Lissy Gröner
Lissy Gröner MEP | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
In office 1989–2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Langenfeld, West Germany | 31 May 1954
Died | 9 September 2019 | (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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- The Workers' Welfare Association (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[edit]
- Spokeswoman for SPD Members of the European Parliament on youth policy
Rapporteur for[edit]
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tod von Lissy Gröner löst in Neustadt Trauer aus" (in German). 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ "German MEP marries lesbian partner in Brussels". euronews.com. 10 September 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Personal profile of Lissy Gröner in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in German)
- Gerhard Botz
- Dietrich Elchlepp (from 6 February 1996)
- Evelyne Gebhardt
- Norbert Glante
- Willi Görlach
- Lissy Gröner
- Klaus Hänsch
- Jutta Haug
- Magdalene Hoff
- Karin Jöns
- Karin Junker
- Heinz Kindermann
- Constanze Krehl
- Wilfried Kuckelkorn
- Annemarie Kuhn
- Helmut Kuhne
- Bernd Lange
- Rolf Linkohr
- Günter Lüttge
- Erika Mann
- Helwin Peter
- Willi Piecyk
- Christa Randzio-Plath
- Bernhard Rapkay
- Klaus Rehder
- Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
- Mechtild Rothe
- Willi Rothley
- Jannis Sakellariou
- Heinke Salisch (until 1 February 1996)
- Detlev Samland
- Axel Schäfer
- Gerhard Schmid
- Barbara Schmidbauer
- Martin Schulz
- Ulrich Stockmann
- Christof Tannert
- Ralf Walter
- Barbara Weiler
- Rosemarie Wemheuer
- Wilmya Zimmermann
- Siegbert Alber (until October 6 1997)
- Otto Bardong
- Rolf Berend
- Reimer Böge
- Elmar Brok
- Karl-Heinz Florenz
- Honor Funk
- Michael Gahler (from 23 April 1999)
- Anne-Karin Glase
- Lutz Goepel
- Alfred Gomolka
- Renate Heinisch
- Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt
- Georg Jarzembowski
- Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert
- Peter Kittelmann
- Christa Klaß
- Dieter-Lebrecht Koch
- Christoph Werner Konrad
- Werner Langen
- Brigitte Langenhagen
- Klaus-Heiner Lehne
- Marlene Lenz
- Peter Liese
- Kurt Malangré
- Thomas Mann
- Winfried Menrad
- Peter Mombaur
- Marlies Mosiek-Urbahn (until 22 April 1999)
- Hartmut Nassauer
- Doris Pack
- Hans-Gert Pöttering
- Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
- Günter Rinsche
- Horst Schnellhardt
- Jürgen Schröder
- Konrad Schwaiger
- Diemut Theato
- Stanislaw Tillich
- Rainer Wieland (from 10 October 1997)
- Karl von Wogau
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf
- Undine von Blottnitz
- Hiltrud Breyer
- Ozan Ceyhun (from 23 November 1998)
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler
- Edith Müller
- Claudia Roth (until 18 November 1998)
- Elisabeth Schroedter
- Irene Soltwedel-Schäfer
- Wilfried Telkämper
- Wolfgang Ullmann
- Frieder Otto Wolf