Bodo Ramelow

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Bodo Ramelow [ ˈboːdo ˈʁaməlo ] (born February 16, 1956 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). He has been Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia since March 4, 2020 , and previously held this position from December 5, 2014 to February 5, 2020. Ramelow is the first prime minister of a German state that belongs to the Die Linke party. Since November 1, 2020, he has been the second Vice President of the Federal Council .

Before that, from 2001 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2014 he was parliamentary group leader of the Left and opposition leader in the Thuringian state parliament . From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the Bundestag .

Origin and family

Bodo Ramelow grew up in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ( Lower Saxony ) and Nieder-Wiesen ( Rheinhessen ) in a Protestant family with three siblings. When Ramelow was eight years old, his biological father Erwin, who came from Kricheldorf near Salzwedel , died as a result of a war injury . His mother was a single housekeeper from the traditional Lutheran Fresenius family; one ancestor was Johann Philipp Fresenius .

Ramelow has been married to the Italian Germana Alberti vom Hofe, a supervisor and organizational developer at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, for the third time since November 2006 . He is a Protestant and has two grown sons from his first marriage. He lives in Erfurt and Saalburg .

Bodo Ramelow was awarded the Georgs plaque in November 2018, which is awarded by the Association of German Old Scout Guilds .

education and profession

Ramelow finished secondary school in 1971 with the secondary school certificate . As a child he had a reading and spelling disorder (according to his own account he could not write properly). In Gießen he learned the trade as a retail salesman at Karstadt from 1971 to 1974 . At the commercial vocational school in Marburg , Ramelow obtained the secondary school leaving certificate in 1975 and the commercial college entrance qualification in 1977 .

He worked from 1977 as a substitute for incorporation in the Karstadt AG and the previous purchase market HaWeGe in Marburg-Cappel. Ramelow later became branch manager at Jöckel Vertriebs GmbH in Marburg. Ramelow passed a trainer examination according to the trainer qualification regulation (AdA certificate) at the end of the 1970s. From 1981 to 1990 Ramelow was union secretary in Central Hesse , from 1990 to 1999 state chairman of the union HBV (today ver.di ) in Thuringia , where he participated, among other things, in the labor dispute in the Bischofferode potash plant , and from 1992 to 1999 chairman of the supervisory board of the housing cooperative Zukunft eG in Erfurt .

Political career

Rise in state politics in Thuringia

On Labor Day 1994, Bodo Ramelow appeared alongside Gregor Gysi , Gerhard Jüttemann , Gabi Zimmer and Heinrich Fink as a speaker at the central May Day celebration of the PDS in Erfurt. In January 1997 he was one of the initiators and first signatories of the " Erfurt Declaration ", a call by almost 40 artists, intellectuals, trade unionists and politicians for more social justice and a change of policy through closer cooperation between the SPD , the Greens and the PDS.

Thuringian state election 1999

In 1999 Ramelow, who joined the PDS in April 1999, ran for the state election in Thuringia in 1999 in second place after the former state chairwoman Gabi Zimmer . He was elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the first time , where he was deputy chairman of the PDS parliamentary group from 1999 to 2001 and was finally elected chairman of the parliamentary group on November 14, 2001. Because of his “smart” demeanor and the freshness that he brought to the “focused party” until then, he was jokingly referred to as a “one-man opposition” during this time. In 2002 he also became a member of the advisory board of the Thüringer Aufbaubank (TAB).

Thuringian state election 2004

On 20./21. In September 2003 the Thuringian PDS nominated Bodo Ramelow in Lobenstein for the first time as its own candidate for the office of Thuringian Prime Minister . On February 7, 2004, his party voted him number one on the state list for the upcoming state elections in 2004 . In the state elections on June 13, 2004, the PDS achieved its best result in Thuringia with 26.1% of the votes. Ramelow won a direct mandate in the Erfurt I constituency . However , he did not achieve the electoral goal of ending the CDU majority. Ramelow was then re-elected chairman of the PDS parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament.

Federal policy 2004 to 2009

Bodo Ramelow was a member of the federal executive committee of the Left Party from 2004 and on December 13, 2004 was appointed campaign manager of the then PDS for the 2005 federal election .

