 to 2009 Member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from October 2002 to October 2005 Vice Chairman of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group, while the coordinator of the group working group International Politics and Human Rights. He was deputy coordinator of this working group and also spokesperson on security and disarmament policy from October 2005 until his resignation from the Bundestag.

Winfried Nachtwei moved always on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia to the German Bundestag. In 2009, he did not run again for the Bundestag.

Expert on peace and security policy

Since his resignation from the parliamentary career Nachtwei is active as an independent expert for peace and security policy. Especially because of his expertise, he is a sought - Afghanistan contact person of politics and media. Since March 2010 he is also a member of the Advisory Board on questions of leadership development.

Volunteering

• Winfried Nachtwei is a member of the Board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy.

Honors

• 2010: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany