Matthias Gastel

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Matthias Gastel
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Gastel in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1970-12-26) December 26, 1970 (age 50)
Stuttgart
NationalityGermany
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens – Greens

Matthias Gastel (born December 26, 1970, Stuttgart) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2013.

Early life and education[]

Gastel initially completed a commercial apprenticeship and did his civil service in a youth welfare facility with a special school. He completed a one-year vocational training in geriatric care. Finally, he studied social pedagogy in Reutlingen and later part-time business administration in the form of a correspondence course.

For ten years, Gastel worked in in-patient youth welfare (home education) until he initially became self-employed as a personnel service provider in 2006. After his business was continued by another company, he became self-employed again in the field of business mediation. He also works as a practical teacher in the training of educators.[1]

Political career[]

Gastel joined the Green Party (now Alliance 90/The Greens – Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) in 1989. From 1994 to 2014, he was a member of the Filderstadt municipal council and served as parliamentary group chairman of the Greens there. From 1999 to 2014, he was also a member of the district council in Esslingen. In the 2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, he ran as the second candidate of Winfried Kretschmann, who was elected Minister President.[2]

In the 2013 federal election, Gastel ran in the electoral district of Nürtingen and entered the German Bundestag via the state list,[3] as well as in the 2017 federal election.[4] At the 2017 party conference in Berlin, he got into a dispute with Kretschmann over the goal of allowing only zero-emission cars from 2030. A video of the dispute was circulated on the internet.[5]

In parliament, Gastel has been serving on the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, where he is his parliamentary group's spokesperson on railways. In addition, he is a substitute member of the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on Food and Agriculture.[6] Matthias Gastel is committed to the introduction of the Deutschlandtakt.

Stuttgart 21[]

As part of the protests against the Stuttgart 21 rail project, Gastel co-founded the "Ja zum Ausstieg aus Stuttgart 21" alliance in Filderstadt[7] and is considered one of the most prominent critics, especially of the reduction from 16 tracks of the terminus station to eight tracks in the new underground station.[8] Contrary to the railroads, Gastel advocates a longer preservation of the inner-city inclined section of the Gäubahn until its continuous connection to the airport station has been ensured.[9]

In addition to the expansion of the Gäubahn, Gastel also advocates the ring connection of the S-Bahn between Böblingen and Kirchheim unter Teck.

Other activities[]

  • Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council[10]
  • Greenpeace, Member

References[]

  1. ^ "Infos zur Person: Matthias Gastel: Grüne im Bundestag". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "Aus Erfahrung Grün | Winfried Kretschmann". gruene-bw.de (in German). Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  3. ^ "Schwerpunkt Verkehr – Datenschutz – Teckbote". www.teckbote.de (in German). Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  4. ^ "Vier Abgeordnete für den Wahlkreis Nürtingen – Kirchheim – Teckbote". www.teckbote.de (in German). Der Teckbote. September 25, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Grachtrup, Bettina (June 23, 2017). "Kretschmanns Wutrede über die Grünen". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine (in German). Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  6. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag – Matthias Gastel". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  7. ^ "Auf dem Weg nach oben: Matthias Gastel vor seiner Fotovoltaik-Anlage. Alle Kandidaten des Wahlkreises Nürtingen zeigen wir in der folgenden Fotostrecke im Überblick . – Stuttgarter Zeitung". stuttgarter-zeitung.de (in German). Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  8. ^ Schorradt, Thomas (July 3, 2019). "Grünen-Politiker Matthias Gastel über S 21: Eine Region im Verkehrsschatten". stuttgarter-nachrichten.de (in German). Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  9. ^ Grupp, Daniel (February 16, 2019). "Verkehr: Die Gäubahn wird abgehängt". swp.de (in German). Stuttgart. Südwest Presse. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  10. ^ Members of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA).

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