On September 18, 2005, Ramelow won a seat for the 16th German Bundestag on the state list of the then Thuringian Left Party.PDS . He missed the direct mandate in the Bundestag constituency Gera - Jena - Saale-Holzland-Kreis with 29.4% against Volker Blumentritt of the SPD (31.8%). Ramelow was elected on September 30, 2005 as deputy chairman of the parliamentary group without a department. He was also the “religious commissioner” of his group. After his election to the Bundestag, he resigned from the Thuringian state parliament on October 17, 2005. His successor as leader of the PDS parliamentary group was Dieter Hausold .

From June 2005 Ramelow was the chief negotiator of the Linkspartei.PDS during the talks on the merger with the WASG and thus became known to broader circles in the WASG. There, his tough, but objective way of negotiating was not only met with approval. Some critics described his approach as authoritarian , while others said that agreements under time pressure could only be reached through tight leadership. He was particularly committed to the merger of the various youth structures on both sides. Corresponding negotiations within the PDS youth structures had fizzled out for years before his engagement.

In May 2008, Bodo Ramelow gave up the post of election campaign leader of the Left and became the Federal Executive Commissioner for Federalism .

Thuringian state election 2009

The top candidates of the party Die Linke for the East German state elections 2009 - Bodo Ramelow (Thuringia), Kerstin Kaiser (Brandenburg) and André Hahn (Saxony) - with the federal chairman Lothar Bisky in Dresden (2009)

On December 2, 2007, Ramelow was unanimously nominated as the top candidate for the 2009 state election at the state party conference of the Thuringian Left . During the election campaign it became public that Ramelow knowingly employed a former full-time employee of the GDR State Security in his Berlin Bundestag office. In the state elections on August 30, 2009, his party received 1.3 percentage points more than in 2004, but remained below the 30 percent mark. Ramelow himself received another direct mandate , this time in the constituency of Erfurt III . His first vote result was the tightest of all constituencies: he received 34 votes more than Justice Minister Marion Walsmann (CDU).

The 2009 state election result made two coalitions possible, namely a black-red or a red-red-green coalition. The SPD and the Greens reaffirmed their aversion to Ramelow as Prime Minister, expressed before the election; Ramelow argued against electing the SPD top candidate Christoph Matschie as prime minister. On September 17, Ramelow finally declared his willingness to renounce the office of prime minister for a possible red-red-green coalition, even if Matschie renounced and the left, the SPD and the Greens “would make a personnel proposal on an equal footing”. His move also met with criticism from his own party leadership.

Ramelow sharply criticized Matschie's decision to form a coalition with the CDU. When the CDU candidate Christine Lieberknecht surprisingly failed the first and second ballot in the election for Prime Minister, Ramelow decided to run against her in the third round. He received 27 votes, Lieberknecht was elected with 55 votes. On November 3, 2009, Ramelow was re-elected parliamentary group chairman after Dieter Hausold had held this office again after the state elections - with a view to Ramelow's possible participation in the state government .

Thuringian state election 2014

Anja Siegesmund , Antje Pieper , Bodo Ramelow and Christine Lieberknecht (from left to right) on the evening of the state elections in Thuringia on September 14, 2014 in Erfurt.

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 , Ramelow improved his constituency result, but lost the direct mandate in the constituency of Erfurt III to Marion Walsmann (CDU). He moved into first place on the state list of his party in the Thuringian state parliament .

Thuringian state election 2019

Anja Siegesmund , Wolfgang Tiefensee , Mike Mohring and Bodo Ramelow (from left to right) at the election evening of the state elections in Thuringia on October 27, 2019 in Erfurt .

Bodo Ramelow won the direct mandate in his constituency in Erfurt (in which FDP top candidate Thomas Kemmerich also ran ) with 42.1% in the state elections in Thuringia 2019 . In addition, Die Linke became the strongest force in the country under Ramelow's leadership and achieved its historically best result in a German state election. Ramelow complained about the order to form a new state government for Thuringia.

Prime Minister of Thuringia

Election of the Prime Minister 2014

After the formation of a red-red-green coalition , Ramelow achieved the necessary absolute majority with 46 of 91 votes in the Thuringian state parliament on December 5, 2014 in the election of the Prime Minister in the second ballot . Bodo Ramelow was the first Prime Minister in Germany to belong to the Die Linke party.

