Antje Vollmer

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Antje Vollmer leads a debate in the Bundestag, 2003

Antje Vollmer (born May 31, 1943 in Lübbecke , Westphalia ) is a German Protestant pastor , politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and a freelance author . From 1994 to 2005 she was Vice President of the German Bundestag .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1962 at the Wittekind-Gymnasium Lübbecke , Antje Vollmer studied Protestant theology in Berlin , Heidelberg , Tübingen and Paris , which she completed in 1968 with the first and 1971 with the second theological exam . In 1973 the doctorate to Dr. phil. She was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

From 1969 to 1971 she was a research assistant at the Church University in Berlin . From 1971 to 1974 she worked as a pastor in the Wedding district . Also in 1971 she began postgraduate studies in adult education , which she graduated with a diploma in 1975. From 1976 to 1982 she was a lecturer in rural educational work at the Evangelical Heimvolkshochschule at the Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel in Bielefeld . In 2009, Vollmer took on a visiting professorship for political management from the Mercator Foundation at the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Political party

In the 1970s, Antje Vollmer was politically active in the " League against Imperialism " in the context of the Maoist KPD / AO , but did not join the party. She has been a member of the Green Party since 1985 . In 2018, in a guest article in Spiegel magazine, she spoke out in favor of Sahra Wagenknecht 's “ Stand Up ” collection movement .

MPs

In 1983, she was as a non-member of the party the Greens for this member of the German Bundestag and was thus the first Green Party Parliamentary Group on. In 1984 she was also the spokeswoman for the Greens parliamentary group. Since the rotation principle applied to the Greens at the time , they left the Bundestag in April 1985. In 1987 she was re-elected to the Bundestag and was a member of it until the end of the 1990 legislative period. From January 1989 to December 1990 she was again parliamentary group speaker. In the 1990 Bundestag election , the West German Greens failed to meet the five percent hurdle . From 1994 to 2005 she was a member of the Bundestag again and since November 1994 she was the first representative of the Greens to hold the office of Vice President of the German Bundestag . At the same time, she was the cultural-political spokeswoman for the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Antje Vollmer entered the German Bundestag in 1983 and 1987 via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1994, 1998 and 2002 via the state list of Hesse .

Your proposal for a dialogue with the imprisoned members of the RAF (1985/1987) to end terrorist violence was controversial. After September 11, 2001, she contradicted all theoretical approaches that claim to be able to solve the terrorism problem militarily. As a pacifist, she repeatedly criticized military interventions, especially the Afghan war; she eventually gave up another political office for her party.

In 2004, Vollmer spoke out against the regulation of the adoption of stepchildren in the Law on Enlargement of Partnerships , as passed by the red-green coalition , for example in an editorial in the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel or in a personal statement in the minutes of the German Bundestag, but finally voted with the majority of her party for the Measure.

Round table home education (RTH)

Vollmer was chairman of the round table on home education in the 1950s and 1960s , which was set up by the federal government in spring 2009 on the recommendation of the Bundestag and was supposed to deal with the events in home education in western post-war Germany by 2010 .

Marian Krüger wrote in Neues Deutschland on May 8, 2010 about the role and the associated reappraisal task of Ms. Vollmer under the title “The Rebellion of Glückstadt”: “Antje Vollmer, the chairwoman of the home education round table, leads the conditions in the homes to the wrong Parenting ideas, the failure of authorities and the »mistakes« of individuals come back. She [also] rejects claims for compensation for forced labor. "

