Anne Klein

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Anne Klein (1990)

Anne Klein (born March 2, 1950 in Bilsdorf ; † April 23, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and senator for the State of Berlin. Above all, she campaigned for the rights of women and same-sex lifestyles.

Life

After graduating from high school in Dillingen , Klein first studied law and psychology in Saarbrücken and from 1972 in Berlin. She was involved in the Berlin women's movement and, with her colleagues, founded the first Berlin women's refuge and the first feminist legal advice center in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . After her state examination in 1978, she founded the first law firm in Berlin specializing in women's rights against resistance from the Bar Association and until recently worked as a specialist lawyer for family law and notary in Berlin.

Anne Klein was in a relationship with Barbara Binek for 27 years, with whom she last lived in a registered civil partnership . In 2011 Anne Klein succumbed to cancer.

Political commitment

From 1983 to 1984 Anne Klein worked for the green parliamentary group as a research assistant in the field of labor, social and pension law. She drafted a draft law for an “anti-discrimination law” for the parliamentary group of the Greens , which a few years later - in a modified version - was introduced into the German Bundestag.

After Walter Momper's election victory on January 29, 1989, she was appointed Senator for Youth, Women and Family as a non-party candidate for the Alternative List . The lesbian small living created the then new Department of same-sex lifestyles. She achieved financial security for the Whitewater project for women abused as children and set up refuges for girls in crisis situations and women who had fallen into prostitution . She also ensured that women seeking refuge in women's shelters did not have to pay for them.

After Mainzer Strasse was cleared in November 1990, the red-green coalition broke up and Klein, alongside Sybille Volkholz and Michaele Schreyer, announced her resignation. As early as the summer of 1989, she hit the headlines as the winner of approx. 8,000  DM in a money game based on the pyramid scheme for which she had advertised other players. She herself later referred to such games as "anti-social" and justified herself with the fact that she had "suppressed" the principle of these games that only those who encourage other people to participate can be successful.

In addition to working for the Green Group, Anne Klein worked in professional organizations. She was a board member of the Berlin Bar Association. As president of the pension fund for lawyers in Berlin (June 1999 to December 2006), she achieved a pension entitlement for same-sex survivors. In mid-2006 she was elected Vice-President of the German Lawyers' Union.

Anne Klein Women's Prize

In honor of Anne Klein, the Heinrich Böll Foundation has been awarding the Anne Klein Women's Prize since 2012 , with which she honors Klein's life's work and her “struggle for the implementation of women's rights and freedom”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declaration by Parliament President Walter Momper on the death of the former Senator for Women, Youth and Family Anne Klein ( Memento of April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b See the sea again . In: taz , February 26, 2011; "When the native of Saarland, who incidentally celebrated her first successes as pop singer Anouk, moved to Berlin at the age of 22, the new women's movement there was just taking shape"; Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Waltraud Schwab: "I lived my dreams". Lawyer, politician and fighter Anne Klein died at the age of only 61 - an obituary. In: L-Mag , July / August 2011, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Ex-Senator Klein is clear: never again! In: Berliner Zeitung , August 15, 1995
  5. ↑ Deadly Game . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 10, 2008
  6. ^ Prize for the realization of gender democracy: Anne Klein Women's Prize . boell.de; Retrieved September 18, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Little Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilsdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2011
Place of death Berlin