Frank Schwalba-Hoth started getting involved in politics as a student, founded the Grün-bunt alternative Liste, the first green student union at a German university and became a member and later President (1979/1980) of the student parliament of
Marburg University. He worked on initiatives such as the "3rd International
Russell Tribunal on the human rights situation in the Federal Republic of Germany". He became one of the founding members of the
German Greens. In 1982 and 1983, Frank Schwalba-Hoth was member of the
Landtag of
Hesse where his legislative proposal on teacher-training became the first green inspired legislation in a German Parliament ever. During a reception for US troops stationed in Germany at the Landtag in Hesse he protested the stationing of
US nuclear missiles in Germany by spilling his own blood on the medals of the commander of the
V US Army Corps, General Paul S Williams.
European Parliament Frank Schwalba-Hoth was an
MEP from 1984 to 1987, deputy President of the Petitions Committee, in 1986/87 he was one of two Co-Presidents of his political Group in the EP before stepping down because of the rotation principle ("Rotationsprinzip"). == Consulting & networking ==