In the first 100 days after Ramelow's election, the biweekly program Ramelow & Co was produced on the regional television broadcaster salve.tv , in which Ramelow described and commented on the events of the last two weeks. The lack of a visible editorial framework or critical queries were criticized. For the chairman of the assembly of the state media authority , the SPD member of the Bundestag Steffen Lemme , it was "state television", as well as for the head of the directors' conference of the state media authorities , Jürgen Brautmeier , who pointed out that it is one of the foundations of the constitution that the State have to stay out of broadcasting. The media lawyer Johannes Weberling described the format as prohibited political advertising that undermines the state media law. However, an examination by the Thuringian State Media Authority came to the conclusion that the broadcast format does not violate media law. In the interests of separating office and mandate , Bodo Ramelow resigned his mandate in the Thuringian state parliament on March 31, 2015 - as did Minister Birgit Klaubert .

Election of the Prime Minister 2020

After the state election in 2019 Ramelow was from 26 November 2019, the date of the formation of the newly elected parliament, a caretaker in office . On February 5, 2020, Bodo Ramelow received 43 votes in the first ballot, one more vote than the left, the SPD and the Greens together had seats. Christoph Kindervater received 25 votes and thus at least three votes from outside the AfD. 22 MPs abstained. This made a second ballot necessary, as both candidates had missed an absolute majority of 46 votes. In the second ballot, Ramelow received 44 votes and the child's father 22 votes, which was exactly the number of MPs for the AfD. 24 MPs abstained.

André Blechschmidt (l.), Bodo Ramelow (m.) And Susanne Hennig-Wellsow (r.) Announcing the results of the 3rd ballot in the Thuringian state parliament on February 5, 2020.

For the third ballot, which is necessary, the AfD parliamentary group held on to the candidacy of the child father, and in addition, as announced for this case, Thomas Kemmerich was set up by the FDP parliamentary group . In the third ballot, Kemmerich received 45 votes, Bodo Ramelow 44 votes and the child's father 0 votes, one member abstained. Kemmerich was elected and sworn in as the new Thuringian Prime Minister, which triggered the government crisis. On the day he was voted out, Ramelow posted a tweet in which he drew parallels with the formation of the Baum-Frick government in Thuringia in 1930. This tweet was received controversially because it was illustrated by a photo each of Höcke's congratulations to Kemmerich and of Adolf Hitler's bow to President von Hindenburg on the so-called Day of Potsdam in 1933, and was deleted after a few days.

After Kemmerich's resignation, Ramelow proposed a solution in this round on February 17, 2020, in which new elections and the election of a new Prime Minister would be directly linked. The Diet should its self-dissolution decide yet Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) for the elections to the remaining term of choose as prime minister. He further suggested that Lieberknecht should form a "technical" government in which three key ministries would be filled again: the Ministry of Justice , the Ministry of Finance and the State Chancellery . Christine Lieberknecht gained respect across party lines during her time as President of the State Parliament (1999–2004) and, as the former Prime Minister of Thuringia (2009–2014), has relevant government experience.

The CDU Thuringia refused and suggested that Lieberknecht should remain in office longer than Ramelow intended and should lead a full cabinet of experts . Lieberknecht then withdrew her willingness to run as interim prime minister and announced that she only wanted to accept Ramelow's proposed solution with quick new elections. This "contradiction with the CDU" can "not be resolved". In her opinion, real political stability in the Thuringian state parliament can only be achieved by recognizing the real majority situation and by agreeing on reliable parliamentary cooperation between the CDU and the left.

Re-election of the Prime Minister in 2020

As with the election of Prime Minister in February 2020, the Thuringian Constitution provides that in the first two ballots, whoever is elected by an absolute majority of the members of the State Parliament, becomes Prime Minister. If this does not succeed, there will be a third ballot. In it, the applicant with the most votes is considered elected. In both the first and the second ballot on March 4, 2020, Bodo Ramelow received 42 votes that should have come from the parliamentary groups of the Left, SPD and Greens. Björn Höcke received 22 votes each, which corresponded to the strength of the AfD parliamentary group. The 21 abstentions in each case should be attributed to the CDU parliamentary group. The FDP was present at the election, but did not vote.

Bodo Ramelow (left) and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow (right) announcing the results of the 3rd ballot in the Thuringian state parliament on March 4, 2020.

