Lissy Gröner
Lissy Gröner MEP | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
In office 1989–2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1954-05-31)31 May 1954 Langenfeld, West Germany |
Died | 9 September 2019(2019-09-09) (aged 65) |
Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Spouse | Sabine Gillessen (2005–2019) |
Liselotte Carola Gröner (31 May 1954 – 9 September 2019[1]) was a German politician and, from 1989 to 2009, was a Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group. She sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She was a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Activities
- Vice-President of SIW (Socialist International Women)
- PSE coordinator on the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal opportunities
- Vice-Chair of the Children's Alliance
- Member of the board of the Association of Social-Democratic Women
Member of
- The Workers' Welfare Association [de] (AWO)
- Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND, Association for Nature and Environmental Protection)
- Europa-Union Deutschland
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom IFFF
Main areas of work
- Spokeswoman for SPD Members of the European Parliament on youth policy
Rapporteur for
- The 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing and Beijing +5
- Problems of children in the European Community
- Poverty among women in Europe
- Equal opportunities programme (interim report)
- 2000-2006: The Youth Action Programme
- White Paper on youth
Personal life
Gröner was a lesbian and was married to Sabine Gillessen. The couple married in Belgium in September 2005, with Gröner announcing, "There is no discrimination of same-sex couples in Belgium by law. And this is the signal we want to give to the people in Europe, to send the message out: it's possible to honor the love of same-sex people by law".[2]
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Personal profile of Lissy Gröner in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in German)
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- Willi Görlach
- Lissy Gröner
- Klaus Hänsch
- Magdalene Hoff
- Karin Junker
- Heinz Fritz Köhler
- Annemarie Kuhn (from 22 December 1990)
- Rolf Linkohr
- Günter Lüttge
- Gepa Maibaum
- Karl-Heinrich Mihr
- Leyla Onur
- Helwin Peter
- Johannes Wilhelm Peters
- Willi Piecyk (from 11 May 1992)
- Christa Randzio-Plath
- Dieter Rogalla
- Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
- Mechtild Rothe
- Willi Rothley
- Jannis Sakellariou
- Heinke Salisch
- Detlev Samland
- Dieter Schinzel
- Gerhard Schmid
- Barbara Schmidbauer
- Barbara Simons
- Günter Topmann
- Kurt Vittinghoff
- Thomas von der Vring
- Gerd Walter (until 7 May 1992)
- Beate Weber-Schuerholz (until 14 December 1990)
- Klaus Wettig
- Siegbert Alber
- Reimer Böge
- Ursula Braun-Moser (from 15 January 1990)
- Elmar Brok
- Karl-Heinz Florenz
- Honor Funk
- Helga Haller von Hallerstein (from 27 December 1993)
- Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt
- Georg Jarzembowski (from 5 September 1991)
- Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert
- Egon Klepsch
- Brigitte Langenhagen (from November 25 1990)
- Horst Langes
- Gerd Ludwig Lemmer
- Marlene Lenz
- Rudolf Luster
- Kurt Malangré
- Winfried Menrad
- Friedrich Merz
- Werner Münch (until November 19 1990)
- Doris Pack
- Hartmut Perschau (until 10 July 1991)
- Hans-Gert Pöttering
- Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
- Günter Rinsche
- Bernhard Sälzer (until 18 December 1993)
- Diemut Theato
- Karl von Wogau
- Axel Zarges (until December 29 1989)
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf
- Hiltrud Breyer
- Birgit Cramon Daiber
- Karl Partsch
- Dorothee Piermont
- Eva-Maria Quistorp
- Claudia Roth
- Wilfried Telkämper
- Reinhold Bocklet (until 24 June 1993)
- Jürgen Brand (from 16 November 1993)
- Ingo Friedrich
- Maren Günther (from 31 August 1993)
- Otto von Habsburg
- Günther Müller (from 4 December 1992 to 6 November 1993)
- Gerd Müller
- Fritz Pirkl (until 19 August 1993)
- Edgar Schiedermeier (from 5 July 1993)
- Ursula Schleicher
- Franz Ludwig Schenk von Stauffenberg (until 30 November 1992)
- Johanna Grund
- Klaus-Peter Köhler
- Harald Neubauer
- Emil Schlee
- Hans-Günter Schodruch
- Franz Schönhuber
- Mechthild von Alemann
- Martin Holzfuss
- Manfred Vohrer
- Rüdiger von Wechmar