Barbara John

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Barbara John, ombudswoman for the survivors of the victims of the National Socialist Underground (2013 at the NSU trial in Munich)

Barbara John (* 18th January 1938 in Berlin ) is a German politician of the CDU , former elementary school teacher and Diplompolitologin . From 1981 to 2003 she was the commissioner for foreigners in the Berlin Senate. Since 2003 she has been chairwoman of the board of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin. She performs this function on a voluntary basis. Since her retirement in 2003, she has continued to be involved in migration issues. Since July 2003 she has been the coordinator for language promotion at the Senate Department for Education, Science and Research in Berlin and chair of the expert committee for integration language courses atFederal Office for Migration and Refugees . In October 2007 she was elected Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency . She is a non-Muslim member of the Board of Trustees of the Muslim Academy in Germany . Since 2008 she has represented Germany as a member of the Council of Europe's Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). In addition, she has been chairwoman of the Berlin Diocesan Association of the Catholic German Women's Association since 2009 . In January 2012 she was appointed ombudswoman of the federal government for the victims and survivors of the so-called neo-Nazi cell (NSU). Various publications on language didactic and integration policy topics.

childhood and education

John's parents had migrated from Silesia to Berlin in the 1920s . She grew up with a brother in Berlin-Kreuzberg at Reichenberger Strasse 12, where her father ran a candle-making workshop. During the Second World War she lived temporarily with her mother with her parents in Silesia and witnessed the expulsion of the Germans there to the West . After graduating from high school, she studied educational science in Lüneburg from 1958 to 1961 and was then a primary school teacher for German and English in Hamburg until 1966 .

At the Free University of Berlin and the London School of Economics , she completed a second degree in political science and educational economics , which she graduated with a diploma in political science . She then worked for several years in teacher training for German as a second language at the Free University of Berlin.

Career

In the Berlin election in 1981 , John was initially elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but resigned in November 1981, as she was given the newly created office of Foreigners Commissioner for the State of Berlin.

In May 2001, John became an honorary professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at Berlin's Humboldt University .

She retired on June 30, 2003. Her successor in the office of foreigners commissioner was Günter Piening.

Volunteering

Barbara John is on the board of Veolia's corporate foundation . She has been on the Board of Trustees of the Education Foundation since 2012 . In the Foundation Synanon she is involved also as a member of the Board of Trustees .

Since 2010, John, together with Romani Rose and Maria Böhmer , has been the patron of the Show Racism the Red Card - Germany eV initiative

In December 2011, Barbara John became ombudsman for the victims of the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU), a free activity in which the BfJ reimburses expenses for an assistant, travel expenses, interpreting services and paperwork. As such, she published a conversation tape with the relatives of the NSU murder victims.

Barbara John is a member of the specialist commission appointed by the federal government on the framework conditions for integration skills .

Awards

Publications

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 195.

Web links

Commons : Barbara John  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.muslimische-akademie.de/kuratorium.htm Muslim Academy in Germany: Members of the Board of Trustees
  2. ↑ http://www.kdfb-berlin.de/wir-ueber-uns/dioezesanvorstand Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund Diözesanverband Berlin: Board members
  3. ↑ Info: About the person. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 25, 2012; Plutonia Plarre: "The integration policy was foolish". In: Die Tageszeitung , January 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Birgit Wentzien: "Everyone who lives with us is our fellow man". In: Deutschlandfunk , December 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ Foreigners Commissioner: Wowereit said goodbye to Barbara John ( memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), berlin.de, June 30, 2003
  6. ↑ see brief curriculum vitae of Piening at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, accessed July 31, 2017
  7. ^ Veolia Foundation: Contact. Retrieved June 16, 2013
  8. ^ Synanon Foundation: Board of Trustees
  9. ^ "Show Racism the Red Card" patronage ( Memento from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ German Bundestag : hardship payments to victims right-wing violence. Printed matter 18/1938, page 13/16, June 30, 2014 (PDF) .
personal data
SURNAME John, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin