Lissy Gröner

Lissy Gröner MEP

Member of the European Parliament for Germany
In office 1989–2009

Personal details
Born	(1954-05-31)31 May 1954 Langenfeld, West Germany
Died	9 September 2019(2019-09-09) (aged 65)
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Spouse	Sabine Gillessen (2005–2019)

Liselotte Carola Gröner (31 May 1954 – 9 September 2019

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

She was a substitute for the

Committee on Budgets, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

(SAARC).

Activities

Vice-President of SIW (Socialist International Women)
PSE coordinator on the Committee on
Equal opportunities
Vice-Chair of the Children's Alliance
Member of the board of the Association of Social-Democratic Women

Member of

The Workers' Welfare Association [de] (AWO)
Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND, Association for Nature and Environmental Protection)
Europa-Union Deutschland
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom IFFF

Main areas of work

Spokeswoman for SPD Members of the European Parliament on youth policy

Rapporteur for

The 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing and Beijing +5
Problems of children in the
European Community
Poverty among women in Europe
Equal opportunities programme (interim report)
2000-2006: The Youth Action Programme
White Paper on youth

Personal life

Gröner was a lesbian and was married to Sabine Gillessen. The couple married in Belgium in September 2005, with Gröner announcing, "There is no discrimination of same-sex couples in Belgium by law. And this is the signal we want to give to the people in Europe, to send the message out: it's possible to honor the love of same-sex people by law".^[2]

References

^ "Tod von Lissy Gröner löst in Neustadt Trauer aus" (in German). 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ "German MEP marries lesbian partner in Brussels". euronews.com. 10 September 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2019.

External links

Official website
Personal profile of Lissy Gröner in the European Parliament's database of members
Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in German)

v t e German members of the European Parliament (1989–1994)
Social Democratic Party	Willi Görlach Lissy Gröner Klaus Hänsch Magdalene Hoff Karin Junker Heinz Fritz Köhler Annemarie Kuhn (from 22 December 1990) Rolf Linkohr Günter Lüttge Gepa Maibaum Karl-Heinrich Mihr Leyla Onur Helwin Peter Johannes Wilhelm Peters Willi Piecyk (from 11 May 1992) Christa Randzio-Plath Dieter Rogalla Dagmar Roth-Behrendt Mechtild Rothe Willi Rothley Jannis Sakellariou Heinke Salisch Detlev Samland Dieter Schinzel Gerhard Schmid Barbara Schmidbauer Barbara Simons Günter Topmann Kurt Vittinghoff Thomas von der Vring Gerd Walter (until 7 May 1992) Beate Weber-Schuerholz (until 14 December 1990) Klaus Wettig
Christian Democratic Union	Siegbert Alber Reimer Böge Ursula Braun-Moser (from 15 January 1990) Elmar Brok Karl-Heinz Florenz Honor Funk Helga Haller von Hallerstein (from 27 December 1993) Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt Georg Jarzembowski (from 5 September 1991) Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert Egon Klepsch Brigitte Langenhagen (from November 25 1990) Horst Langes Gerd Ludwig Lemmer Marlene Lenz Rudolf Luster Kurt Malangré Winfried Menrad Friedrich Merz Werner Münch (until November 19 1990) Doris Pack Hartmut Perschau (until 10 July 1991) Hans-Gert Pöttering Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl Günter Rinsche Bernhard Sälzer (until 18 December 1993) Diemut Theato Karl von Wogau Axel Zarges (until December 29 1989)
Alliance 90/The Greens	Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf Hiltrud Breyer Birgit Cramon Daiber Karl Partsch Dorothee Piermont Eva-Maria Quistorp Claudia Roth Wilfried Telkämper
Christian Social Union in Bavaria	Reinhold Bocklet (until 24 June 1993) Jürgen Brand (from 16 November 1993) Ingo Friedrich Maren Günther (from 31 August 1993) Otto von Habsburg Günther Müller (from 4 December 1992 to 6 November 1993) Gerd Müller Fritz Pirkl (until 19 August 1993) Edgar Schiedermeier (from 5 July 1993) Ursula Schleicher Franz Ludwig Schenk von Stauffenberg (until 30 November 1992)
The Republicans	Johanna Grund Klaus-Peter Köhler Harald Neubauer Emil Schlee Hans-Günter Schodruch Franz Schönhuber
Free Democratic Party	Mechthild von Alemann Martin Holzfuss Manfred Vohrer Rüdiger von Wechmar

v t e German members of the European Parliament (1994–1999)
Social Democratic Party	Gerhard Botz Dietrich Elchlepp (from 6 February 1996) Evelyne Gebhardt Norbert Glante Willi Görlach Lissy Gröner Klaus Hänsch Jutta Haug Magdalene Hoff Karin Jöns Karin Junker Heinz Kindermann Constanze Krehl Wilfried Kuckelkorn Annemarie Kuhn Helmut Kuhne Bernd Lange Rolf Linkohr Günter Lüttge Erika Mann Helwin Peter Willi Piecyk Christa Randzio-Plath Bernhard Rapkay Klaus Rehder Dagmar Roth-Behrendt Mechtild Rothe Willi Rothley Jannis Sakellariou Heinke Salisch (until 1 February 1996) Detlev Samland Axel Schäfer Gerhard Schmid Barbara Schmidbauer Martin Schulz Ulrich Stockmann Christof Tannert Ralf Walter Barbara Weiler Rosemarie Wemheuer Wilmya Zimmermann
Christian Democratic Union	Siegbert Alber (until October 6 1997) Otto Bardong Rolf Berend Reimer Böge Elmar Brok Karl-Heinz Florenz Honor Funk Michael Gahler (from 23 April 1999) Anne-Karin Glase Lutz Goepel Alfred Gomolka Renate Heinisch Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt Georg Jarzembowski Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert Peter Kittelmann Christa Klaß Dieter-Lebrecht Koch Christoph Werner Konrad Werner Langen Brigitte Langenhagen Klaus-Heiner Lehne Marlene Lenz Peter Liese Kurt Malangré Thomas Mann Winfried Menrad Peter Mombaur Marlies Mosiek-Urbahn (until 22 April 1999) Hartmut Nassauer Doris Pack Hans-Gert Pöttering Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl Günter Rinsche Horst Schnellhardt Jürgen Schröder Konrad Schwaiger Diemut Theato Stanislaw Tillich Rainer Wieland (from 10 October 1997) Karl von Wogau
Alliance 90/The Greens	Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf Undine von Blottnitz Hiltrud Breyer Ozan Ceyhun (from 23 November 1998) Daniel Cohn-Bendit Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler Edith Müller Claudia Roth (until 18 November 1998) Elisabeth Schroedter Irene Soltwedel-Schäfer Wilfried Telkämper Wolfgang Ullmann Frieder Otto Wolf
Christian Social Union in Bavaria	Markus Ferber Ingo Friedrich Maren Günther Otto von Habsburg Xaver Mayer Bernd Posselt Edgar Schiedermeier Ursula Schleicher

Authority control databases
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