Klaus Armstrong-Braun

Cllr Klaus Armstrong-Braun (KAB) is an environmental campaigner and UK politician.

Klaus was born in Krakow, Poland on December 13, 1940. He was orphaned and moved to Germany before finally moving to Ireland as a refugee in 1944 where he was brought up.

He was educated in the Britain where he qualified as an engineer on the railways. He studied at the Chester College of Further Education, Liverpool Polytechnic, Manchester Metropolitan University and Chester University College.

He spent over 25 years in the railway industry as a maintenance supervisor for locomotive and wagons; a stores controller, and, later, a divisional cripple-wagon controller with the now defunct British Rail. He also served for over 25 years in the Reservists Section of the Royal Engineers and Royal Corps of Transport, becoming a Staff Sergeant.

He currently lives in Flintshire, Wales, where he was a councillor for the Green Party on Broughton and Bretton Community Council between 1991 and 1995 and on Flintshire County Council between 1995 and 2004 (when he losts his seat to Labour). He is the only county councillor ever elected for the Wales Green Party and remains on Saltney Town Council. In March 2005, he changed his political allegiance to Forward Wales and stood in the May general election in Alyn and Deeside as an MP.

He has an interest in environmental and planning law, and has taken legal cases against governments to the European Court. As a runner in his spare time, he has taken part in 100 mile ultra-marathon and 24-hour races.