Christine Lieberknecht

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Christine Lieberknecht (2013)

Christine Lieberknecht (née Determann , born May 7, 1958 in Weimar ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1991 to 2019 she was a member of the Thuringian state parliament . From October 2009 to December 2014 she was Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia and State Chairwoman of the CDU Thuringia . She worked as a pastor until 1990 . After the formation of the first freely elected state government, she then almost continuously held leading positions in state politics as minister or state parliament president.

She was the first female prime minister in one of the new federal states and the first female prime minister in Germany to be appointed by the CDU .

Family, education and work

Christine Lieberknecht grew up as the oldest of four siblings in the rectory in Leutenthal , where her father was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor. The father, son of the painter Walter Determann, later rose to become superintendent . Her mother was a nurse . Lieberknecht was not a member of the Ernst Thälmann pioneer organization and did not take part in the youth consecration , but later joined the FDJ .

After graduating from high school in 1976 at the extended secondary school “Geschwister Scholl” in Bad Berka , she studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and worked as an honorary FDJ secretary for theology students. She passed her first theological exam in 1982. In the same year she started a vicariate in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia . In 1984 she passed the second theological exam. Then she was responsible as pastor for the villages of Ottmannshausen , Hottelstedt and Stedten am Ettersberg north of Weimar until 1990 .

Lieberknecht lives with her husband, Pastor Martin Lieberknecht, in Ramsla near Weimar. You have two children.

As a speaker at the Olof Palme Peace March of the CFK Buchenwald-Kapellendorf in 1987

Early political work

Lieberknecht joined the GDR CDU block party in 1981 . As a pastor, she participated in the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) until 1990 .

In September 1989, Lieberknecht, along with Gottfried Müller , Martin Kirchner and the lawyer Martina Huhn, was one of the four signatories of the "Letter from Weimar", which was addressed to the party executive committee and to all district and district executive boards of the GDR CDU and which announced the termination of the alliance the SED demanded. In the late autumn of 1989 she was elected to the CDU party executive under the later first democratically elected Prime Minister of the GDR , Lothar de Maizière . During the fall of the Berlin Wall she became a founding member of the first group of Young European Federalists in the GDR. From May to August 1990 Lieberknecht worked in the "Political Advisory Committee" to prepare the state of Thuringia.

Thuringian Minister for Culture and Federal Affairs (1990–1999)

Duchač cabinet , 1990: As Minister of Culture, Lieberknecht (center) was the only female member

After turning and before the restoration of the state of Thuringia with the ländereinführungsgesetz Christine Lieberknecht was elected deputy regional chairman of the CDU Thuringia on 20 January 1990th After the CDU victory in the first free state elections in Thuringia (October 14, 1990), Lieberknecht was appointed minister of culture in the newly formed CDU / FDP state government. One of her first tasks was to reorganize the educational system . In Thuringia, a new two-tier system was introduced in Germany with a grammar school and a regular school . Thuringia held on to the Central Abitur after 12 years at school.

Since March 19, 1991 Lieberknecht also belonged to the Thuringian state parliament . They moved for Michael Krapp after which the Secretary of State as head of the Thuringian State was appointed and therefore resigned his mandate. When Prime Minister Josef Duchač was accused of having worked for the Ministry of State Security during the GDR era , Lieberknecht resigned from her ministerial office in protest, triggering Duchač's resignation on January 23, 1992. On June 20, 1992, Lieberknecht also gave up the post of deputy chairman of the CDU Thuringia . Since then, she was initially a multiple co-opted member of the CDU state executive until she was elected state chairman in 2009.

From 1992 to 1994 Lieberknecht was Minister for Federal and European Affairs under the new Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel ( Vogel I cabinet ). In the legislative period from 1990 to 1994 Lieberknecht was the only female member in the cabinet. After the state election in Thuringia in 1994 , Vogel formed a grand coalition of CDU and SPD and appointed her Minister for Federal Affairs in the State Chancellery ( Vogel II cabinet ). She held this office until 1999.

