Angela Marquardt

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Angela Marquardt at the SPD federal party conference on June 25, 2017 in Dortmund

Angela Marquardt (born September 3, 1971 in Ludwigslust ) is a German politician (1990 to 2003 PDS , from 2008 SPD ). From 1994 to 1997 she was a member of the PDS federal executive committee, and from 1995 she was Deputy Federal Chairwoman. From 1998 to 2002 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 2006 she worked for the SPD member of the Bundestag Andrea Nahles , and since 2007 she has also been the managing director of the SPD think tank working group .

Youth and Studies

Marquardt grew up in Greifswald . Her mother was a teacher. Her parents divorced when she was eight years old. In her book Father, Mother, Stasi , she tells of her stepfather, who worked as a tenor at the Greifswald Theater , that he sexually abused her. Both the mother and the stepfather and the grandfather were unofficial employees (IM) for the Ministry of State Security (MfS). The friends of the family were full-time employees of the MfS. After his parents moved to Frankfurt an der Oder , Marquardt had been living in a boarding school in Greifswald since 1987. In 1990 she passed the Abitur in Greifswald and first studied sport , then from 1995 to 2005, at times with a scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , political science at the Free University of Berlin and graduated in summer 2005 with a diploma .

In 2002 it became known that Marquardt had volunteered to work at the MfS in April 1987 at the age of fifteen under the code name Katrin Brandt. Marquardt confirmed the authenticity of a corresponding document, but denied activity as a spy . On the basis of the declaration of commitment as IM, the Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure of the Bundestag examined the matter in September 2002. He stated that an activity for the state security service has not been proven. "After a thorough assessment of all the circumstances [...] the committee could not gain such a sure conviction of a willful and knowledgeable cooperation of the MPs with the State Security Service that, given the limited possibilities of evidence, reasonable doubts about the correctness of the statement IM activity would be excluded. ”Since then she has been considered a minor victim of the Stasi. In her book Father, Mother, Stasi , she later described that she had known the MfS employees whom she had recruited from the age of nine and considered them good friends of her parents.

politics

PDS

Since 1990 she was in the AG Young Comrades of the PDS Greifswald. At the federal conference of the PDS in Berlin in January 1991, Marquardt was elected to the party executive committee at the suggestion of the AG Young Comrades after two candidates had withdrawn. From January 1991 to January 1997 Marquardt was a member of the PDS federal board. On the recommendation of Gregor Gysi , she was also elected to the PDS board, which was reduced to 18 members . From 1992 to 1995 she was a full-time advisor for youth policy at the PDS party executive. In 1995 she was elected deputy chairwoman of the PDS, which she remained until January 1997. At the beginning of 1997 she resigned from the board of directors in order to take a “political break” and concentrate on her studies.

In 1998, Marquardt was nominated for election to the German Bundestag at the state party congress in Kühlungsborn in 3rd place on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state list of the PDS . From 1998 to 2002 she was a member of the PDS parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . From the beginning of 2002 until she left the Bundestag, she was deputy parliamentary manager .

After leaving the Bundestag, Marquardt stopped paying the membership fee at the end of 2002 and was thus deleted from the PDS membership list in 2003.

SPD

From 2006 she was an employee of the SPD member of the Bundestag Andrea Nahles , from 2007 also managing director of the working group think tank of the SPD, an association of predominantly younger left-wing SPD, Greens and left-wing members who, with their work for the future, have a red-red strive for green government. Marquardt joined the SPD in March 2008, but stressed that she was “not a defector” and referred to the five-year period since she left the PDS. In November 2011 she ran for the chairmanship of the Forum Democratic Left 21 , but was defeated by Hilde Mattheis .

Positions

Marquardt became known in Internet circles in particular in 1996 and 1997 when the Berlin public prosecutor wanted to censor its website because it had radically created a link to the banned magazine , which was an important forum for discussion for the autonomous community until the mid-1990s . Since then, she has repeatedly fought against any attempts to censor the network, including the blocking orders issued by Düsseldorf's District President Jürgen Büssow to Internet providers in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Marquardt was a member of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance from 2000 to 2004 and is a member of the Rote Hilfe association .

Publications

  • What I am, what stinks, what I want. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-462-02778-6 .
  • Father, mother, Stasi. (with Miriam Hollstein) Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015. ISBN 978-3-462-04723-3 .

Web links

Commons : Angela Marquardt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d "You used me!" sueddeutsche.de, April 6, 2015
  2. ↑ What is ... Angela Marquardt actually doing? stern.de, August 9, 2005
  3. ^ SPIEGEL online: PDS punk was a Stasi informant , June 11, 2002
  4. ↑ dpa: PDS MP Marquardt admits Stasi obligation. In: welt.de . June 11, 2002, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Bundestag printed paper 14/9951, September 2, 2002 (PDF; 296 kB)
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung September 13, 2002 Marquardt exonerated from Stasi accusation
  7. ↑ a b your file, our judgment on tagesspiegel.de, March 1, 2015, accessed July 2, 2017
  8. ↑ Rot-Rote Bürogemeinschaft focus.de, October 9, 2006
  9. ↑ Information on the "Think Tank" website , accessed on June 23, 2015
  10. ^ Gysis Kleene becomes Becks Große taz.de, March 14, 2008
  11. ↑ Mattheis elected, Nahles punished faz.net, November 28, 2011
  12. ↑ Angela Marquardt acquitted. RZ , July 1, 1997, accessed April 27, 2018 .
  13. ^ Members of the Advisory Board ( Memento from December 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) buendnis-toleranz.de
  14. ^ SPD newcomer defends "Rote Hilfe" stern.de, March 25, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (PDS, SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust