Christa Bernbacher

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Christa Bernbacher , also Christine Bernbacher (born December 19, 1930 in Hanover as Christine Eschner ; † September 12, 2013 in Bremen ) was a politician ( Greens ) from Bremen.

biography

Family, education and work

Bernbacher received training as a nurse and midwife in England from 1950. Afterwards she worked in the British Military Hospital in Hanover from 1953. She had been married to her childhood friend, the later conductor and politician Klaus Bernbacher ( AfB -MdBB from 1995 to 1999) since 1957 ; both had four children, two of whom they adopted. She painted, composed and designed sculptures made of clay, stone and bronze. Both Bernbachers lived in Bremen- Schwachhausen since 1970 .

politics

Bernbacher began her political work with the Easter March movement in the 1950s. She was a member of the SPD from the 1950s to 1979 . Since 1961 she has been a councilor for the SPD in Rodenberg .

She then co-founded the Bremen Green List (BGL) with 28 Social Democrats around Olaf Dinné and Peter Willers at the end of the 1970s . She had been a member of the Greens in Bremen since 1983, and she was elected honorary chairman. The first party office of the Bremen Greens was in Bernbacher's apartment in Schwachhausen until 1981. In 1980 she was unsuccessful green top candidate for the federal elections. 1981/82 she was home for six weeks several members of the delegation of the Polish trade union movement Solidarity in Gdansk , who could not return as Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski , the martial law in Poland exclaimed. The Solidarność members who remained in Bremen then founded the Solidarność coordination office in Bremen in April 1982 .

For the Greens, Bernbacher was a member of the Schwachhausen advisory board . From 1983 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1999 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship for twelve years, where she worked in various deputations and committees. The Greens did not accept the rotation principle in force in the 1980s , according to which the Greens' parliamentarians should swap places with their successors on the citizenship list after two years. In the 12th legislative period of the Bremen citizenship from 1987 to 1991, it was therefore not represented there. In 1988 she was elected to the federal executive committee of the Greens.

Bernbacher was again a member of the 13th and 14th legislative periods from 1991 to 1999 and from 1991 to 1995 Vice-President of the Citizenship. She initially represented the building and environmental concerns and from 1991 the health of the party in the citizenry. She was a member of the Petitions Committee from 1995 to 1999 . With an amendment to the Bremen state constitution in the 11th electoral period (1983 to 1987), it achieved that the "protection of the natural environment" was included in Article 65 as a state objective without the derogatory wording "damage to the natural balance should be remedied".
From 1995 to 1999 there were two “Bernbachers” in parliament: They, who would have liked to form a coalition with the SPD as Greens, and her husband Klaus Bernbacher at the AfB, who fought for the SPD to be replaced from power, and for this with the CDU wanted to form a coalition. Both found themselves in the opposition .

Further memberships

  • Association for the promotion of the right to petition in democracy
  • Chairwoman of the Friends of the Links der Weser Clinic

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the taz Nord / Bremen from September 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bernbacher, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernbacher, Cristine; Eschner, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens), MdBB
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 12th, 2013
Place of death Bremen