In the third ballot, the AfD parliamentary group withdrew Björn Höcke's candidacy, so that Bodo Ramelow was the only remaining candidate. Ramelow again received 42 votes in favor, 23 against and 20 abstentions. He was re-elected Prime Minister.

Björn Höcke (r.) Congratulates Bodo Ramelow (l.) On his election in the Thuringian state parliament on March 4, 2020.

In his inaugural speech, Ramelow was happy about the end of the government crisis, thanked the CDU in particular for the conclusion of the Stability Pact and called on the parliamentary groups to work together constructively. He sharply criticized the AfD for setting a trap for the FDP and CDU and accused them of not respecting parliament and democracy. With this he also justified the fact that Björn Höcke, who wanted to congratulate him, refused to shake hands. He will only shake hands with him when Höcke stops "trampling democracy" and instead defends it.

In July 2021, the AfD parliamentary group presented a motion of no confidence in Ramelow in the Thuringian state parliament and proposed Björn Höcke as the new prime minister. In the vote on July 23, 2021, 22 MPs voted for the motion and 46 against. The CDU parliamentary group had previously announced that it would not take part in the secret vote and remained seated in the hall. Due to the rejection of the application, Ramelow remained Thuringian Prime Minister. The AfD MP Stefan Möller had previously informed the German Press Agency that he saw no chance of success and said: “The vote of no confidence is not aimed at Bodo Ramelow”, but “primarily in the corner of the CDU and on the fringes also in Direction FDP ".

Thuringian state election 2024

The Thuringian state parties of the Left, SPD, Greens and CDU agreed that there should be an early state election in Thuringia on September 26, 2021 . The original date on April 25, 2021 was canceled due to the corona pandemic . The left then wanted to nominate Bodo Ramelow again as a candidate for the office of prime minister. This date was also canceled on July 16, 2021, as several members of the CDU and later also of the Left announced that they would not agree to the dissolution of the state parliament necessary for new elections, and the parliamentary groups of the Left and Greens did not depend on the votes of the AfD wanted to do. The government factions of the Left, the SPD and the Greens declared that they would not make any further attempt to dissolve the state parliament, so that the regular end of the legislative period in 2024 would remain.

Political demands and positions

Social policy

Ramelow said in the context of the state election campaign in Thuringia in 2014 that he was committed to a “socially just tax policy”. His economic policy positions include (as of 2014) the creation of an employment sector for the long-term unemployed , the fight against low wages and the promotion of companies with family-friendly working time models. In the education sector, Ramelow is relying on the expansion of all-day care with a first free year of care, wants to strengthen community schools and re-regulate access regulations to university studies. He rejects the privatization of welfare state institutions.

GDR history and its processing

In Ramelow's eyes, the GDR was neither a constitutional state nor an injustice state . The labor code of the GDR was better than the labor regulations in West Germany . There is no evidence that there was an order to shoot at the inner-German border . In a statement he later specified that the “unjust state” was a “not justiciable term”. In addition, one must always separate the requirements from the application of the law.

In the newspaper Neues Deutschland , Ramelow spoke out in favor of a historical dispute that addresses the history of the GDR and the old Federal Republic in the same way: “Honest reappraisal must look at both sides, because the two political systems in East and West always face each other fought each other and ultimately influenced one another. One cannot condemn or praise one side without looking at the other. ”For him, dealing critically with history also means“ lifting the ban on the KPD , rehabilitating professional bans and immediately stopping the so-called ' blue shirt - To demand lawsuits for wearing FDJ symbols ”. Ramelow also called for "the reduced pensions of people in the former state apparatus of the GDR" to be addressed. Hubertus Knabe , former head of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , criticized these statements and accused Ramelow of relativizing "the oppression of an entire people".

Controversy

Criminal proceedings for violating the Assembly Act

Ramelow at the Dresden Nazi-free rally on February 13, 2010

On February 13, 2010, Ramelow was involved in a demonstration against a deployment of the right-wing extremist Junge Landsmannschaft East Prussia in Dresden . He was then accused by the Saxon judicial authorities of having played a key role in organizing the counter-demonstration and illegally obstructing the march, and proceedings were initiated for violating Section 21 of the Assembly Act. In October 2010, Ramelow's immunity was lifted by the Thuringian state parliament. According to his own account, Ramelow was only active as a mediator between the counter-demonstrators and the police. The proceedings were to be ended by a penalty order dated April 14, 2014 with a fine of 20 daily rates of 170 euros each. However, Ramelow appealed against this penalty order, so that it did not become legally binding (a legally binding penalty order is equivalent to a conviction). As a result, the proceedings were to be discontinued in May 2014 with the consent of the public prosecutor and the accused due to insignificance under Section 153 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure , although the district court did not accept Ramelow's condition that the judicial fund should pay his legal fees. In the absence of the defendant's effective consent, the district court had to continue the proceedings and, because a new legislature had begun in September 2014, submit a new application for Ramelow's immunity as a member of parliament to be waived. This happened on December 3, 2014, two days before his election as prime minister. The justice committee of the Thuringian state parliament then lifted Ramelow's immunity again.

Ramelow sees the trial as an attempt to intimidate civil society . Protests against demonstrations with right-wing extremist , racist and anti-Semitic content should not be criminalized. Heribert Prantl defended Ramelow in a comment in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and summed up: "A judiciary that sees itself as an opponent of civil society has not understood what the administration of justice is." In contrast, Saxony's Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich ( CDU ) defended the judiciary's approach. He told the Leipziger Volkszeitung that one of the achievements of the peaceful revolution was the independence of the judiciary. That will also be respected in Saxony.

In April 2015, the Dresden public prosecutor finally closed the proceedings on the grounds of insignificance. The cost of Ramelow's lawyer and other expenses in connection with the proceedings, about which Ramelow had still argued with the court, were covered by the state treasury.

Violation of the duty of neutrality towards the NPD

At the beginning of June 2016, Ramelow suffered a legal defeat before the Thuringian constitutional court against the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). The judges saw it as proven that he violated his duty of neutrality as head of government and violated the basic right of the NPD to equal opportunities in political competition. In an interview with the MDR in the Thuringian State Chancellery, Ramelow called for no common cause in local parliaments with the NPD. The State Chancellery then distributed the full interview via its official accounts in social networks. According to the judges, this was equivalent to an official statement; Ramelow had made use of his “official authority” and “exceeded the limits of admissibility”. The NPD ban application by the federal states, which was rejected by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2017, played “no role” in the verdict.

After the defeat, Ramelow announced that he would reconsider the communication strategy and channels in the State Chancellery and want to adhere to the NPD ban proceedings.

Inadmissible surveillance by constitutional protection authorities

In 2003, Bodo Ramelow began a lengthy, media-effective dispute with the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which had observed him because of his contacts with the German Communist Party (DKP). The Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution under Helmut Roewer had created a file about Ramelow because of his contacts with the DKP in West Germany in the 1980s . According to the Thuringian data protection officer Silvia Liebaug , Ramelow's files were kept from 1996 to 1999. However, after he moved into the state parliament, the Ministry of the Interior stopped monitoring.

In 2003, Ramelow applied to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution for information about the data available about him in order to clarify the legality of his observation and that of his party. However, after the office only gave him partial information, he took legal action. In a judgment of February 13, 2009, the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia largely confirmed the judgment of the Cologne Administrative Court , according to which the collection of data about Ramelow was unlawful because he did not emerge as a member of the left-wing extremist or orthodox communist wing within the Left Party. At the same time, it described the alliances of the Communist Platform , Marxist Forum and Left Youth Solid within the Left Party as anti-constitutional . The Thuringian Higher Administrative Court decided in parallel proceedings on September 17, 2007 that the blocking of constitutional protection files on Ramelow was also illegal.

In its decision of July 21, 2010, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig overturned the judgments of the Administrative Court of Cologne and the Higher Administrative Court of Münster and stated that the collection of information about Ramelow by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution was lawful at the time and in particular not against the Violated the principle of proportionality . The reason given was his activity as a leading functionary of the party Die Linke, in which the lower court saw evidence of anti-constitutional efforts. The dangers of observing members of parliament are reduced by the merely open observation and justified by the particular importance of protecting the free democratic basic order . Ramelow described this judgment as a "victory for the sniffing state".

In a decision of September 17, 2013, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the surveillance of Ramelow and the members of his parliamentary group to be unconstitutional . The surveillance by the protection of the Constitution violates the rights of parliamentarians under Article 38 of the Basic Law and is disproportionate. It overturned the contrary judgment of the Federal Administrative Court and referred the matter back to it.

