Rüdiger Sagel

Rüdiger Sagel (born 9 August 1955) is a German politician currently with the Left Party and previously with the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1998 until 2012 he was a member of the state parliament (Landtag) for North Rhine-Westphalia. Following this, he had a yearlong internship with a focus on the mining industry at the Clausthal University of Technology, before finishing his Diplom in engineering at RWTH Aachen University in 1983.

During the next two years, he was head of the Hambach-Gruppe in Aachen, which was a citizen initiative against the Hambach surface mine. During the state election of 2012, he again ran as a direct candidate in Münster, but was not listed on the party list for the state. The party, however, did not surpass the minimum requirement of 5% to enter the state parliament, and Sagel himself garnered only 2.3 percent of the votes in his district, so he and the rest of his party left the state parliament in May 2012.

In 2009, Sagel presented a historiographical study on the suppressed Nazi-past of certain CDU and FDP members of state parliament who served after 1945. Sagel is also a member of the Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (a German trade organization), as well as the Charitable Society in Support of Asylum Seekers (GGUA).

Publications Problemaufriss Braunkohle, hrsg.v. der Bundestagsfraktion Die Grünen, Bonn 1983/84. Verheizte Heimat, (Alano-Publisher) Aachen 1985. Alternatives Abfallwirtschaftskonzept für den Kreis Unna, edited by the Greens, Unna 1984. Problemaufriss Steinkohle, The Greens NRW, Düsseldorf 1984. Sozialverträglichkeit von Umsiedlung im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier, edited by the NRW-Ministry of the Environment, Düsseldorf 1987. 60 Jahre Landtag, Das vergessene braune Erbe, edited by Rüdiger Sagel, Münster 2009.