Wolfgang Gehrcke

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Wolfgang Gehrcke (2015)

Wolfgang Gehrcke-Reymann (born September 8, 1943 in Reichau ) is a German politician ( DKP / PDS / Die Linke ). From 1981 to 1989 he was the Hamburg DKP chairman. From 1991 to 1993 he was federal manager of the PDS and from 1993 to 1998 deputy PDS federal chairman. Since October 2002 Gehrcke was a member of the party executive committee of the PDS and from June 2007 to 2012 a member of the executive committee of the party Die Linke. From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the German Bundestag and deputy chairman of the PDS parliamentary group . From 2004 to 2005 he was a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg , then a member of the Bundestag again until 2017.

Life and work

After attending elementary school , Gehrcke completed an apprenticeship in administration from 1959 to 1961 and then worked as an administrative clerk at the Federal Employment Agency . From 1968 he worked in publishing and as a journalist .

Wolfgang Gehrcke is married to Christiane Reymann and has one daughter.

Political party

In 1961, after being expelled from the SPD and the Falcons , Gehrcke became a member of the banned KPD . As a co-founder of the Socialist German Workers' Youth (SDAJ), he was its deputy chairman from 1968 to 1974 and national chairman from 1974 to 1979.

Wolfgang Gehrcke was also active in the founding of the German Communist Party (DKP) in 1968. From 1973 to 1989 he was a member of the party board and, for a time, a member of the presidium, and until 1989 he was district chairman in Hamburg for eight years. In the dispute within the DKP about the political course of the party at the end of the 1980s, he belonged to the group of so-called innovators . Together with Heinz Jung and Jörg Huffschmid, he presented the reform alternative "BRD 2000" in 1989 and criticized the fact that the DKP members do not have any effective means of intervention, action and decision-making in the party. In 1990 Wolfgang Gehrcke left the DKP and became a member of the PDS .

From 1991 to 1993 Gehrcke was federal manager of the PDS and from 1993 to 1998 deputy PDS federal chairman. Since October 2002 Gehrcke was a member of the party executive committee of the PDS and from June 2007 to 2012 a member of the executive committee of the party Die Linke.

When, in autumn 2017, the Babylon cinema in Berlin canceled an award ceremony planned for the journalist Ken Jebsen after criticism from Berlin's Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer (Die Linke), who saw it as a "fair for those who believe in conspiracy and aluminum hats " and Lederer's approach Gehrcke, together with his wife and Diether Dehm , mobilized for a protest in front of the Left Party's federal headquarters against alleged censorship.

MP

Gehrcke was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2017 . From 1998 to 2002 he was deputy chairman and foreign policy spokesman for the PDS parliamentary group . From November 2005 he was chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Foreign Affairs Committee . He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee .

In terms of foreign policy, Gehrcke u. a. the Iraq war and described it as illegal under international law. At the end of the 1990s, Gehrcke contacted the Colombian resistance organization FARC to release two German development workers . Gehrcke later campaigned for the FARC to be removed from the list of terrorist organizations in the European Union , giving Gehrcke the reason that no official peace negotiations would otherwise be possible. In September 2008, he warned NATO against a planned rearmament in Georgia , which he believed would exacerbate a conflict with Russia .

Gehrcke moved in the 1998 federal elections on the party list Brandenburg in the Bundestag one. In the 2005 Bundestag election he ran directly in constituency 184 (Frankfurt am Main II) and won the Bundestag mandate on the Hesse state list.

Gehrcke has been the spokesman for his party for foreign policy and international cooperation since 2007 and foreign policy spokesman for the Bundestag parliamentary group from September 2009. Since April 2011 he has been the head of the International Politics working group and a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag.

From 2004 until his resignation on October 20, 2005, Gehrcke was a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg .

He was unable to take part in the election of the Federal President on May 23, 2009 due to a recently suffered heart attack . He moved back into the Bundestag via the state list of his party and since then has held the position of foreign policy spokesman for the parliamentary group Die Linke . From 2011 he headed the international politics working group and was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee.

At the beginning of 2015, Gehrcke and Andrej Hunko traveled to the Donetsk People's Republic during the war in eastern Ukraine , officially for the delivery of medical aid supplies previously purchased in Russia. They also met the “head of state” of the internationally unrecognized People's Republic, Alexander Vladimirovich Sakharchenko , which was seen as a propaganda success for the pro-Russian separatists. The Ukrainian government protested at the Foreign Office in Berlin.

In 2017 Gehrcke no longer stood as a candidate for the Bundestag.

Publications

  • Wolfgang Gehrcke (Ed.) U. a .: The battle for 35 hours. The steel cookers and their strike . Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1982, ISBN 3-88142-211-0 .
  • Willi Bredel , Wolfgang Gehrcke (epilogue): Under towers and masts. History of Hamburg in stories . Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1987, ISBN 3-88142-254-4 .
  • Wolfgang Gehrcke (Ed.) U. a .: bridgeheads. Texts for the PDS program discussion . Pahl-Rugenstein Nachf., Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-89144-156-8 .
  • Wolfgang Gehrcke: German foreign policy from the left . Karl Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-320-01996-1 .
  • Wolfgang Gehrcke u. a .: September 11th. From the shelling of the Moneda to the wars of the 21st century . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Thuringia, 2004, ISBN 3-935850-23-9 .
  • Wolfgang Gehrcke u. a .: The German left, Zionism and the Middle East conflict. A necessary debate . Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89438-410-4 .
  • with Christiane Reymann (ed.): Syria - How to destroy a secular state and Islamize a society. Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89438-521-7 .
  • Character assassination - The anti-Semitism campaign against the left , (= Neue Kleine Bibliothek, Vol. 214 ), PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-89438-586-6 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Gehrcke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The crisis of the DKP has deepened", interview with Wolfgang Gehrcke, Zeitschrift Sozialismus , 6/89, p. 18
  2. ↑ Markus Decker: Conspiracy theorists: The too anti-fascist left , Frankfurter Rundschau from December 4, 2017
  3. ^ Matthias Meisner : The Left in the Fight Against the Cross Front , Der Tagesspiegel of December 4, 2017
  4. ↑ LINKE decides "clear edge" against Querfront and Jebsen , Neues Deutschland from December 4, 2017
  5. ↑ Please help to reject censorship ! , Accessed on Gehrke's website on November 17, 2017
  6. ↑ Speech in Parliament on June 26, 2008; Subject: The reconstruction process in Iraq
  7. ↑ German Left campaigns for guerrillas , May 24, 2008
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Gehrcke: “Straight line” of the federal government in the Caucasus conflict is a zigzag course , September 15, 2008 ( Memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Koehler confirmed in the first ballot
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Gehrcke-Reymann on the website of the members of the German Bundestag ( memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 22, 2015
  11. ↑ Matthias Meisner and Claudia von Salzen: Left-wing MPs on an adventure tour in the war zone , Der Tagesspiegel from February 20, 2015
  12. ↑ Bundestag election These leftists are leaving the Bundestag Frankfurter Rundschau, August 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Gehrcke, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gehrcke-Reymann, Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (DKP, Die Linke), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichau