1. Hans-Josef Fell was born on 7 January 1952 and is a German former politician who was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013.
15 Facts About Hans-Josef Fell
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Hans-Josef Fell was born on 7 January 1952 in Hammelburg, Germany.
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Hans-Josef Fell studied Physics and Sport Sciences at the University of Wurzburg.
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Hans-Josef Fell has won awards for his home, including the international "Solar-Oskar", the Energy Globe Award 2000.
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Hans-Josef Fell joined the Green Party in 1992 following years of interest in renewable energy and environmental protection.
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Hans-Josef Fell worked on the city council in his hometown of Hammelburg from 1990 until 1998 and from 1996 until 2003 he worked in the county council in the Bad Kissingen district.
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Hans-Josef Fell has been a member of the German Parliament since 1998.
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Hans-Josef Fell supported the shift in military training methods towards conflict deescalation, particularly at the Bundeswehr base in Hammelburg.
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Hans-Josef Fell has initiated many technical assessment reports, which in some cases still offer important foundations for legislative developments today, for example: nanotechnology, geothermal energy, transport systems of the future, various medical issues such as research into the brain, nuclear fusion, and genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine.
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Hans-Josef Fell wrote the draft of the Renewable Energy Sources Act, which was adopted in 2000 in the face of strong political opposition.
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Hans-Josef Fell was involved in drafting the law amending the EEG in 2004.
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Hans-Josef Fell initiated legislation exempting biofuels from tax, and was actively involved in establishing the legislative framework for renewables at the European level.
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Hans-Josef Fell is the founder of the Energy Watch Group, a network of parliamentarians and independent researchers who conduct research on global energy developments and publish open-access studies to secure our global energy supply in a sustainable way.
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In March 2014, Hans-Josef Fell became president of the Energy Watch Group.
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Hans-Josef Fell is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.