Andrej Holm

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Andrej Holm (2011)

Andrej Holm (* 8. October 1970 in Leipzig ) is a German social scientist with the topics of urban renewal , gentrification and housing policy . In 2016/2017, he was briefly State Secretary in the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing of the red-red-green state government ( Senate Müller II ) of Berlin .

Life

Origin and youth

Holm's great-grandparents were persecuted for their political activities during the Nazi era and emigrated to the Soviet Union . His father Hans Holm was born in Moscow and later worked in Department XX of the Berlin District Administration of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). Holm grew up in Leipzig and East Berlin . At the age of fourteen he became a member of an FDJ applicant collective for military professions and from 1985 to 1989 he was secretary of the management of the FDJ basic organization in his school. He became a candidate for the SED in January 1989 . After graduating from EOS “Paul Oestreich” in Berlin-Weißensee, he began training as an officer student in the Berlin Guard and Security Unit of the MfS in September 1989. After six weeks of basic military training. served Holm in the evaluation and control group of Department XX of the Berlin district administration of the MfS. He also undertook to study journalism at the University of Leipzig on behalf of the MfS . Holm was sworn in at the end of September 1989 and, following the dissolution of the MfS at the end of January 1990, retired from his service.

Studies and academic work

From 1990 to 1997 Holm studied social sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 2004 with a thesis on the subject of “restructuring of space and social power in redevelopment areas”. From 1998 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the research project "Changed Conditions in Urban Renewal - The Example of East Berlin" under the direction of Hartmut Häußermann . In 2005/2006 he worked as a coordinator on the project “The European URBAN Experience - the Academic Perspective”. In 2008/2009 he was employed at the Institute for Human Geography at the University of Frankfurt , where he coordinated a research project on the “Reorganization of the Urban in the Neoliberal Age”. From 2009 to 2011 he took on teaching duties in the field of urban research at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . Since 2011 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin; his position there has been permanent since 2013.

As part of the Stasi affair , the President of the Humboldt University, Sabine Kunst , which on 18 January 2017 proper notice Holms known as a research assistant. She justified this with his false information about his stasis in a personnel questionnaire in 2005 and in several résumés, which the university rated as fraudulent under labor law ; he is also not prepared to admit his false statements and to distance himself from them. Shortly afterwards, his position as a lecturer at the HU Berlin was terminated due to the Stasi affair. Holm's dismissal caused widespread protest from the student body, and the Institute for Social Science was filled. Holm was popular among the student body due to his critical view of urban sociology and rental price developments. The protest and the occupation did not end even after three weeks. According to the HU, a statement by Holms on February 9, 2017, in which he "admitted to the university for the first time that he had made false statements and regrets this", was the reason to convert the termination into a warning . President Kunst emphasized that if “Holm had disclosed his biography when he was hired”, his “appointment would also have been possible based on the information currently available”. CDU and AfD condemned the relenting and accused art of collapsing because of the student protests. After Holm's leave of absence until the end of 2018, he returned to the work area urban and regional sociology.

politics

Early political activity

After the fall of the Wall, Holm became involved in the opposition Marxist youth association Young Left and the opposition alliance United Left . Later he was active in the autonomous squatter movement and in various neighborhood and tenant initiatives. He wrote for the magazines Telegraph and MieterEcho (magazine of the Berliner MieterGemeinschaft) as well as for the Junge Welt , the papers for German and international politics , analysis & criticism and other publications. He also dealt with the privatization of apartments in Germany and other European countries and was active in the “Berlin Alliance against Privatization” and in the “Network Privatization / Public Goods” of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung .

Investigative procedures and monitoring measures

In September 2006, the Federal Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation against Holm on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization (Section 129a StGB ), as a result of which he was arrested on July 31, 2007. An arrest warrant was issued against him because of alleged membership in the militant group (mg) , which the Federal Prosecutor classified as terrorist at the time .

The arrest met with criticism because the suspicion was not based on concrete actions, but on evidence based on statements critical of gentrification and the choice of words in Holm's scientific publications. Therefore, 43 scholars from home and abroad as well as the sociologists Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen called for Holm's release in open letters.

On October 24, 2007, the Federal Court of Justice finally overturned the arrest warrant because the investigations did not provide sufficient evidence for an urgent suspicion; in addition, the mg is not a terrorist organization . No charges were brought against Holm; the proceedings were discontinued on July 5, 2010 due to insufficient suspicion .

Holm sought compensation in court for having been innocently imprisoned and for months prior to being monitored. His partner Anne Roth documented the accompanying surveillance measures against Holm and herself in her blog.

Appointment as State Secretary - Stasi affair

At the beginning of December 2016, the Senate of Berlin Holm appointed Katrin Lompscher ( Die Linke ) as State Secretary for Housing on the proposal of the Senator for Urban Development and Housing. The appointment of Holm led to widespread criticism due to his previous five-month activity as a full-time employee at the MfS and his false information about this activity towards the Humboldt University.

After Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller announced on January 14, 2017, without consulting the left-wing coalition partner, that Holm would be fired because of the false information and his handling of it, Holm announced his resignation from the office of State Secretary on January 16. As a result, his position at the HU was terminated, but the termination was later converted into a warning due to major protests by the student body. Since February 2017, Holm has been advising the Senate Administration as a member of the “Advisory Committee for the Urban Development Plan Housing 2030”.

In his Stasi files, “steadfastness, courage and class position” of the 18-year-old officer student Holm was praised. According to the controversial historian Hubertus Knabe , Holm “not only sat idly in a clerk's office”, but was “an employee of the evaluation and control group in the Berlin district administration of the Stasi”, in which “in autumn 1989 all information about the resistance against the SED merged ". Holm justified his work at that time with his youthful inexperience: “When I was approached at the age of 16 because of my family background, I considered it my duty to serve the GDR. When I was 18, I lacked the courage to withdraw my commitment. ”The historian Sascha Kowalczuk takes the Causa Holm as an opportunity to shed light on the question of whether and when the past passes, and states that the case is being instrumentalized from all sides.

Private

Holm is in a relationship with the network activist and journalist Anne Roth .

Fonts (selection)

Books:

  • With Hartmut Häußermann , Daniela Zunzer: Urban renewal in the Berlin Republic. Modernization in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002 (= City, Space and Society ; Vol. 16), ISBN 3-8100-3440-1 .
  • The restructuring of the space. Urban renewal in the 1990s in East Berlin. Interests and balance of power. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006 (= Urban studies ), ISBN 3-89942-521-9 .
  • As editor: Revolution as a process. Self-organization and participation in Venezuela. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89965-259-8 .
  • We are all staying! Gentrification - Urban conflicts about upgrading and displacement. Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89771-106-8 . (= unrest transparent. social crisis, volume 2).
  • Edited with Matthias Bernt, Britta Grell: The Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2478-6 .
  • As editor: Reclaim Berlin. Social struggles in the neoliberal city. Association a, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-935936-94-1 .
  • Rent madness. Why living is becoming more and more expensive and who benefits from it. Knaur, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-78676-5 .
  • Come. Go. Stay. Andrej Holm in conversation with Samuel Stuhlpfarrer. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85476-666-7 .

Technical articles:

  • Social scientific theories on space and area . UFZ - Environmental Research Center Leipzig-Halle, Leipzig a. a. 2004 (= UFZ report 26, 2004). (Available online as a PDF file , 625 kB)
  • The exit of the state from housing policy. In: Uwe Altrock u. a .: Planungsrundschau , 2006, pp. 103–113.
  • Reorganizations of the urban in capitalist societies. In: Marxistische Blätter , Issue 5/2008, Volume 46, pp. 13–21.

Web links

Commons : Andrej Holm  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Once a Stasi - always a Stasi? In: Federal Center for Political Education . January 10, 2017. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Lorenz Maroldt and Christoph Twickel: Andrej Holm: "Had I suspected that, I would have thought about doing the job". In: The time . December 23, 2016, accessed January 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files : MfS files on Andrej Holm , on the website of the Robert Havemann Society
  4. ↑ Claudia von Laak: Dispute about the Stasi past of Andrej Holm. December 12, 2016, accessed January 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Interview with Andrej Holm u. a .: This is not legally acquired information. , the daily newspaper, 15./16. December 2007.
  6. ^ The European URBAN experience - seen from the academic perspective. In: sowi.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .
  7. ↑ People in the research association “Reorganization of the Urban in the Neoliberal Age”. In: neuordnung.info. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on January 12, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Sabine Beikler: Berlin State Secretary with a Stasi past: The Andrej Holm case concerns the House of Representatives today. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst: Declaration by the President of the HU on the termination of the employment relationship with Dr. Holm - press portal. In: www.hu-berlin.de. Humboldt University, January 18, 2017, archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Holm also loses his post at the university. In: Spiegel Online. January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/verheimlichte-stasi-vergangenheit-humboldt-uni-entlaesst-andrej-holm/19268198.html
  13. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/studierendenproteste-fuer-andrej-holm-hu-praesidentin-bittet-um-ende-von-besetzung/19329120.html
  14. ↑ https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article161878586/HU-Praesidentin-attackiert-Studenten-im-Fall-Holm.html
  15. ↑ Andrej Holm regrets incorrect information, communication from the Humboldt University of February 10, 2017.
  16. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/ex-staatssekretaer-mit-stasi-vergangenheit-hu- sucht-kuendigung-von-andrej-holm-zurueck/ 19375698.html
  17. ^ Holms' declaration on the continuation of the employment contract with the Humboldt University in Berlin
  18. ↑ Science under suspicion of terrorism , wsws.org, August 24, 2007.
  19. ↑ a b Arrest warrant against Berlin sociologists repealed , Federal Court of Justice, press office communication No. 154/2007.
  20. ↑ Thoughts are fair game: How to come under suspicion of terrorism. , sueddeutsche.de, August 22, 2007.
  21. ^ Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassen: Guantánamo in Germany. In: The Guardian , August 21, 2007.
  22. Jump into solitary confinement through a Google search. Heise, August 22, 2007.
  23. ↑ RESOLUTION StB 34/07 of October 18, 2007 in the preliminary investigation into membership in a terrorist organization , juris.bundesgerichtshof.de, accessed on January 14, 2017.
  24. ^ Arrest warrants against alleged members of the "militant group" suspended , Federal Court of Justice, press office press release no. 181/2007.
  25. ↑ Hendrik Loven: Unharmed in the crosshairs of the terror investigators. In: deutschlandfunk.de. October 13, 2011, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  26. ↑ State Secretary for Housing Dr. Andrej Holm ( Memento from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, accessed on December 31, 2016.
  27. ↑ Kevin Hagen: Designated Berlin State Secretary Holm: The problem politician. In: Spiegel Online . December 12, 2016, accessed January 12, 2017 .
  28. ^ Andreas Abel: Decision in January in the Andrej Holm case. In: Berliner Morgenpost . December 22, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Dismissal: Berlin State Secretary Holm has to leave because of the Stasi past . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 14, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 14, 2017]).
  30. ↑ Berlin's State Secretary Holm is dismissed because of the Stasi past. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 14, 2017.
  31. ↑ Declaration of resignation on andrejholm.de , accessed on January 16, 2017.
  32. ↑ Andrej Holm works as a consultant in the Senate , Tagesspiegel-Online, accessed on October 22, 2017.
  33. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/die-stasi-akte-andrej-holm
  34. ↑ The Andrej Holm cadre files as PDF
  35. ↑ Once a Stasi - always a Stasi?
  36. ↑ A life under state observation. , badische-zeitung.de, October 21, 2008.
  37. ↑ Total surveillance , campus.nzz.ch, June 28, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Andrej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig