Regula Schmidt-Bott

Regula Schmidt-Bott (born June 10, 1945 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † October 11, 2015 ) was a German politician. From 1987 to 1989 she was a member of the German Bundestag .

Regula Schmidt-Bott

Life

After graduating from high school in 1965, she began studying psychology , which she completed in 1972 with a degree in psychology. She then worked in various ways in Hamburg, for example in educational counseling, in women's discussion groups, in the equal opportunities office of the Hamburg Senate and in adoption placement.

As a schoolgirl, she was politically active from 1960. She took part in the Easter marches and joined the student movement in the late 1960s .

From 1966 to 1981 she was a member of the Jusos or the SPD , where she belonged to the anti-revisionist movement and represented left-wing socialist-feminist positions. At times she was a member of the SPD state executive. After the resignation of Mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose in 1981, she left the SPD. Then she was one of the founding members of the "Alternative List" (AL) in Hamburg , which, together with the Hamburg State Association of the Greens, ran as the Green Alternative List in the elections for Hamburg citizenship . After the AL was dissolved in 1984, it also became a member of the “The Greens” party.

From 1982 to 1984 she was a GAL member of the Hamburg citizenship. In 1987 she was elected to the German Bundestag , from which she resigned as an advocate of the rotation principle at the beginning of 1989 in favor of her successor.

When it became apparent in the internal party dispute between “ Fundis ” and “ Realos ” that the “Realos” would prevail, she and several other “Fundis” who called themselves “eco-socialists” resigned from the party in April 1990 "The Greens" from.

Even after leaving the Bundestag and the Greens , Regula Bott (as she later called herself again) was heard in public with political commitment. So she campaigned for the abolition of baby hatches . In their opinion, such valves created an additional incentive to give away newborns anonymously and deprived these children of the opportunity to find out where they came from.

In recent years, Bott dealt with on their own initiative incurred project Altersstarrsinn . The aim was to create a cooperative, age-appropriate housing project for members of the 50+ generation with the help of a building association . With the symbolic occupation of an empty building in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld , members of the association tried to emphasize their project in 2013.

Fonts

• with Johannes Münder and Vera Slupik: Legal and political discrimination against women. Leske & Budrich Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-8100-0487-1 .
• Regula Bott (Ed.): Adopted people look for their origins. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-01714-6 .

literature

• Silke Burmester: Heroes of the present: the German pensioner strikes back . In: Spiegel Online . October 6, 2013.
• Wanted at home. Seniors occupy commercial building. In: Welt / Regionales Hamburg. 2nd October 2013.

Web links

Commons : Regula Schmidt-Bott  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ "As in the old German film ..." , in Hamburger Abendblatt from June 24, 1982, accessed on January 21, 2020.