PhD in physics
President of the Association for the Promotion of Renewable Energies in Saxony (VEE)
Member of the Energy Advisory Board of the Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labor
Co-initiator of the Electricity Feeding Act of 1990 (as MdB)
Former Bundestag deputy at Bündnis 90 / The Greens
Consultant member of the regional planning association Chemnitz-Erzgebirge
Pioneering activities for renewable energie
Curriculum vitae
Wolfgang Daniels (born July 4, 1951 in Mönchengladbach) is a German physicist and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens).
Education and profession:
Wolfgang Daniels studied physics at the TH Aachen and the University of Regensburg. There he received his doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on low temperature emission of single crystals of square planar transition metal complexes under high pressure. Subsequently, he was a research assistant at the University of Regensburg. He has been living in Dresden since 1990 where he is Managing Partner of Sachsenkraft GmbH, a company that deals with renewable energies.
Politics:
Daniels was since 1979 a member of anti-nuclear power initiatives and in the citizens' initiative against the planned reprocessing plant Wackersdorf. In 1980 he joined the party The Greens, and from 1983 to 1987 he was a research assistant to the Green Parliamentary Group. In the federal election in 1987, he was elected to the German Bundestag on the list of countries Bavaria the Greens, to which he belonged until the end of the 11th legislature in December 1990. In the Bundestag, Daniels was a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Committee on Research and Technology. He was one of the initiators of the Electricity Feed Act for Renewable Energies.
Daniels is a member of the Dresden City Council and is there energy policy spokesman of the Green Council Group. He is also President of the Association for the Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energies in Saxony and member of the Energy Advisory Council of the Saxon Ministry of Economics and Labor.