Brigitta Koegler

Brigitta Kögler (1990)

Brigitta-Charlotte Kögler (born February 5, 1944 in Chemnitz ) is a German lawyer and politician . For the Democratic Awakening (DA) she belonged to the freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR in 1990 .

Life and work

Kögler grew up in Falkenau, Saxony . She went to school there for the first eight years. Then she moved to an extended secondary school in Klingenthal. After completing her high school diploma, she completed an apprenticeship as a microbiological assistant, in which profession she initially worked. In 1964 she began studying law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , which she successfully completed in 1969. At VEB Carl Zeiss Jena she was hired as divisional legal advisor. Later she also worked in the antenna factory in Bad Blankenburg. After a 1975 law began Internship Kögler received in 1976 for leave to lawyer . It has been monitored by the Ministry of State Security since the 1960s . Her law office in Jena, which was assigned to her, was a former conspiratorial apartment of the MfS. The spying culminated in 1988 in a temporary professional ban. At the same time she was asked to leave the GDR. Kögler stayed in the GDR, however, where she became active as a civil rights activist .

Kögler lives in Jena, where she has been working as a lawyer again since October 1990. Her husband Helmut Kögler and the second son Bertram Kögler are also in the law firm Kögler, Thietz-Bartram & Coll. active in Jena.

politics

Already during her studies Kögler became a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany . She left the bloc party in 1968 after internal disputes over the Prague Spring . Alongside Friedrich Schorlemmer and Rainer Eppelmann , Kögler was one of the founders of the democratic awakening in the autumn of 1989, and she was elected deputy chairman at the end of October 1989. From December 1989 to March 1990 she was a member of the Central Round Table of the GDR. In this body she was involved in the drafting of the new electoral law that was applied in the free elections to the People's Chamber on March 18, 1990. As the top candidate of her party in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , she entered the People's Chamber. There she acted as deputy chairwoman in the constitutional committee and as spokeswoman for the joint parliamentary group from DA and CDU . After German reunification, she got involved a. a. as an elected member of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and as the deputy chairwoman of the Action Community . She joined the CDU and is active in the Jena branch.

Brigitta Kögler, attorney in Jena and deputy chairwoman of the joint initiative, was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on July 5, 2010 in the Thuringia State Chancellery.

Memberships

• Member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Chairwoman of the ADIUVAT Lawyers' Office Helps Lawyers eV
• Lions Club Jena "Johann Friedrich"
• Board of the action community spirit

literature

• Christopher Hausmann: Biographical Handbook of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (1990). 2000, 1st edition, ISBN 3-412-02597-6
• Eckhard Jesse / Thomas Schubert (eds.): Between confrontation and concession. Peaceful revolution and German unity in Saxony. Berlin: Ch.Links Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-608-6
• Beate Neuss / Hildigund Neubert (ed.): Courage to take responsibility. Women shape the politics of the CDU. Cologne Weimar Berlin: Böhlau Verlag 2013, pp. 321–333, ISBN 978-3-412-22178-2

Web links

• Stay and change
• Lawyers help lawyers eV
• The democratic awakening and the constitutional reality of the GDR
• [1]
• CDU Jena
• TV recordings - Kögler's speeches from April 5, 1990 - 10th People's Chamber of the GDR

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kanzlei Kögler, Thietz-Bartram & Coll.
2. ^ Kanzlei Kögler, Thietz-Bartram & Coll.
3. ↑ Action common sense ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.