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Carmen Kirmes Member of the New Forum 1994

Carmen Kirmes (* 1941 in Paris , France ) is a German politician ( PCF , SED , Neues Forum , FDP ).

Kirmes lived in Venezuela from 1948 to 1950 before returning to France in 1950. In 1958 she worked first as a bookbinder and then as an accountant , before graduating from high school in 1959. After moving to the GDR, she worked as an interpreter , teacher and translator . In August 1962 he was naturalized in the GDR due to marriage. From 1966 to 1970 Kirmes studied journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1968 to 1970 she lived with her husband, an ADN correspondent, in Mali and from 1970 to 1973 in Lebanon . She worked as an editor and photo reporter and worked at ADN-Zentralbild from 1973 to 1977, in Paris from 1977 to 1979, then at ADN Berlin until 1982. From 1982 Kirmes was a freelance translator.

In 1957 Kirmes became a member of the French Communist Party . After the FKP group dissolved in Berlin in 1964, it was taken over by the SED . She did not hold any offices or mandates there. In October 1989 she moved to the New Forum , where she was a member of the Brandenburg State Spokesperson Council from 1990. In February 1991 she started working on the “Cocktail” project. From May to December 1991 she was a research assistant in the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 . In July 1992 she became the managing director of the state office of the New Forum. On October 1, 1992, Kirmes entered the state parliament of Brandenburg . She moved up for Matthias Platzeck . In June 1993, however, she resigned from the New Forum and the Bündnis 90 parliamentary group and switched to the FDP in 1994 . Kirmes sat in the state parliament until 1994.

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• Carmen Kirmes in the Brandenburg Parliamentary Documentation