Political Initiatives

  • since 1984: Initiative for compensation for forced laborers, victims of National Socialism and euthanasia , homosexuals, conscientious objectors
  • 1985: Beginning of a dialogue with RAF terrorists up to their self-dissolution in 1998
  • 1995 to 1999: for a reform of foundation law
  • 1995 to 1997: for a German-Czech declaration of reconciliation
  • since 1995: attempt of a dialogue between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama with the aim of his return to Tibet
  • 1998: Co-initiator of the establishment of a culture committee of the study commission “Culture in Germany” of the German Bundestag and the demand for a special culture ministry
  • 1999: for the youth project "Street Football for Tolerance"
  • since 2002: public hearings on the future of German theaters
  • 2004: for a transmission quota for German-language music or music produced here
  • 2013: First signatory (with Ingo Schulze, Roger Willemsen and others) of an appeal "Against the grand coalition"
  • 2014: Co-signer of the appeal for a different policy on Russia
  • 2015: Initiator - together with Horst Teltschik and Walter Stützle - of an appeal on the occasion of the Ukraine crisis: “War in Europe again? Not in our name! "
  • 2018: Supporter of the collection movement Stand Up .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ecumenism in times of terror. Polemic for Christian unity , by Klaus Mertes (author), Antje Vollmer (author) / An exchange of letters between Antje Vollmer and Klaus Mertes. Concrete steps towards ecumenism / Herder publishing house
  • The Neuwerk Movement: Between Youth Movement and Religious Socialism , by Antje Vollmer (Author) Exciting documentation of Protestant church history. With unique original quotes and photographs / Verlag Herder 2016
  • The Neuwerk movement 1919–1935 . A contribution to the history of the youth movement, religious socialism and workers' education . Blasaditsch, Augsburg 1973. (Inaugural dissertation, Berlin 1973)
  • Clara Zetkin and the proletarian women's movement . Berlin 1978 (alias Karin Bauer)
  • ... and defend yourself daily. A green diary. 1984.
  • No wonderland for Alice. Women's utopias. 1986.
  • The beautiful power of reason: information about a generation. 1991.
  • Hot peace. About violence, power and the mystery of civilization. 1995, ISBN 3-462-02417-5 .
  • (with Friedrich Hechelmann ): Orpheus and Eurydice . Weitbrecht, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-522-72190-X .
  • God coming? Against the troublemakers in the name of God. Kösel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-466-36776-4 .
  • Double life: Heinrich and Gottliebe von Lehndorff in the resistance against Hitler and von Ribbentrop. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2010, Die Other Bibliothek series , ISBN 978-3-8218-4773-3 .
  • Stauffenberg's Companions (Authors: Antje Vollmer, Lars-Broder Keil; Hanser Verlag Berlin 2013)
  • The world behind the pictures. The lost Federal Republic in the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder - An exchange of letters. Sailor Blue Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-941155-44-2 . (Correspondence between Antje Vollmer and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel )
  • Together with Hans-Eckhart Wenzel: Konrad Wolf. Chronicler in the century of extremes. The Other Library, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8477-0416-4 .

literature

  • Reimar Oltmanns : Women in power - Marie Schlei - Renate Schmidt - Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer - Rita Süssmuth - Antje Vollmer; Protocols of an era of new beginnings. athenaums program by anton hain, frankfurt a. M. 1990, ISBN 3-445-08551-X .
  • Immigrated to their own country. What remains of red-green. Antje Vollmer in conversation with Hans Werner Kilz . Pantheon, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-55015-X .

Honors

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. 90 years, 90 heads. In: A series of portraits for the 90th anniversary of the German National Academic Foundation. December 1, 2018, accessed April 11, 2020 .
  2. Visiting professor at the NRW School of Governance: Dr. Antje Vollmer is coming. Press release from the University of Duisburg-Essen, March 31, 2009.
  3. ^ Andreas Kühn: Stalin's grandsons, Mao's sons. The world of the K groups in the Federal Republic of the 1970s , Campus-Verlag 2005, p. 230
  4. "A first big stage accomplished": Claudia Roth on the next goals of the Greens. ( Memento of December 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.22 MB) Interview in the LSVD member magazine respekt! September 2005, p. 13.
  5. PDF at dip21.bundestag.de
  6. Information page of the Home Education Fund ( Memento from October 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  7. The Rebellion of Glückstadt
  8. get up The collection movement: Supporters  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.aufhaben.de  
  9. Pascal Beucker : Myths in Bags. In: concrete. Issue 1/96
  10. Evangelical in Westphalia short biography ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ The West, Hans Ehrenberg Prize for Antje Vollmer