Barbara Syrbe

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Barbara Syrbe (born October 12, 1954 in Jena ) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . In 2001 she was elected district administrator for the district of Ostvorpommern in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and thus the first district administrator with a PDS mandate in Germany . She served in this capacity until 2011 after being re-elected in 2008. From the district elections in September 2011 until October 2018, she was the district administrator of the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald that was newly created by the district reform in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 .

Life

Barbara Syrbe was born in Jena in 1954 and grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt - today's Chemnitz  - and in Potsdam . She completed a degree in Marxist-Leninist philosophy in Jena and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1978 she moved to Karlshagen on the island of Usedom in what was then the Wolgast district due to the work of her husband, who was a fighter pilot in the National People's Army . From 1980 until the political change in 1990, she worked as an educational facility manager at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast . In 1988 she completed her doctorate at the Mühlhausen University of Education with the thesis Approaches for dialectical-materialistic thinking in the natural philosophy of the young Schelling (with special consideration of the historical and the history of ideas up to the year 1799) .

From 1991, she initially worked as a district member and constituency member of a member of the state parliament of her party. From 1998 until the election as district administrator, she then worked as the deputy spokeswoman for the SPD / PDS state government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Syrbe is the mother of three children and is widowed. Her husband was killed on September 13, 1990 in the last air accident involving the NVA air force , a demonstration before the Defense Committee of the Bundestag .

District elections

2001

Herbert Kautz (CDU), incumbent since the creation of the Ostvorpommern district in 1994 and the previous district administrator of the dissolved Greifswald district , won the first ballot with 44.1 percent in the direct election of the district administrator in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on May 6, 2001 (15,289 votes) win. He achieved a clear lead over Barbara Syrbe as the second-placed applicant with 31.6 percent (10,952 votes) and the candidates of the SPD (15.3 percent) and FDP (4.0 percent) as well as a non-party individual applicant (5.0 percent) . However, it failed to achieve the absolute majority required for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under the Local Election Act. Barbara Syrbe then won the run-off election on May 20, 2001 with a share of 54.8 percent (15,631 votes) compared to 45.8 percent (13,186 votes) for Herbert Kautz. The turnout fell from 36.9 percent in the first ballot to 30.4 percent.

This surprising election success was largely due to the express support in the second ballot by the three eliminated candidates who, among other things, submitted an election recommendation in favor of the PDS applicant at a joint press conference before the runoff election. The proportion of votes for Barbara Syrbe in the cities of the district ( Anklam , Wolgast , Gützkow , Lassan and Usedom ) were significantly higher than in the rural communities, in which the majority of the CDU applicants were ahead. Added to this was the leadership style of the incumbent, Herbert Kautz, which was perceived by some of the voters as well as by most of the local politicians active in the district as authoritarian and confrontational, so that the voting decision was largely due to the personalities of the two candidates and not their political views was. At the time of the election, the CDU had an absolute majority in the district assembly (28 MPs versus 14 from the SPD and 11 from the PDS).

With Barbara Syrbe and Lothar Finzelberg , who also won a runoff election in the Jerichower Land district in the state of Saxony-Anhalt on the same day , PDS candidates were elected as district administrators for the first time.

2008

Barbara Syrbe's first term of office ended with the district election on May 18, 2008, when she ran again. She reached 44.6 percent (14,055 votes) in the first round, winning ahead of the CDU candidate Jörg Hasselmann, head of department in the Ostvorpommern district administration and second deputy of the district administrator, who achieved 35.6 percent (11,210 votes). The SPD candidate achieved a result of 6.3 percent, two individual applicants got 7.3 percent and 6.2 percent respectively. The turnout was 34.7 percent, around two percent lower than in the first round of the 2001 election. In the runoff election on June 1, 2008, Barbara Syrbe achieved 60.9 percent (15,422 votes) and her opponent 39.1 Percent (9,910 votes) with a turnout of 27.5 percent.

With this result, Barbara Syrbe remained District Administrator of the Eastern Pomerania district.

2011

In the district elections in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald , which arose as a result of the district reform in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 from the districts of Ostvorpommern and Uecker-Randow and the offices of Jarmen-Tutow and Peenetal / Loitz of the previous district of Demmin , Barbara Syrbe stepped again as a candidate for Party Die Linke on. On September 4, 2011, she received the most votes in the first round with 37.1 percent (37,270 votes) in front of the candidate of the CDU, the Minister of Justice of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Uta-Maria Kuder , who received a result of 34.5 percent (34,701 votes) Votes) reached. The candidates from the SPD and the Greens received 18.5 percent and 9.9 percent of the vote, respectively. Barbara Syrbe won the necessary runoff election on September 18, 2011 with 59.5 percent (34,370 votes), while Uta-Maria Kuder achieved a result of 40.5 percent (23,406 votes).

Barbara Syrbe thus became the first district administrator in the newly created district of Vorpommern-Greifswald. She did not run for the 2018 district elections. Michael Sack (CDU) was elected as his successor .

Other offices

Barbara Syrbe is a member of the supervisory board of Energiewerke Nord and the administrative board of Sparkasse Vorpommern . Since November 24, 2011 she has also been chairwoman of the board of directors of Sparkasse Uecker-Randow .

literature

  • Barbara Syrbe / Helfried Liebsch: The first. 17 years of red district administrator in the north - chatting from the sewing box , nordlicht verlag Karlshagen 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819272-1-4
  • Gudrun Heinrich: The direct elections in East Western Pomerania and on Rügen. In: Nikolaus Werz u. a. (Ed.): Local direct elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Series: Rostock information on politics and administration. Booklet 15. Institute for Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Rostock, Rostock 2001, pp. 78–84

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cornelia Meerkatz: Barbara Syrbe: "I want to be remembered well". In: Ostseezeitung . October 29, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rainer Marten: Barbara Syrbe is going into retirement. In: Nordkurier . October 23, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  3. Bo Adam: The First. Barbara Syrbe is the district administrator in Anklam. And it is a surprise, because never before has a PDS politician held such an office . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 7, 2001, p. 3
  4. a b Nikolaus Werz u. a. (Ed.): Local direct elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Rostock 2001, Appendix Table I, p. 91
  5. ^ Gudrun Heinrich: The direct elections in Ostvorpommern and on Rügen. Rostock 2001, p. 78
  6. ^ A b Gudrun Heinrich: The direct elections in Ostvorpommern and on Rügen. Rostock 2001, p. 79
  7. ^ A b Gudrun Heinrich: The direct elections in Ostvorpommern and on Rügen. Rostock 2001, p. 80
  8. District election on May 18, 2008 in the district of Ostvorpommern - final result -. Ostvorpommern district, May 30, 2008, archived from the original on October 6, 2008 ; accessed on January 9, 2017 .
  9. ^ Runoff election of the district administrator on June 1, 2008 in the district of Ostvorpommern. Final result ( Memento from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Search for Sparkasse Uecker-Randow, annual financial statements as of December 31, 2011. In: Electronic Federal Gazette . Retrieved July 30, 2012 .