Barbara Borchardt

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Barbara Borchardt (born March 26, 1956 in Altentreptow ) is a German politician ( SED , PDS and Die Linke ) and a founding member of the anti-capitalist left .

She was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2004 to 2016 . Since March 8, 2017, she has been a deputy member of the State Constitutional Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , and has been a member of it since May 15, 2020. Your choice is controversial because the anti-capitalist left is classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a left-wing extremist .

Origin and career path

Borchardt's foster father was the district court director in Templin in the Neubrandenburg district of the GDR . Borchardt graduated from high school in 1974 and was then a member of the Templin district council until 1976 . From 1976 to 1978 she was mayor of the municipality of Rutenberg (now part of the city of Lychen ).

In 1977 she began a correspondence course in political science and law .

In 1979 she became mayor of the community of Groß Daberkow . During this time, she graduated in 1984 from the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR in Potsdam , which was regarded as the GDR's cadre school , and then completed a distance learning course from 1986 to 1990 to become a qualified lawyer .

After reunification in 1990, she was initially unemployed until 1991. In 1991 she became an employee of the Unemployment Association Germany e. V. and was most recently deputy managing director in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional association.

politics

Borchardt joined the SED in 1976 and remained a member of the PDS even after reunification . From 1990 to 1999 she was chairman of the PDS district association in Strasburg .

Since 1990 she has been a member of the board of the PDS regional association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , temporarily as deputy state chairwoman. From 1990 to 1994 she was also the party leader of the PDS in the Strasburg district assembly.

From 1997 to 1998 she was the spokesperson for the National Poverty Conference .

In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1998 , she was elected to the state parliament, to which she first belonged from October 26, 1998 to September 22, 2002. In the subsequent election she could not move in again and was unemployed for the next two years. During this time she was a member of the PDS executive committee from 2002 to 2003 and a member of the unemployment council from 2003 to 2004.

On December 2, 2004, Borchardt succeeded Karsten Neumann , who had been elected as the state data protection officer, in the state parliament. In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2006 , she was able to move into parliament again via the state list of the Left ; her candidacy in the Parchim II constituency was unsuccessful.

From November 2006 to October 2011 she was chair of the Petitions Committee. Borchardt was the spokeswoman for the Left Party for European and legal policy.

criticism

In 1981 Borchardt is said to have taken advantage of her position as mayor of Groß Darberkow to come into possession of a house. Specifically, Borchardt is said to have threatened a couple who wanted to leave the GDR to prevent them from leaving if they did not transfer their house to Borchardt. Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Borchardt is said to have sold the house to the community, of which she was still mayor, for 18,000 marks. The allegations were made by the couple in question in mid-June 2020. Borchardt did not comment on the allegations.

In 2011, Borchardt and other leading members of their regional association signed a thesis paper on the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall . The aim of the paper was to “come close to historical truth” in order to “draw the necessary conclusions from it”. In this paper, among other things, the construction of the Berlin Wall is described as “without any alternative for the tours of the Soviet Union and the GDR”. Democratic West Berlin had been used to “destabilize the GDR”. The Iron Curtain stands for “a period of peaceful coexistence in Europe [,] which was characterized, among other things, by the worldwide recognition of the GDR”. In conclusion, the authors criticized the wall and the situation between the FRG and the GDR as a whole. So “families were separated, life plans thwarted, freedom of travel remained a utopia. People lost their lives at the border. ”The authors conclude that the system of socialism in the GDR failed because of the lack of competitiveness of the“ economy on a global scale ”, the lack of“ individual self-fulfillment ”and the lack of“ democratic rights ”. According to the authors, socialism is only possible “if the people want it”.

In 2016, Borchardt was criticized for her behavior as the leader of an anti-right demonstration by antifa and leftists in Demmin . She had campaigned for a man who had been checked by police officers after he had specifically photographed them. Days earlier, the left-wing extremist man had been sentenced to four years and five months in prison after throwing stones at police officers at a football game in 2014.

In the 2020 election as constitutional judge in the Schwerin state parliament, Borchardt only achieved the necessary two-thirds majority in the second round with the help of votes from the ranks of the CDU and SPD . She was criticized for being active in the anti-capitalist left organization, which is classified and observed by the protection of the constitution at the federal level, but not in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as left-wing extremists. Borchardt had co-founded the organization in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and was a member of the speakers' council there. Borchardt confirmed to the world that she did not see her membership there as a contradiction to her office as constitutional judge. In the young world she justified this with the fact that the Basic Law does not explicitly provide for a capitalist economic order . The CDU federal chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer criticized Borchardt's election by the regional association of her party. Borchardt “apparently” quarrels with the constitution , her choice “harms the reputation of the Constitutional Court”. Borchardt responded with the statement that the CDU chairwoman acted “reflexively and obviously without knowledge” of the election procedure.

In the course of the debate about her election as lay constitutional judge, her professional suitability was also questioned. Specifically, Borchardt's posts on Facebook came into focus, on which she “prohibits Facebook from using its data commercially”. The shared post is considered a chain letter or hoax and has no legal effect. However, it is precisely the layperson's position that must be taken into account here.

Borchardt came under fire in spring 2020 for payments from the state treasury. According to research by NDR 1 Radio MV, Borchardt had apparently wrongly received money as a parliamentary group manager in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district assembly. According to the district, it was a legal gray area. The AfD wanted to recall her as constitutional judge, but this did not find a majority in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament .

Private

Borchardt is non-denominational, has a second marriage and has three children.

literature

Web links

Commons : Barbara Borchardt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anja Stehle, Berlin: Barbara Borchardt is a member of the “Anti-Capitalist Left” . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  2. ↑ State Constitutional Court again complete. Press release from the State Constitutional Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. March 9, 2017, accessed June 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Another ballot: Left Barbara Borchardt now elected to the Constitutional Court. In: Nordkurier.de. May 15, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Left-wing politician elected member of the Constitutional Court. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 15, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 13 from 71, The members of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE and their work in Schwerin Castle, p. 10; http://www.linksfraktionmv.de/fileadmin/fraktion/Publikationen/Materialien/Schlossbuch.pdf
  6. ↑ Stefan Ludmann: Elected to the constitutional court in the second attempt. In: NDR 1 Radio MV . May 15, 2020, accessed August 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ Illegal real estate deal? Borchardt is said to have squeezed GDR regime opponents home. In: Focus Online. June 12, 2020, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ FOCUS Online: How left-wing constitutional judge shamelessly enriched herself in GDR times. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Lisa Caspari: uprising of the left Fundis. In: Zeit Online . 4th August 2011 .;
  10. ^ Theses on the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Winfried Wagner: After a stone's throw at the police: Hansa-Fan appeals against a prison sentence | nnn.de. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Borchardt case: Kramp-Karrenbauer is targeting state CDU. In: NDR 1 MV . May 22, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020.
  13. ^ Scandal about the election of judges in the state parliament. In: NDR. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  14. ↑ "We want to get into the substantive debate" . In: young world . ( jungewelt.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).
  15. ↑ Marcel Leubecher: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: constitutional judge - and a member of the Anti-Capitalist Left . In: THE WORLD . May 18, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed May 19, 2020]).
  16. ^ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Left politician Borchardt new constitutional judge . In: young world . May 19, 2020 ( jungewelt.de [accessed May 20, 2020]).
  17. ↑ Kramp-Karrenbauer criticizes Borchardt's election as constitutional judge. In: Der Spiegel . May 22, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Interview by Christian Stemmler with Barbara Borchardt: "That's just plain tasteless" . In: young world . May 27, 2020 ( jungewelt.de ).
  19. ↑ Sven Hadon: Law graduate of the Left shares Facebook nonsense. In: image. Axel Springer SE, May 21, 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  20. ^ Constitutional judge Borchardt: Too much money from the state. In: NDR 1 Radio MV. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Borchardt remains a judge at the state constitutional court. In: NDR 1 Radio MV. June 12, 2020, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Borchardt, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, PDS and Die Linke)
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Altentreptow