Almuth Beck
Almuth Beck (born October 4, 1940 in Sonneberg ) is a former German teacher and politician ( SED , PDS ). She was the first MP to be withdrawn from a state parliament mandate because of her work as an IM of the Ministry for State Security . This and their successful process, however, aroused nationwide attention.
Life
After graduating from high school, Almuth Beck studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1958 to 1962 and completed her studies with the state examination as a specialist in history and German. From 1962 to 1965 she worked as a teacher / deputy director at the Föritz secondary school in the Sonneberg district. From 1965 to the turn of 1990, she was a consultant for management / labor law at the popular education department in the council of the Sonneberg district . From 1970 to 1973 she completed a distance learning course at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , graduating as a qualified pedagogue for educational psychology. She had been a member of the SED since 1957 and, during her time in the district council, signed a declaration of commitment for the Stasi.
In 1990 she became a teacher at the Mengersgereuth-Hammern regular school and worked as a teacher in adult education from 1992 to 1994 .
In the state elections in Thuringia in 1994 , she was elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the PDS . In 1996 she became a member of the state board of the PDS Thuringia . Pursuant to Section 1 (2) of the Thuringian Members' Act of February 7, 1991, it was regulated that members who knowingly worked with the MfS as an IM should lose their mandate. In the first electoral period there was a consensus on this and on a regular request to the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files. In the second electoral term, the PDS rejected it. The PDS members Ursula Fischer , Konrad Scheringer and Almuth Beck successfully sued the Thuringian constitutional court against the decision of the majority of the state parliament on May 18, 1995 to carry out such a review even against the will of the individual members of parliament . He stated that there was no legal basis for this step. A regulation in the rules of procedure of the state parliament is not enough. The state parliament then passed the required legal basis with the Thuringian parliamentary review law. On April 29, 1999, the state parliament decided to withdraw Almuth Beck's mandate from the state parliament in accordance with Section 8 of the Thuringian Parliamentary Review Act. The PDS parliamentary group filed a legal action against this decision .
This lawsuit was successful; the Constitutional Court held the law on parliamentary review to be not covered by the constitution.
The Constitutional Court did not enter into an examination of the Stasi allegations itself. Since he had declared the law to be ineffective, the accuracy of the Stasi allegations did not matter. Almuth Beck had always maintained that the declaration of commitment was to be understood as a "declaration of silence" in the context of her official contacts with the GDR secret service. In addition, she declared “I have not harmed anyone”.
In the state elections in Thuringia in 1999 , Beck was not re-elected and left the state parliament.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Linck: How a Landtag learned to walk: memories of a West German construction worker in Thuringia. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20468-6 , p. 196 ff., Digitized
- ^ Press release from the Constitutional Court
- ↑ The withdrawal of a mandate leaves Beck cold; in: Rhein-Zeitung of April 29, 1999
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Almuth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (PDS), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sonneberg |