Christa Lewek

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Christa Lewek (1981)

Christa Lewek (born January 19, 1927 in Leipzig , † March 27, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German party functionary of the GDR CDU and Protestant senior church councilor .

Life

Lewek was the daughter of the Leipzig Protestant pastor Ernst Lewek , who was subjected to reprisals by the Nazi regime because of his Jewish roots . After obtaining her university entrance qualification , she studied German , philosophy and history in Leipzig . During these years she became a member of the Christian Democratic Union and secretary of the then CDU chairman Otto Nuschke . In 1959 she left the CDU. In 1958 she entered the service of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for the Berlin-Brandenburg Church, which at that time still belonged to the EKD . When the Federation of Protestant Churches in the GDR was founded in 1969, she became a consultant for "Church and Society" in the Secretariat of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR. Under the heads of this secretariat Manfred Stolpe , Christoph Demke and Martin Ziegler she took over their deputy in the secretariat.

Lewek tried to hinder the work of the church opposition and Western correspondents in the GDR.

The then permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in the GDR , Günter Gaus , conducted a television interview with her in January 1985 .

In 1988 she retired . On July 11, 1990, she was one of the founders of the Justice Committee , which was supposed to lead the PDS out of its political isolation at the time and which soon disbanded.

In 1994 she appeared before an investigative committee as a witness to exonerate her former boss Manfred Stolpe , whose Stasi involvement was being investigated.

Christa Lewek was unmarried. Pastors Kurt Lewek, Radebeul, and Gert Lewek, Bernburg belong to her siblings.

Publications

  • "Tasks and results of the working group on human rights of the Federation of Evangelical Churches", in: epd documentation No. 35/91, p. 8.
  • “Human Rights in Christian Responsibility”, ed. on behalf of the Secretariat of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR by Christa Lewek, Manfred Stolpe and Joachim Garstecki, Berlin 1980.
  • Revolution or Implosion? Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin office, 1999

Texts by Christa Lewek:

  • Christ incognito in Dostoevsky's work ; Contribution to Commission 4 - European Security and Cooperation of the World Congress of Peace Forces in Moscow October 25 to 31, 1973; Living with brothers - vision of a church based on partnership. Lecture at the Evangelical Academy Berlin-Brandenburg;
  • Review of regional situations Eastern Europe. XXXII Meeting of the Commission of Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), April 17-23, 1977 in Egham / England;
  • World Congress of Religious Representatives for Lasting Peace, Disarmament and Just Relations between Nations, Moscow June 10, 1977. Contribution to Working Group II / Disarmament; World Parliament of the Peoples for Peace, Sofia, 23-27 September 1980. Contribution to the round table discussion of religious representatives;
  • Christian World Conference “Life and Peace”, Uppsala, April 1983. Conference template; Why churches stand up for human rights. Interview of November 22, 1984;
  • Radio commentary, December 16, 1984 on Radio GDR;
  • Conversation between Günter Gaus and Christa Lewek on January 20, 1985, ARD “Deutsche”;
  • Meeting of the Peace Council of the GDR on the opening of the 1986 UN Year of Peace ;
  • World Congress for the International Year of Peace, Copenhagen, October 15-19, 1986. Speeches; Vision Europe. For Elisabeth Adler; Acting Responsibly for Peace and Justice. On the work of the Protestant churches in the GDR. Lecture at the cultural center of the GDR, Paris June 3, 1987;
  • Radio commentary, November 15, 1987, Radio DDR;
  • Church in Socialism - from the Church's perspective. Lecture at the meeting of the SPD and Churches Commission on the subject. “Church in Socialism - Church in the Plural State” from November 11 to 12, 1988 in the Evangelical Academy in Mülheim / Ruhr; Language of Peace - Culture of Strife. Understanding in the Common House Europe. Speech on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock on April 25, 1989;
  • A woman can only be the second man; Women East, Women West. What can we learn from each other? What is different?;
  • Christa Lewek in conversation with Annemarie Lofthus Hindal (Oslo) and Joachim Heise on May 29, 1991 about her experiences in church politics in the 1950s and early 1960s; Interview with Dr. Christa Lewek, first signatory of the “Appeal for the Establishment of Committees for Justice” on June 9, 1994;
  • Conference of the Evangelical Academy of Thuringia “Review of the Church in Socialism” on November 26, 1999 - Contribution to the interview with contemporary witnesses

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical information from "Who was who in the GDR?" , Accessed on September 21, 2011.
  2. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uek-online.de  
  3. ↑ a b Hubertus Knabe : The perpetrators are among us. About the glossing over of the SED dictatorship. Berlin 2008, p. 44
  4. ↑ Die Zeit "We are not a poor country." February 1985
  5. ↑ http://vervielte-schueler.org/1990-now.htm
  6. ↑ BRANDENBURG: Calculated muscle play
  7. ↑ http://www.staat-kirche-forschung.de/deutsch/Publikationen/Inhalte/Monografien/20.html
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SURNAME Lewek, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior church councilor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2008
Place of death Berlin