Antje Hermenau

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Antje Hermenau (2018)

Elisabeth Antje Sina Hermenau (born July 3, 1964 in Leipzig ) is a German politician . She began her political activities during the fall of the Berlin Wall , when she was a member of the Round Table of the City of Leipzig. From 1990 to 1994 Hermenau was a member of the Saxon State Parliament for the first time . Between 1994 and 2004 she was a member of the German Bundestag for Alliance 90 / The Greens . In 2004, after the re-entry of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Sachsen in the state parliament, she gave up her Bundestag mandate in order to work as a member of parliament and parliamentary group leader in the alliance's green parliamentary group. In September 2014 Hermenau announced her withdrawal from all political offices. In January 2015, she left the party after 25 years.

Life

Antje Hermenau was born on July 3, 1964 as the daughter of a housewife and a metalworker in Leipzig and grew up in a simple family. She did not go to kindergarten or after-school care. She describes her childhood as free and independent, and she experienced this time as formative.

In 1983 she passed the Abitur at the Extended Oberschule (EOS) Thomas in Leipzig and in the same year began studying pedagogy with a focus on German / English at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . During her studies she also worked as a night watchman in order to become financially independent from her parents. With her diploma thesis on political vocabulary in the CSCE process , Hermenau obtained her diploma as a language teacher in 1989 . Then she worked as a teacher at the 4th secondary school in Leipzig. In the meantime, she met the American David Rush, whom she married in 1990. From 2000 to 2002 she took part-time studies in administrative sciences at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer , which she completed with a master's degree. Her activity as a teacher in the public service in Saxony has been suspended to this day . After her resignation, Hermenau registered a small business in Dresden as a political advisor . On June 4, 2016, Hermenau was elected Vice President of the Association of Speechwriters in the German Language .

She has lived in Dresden since 1990. Her marriage to David Rush lasted four years, after the divorce Antje Rush took her maiden name Hermenau again.

She has been the mother of a son since 2006.

Political commitment

Antje Hermenau at the state party conference 2008 in Dresden

With the events of the turning point, the Rushs became politicized. While her husband was active in Democracy Now , Antje Rush participated in the Green Party in the GDR . In February 1990 Antje Rush took over the seat of the Greens at the Round Table in Leipzig, where she met Wolfgang Tiefensee, among others . In the first free local elections in the GDR on May 6, 1990, she ran unsuccessfully for the Leipzig city council. In the following years she was the only woman to help found a Saxon state association of the Greens. At the founding meeting of the green regional association in Freiberg in September 1990, it was elected to 10th place in the joint list of the New Forum with other citizens' movements and the Greens. It was there that she met Klaus Gaber and Kornelia Müller , who later became members of the state parliament . In the first Saxon state elections on October 14, 1990, the list connection reached 5.6% and ten seats. Thus, Rush moved into the first Saxon state parliament as the youngest of the ten parliamentary group members of the forum . In the parliamentary group under its chairman Klaus Gaber, she worked on issues relating to education policy in Saxony.

Antje Hermenau in the Saxon State Parliament (2013)

In the election for the Saxon state list for the 1994 federal election, Antje Rush was elected to second place behind Werner Schulz . After Alliance 90 / The Greens missed re-entry into the second Saxon state parliament on September 11, 1994 with 4.1% of the list votes, the party received 4.8% of the Saxon list votes in the election to the 13th German Bundestag five weeks later . The Saxon state association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen was allowed to send two members and Hermenau became a member of the Bundestag . There she worked in the budget committee . In 1998, Hermenau once again moved into the Bundestag with first place on the alliance green state list of Saxony. She was again a member of the Budget Committee.

In the Saxon state election on September 19, 2004 , she was the top candidate for the Greens. During the election campaign, in which Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen brought environmental issues, school and university policy and culture to the fore, Antje Hermenau represented the Alliance Green regional association. Under the title “Saxony's green power woman. Antje Hermenau ”, the Saxon Greens pursued the form of personalization in the state election campaign. With this election, the alliance green state party succeeded in jumping back into the Saxon state parliament with 5.1% of the list votes (6 seats). Among other things, the early and relatively undisputed agreement on Hermenau as the top candidate and her assurance that she would give up her Bundestag mandate when she entered the state parliament are seen as one of several factors for the success of the Greens. Monika Lazar from the district of Leipzig was the successor for the abandoned Bundestag mandate .

Antje Hermenau together with Winfried Kretschmann and Volkmar Zschocke in the 2014 state election campaign

On June 10, 2007 Antje Hermenau presented the idea of ​​a collective tax cut for all women . You can compensate for the average income deficit of women in Germany. According to her, this is “positive discrimination” and is preferable to negative.

In the state elections on August 30, 2009 , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and their top candidate Antje Hermenau received 6.4 percent of the vote (9 seats). Antje Hermenau was re-elected as group leader. For her statement "If I wanted to discuss anything with the Saxon FDP at eye level, I would have to lie flat on the floor", Hermenau was awarded the quote of the year on June 17, 2010 at the summer party of the state press conference.

Together with three other group leaders , Martin Dulig (SPD), Holger Zastrow (FDP) and Steffen Flath (CDU), Hermenau was awarded the Saxon Constitutional Medal by State Parliament President Matthias Rößler on May 24, 2014 in recognition of their work to include the ban on new borrowing in the Saxon constitution awarded.

In the state election on August 31, 2014 , in which the Greens achieved a 5.7% share of the vote, she was the top candidate of her party. As a result, on September 4, she announced that she would not run for the parliamentary group chairmanship, which she had held since 2004. After a state party conference of her party on September 20, 2014, after two exploratory talks, spoke out against entering into coalition negotiations with the Saxon CDU , she announced her withdrawal from active politics. She justified her move by stating that it was wrong to position the Greens as a left-wing party and to close off the black-green option with which the state association entered the election campaign.

Together with Grimma's Lord Mayor Matthias Berger , Hermenau has been involved as a prominent person in the new “Citizens' Movement for Saxony”, a political “collection movement of the middle”, according to its own statements.

In 2019 , she ran unsuccessfully for the Free Voters on list position 20 for the Saxon state parliament.

Author

Book reading by Antje Hermenau 2015 in Dresden

Since leaving politics, she has worked as an author and policy advisor for organizations and companies. In the fall of 2015, she published a pamphlet entitled The Future Will Be Different on global issues of social and economic development. A year later she caused a stir because she read from her book at an AfD event . The daily newspaper Die Welt wrote, for example , that there had been “ outraged reactions in the social networks ”. Hermenau justified her willingness to talk to the AfD by stating that a democracy lives from talking to one another, which the then state chairman of the Greens in Saxony , Jürgen Kasek , polemicized as “political prostitution among democracy people” .

Publications

  • The future will be different. A polemic . Verlag Hille, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-939025-63-4 .
  • Views from the center of Europe. How Saxons see the world . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-374-05932-4

literature

Web links

Commons : Antje Hermenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n-tv.de: Antje Hermenau throws down at the Greens , accessed on January 28, 2015
  2. ↑ Short autobiography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on antje-hermenau.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.antje-hermenau.de  
  3. ^ Sächsischer Landtag (Ed.): People's Handbook, 1st electoral period , Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7
  4. ↑ Portrait: "Then stop - ... a farewell meeting" , Peter Unfried , the daily newspaper , online, September 2014, accessed on September 27, 2014
  5. ↑ Antje Hermenau becomes a board member in the Association of Speechwriters. In: sächsische.de. June 5, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  6. ^ Christian Demuth, Jakob Lempp (Ed.): Parties in Saxony . be.bra verlag GmbH, Dresden / Berlin 2006
  7. ^ Ulrich H. Brümmer: Party system and elections in Saxony . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006
  8. ↑ Less taxes for women, more equality? In: Der Tagesspiegel from June 10, 2007
  9. ↑ Freie Presse Online: Greens parliamentary leader Hermenau honored for "quote of the year"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 17, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freipresse.de  
  10. ↑ Constitutional Medal 2014 ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Landtag: Hermenau declares renunciation of parliamentary group chairmanship . Focus Online. September 4, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  12. ↑ Saxony's Greens lose face - Hermenau throws them down . The world. September 20, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  13. ↑ State Party Congress of the Greens ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) MDR online, accessed on September 22, 2014
  14. ↑ Interview Zeit online, accessed on February 1, 2015
  15. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Mitteldeutschland/Buergerbewegung-fuer-Sachsen-mit-Hermenau-und-Berger - accessed on October 27, 2018
  16. ↑ Candidate Antje Hermenau (FREE VOTERS), state list. July 9, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  17. ↑ http://www.freipresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/SACHSEN/CDU-holt-Hermenau-als-Expertin-in-den-Landtag-artikel9534959.php
  18. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Mitteldeutschland/News/Ex-Gruene-Antje-Hermenau-mischt-sich-mit-Streitschrift-ein
  19. ↑ https: //www.sächsische.de/antje-hermenau-am-afd-stammtisch-3493575.html. In: sächsische.de. September 16, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  20. ↑ http://www.freipresse.de/LOKALES/MITTELSACHSEN/MITTWEIDA/Stammtisch-Antje-Hermenau-stell-ihr-Buch-vor-artikel9636541.php
  21. ↑ Tobias Heimbach: Ex-Green politician Antje Hermenau appears at the AfD in Saxony. In: welt.de . September 16, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Martin Fischer: https: //www.sächsische.de/hermenau-liest-bei-afd-stammtisch-3499209.html. In: sächsische.de. September 22, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Ex-Greens defends appearance at AfD Stammtisch , accessed on September 23, 2016.
  24. ↑ Antje Hermenau at AfD regular table What does the ex-Greens want with the blue? - Source: http://www.mz-web.de/24784382 © 2016 , accessed on September 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hermenau, Antje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermenau, Elisabeth Antje Sina (full name); Rush, Antje (married name 1990 to 1994)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis90 / Die Grünen); MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig