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Thomas Wüppesahl (born 9 July 1955) is a German
politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...
. He is a former member of the
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. He was a member of Alliance '90/The Greens until 1987. His political skills are
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,
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and the
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.


Political career

Wüppesahl was a founder of a pressure group against Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant in
Geesthacht Geesthacht () is the largest city in the Lauenburg (district), District of the Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, south-east of Hamburg on the right bank of the Elbe, River Elbe. History A church ...
1975. In 1987 he became a member of the Bundestag in the Green Party faction. After leaving the party, he continued his mandate as an independent member of the parliament. To establish his rights for working as a factionless member Wüppesahl launched and won a
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basing on German constitution on the
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. Wüppesahl was member of the Bundestag until the end of the 11th period in 1990. In 1990 he criticized the procedure of the
German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...
gave no participation in the process to the population in Eastern Germany. Recordings and printed material show his presence and competence. Titanic Magazine dignified Wüppesahl 1991 as "the last parliamentarian". Having given 113 speeches Wüppesahl became the most active member of this period and one of the most active members ever. On the ceremonial act to the 60th anniversary of the Bundestag in 2009 Wüppesahl was introduced as the member of parliament who made copious use of the right of an independent parliamentarian to speak onto every agenda item of a sitting of the Bundestag.


Life and profession

At age 16, in 1971 Wüppesahl joined the Hamburg Police. He studied at the ''Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung'' in Hamburg. His education was centered into
white-collar crime The term "white-collar crime" refers to financially motivated, nonviolent or non-directly violent crime committed by individuals, businesses and government professionals. The crimes are believed to be committed by middle- or upper-class indivi ...
. As a consequence of the mistreatment of demonstrators at the ''Hamburger Kessel'' in 1987 Wüppesahl and other police officers founded ''Hamburger Signal – Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft kritischer Polizistinnen und Polizisten'' in Hamburg to support civil rights in police work. In October 2004, Wüppesahl was arrested on information by a friend and accused of planning a bank robbery and murder. Wüppesahl argued his intention had been to uncover the former policeman observing him as an unofficial police spy what he was obviously. The courts found Wüppesahl guilty and sentenced him to 4 years and 6 months of prison. After being beaten into unconsciousness by unidentified perpetrators in November 2006 he was transferred from ''Justizvollzugsanstalt Billwerder'' in Hamburg to ''Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel'' in
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. He was released in October 2007. Wüppesahl's complaint for rehabilitation on the
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has not been decided yet. Wüppesahl is now working as a qualified mediator and coach with a core on economical and political issues.


Imtech

On 27 July 2013 Imtech announced that a criminalist officially named as "Mr. Y" had been consulted in 2011 to investigate the corruption in the reconstruction of the twin towers in Frankfurt. He identified more than he should; he warned the company in his final report in May 2011 about
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structures and he charged the manager of the German subsidiary, Klaus Betz. Betz was covered by the company for two years. The investigator, identified by the Telegraaf as Thomas Wüppesahl, received a ban from Imtech 2011. When the corruption became known in spring 2013 the company lost a value of 1 billion Euros on the stock market.''Detective tipte fraude Imtech al in mei 2011.'' In: Telegraaf, 27. Juni 2013
online


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Website of Thomas Wüppesahl

Short Portrait of Thomas Wüppesahl
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wuppesahl, Thomas 1955 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for Schleswig-Holstein Independent politicians in Germany Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens