Paul Rosenmöller
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| Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands | |
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In office 6 September 1989 – 15 May 2002 |
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11 May 1956 Den Helder, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party | GroenLinks ('GreenLeft') |
| Occupation | Politician, broadcaster |
Paul Rosenmöller (born 11 May 1956 in Den Helder) is a Dutch television presenter and former politician and trade unionist. Between 1989 and 2003, he was member of the Dutch House of Representatives for GroenLinks ('GreenLeft') and was party leader from 1994.
Rosenmöller was born in 1956; his father was CEO of Vroom and Dreesmann. After finishing atheneum-b in Haarlem in 1974, Rosenmöller studied sociology. During his study Rosenmöller became associated with radical socialist, maoist groups. He stopped studying in 1978 to work in the harbour of Rotterdam. He works as for the shipping company Müller Thomson. In 1985 he became a member of the board of the Transportation branch of the Rotterdam FNV labour union. He negotiated with VNO-NCW and is spokesperson during several strikes. Rosenmöller got national fame because of his radical position in these negotiations and strikes. He was a member of Group of Marxist-Leninists/Red Dawn from 1976 to 1982.
In 1989, he became member of the newly founded party GroenLinks. GroenLinks was formed by four other parties, but Rosenmöller joined as an independent. In the 1989 election, he was the sixth on the list of the GroenLinks and the first independent; he was narrowly elected to the House of Representatives. In 1993 he was candidate party leader together with Leonie Sipkes, but they lost the internal elections to Mohammed Rabbae and Ina Brouwer. After the defeat of the GroenLinks in the 1994 election, Rosenmöller became the party leader.
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