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Sepp Daxenberger in 2008

Sepp Daxenberger (10 April 1962 – 18 August 2010) was a German Green Party politician.

Biography

Daxenberger was born in Waging am See in Bavaria. He became a blacksmith and later he owned and worked at a farm close to Waging. In 1990 he was elected as a member of the Landtag of Bavaria, serving until 1996. From 1998 until 2003 he was member of the regional parliament of Upper Bavaria.

In 1996, Daxenberger was elected as mayor of Waging am See - he was the first mayor in Bavaria from the Green Party. Daxenberger was the chairman of the Green Party in Bavaria between 2002 and 2008. For the 2008 Bavaria state election he was nominated as the front runner of his party and became Parliamentary group leader after the election, in which the Green Party received 7.7% of the vote.

Daxenberger was diagnosed with cancer in 2003; his condition worsened in 2009. He died of cancer in Traunstein on 18 August 2010. His wife, who was also ill with cancer, died of the disease three days before him.