Christian Schenk (politician)

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Christian Schenk (2011)

Christian U. Schenk (born Christina Schenk on July 8, 1952 in Ilmenau ) is a German politician .

Life

After studying physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin , Schenk was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1976 to 1989 . 1989/90 followed a postgraduate degree in sociology, from 1994 a distance learning course in political science / social behavioral sciences.

In 1974 Schenk became a member of the SED , but left the party again in 1981. From 1982 to 1989 Schenk was active in the opposition movement under the umbrella of the Evangelical Church of the GDR (Lesbian Group Berlin), in autumn 1989 he was co-founder of the Independent Women's Association (UFV) and its representative at the Central Round Table of the GDR, in its working group 'Equality of women and men 'he presided over.

Christina Schenk at a conference of the Greens in 1990 (far right)

In December 1990 Schenk became a member of the German Bundestag as a representative of the UFV in the list of citizens 'movements in autumn 1989 ( Bündnis 90 / Greens - citizens' movement ), from whose faction he resigned in May 1994. In October 1994 he was re-elected to the Bundestag as a non- party member via the PDS state list of Saxony, to which he belonged until 2002. There he was first women's policy spokesman for the Bündnis 90 / Greens parliamentary group (1990-1994), then women's policy spokesman for the PDS and head of the working group on feminist politics of the PDS parliamentary group (1994-1998) and most recently family, lesbian and gay policy spokesman for the PDS Fraction (1998-2002). In 1994, he was the first member of the German Bundestag to find the entry in the German Bundestag's handbook: “Living in a lesbian partnership”. Nevertheless, Schenk had opposed and rejected the civil partnership law .

In 2002 he started coming out as a trans man , which in the summer of 2006 came to an end with the legal change of name and civil status from Christina to Christian, the legal and a gender reassignment operation . Between the outing and the change in civil status, in 2005 he entered into a civil partnership with a lawyer who was born in 1963 and who had been his partner since before the outing. After the change of civil status, a marriage was first approved by the local court, but the Berlin Senate Department filed a complaint against it because of the existing civil partnership. However, a civil partnership can only be divorced after one year of separation . At the beginning of 2007 the case was before the regional court .

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Schenk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simone Schmollak: Der Frauenversteher - The former member of the Bundestag Christina Schenk is now a man , taz magazine from March 3, 2007, p. III
  2. ^ MdB biographies of the 13th electoral term: Christina Schenk, PDS , accessed on August 25, 2010
  3. ↑ Transsexual PDS politician: Eheverbot , queer.de, January 17, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenk, Christina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Alliance 90 / Greens, citizens' movement), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau