Bernd Brösdorf

Bernd Brösdorf

Bernd Brösdorf (born April 12, 1949 in Leipzig ) is a German politician ( SPD ). In 1990 he was a member of the freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR and state chairman of the SPD Thuringia .

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Bernd Brösdorf studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg and graduated with a degree in metallurgy and materials technology. After graduating, he worked as a designer, from 1980 as investment site manager in industrial construction and since 1986 as senior site manager for landscaping and green space construction in Mühlhausen . After the reunification he was managing director of the Bowling Center Mühlhausen, the SuperBowl F 1 Erfurt and the SuperBowl Weimar.

Bernd Brösdorf is a Protestant, married and has two children.

politics

In the course of the political change in the GDR, Brösdorf founded a group in Mühlhausen in October 1989 called Change Now . On December 5, 1989, the group organized the founding meeting of the Mühlhausen local and district association of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP). On December 15, 1989, he took part in the meeting of the Thuringian SDP representatives in the Harrasmühle near Pößneck , where it was decided to found a regional association within the historical borders of Thuringia. At the founding party convention of the SPD Thuringia on January 27, 1990 in Gotha , Brösdorf was elected as a representative of the Erfurt district to one of three deputy state chairmen.

In the parliamentary elections in 1990 , he was in the constituency 04 (Erfurt) in the People's Parliament voted, of which he was on 18 March 1990 to 2 October 1990th Because of the unexpectedly poor performance of the SPD, the SPD state chairman Wilfried Machalett resigned after the election, so that from March 1990 Brösdorf initially took over the management of the state association. At the second state party congress on May 26, 1990 in Bad Frankenhausen, he was elected state chairman.

On August 16, 1990, Brösdorf resigned from the SPD state chairmanship after accusations of cooperation with the Ministry for State Security (MfS) had become loud. During his military service with the NVA , the MfS asked him for information about an acquaintance who had attempted to escape from the GDR . Thereupon Brösdorf approached the acquaintance concerned and they wrote the reports for the MfS together. After some time, the MfS stopped contact with Brösdorf because of a lack of knowledge and classified him as an "unfit person".

Brösdorf is still active in the SPD. In 2015 he was treasurer of the SPD district association Unstrut-Hainich district .

Sports

Bernd Brösdorf won bronze with the HSG DHfK Leipzig in 1973, 1974 and 1975 at the GDR team championship in badminton . The team included:

• 1973, 1974, 1975: Gerd Pigola , Volker Herbst , Wolfgang Böttcher , Christel Sommer , Beate Herbst
• 1973, 1975: Jürgen Richter
• 1973: Frank Geißler , Joachim Gerhardt , Gerd Hachmeister , Helga Pöschel
• 1974, 1975: Peter Rebel

literature

• Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia. Contemporary witness reports and documents on the re-establishment of the Thuringian SPD in 1989/90 (PDF). Published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Landesbüro Thüringen, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-250-5 (contains inter alia an interview with Bernd Brösdorf)
• J. Preuss, G. Spörl: A dance on the volcano: The SPD politician Richard Schröder on dealing with the Stasi past . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1991, pp. 41–48 ( online - here p. 42). Quote: "The issue was that when he was in the army for a year and a half he had reported about someone with whom he had previously discussed what he would pass on to the Stasi."

Web links

Commons : Bernd Brösdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Bernd Brösdorf . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia , p. 25.
2. ↑ cf. Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia , p. 26.
3. ↑ cf. Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia , p. 26f.
4. ↑ cf. Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia , p. 28.
5. ↑ cf. Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia , p. 128.
6. ↑ cf. Michael Klostermann: Social Democracy in and for Thuringia , p. 11.
7. ↑ SPD Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis: District Board ( Memento from November 9, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ^ GDR championships in badminton (teams) on sport-komplett.de