André Brie

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André Brie (2016)

André Brie (born March 13, 1950 in Schwerin ) is a German politician ( SED , PDS and Die Linke ). From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the European Parliament and from 2011 to 2016 a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . He was an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security for almost two decades .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1968 , Brie served for three years with the NVA in Brandenburg an der Havel as a technician in the helicopter squadron 31. In 1971, he began studying foreign policy at the Institute for International Relations at the GDR Academy of Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg , which he completed in 1976 with a degree in political science. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for International Relations until 1989. In 1979 he received his doctorate (dissertation A) as Dr. rer. pole. In 1981 he received the UN disarmament grant and completed his habilitation in 1986 (dissertation B). Subsequently, he was also lecturer and head of department for questions of European security and disarmament. From 1989 to 1990 Brie was a research fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Civilization at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1985 and 1986 Brie was a scientific advisor to the GDR delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference and from 1986 to 1991 a member of the Pugwash working groups for nuclear weapons in Europe and for conventional weapons in Europe.

Brie is a founding member of the Federal Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . He is also a member of the steering committee of the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue .

Political party

In 1969 Brie became a member of the SED . From 1990 to 1999 he was campaign manager for the PDS . In addition, he was deputy national chairman of the PDS from 1990 to 1992 and regional chairman of the PDS in Berlin from 1991 to 1992. He resigned from both offices after his work as an unofficial employee for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR became known.

From 1993 to 1999 Brie was again a member of the PDS federal executive committee and from 1991 to 1997 headed the PDS policy committee. In this office he earned a reputation as a leading theorist and thought leader of the PDS.

From 2003 to 2005 Brie was a member of the PDS state executive in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In 2004 he was head of the PDS campaign for the European Parliament election.

In 2006 Andre Brie, together with Helmuth Markov and Gabi Zimmer , approved a resolution of the EU Parliament in which the human rights situation in Cuba was criticized. For this, Brie came under strong criticism within the party because the criticism of human rights violations in Cuba that it expressed does not correspond to the party line.

After that, Brie acted aggressively for some time as a critic of the party content and of the party chairman Oskar Lafontaine as well as a supporter of a center-left government alliance at the federal level and received a lot of media attention. In this context, he was accused, among other things, of behaving in a lack of solidarity. Daniela Dahn , for example, criticized his attempts to participate in government .

MP

From 1999 to 2009 Brie was a member of the European Parliament . Here he was chairman of the KVEL / NGL group in the committee for foreign affairs and in the committee for the internal market and consumer protection. He was also President of the European Parliament delegation to Chile .

When drawing up the federal list of the party Die Linke for the European elections on June 7, 2009, Brie failed in a runoff election for the promising 12th place against Sascha Wagener from the youth association. Among other things, his affirmation of the content of the EU constitutional treaty was criticized . He did not run for any other places.

In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 4, 2011, he received a mandate from the state list.

Unofficial employee of the State Security

Brie has worked for the MfS, Potsdam District Administration ( Department II / 6 - Counter-Espionage ), as IM "Peter Scholz" since 1970 . He received the NVA Medal of Merit in bronze for his spying activities . His radius of action as IM "Peter Scholz" included: friends, girlfriends, work colleagues (including at the IIB, ASR of the GDR, UN representation of the GDR - as a scholarship holder, writers' association, cabaret scene of the GDR), songwriters (including Bernd Rump ), group shift , Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (including Klaus Vonderwerth and Petra Kurz). In 1986 André Brie demanded an increase in "revolutionary vigilance" at the Institute for International Relations.

family

Brie is the son of the GDR diplomat Horst Brie and grew up in China and North Korea, among other places, as the family moved for professional reasons . He is married to the former Saxon member of the state parliament Ingrid Mattern (Die Linke), with whom he has a daughter. He also has two grown daughters from his first marriage. His brother Michael Brie is one of the theorists of the Left Party.

Publications

Brie is the author of various papers on foreign and security policy. He has also published cabaret texts, aphorisms and children's books.

Aphorisms:

  • Wisdom's Last Shot (co-author) (1980)
  • The Truth Lies in the Middle (1982), ISBN 3-359-00237-7
  • In the beginning was the last word (1985)
  • Only the bare truth goes with no fashion (1999), ISBN 3-359-00976-2

literature

Web links

Commons : André Brie  - collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: André Brie  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final report of the commission of the state parliament according to § 48 of the law of 11 March 2014 (PDF, 128 kB)
  2. ^ Vita of André Brie on his website www.andrebrie.de/europa_1999-2009
  3. ↑ a b European Parliament. Citizens Handbook 5th electoral term 1999–2004. Rheinbreitbach: Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, 2000. P. 35.
  4. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 45/1992: Confessor Gregor
  5. ↑ DIE WELT of September 24th, 2009: Stasi informers push for LINKE into parliaments
  6. ↑ Party executive disgusts critics of Cuba , Spiegel Online, February 28, 2006
  7. ↑ "The PDS has no relationship to human rights" , Spiegel Online, March 1, 2006
  8. ↑ Nico Fried, Robert Roßmann: Hope for the Rebellion , sueddeutsche.de, August 10, 2007
  9. ^ André Brie: Lafontainism . Der Spiegel, No. 24, 2009
  10. ^ Election of the federal list for the European elections 2009. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009 ; Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
  11. ^ Election to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 4, 2011 - Applicants elected from state lists
  12. ↑ cf. BStU: ASt. Potsdam, 2219/89, Part II / 2, Bl. 366f.
personal data
SURNAME Brie, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SED, PDS and Die Linke) and unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin