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Jakob Blasel
Jakob Blasel, in 2019
Born (2000-10-16) 16 October 2000 (age 24)[1]
Kiel, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forSchool strike for climate
Political partyGerman:
Alliance 90/The Greens
EU:
European Green Party
Jakob Blasel at the Re publica 2019

Jakob Blasel (born 2000) is a German climate activist[2] and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens.

Life

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Jakob Blasel grew up in Kronshagen near Kiel. He has two younger brothers and was raised Catholic.[3] He attended high school in Kronshagen, where he was deputy student representative in the 2017/18 school year,[4] and graduated from high school there in 2019. He has been studying law since the 2020/21 winter semester.[5][6]

Fridays for Future

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Jakob Blasel was part of the organizing team of the German section of Fridays For Future (FFF) from 10 December 2018.[7] According to Greenpeace, on the first nationwide FFF climate strike on 14 December 2018, Blasel and his comrades-in-arms managed to mobilize 500 participants in Kiel – 200 more than in Berlin.[8] Blasel was elected as a delegate of the local group in Kiel and represents their positions in the nationwide and international exchange of the movement. In 2019 Jakob Blasel took part in the summer congress of FFF in Dortmund.[9]

Blasel has appeared on talk shows such as the NDR Talk Show (2019)[10] and Maischberger. die woche (2020)[11] and gave media interviews, e.g. B. with Bento (2019),[12] Deutschlandfunk Kultur (2019)[9] and Süddeutsche Zeitung (2019).[13] He also appeared in two reports on the German funk program Y-Kollektiv in 2019 and 2021.[14][15] At the state party conference of the Green Party in Schleswig-Holstein, which took place on 23 and 24 March 2019, he gave a speech as a representative of Fridays for Future.[16] At the Golden Camera ceremony on 30 March 2019 in Berlin, he accompanied Greta Thunberg when she received the special prize for climate protection. After graduating from high school in 2019, Blasel worked full-time for Fridays for Future for a year[6] and acted as speaker until July 2020.[17]

Commitment besides FFF

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In 2017, Blasel joined the Greenpeace youth. Blasel was one of the initiators of the 19th annual conference of the Council for Sustainable Development, which took place on 4 June 2019 in the Berlin Congress Center.[18] From 2019 onwards Jakob Blasel, Pia Kraftfutter and Fabian Grischkat moderated the Instagram format "OZON" produced by Divimove, which deals with sustainability and environmental protection and is part of the online media offer funk of ARD and ZDF,[19][20] however, was later replaced by YouTuber Violetta Verissimo.[21][22]

In 2019, Blasel demanded in an broadcast of OZON, which he moderated at the time,[23] that it should be "forbidden to breed animals unnecessarily". He claimed pets were "quite a luxury with regard to the environmental and CO2 impact". There was no indication in the program that he was an FFF activist. After he was elected federal spokesperson for the Greens in 2024, his call for a ban was widely criticized. The hosting public broadcasting agency and the Greens then denied that Blasel ever demanded that breeding of pets be forbidden, and the OZON episode disappeared from the ZDF's online catalog without notice.[24]

In mid-June 2022, Blasel was active as a FahrRad! ambassador for the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) at a comprehensive school in Berlin.[25]

Political career

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Blasel grew up in Kronshagen and joined the Green Party in 2017.[26]

Blasel organized the first demonstration in Kiel in the fall of 2018; it was about preserving the Hambach Forest in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was to be cleared for lignite mining.[26] Shortly after, he became the initiator of the first school strike for climate in Northern Germany.[27] In May 2019, he addressed the ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Milan.[28]

In 2020, Blasel completed an internship at the parliamentary office of Lisa Badum. Ahead of the 2021 national elections, he was nominated by the Green Party as a candidate for the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein.[26] He won 14.8% of first preference votes, coming third behind Sönke Rix, the SPD candidate, and Johann Wadephul, the CDU candidate.[29]

