Christine Grabe (politician)

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Christine Grabe (1990)
In 1990, the grave was taken away during protests against the first public solemn pledge by Bundeswehr soldiers in the new federal states

Christine Grabe (born June 29, 1948 in Ketschendorf ; † December 16, 2016 in Eisenach ) was a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and from 1990 to 1994, with a brief interruption, was the parliamentary group leader of her party in the Thuringian state parliament .

Life

Grabe was born in 1948 in Ketschendorf, Brandenburg, the daughter of a farrier master. After attending a polytechnic high school in Fürstenwalde , she completed an apprenticeship as a nurse in Neustadt an der Orla and Saalfeld from 1965 to 1968 . From 1970 she worked as a housemother in the retirement home on the Bodelschwingh farm in Mechterstadt and later in a rest home in Schnepfenthal . In 1978 she took on a position as head of an old people's home in Schnepfenthal, which she carried out until 1980. After further training as a masseuse, she then worked in this profession in the Friedrichrodaer Kneipp sanatorium until 1982 . Then she moved to the Eisenach district hospital , where she worked as a telephone operator until the political change.

From 1985 she got involved in the small opposition group Women for Peace in Eisenach . During the political change in the GDR, this commitment resulted in Grabe's participation in the Eisenach Citizens' Committee and ultimately in joining the Green Party in the GDR , for which she ran as the top candidate in the electoral district of Erfurt in the Volkskammer elections on March 18, 1990. Grabe was able to win one of 7 mandates and represented the Green Party in the GDR from March to October 1990 as a member of the freely elected People's Chamber . After the episode in the Volkskammer, Grabe went into state politics in Thuringia and ran for the election alliance New Forum / Greens / Democracy Now (later Alliance 90 / The Greens Thuringia ) on list number four in the Thuringian state elections in 1990 . Since the civil rights activists surprisingly won six seats with 6.5% of the vote, they entered the 1st Thuringian state parliament . The parliamentary group elected her to chair it. Grabe held this office with a brief interruption until the end of the 1994 legislative period. She was a member of the Equal Opportunities Committee and the Committee on Social Affairs and Health of the Thuringian State Parliament. Grabes work as parliamentary group chairman was accompanied by disagreements within the group, which resulted in the exclusion of two group members.

After her parliamentary group failed to rejoin the state parliament in the 1994 state election due to the five percent hurdle , she left politics and in 1996 also left her party. Grabe then worked from May 1995 to April 2012 as a receptionist at the Wartburg Clinic in Eisenach, where she lived until her death. She died on December 16, 2016 after a two-year serious illness at the age of 68.

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Web links

Commons : Christine Grabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Meißner: Christine Grabe is dead: The mother of the peaceful revolution in Eisenach . In: Thuringian General . December 28, 2016 ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed January 9, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Dig, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdV, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ketch Village
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2016
Place of death Eisenach