Birgit Radow

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Birgit Radow (* 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German manager and former communist functionary.

Life

Birgit Radow completed an apprenticeship as an insurance saleswoman. From 1984 to 1989 Birgit Radow was federal chairwoman of the DKP- affiliated Socialist German Workers' Youth (SDAJ). Radow was also a member of the DKP presidium. As a representative of the "reform wing" Radow was voted out of the party presidium in May 1989. Radow later distanced himself from the DKP and her own work there.

From 1989 to 1990 Radow was the managing director of the women's initiative Quirl in Bremen. From 1990 to 1999 she worked for Greenpeace Germany , from 1995 as managing director. From 1999 to 2006 she was CEO of the Securvita company health insurance fund . From 2007 to 2014 she was the managing director of the German Wildlife Foundation . Radow has been Deputy Secretary General of the Federal Association of German Foundations since 2014 .

Birgit Radow volunteered to be the spokesperson for the Foodwatch Supervisory Board . She resigned from this position in 2011 because she became managing director of the meat manufacturer Gourmet Manufaktur Gut Klepelshagen , a subsidiary of the German Wildlife Foundation. She also held other supervisory board mandates at the GLS Treuhand Foundation and the Charité in Berlin.

Radow has two grown daughters and lives in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Federal Association of German Foundations: Information on Birgit Radow
  2. Wolfgang Rudzio: The erosion of demarcation: On the relationship between the democratic left and communists in the Federal Republic of Germany . Springer-Verlag, Belrin 2013, ISBN 9783322837875 , p. 20.
  3. Eternal Truths . In: Der Spiegel, June 5, 1989.
  4. Christian Klemm: Split, quarreled and almost bankrupt . In: Neues Deutschland, October 26, 2009.
  5. Emma: the magazine from women for people , year 1995. Reference in the article
  6. Bijan Peymani: The missionary . In: PR Report, March 27, 2012.
  7. Supervisory Board of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin , accessed in March 2020.