References

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  1. ^ Baethge, Henning; Höfer, Jula (2020-11-22). "19-Jähriger aus Kiel: Fridays for Future Aktivist Jakob Blasel plant Bundestagskandidatur für die Grünen". shz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. ^ Watts, Jonathan (2019-02-15). "'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. ^ Klesse, Anne (2020-09-15). "Ein Klimaaktivist auf dem Marsch in die Institutionen". Welt am Sonntag, Regional, Hamburg, September 13, 2020 (in German). Aufgewachsen ist er als ältester von drei Brüdern in Kronshagen bei Kiel. Seine Eltern erzogen ihre Söhne katholisch.
  4. ^ "Unsere SV im Schuljahr 2017/2018: Startseite". gymnasium-kronshagen.de (in German). September 2017. Archived from the original on 2023-03-25. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  5. ^ "Erste Fridays wollen in den Bundestag: Vom Marsch auf der Straße zum Marsch durch die Institutionen". Tagesspiegel.de (in German). 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  6. ^ a b "Jakob Blasel: "Hass und Hetze bedrohen unsere Demokratie"". abi.de (in German). 2020-04-03. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2023-03-25., updated on 1 September 2021
  7. ^ Leonie Sontheimer: Die Strategin In: zeit.de/campus, 1. März 2019
  8. ^ Ortrun Sadik: Schülerstreik für das Klima: Interview mit dem 18-jährigen Jakob Blasel. In: greenpeace.de. 15. Januar 2019
  9. ^ a b Küpper, Moritz (2019-07-31). ""Fridays for Future": Auch in den Sommerferien engagiert". Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  10. ^ 18-Jähriger an Angela Merkel: Sie hat noch nicht verstanden, dass wir sie kritisieren, NDR Talk Show on Facebook, March 2019
  11. ^ Klimaaktivist Jakob Blasel und Unternehmerin Sarna Röser bei maischberger. die woche 16.09.2020 on YouTube, tagesschau, 17 September 2020
  12. ^ Petter, Jan (2019-03-15). "Wie "Fridays for Future" jetzt die Unis erobern wollen – und dann Europa". bento.de. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  13. ^ Demonstrationen für Klimaschutz – Die Eltern würden sich mehr Konzentration aufs Abitur wünschen. In: sueddeutsche.de. 25. Januar 2019
  14. ^ Fridays For Future – Schülerinnen streiken, um die Welt zu retten on YouTube, Y-Kollektiv, 31 January 2019 (about Jakob Blasel in Kiel and Ragna Diederichs in Göttingen)
  15. ^ "Vom Klimaaktivisten zum Politiker? Jakob Blasel will mitregieren". Y-Kollektiv. ARD Mediathek. 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2023-03-25., Video on YouTube, 4 November 2021
  16. ^ Landesparteitag. In: sh-gruene.de, March 2019
  17. ^ Hemicker, Lorenz (2020-08-24). "Gründungsmitglied Jakob Blasel: Fridays for Future verliert Aktivisten an die Politik". faz.net (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-25. Blasel stellte vor kurzem sein Engagement bei FFF ein.
  18. ^ 19. Jahreskonferenz des Rates für Nachhaltige Entwicklung., in: nachhaltigkeitsrat.de, 2019
  19. ^ "OZON – funk". 2019-04-08. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08. Mit der Bloggerin Pia Kraftfutter, YouTuber Fabian Grischkat und Umweltschützer Jakob Blasel wird „OZON" von drei Hosts präsentiert, die sich auch privat durch ihr Engagement auszeichnen.
  20. ^ Niemeier, Timo (2019-04-08). "Auf Instagram: "Ozon": Funk-Format gibt Tipps für den Umweltschutz". DWDL.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-25. Mit der Bloggerin Pia Kraftfutter, Youtuber Fabian Grischkat und Umweltschützer Jakob Blasel hat das Format drei Hosts, die sich auch privat für die Umwelt einsetzen.
  21. ^ "OZON – funk" (in German). 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-03-25. Mit der Bloggerin Pia Kraftfutter, YouTuber Fabian Grischkat und YouTuberin Violetta Verissimo wird OZON von drei Hosts präsentiert, die sich auch privat durch ihr Engagement auszeichnen.
  22. ^ "VIOLETTA VON "I AM SO VIO!" ALS HOST BEIM FUNK-FORMAT OZON". presse.funk.net (in German). 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  23. ^ Hackenbruch, Felix (2024-10-22). "Angebliches Haustierverbot der Grünen: Die CSU lügt!". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  24. ^ "Erst als RTL.de nachfragt, machen ARD und ZDF bei umstrittener Haustier-Sendung einen radikalen Schnitt". rtl.de (in German). 2024-10-23. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  25. ^ "VCD Jugendkampagne "FahrRad! Fürs Klima auf Rad": FahrRad!-Botschafter Jakob Blasel im Interview mit Berliner Schülerinnen". vcd.org. 2022-06-17. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  26. ^ a b c Voss, Pauline (2021-05-21). "Wieso Klimaaktivist Jakob Blasel weg von der Strasse und in den Bundestag will". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  27. ^ "Living Planet: Interview with Jakob Blasel, Fridays for Future", dw.com, Deutsche Welle, 2019-03-14, retrieved 2019-09-24
  28. ^ "Climate activist Jakob Blasel". European Space Agency. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  29. ^ "Bundestagswahl 2021 in Schleswig-Holstein: 4 - Rendsburg-Eckernförde". Statistisches Amt Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-10-09. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
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