Birgit Cramon Daiber

Birgit Cramon Daiber (born August 22, 1944 in Ebingen ) is a former German politician ( Die Linke , until 1999 Alliance 90 / The Greens ) and teacher. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994 .

Life and work

Cramon Daiber studied teaching at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated as a qualified pedagogue . Until 1989 she worked as a researcher at the Technical University of Berlin and published scientific publications on feminism as well as ecological and technical innovations . She was the director of the gold rush women's network .

After her time as a member of parliament, she worked as an expert for the EU Commission and from 2008 headed the Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation that she had set up .

politics

Cramon Daiber was active in the Berlin alternative and women's movement and joined the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection (AL), an independent party that initially only unofficially took on the tasks of a state association of the Greens in West Berlin . In May 1993, AL and Bündnis 90 merged to form the Berlin State Green Association .

For the AL she was elected in the European elections in 1989 by the Berlin House of Representatives as one of three West Berlin members of the European Parliament . There she was a member of the Greens group and from 1992 deputy group leader. She was also a member of the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and the Work Environment and the Delegation for Relations with the Republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States . For the 1994 European elections , Cramon Daiber was supposed to run for position 9 on the Greens federal list, which would have been enough to move in again, but the candidacy failed due to a formal error in the submission of her personal election documents.

In 1999 she left the Greens and joined the PDS .

Web links

• Entry on Birgit Cramon Daiber in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Literature by and about Birgit Daiber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Birgit Cramon-Daiber in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Publications (selection)

• Wild speech to Europe: Europe is not what it was; Europe is not what it wants to be. Does Europe exist? Edition Lit. Europe, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-930126-02-6 .
• Europa mi amor: travel notes from a professional European . Inselpresse Lindwerder, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-939188-06-3 .
• as editor: From revolution to coalition: Left parties in Europe . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin , 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02240-2 .
• Europe's crisis in the context of the world crises . WeltTrends , Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-941880-45-0 .
• And yet it moves ...: progressive social movements, the EU and the UN . AG-SPAK books, Neu-Ulm 2016, ISBN 978-3-945959-05-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cramon Daiber, Birgit. In: Historical Archives of the European Union . Accessed July 30, 2020 (English). 
2. ^ Publications Office of the European Union: The Members of the European Parliament: Third electoral period 1989-1994. November 6, 1990, p. 65 , accessed July 30, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ «The LINKE does not take its demands seriously» - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. August 19, 2011, accessed July 30, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Ulrike Helwerth: "One chance - nothing more" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 21, 1989, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed July 30, 2020]).
5. ^ Alliance 90 / The Greens 1993 to 2014 - 1st to 38th Ordinary Federal Assembly, five extraordinary Federal Assemblies. In: Archive Green Memory . Heinrich Böll Foundation , accessed on July 30, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Joscha Schmierer: A matter of the heart . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 11, 1994, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 14 ( taz.de [accessed July 30, 2020]).