After this decision, Bodo Ramelow and the Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau demanded access to the files of the reports prepared about them by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. On July 31, 2019, the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia decided that the refusal to provide information was unlawful and that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had to decide again on the request for information, taking into account the legal opinion of the court. On July 28, 2020, the Federal Administrative Court rejected the non-admission complaint filed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Election of a state parliament vice-president of the AfD 2020

Within the red-red-green government coalition, Ramelow was criticized at the beginning of March 2020 for his declaration that he had given his vote to AfD politician Michael Kaufmann , who was elected vice-president of the state parliament with a simple majority. Ramelow said he neither liked the party nor did he sympathize with the candidate, and that he refused to shake hands with the Thuringian AfD parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke , but not the parliamentary rights of the AfD his vote. In return, the AfD has given up its blockade in the appointment of the judges' committee. He wanted "to end this blackmail situation by casting my vote and dealing openly with it". However, he understands that not everyone can accept this decision made.

Middle finger incident in the state parliament

During a state parliament debate on how to deal with NSU files on July 17, 2020, Ramelow showed AfD MP Stefan Möller his middle finger during his speech and described him as a "disgusting bastard". Shortly before this, with a view to the protection of the constitution, he had said in the direction of Ramelows: "Who has been observed all the great things, isn't it, Mr. Ramelow?" Möller was alluding to the observation of Ramelow by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the past, which later turned out to be illegal. The AfD MP then filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor's office in Erfurt for insulting ( Section 185 of the Criminal Code ).

Several representatives of other parties commented on the statements and the gesture of Ramelow: Andreas Bühl , the parliamentary manager of the CDU parliamentary group, called Ramelow's behavior a “disrespect for the state parliament”. The Thuringian AfD parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke called for Ramelow's resignation and expressed himself with the words: "If he had a spark of political and human decency, he would resign!"

In an interview with the MDR , Ramelow admitted that he had not behaved in a parliamentary manner, but asserted that for him the AfD MP Stefan Möller was still a "disgusting bastard" due to his statements and he would not take this designation back. After the incident, Ramelow received support from, among others, the party leader of the Left in the Thuringian state parliament, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow .

The investigation was discontinued by the public prosecutor's office on payment of a monetary condition.

"Candy Crush Affair"

In January 2021, Bodo Ramelow revealed in the clubhouse talk group night talks - between trash and feature pages of politician Lilly Blaudszun and journalist Artur Weigandt that he had played Candy Crush with his mobile phone during a lockdown summit . The media spoke of the " Candy Crush Affair ". Politicians criticize his behavior. In the same medium, Ramelow had also referred to Chancellor Angela Merkel as "Merkelchen". He apologized personally to her and described his statement as an "act of male ignorance".

Awards

Editing

  • Bodo Ramelow et al. (Ed.): It's the Internet, stupid !: the left and the "rail networks" of the 21st century . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89965-470-7 .
  • Bodo Ramelow (Ed.): Made in Thuringia ?: Nazi terror and constitution protection scandal . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89965-521-6 .
  • Bodo Ramelow (Ed.): Shredding, informing people, state failure: how right-wing terror, official camaraderie and racism from the middle come together . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89965-550-6 .

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Schütt : Believer and Comrade. Conversations with Bodo Ramelow . Karl-Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-320-02074-9 .
  • Robert Lorenz: “Cold Fusion” technician. The leadership of the Left Party . In: Tim Spier et al. (Ed.): The Left Party. A contemporary idea or an alliance without a future? VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14941-7 , pp. 275–323.
  • Stefan Wogawa: The Ramelow files. A member of parliament in the sights of the secret services . Karl-Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02126-9 ( PDF ).
  • Stefan Wogawa: A certain Mr. Ramelow. The second part of the file . Eckhaus Verlag, Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-945294-03-1 .
  • Landolf Scherzer : The red one. Power and impotence of governance . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03621-8 .
  • Stefan Wogawa (ed.): "It is not enough to be an opposition." Bodo Ramelow in 162 quotations . THK Verlag, Arnstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-945068-07-6 .

Web links

Commons : Bodo Ramelow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Ramelow, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL, MdB, Prime Minister of Thuringia
BIRTH DATE February 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterholz-Scharmbeck