Bernd Gehrke
Bernd Gehrke (born June 11, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German historian .
Life
In 1969 Bernd Gehrke successfully completed his training as an electrician . He then studied economics at KMU Leipzig until 1973 . In 1970 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1972 he was active in conspiratorial, opposition circles. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a secretary for the Free German Youth in the Berlin-Mitte district. From 1975 to 1977 he worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Economics of the Academy of Sciences . In 1976 he and others initiated an illegal declaration of solidarity with striking workers in the Polish Radom , as well as a fundraising campaign for the Committee for the Defense of Workers . In November 1976 he signed a declaration of solidarity to the expatriated Wolf Biermann .
In November 1977 Gehrke's conspiratorial group was disbanded by the Ministry of State Security . In January 1978 he was expelled from the SED because of "subversive group formation". This was followed by a professional ban and dismissal without notice by the Academy of Sciences. It was not until 1984 that Gehrke found a permanent job as an economist in the Berlin Furniture Combine .
At the end of the 1980s, Bernd Gehrke worked in the newly founded urban ecology interest group of the Society for Nature and Environment Berlin-Pankow. From its establishment in September 1989, he was active in the United Left (VL) and participated in the Central Round Table for them . On January 8, 1990, he resigned as a representative of the VL at the Central Round Table. From May to August 1990 he was the spokesman for the VL. On October 27, 1989 he founded the Robert Havemann Circle together with Klaus Richter . He was also involved in founding the Green League in the same year. He was selected by the authors as one of the 31 first signatories for the appeal for our country .
After German reunification , Bernd Gehrke was active in the alliance of critical trade unionists East / West . During the 12th legislative term of the Berlin House of Representatives , he was parliamentary employees of the group New Forum / civil rights movement . Since then he has worked as a historian and editor as well as in the field of political education. In 2004 he supported the Monday demonstrations against social cuts and signed the declaration by members of former GDR opposition groups against Hartz IV . As part of the self-help group Egg of Communism, he worked on the volume What do with communism ?! With. In December 2014 he initiated the appeal Pegida - Nie wieda! Together with Thomas Klein and Reinhard Schult . against the movement Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West .
Fonts
- with Wolfgang Rüddenklau (ed.): ... that wasn't our alternative: GDR oppositionists ten years after the fall of the Wall . 1999, ISBN 3-89691-466-9 .
- with Renate Hürtgen (ed.): The operational start in autumn 1989: the unknown side of the GDR revolution . 2001, ISBN 3-927995-00-2 .
- with Gerd-Rainer Horn (Ed.): 1968 and the workers: Studies on the "proletarian May" in Europe . 2007, ISBN 978-3-89965-165-2 .
- with Leonore Ansorg , Thomas Klein , Danuta Kneipp (eds.): The country is still - still! 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-14306-0 .
- Self-help group egg of communism (ed.): What to do with communism ?! 2013, ISBN 978-3-89771-526-4 .
Web links
- Erhard Kleps: Bernd Gehrke on ddr89.de
- Bernd Gehrke in the biographical database of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship
Individual evidence
- ↑ jugendopposition.de
- ↑ ddr89.de
- ↑ Christof Geisel: In Search of a Third Way: The Political Self-Image of the GDR Opposition in the 1980s . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86284-015-8 , p. 173.
- ↑ taz.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehrke, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |