Angelica Barbe

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Angelika Barbe (* 26 November 1951 as Angelika Mangoldt in Brandenburg ) is a German politician . She was a GDR opposition, a founding member of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR and for this member of the last freely elected People's Chamber . From 1990 to 1994 she was a member of the Bundestag and a member of the party executive of the all-German SPD . Barbe has been a CDU member since 1996 .

Life

Barbe grew up as the daughter of a self-employed master horticulturist and later cooperative farmer in the rural area around the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . First she attended schools in Schenkenberg and Jeserig between 1958 and 1966 , then she switched to the extended secondary school in Ziesar . There she passed her Abitur in 1970 with simultaneous vocational training as a fitter. After finishing school, Barbe studied biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1970 to 1974 . After receiving her diploma, Barbe initially worked for a few months as a plant protection officer in Neu Fahrland near Potsdam. She then worked as a biologist at the Berlin- Lichtenberg hygiene inspection from 1975 to 1979 , after which she was a housewife and raised three children.

She had been active in the Pankower Peace Circle around Ruth Misselwitz since 1986 , was co-founder of the Johannisthal women's working group in 1987 and was involved in the peace working group around Ulrike Poppe , Jens Reich and Marianne Birthler in 1988/89 . Until 1989 she was observed by the GDR Ministry for State Security in the operational process "Hysteria". On October 7, 1989, Barbe was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP). As a result, she acted as the second spokeswoman for the party until the 1st party congress of the party, which was renamed the SPD in January, in late February 1990.

At the 1st party congress of the SPD in the GDR, which took place in Leipzig from February 22 to 25, 1990, Barbe was elected as deputy party chairman alongside Karl-August Kamilli and Markus Meckel . In preparation for the first free Volkskammer elections on March 18, 1990 , Barbe was nominated in eighth place on the list in the Berlin constituency. As the SPD became the strongest party in this constituency and won 11 seats, Barbe moved into the last GDR parliament. There she headed the People's Chamber Committee for Family and Women. In this function, she advocated the inclusion of the law on the interruption of pregnancy in the Unification Treaty , which ultimately did not materialize. In September 1990, Barbe was one of the supporters and later participants in a hunger strike at the headquarters of the Stasi in Berlin's Normannenstrasse, during which civil rights activists argued that the Stasi files should remain in the GDR and that the files should be processed. This action initiated the establishment of the special commissioner for the personal documents of the former state security service of the GDR , who in the person of Joachim Gauck was elected by the people's chamber on October 2nd, 1990. The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic later emerged from this function . At the last party congress of the SPD in the GDR on September 26, 1990, Barbe was elected to the party executive and thus also a member of the all-German SPD party executive through the unification party congress on September 27. After October 3, 1990, Barbe moved into the Bundestag as one of 144 members of the Volkskammer in accordance with Article 42 of the Unification Treaty.

For the first all-German federal election on December 2, 1990 , Barbe was elected to the 12th German Bundestag via the Berlin state list and was a member of this during the entire legislative period. At the 25th SPD party conference, which took place from May 28 to 31, 1991 in Bremen, Barbe was re-elected to the SPD party executive. From 1995 to 1998 she worked as an assistant to the medical director of the Prenzlauer Berg hospital. In 1996 she co-founded the Berlin Citizens' Bureau for the processing of consequential damage caused by the SED dictatorship and joined the CDU in protest against the cooperation of the SPD with the PDS with other GDR civil rights activists such as Günter Nooke and Vera Lengsfeld .

Since 2001 she has been a member of the federal board of the umbrella organization Union of Victims Associations of Communist Tyranny. V. (UOKG), until July 2007 she was deputy chairwoman.

In 2000 Angelika Barbe was proposed as a candidate for the office of Saxon State Commissioner for the Stasi files. Until her retirement in spring 2017, she worked at the Saxon State Center for Political Education .

Barbe took part in several Pegida meetings in Dresden. In an open letter to her party, the CDU, at the end of 2017, she described Islam as “a racist ideology” and lamented the alleged better position of migrants than “the local population”. In March 2018, the AfD- affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation announced that it had appointed Barbe to its board of trustees.

At the turn of the year 2017/2018 she published three guest articles in the magazine Cicero .

From the end of April 2020, Barbe took part in demonstrations against the measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic , "because she was defending the Basic Law". On May 16, 2020, she was provisionally arrested on the sidelines of a demonstration by the Berlin Antifa . The robust nature of the arrest of the 68-year-old was documented in various videos on YouTube . Barbe himself later described the process as "brutal and violent".

On July 3, 2020, the nomination of Angelika Barbe to the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights, submitted by the AfD as an election proposal, was rejected by the Bundestag.

literature

Web links

Commons : Angelika Barbe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 26, 1990 p. 3
  2. ↑ Anne Hähnig: right-wing populism: The anger of women. In: Zeit Online . March 23, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Angelika Barbe: Open letter from CDU dissident - "Not with me anymore!" In: Cicero . December 24, 2017, accessed February 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Desiderius Erasmus Foundation names first members of the Board of Trustees. Desiderius Erasmus Foundation , March 20, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Angelika Barbe. In: Cicero Online. Retrieved on May 20, 2020 (article by the author).
  6. ↑ Paul Klemm: Colorful Revolte: The Berlin Hygiene Demo. Compact , April 26, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ "The people should dance". A critical-analytical summary of the corona demonstrations on May 16 and 23, 2020. Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism, May 29, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Vera Lengsfeld : Video: Angelika Barbe Statement after brutal arrest at Berlin demo. Michael Mross , May 18, 2020, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Angelika Barbe not elected to the Board of Trustees of the Human Rights Institute. German Bundestag , July 3, 2020, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Barbel, Angelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mangoldt, Angelika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdV, GDR opposition, founding member of the GDR SPD, politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel