Frank Kuschel

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Frank Kuschel (2011)

Frank Kuschel (born September 8, 1961 in Ilmenau ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and was a member of the Thuringian state parliament from 2004 to 2019 , where he acted as the local political spokesman for his parliamentary group.

Life

Kuschel, born in Ilmenau in 1961, visited the POS Langewiesen from 1968 to 1976 . He then moved to EOS Ilmenau , where he graduated from high school in 1980. He then took up a career as an officer and studied for this until 1983 at the officers' college of the land forces of the NVA in Zittau , specializing in rocket troops / artillery . He then served as an officer in Mühlhausen for two years before he was released for health reasons.

From 1985 he completed a distance learning course at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam . However, his degree as a qualified administrative lawyer was not recognized, and by resolution of the university's senate, his studies were discontinued in September 1990. After reunification, Kuschel was initially unemployed before he found a job with the Thuringia newspaper group in 1991 . From 1992 he first ran a haulage company before becoming the full-time managing director of the Municipal Political Forum Thuringia in 1995 . From 1994 to 2004 he worked as an independent haulage contractor. Between 1999 and 2002 he completed further training as an administrative business economist (VWA) at the Administration and Business Academy in Erfurt .

Kuschel is divorced and has three sons.

Political career

In 1983 Kuschel joined the SED . From 1985 he worked at the council of the Ilmenau district in the internal affairs department. From 1987 to 1989 he was deputy mayor of the city of Ilmenau, and then until 1990 mayor of Großbreitenbach . In November 1989 he became a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Ilmenau. After reunification, Kuschel was deputy district chairman of the PDS and a member of the PDS district committee in Ilmenau. In addition, he was a member of the Großbreitenbach city ​​council from 1990 , before becoming a member of the district council of the Ilm district in 1994 . In 2002 he was elected to the state board of the PDS Thuringia.

Since the state election in 2004 , Kuschel was a member of the Thuringian state parliament, where he was involved in the interior , budget and finance committee. In addition, Kuschel is a member of the city council of Arnstadt as well as the district executive of the Left in the Wartburg district / Eisenach . In 2007 Kuschel hit the headlines because the NPD had twice succeeded in placing its own functionaries in its political environment.

In 2009 Kuschel ran again for a direct mandate in the constituency of Wartburg District I , but only achieved second place behind Manfred Grob ( CDU ) with 23.9 percent of the vote . Nevertheless, Kuschel moved back into the state parliament via the state list of the left. After he was re-elected via the state list for the 2014 state election, he did not run for the 2019 state election .

State Security staff

Since 1987 Kuschel has been working with the Ministry for State Security (MfS). Even before his recruitment, the MfS noted that Kuschel was ready to “incriminate people without reservation”. In 1988 Kuschel signed a handwritten declaration and chose the code name "Fritz Kaiser". From then on he was primarily responsible for observing families wishing to leave , about which he passed information to the MfS. In January 1989 he received a bonus for his work. In October 1989 he betrayed several people who sympathized with the New Forum to the Stasi. Kuschel's cooperation with the State Security lasted until the MfS was dissolved. Kuschel himself has made his files available to the public at the parliamentary group and denies this information.

In 2006 the Stasi commission of the Thuringian state parliament declared Kuschel to be "unworthy to belong to parliament". Although this judgment is not subject to any sanctions, Kuschel announced that he would file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court, as his IM activities were known before the 2004 state elections . Kuschel received support from PDS state chairman Knut Korschewsky , who stated that the state parliament had “followed old ways of thinking again” and thus “made no real contribution to coming to terms with the GDR past”. The Thuringian constitutional court dismissed the action.

Web links

Commons : Frank Kuschel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Witzel, Georg Grünewald: Frank Kuschel only third choice. Leading Thuringian NPD functionaries openly admit infiltration into other parties. (No longer available online.) In: Südthüringer Zeitung. Südthüringer Verlag GmbH, August 29, 2007, archived from the original on August 31, 2009 ; Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
  2. ↑ . See Land Returning Officer Thuringia election results in the constituency Wartburgkreis I .
  3. ↑ See Knabe, Hubertus : Honeckers Erben - The Truth about DIE LINKE , Berlin 2009, p. 319f.
  4. ↑ Cf. Spiegel Online of July 13, 2006: PDS member of the state parliament declared “unworthy of parliament” .
  5. ^ Decision of the Thuringian Constitutional Court in full text
  6. ↑ Harry Hinz: Thuringian law on the Stasi review is constitutional. (No longer available online.) In: stasiopfer-selbsthilfe.de. Stasiopfer-Selbsthilfe eV, July 1, 2009, archived from the original on July 16, 2010 ; Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Cuddle, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau