Albert Eckert
Albert Karl Eckert (born November 2, 1960 in Munich - Pasing ) is a German civil rights activist and politician .
Life
Eckert was born as the third child of ordinary people and grew up in Gilching near Munich. During his school days at the grammar school he was a student representative and editor of the school newspaper. After graduating from high school in 1981 in Hofheim am Taunus , he studied political science, German studies, philosophy and psychology in Tübingen at the Leibniz Kolleg and at the Eberhard Karls University and in Berlin at the Free University . In 1987 he graduated as a political scientist.
From 1982 on he was politically active in the Berlin State Association of the Humanist Union , for some time as managing director, and in 1983 actively campaigned for the census boycott. There he met Andreas Salmen , who in 1984 co-founded the Berlin gay magazine Siegessäule . Eckert was one of the first authors there and also wrote for magnus magazine from 1986 to 1995 .
From 1989 to 1995 he was a non-party member of the Alternative List parliamentary group (later: Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) in the Berlin House of Representatives . For a short time Eckert was its vice-president. He announced his resignation after the CDU accused him of having worked as a stick boy due to his work in the wellness area (masseur work).
In parliamentary terms, Eckert was mainly involved in cultural and legal policy and was a co-founder of the Art and Prison Cultural Association . In addition, he remained connected to the lesbian and gay movement and founded the initiative to commemorate homosexual Nazi victims in 1993 , which has since campaigned for a memorial for homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism . He has been a volunteer member of the Presidium of the New Society for Fine Arts since 1998 .
From 1997 to 2005 he was in charge of public relations at the Heinrich Böll Foundation , interrupted by several months in 2002 as deputy spokesman for the Berlin Senate . He has been working as a freelance worker since 2005, including as a policy, PR and heirs consultant.
Honors
On January 20, 2012 Albert Eckert received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Fonts
- Capital 95/96. Polit-Handbuch Berlin and Brandenburg , bebra Verlag, Berlin 1995.
literature
- Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 126.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Eckert on the history of the Victory Column ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.
- ↑ Simone Schmollack: Entertainer on the Political Floor , In: taz, December 30, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckert, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckert, Albert Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich - Pasing |