1. Monika Griefahn was born on 3 October 1954 and is a German politician and one of the co-founders of Greenpeace.
17 Facts About Monika Griefahn
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Monika Griefahn is a member of the Social Democratic Party.
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Monika Griefahn left university in 1979 with a diploma in sociology.
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Monika Griefahn was responsible for developing programs and skill training for the people working for Greenpeace all over the world until 1990.
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In 1992, Monika Griefahn joined the Social Democratic Party Germany.
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Monika Griefahn was in his first and in his second cabinet.
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Parallel to her commitment against nuclear power Monika Griefahn hurried along the extension of renewable energy in Lower Saxony with measures like an eco-fund and an atlas for wind energy.
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Monika Griefahn's commitment contributed to the fact that the plans to phase out nuclear power became a reality between 1998 and 2005, when a coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Greens led the Federal Government.
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From 1998 to 2009 Monika Griefahn was a Member of the Bundestag.
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Responsible for cultural policy, Monika Griefahn initiated the founding of the German Games Award.
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Monika Griefahn was committed to the support of German films, strong copyright laws, and a decentralized structure of the book trade market by initiating a fixed bookprice law, cultural diversity and the expansion of Goethe-Institutes and German Schools abroad.
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In 2005 Monika Griefahn was elected chair of the bilateral committee on cultural diversity, which was appointed by the Bundestag and the French Assemblee Nationale.
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Monika Griefahn was active in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the OECD for these issues.
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From 2015 until 2016, Monika Griefahn served on a government-appointed commission tasked with recommending how to safeguard the funding of fulfilling Germany's exit from nuclear energy, under the leadership of co-chairs Ole von Beust, Matthias Platzeck and Jurgen Trittin.
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In 2020, Monika Griefahn became the SPD candidate for lord mayor of Mulheim an der Ruhr; she eventually lost against the Christian Democrat's candidate Marc Buchholz.
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Since 1986 Monika Griefahn has been volunteering for the Right Livelihood Award Foundation.
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Monika Griefahn has been a member of both the jury and the board.