President of the Landtag, CDU parliamentary group leader and Minister of Social Affairs (1999–2009)

In the 1999 state election , the CDU under Vogel achieved an absolute majority . Lieberknecht was no longer a member of the cabinet. During the third legislative period, she acted as President of the Thuringian State Parliament and earned great respect from the opposition parties SPD and PDS . In 2003, after the resignation of Bernhard Vogel, she swore in her position, Dieter Althaus , his successor as Prime Minister.

After the state elections in 2004 , Lieberknecht succeeded the previous CDU parliamentary group leader, Frank-Michael Pietzsch ; Dagmar Schipanski became the new President of the State Parliament .

On May 8, 2008 she was sworn in as Minister for Social Affairs, Family and Health in Dieter Althaus' cabinet, succeeding Klaus Zeh . Her successor as the CDU parliamentary group leader was Mike Mohring .

Prime Minister and CDU state chairwoman (2009-2014)

Christine Lieberknecht, 2005
Lieberknecht at the end of the 2014 state election campaign

After losing the absolute CDU majority in the state parliament in the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 , Dieter Althaus resigned as prime minister and CDU state chairman. As a result of the reorganization of the CDU, the Presidium of the state party nominated Christine Lieberknecht unanimously on September 8, 2009, on the recommendation of Finance Minister Birgit Diezel, as a candidate for the office of prime minister in the event of a possible coalition of CDU and SPD. Diezel himself waived any claims to the CDU state chairmanship in favor of Lieberknecht. On September 29, 2009, the SPD Thuringia decided to start negotiations with the CDU on the formation of a coalition and turned against a possible government coalition with the Left and the Greens . A Prime Minister Christine Lieberknecht is accepted by the Social Democrats because of her balancing nature.

On October 25, 2009, Lieberknecht was elected as the new state chairman with 83.3 percent at a CDU party convention. On the same day, both the CDU and the SPD approved the coalition agreement negotiated between the two parties with large majorities.

On October 30, 2009, Lieberknecht stood for the election of the Prime Minister in the Thuringian state parliament . In the first and second ballot, it surprisingly received only 44 votes each; in each case one vote was missing for an absolute majority. For the third ballot, in which a simple majority was enough, the top candidate of the left in the state elections in 2009, Bodo Ramelow, also ran . In this ballot, Lieberknecht received 55 votes; thus she was elected Prime Minister. After Heide Simonis , she was the second woman nationwide and the first CDU politician to become Prime Minister of a federal state.

On November 4, 2009 the ministers of the Lieberknecht cabinet were appointed and sworn in. In this, the Union provided five ministers in addition to the Prime Minister, the SPD received four departments.

One year after her election as prime minister, Lieberknecht was confirmed as state chairwoman on November 13, 2010 at the CDU state party conference in Sömmerda with 79.6 percent. On November 10, 2012, Lieberknecht was re-elected as state chairwoman with 75.8 percent at the CDU party conference in Seebach .

On August 19, 2013, an application was made to lift her parliamentary immunity on suspicion of breach of trust, after she had previously put her State Secretary Peter Zimmermann into temporary retirement with pension entitlements, although he wanted to switch to Unister at his own request . On September 11, 2013, the justice committee of the Thuringian state parliament lifted Lieberknecht's immunity . On February 3, 2014, the public prosecutor's office in Erfurt closed the investigation against the Prime Minister because there was insufficient suspicion.

On February 14, 2014 she was elected by 93.16 percent of the delegates to the top candidate of her party in the state elections in Thuringia 2014 at a state representative assembly of the CDU Thuringia . Under her leadership, the party improved the historically poor result of the 2009 state elections by 2.3 percentage points in the election on September 14, 2014, and achieved 33.5 percent of the vote. Since the coalition partner SPD, which before the election had not ruled out a red-red-green coalition led by the left-wing top candidate Bodo Ramelow, fell dramatically to 12.4 percent, both black-red and red-red-green only had one Majority of one vote in the state parliament. Lieberknecht like Ramelow announced exploratory talks with the SPD and the Greens. But the new model of a black-red-green coalition ("Afghanistan coalition") proposed by Lieberknecht was rejected by the Green leadership around top candidate Anja Siegesmund after the first exploratory meeting with the CDU. The SPD then continued exploratory talks with the CDU on the one hand and with the Left and the Greens on the other. On October 20, 2014, the SPD recommended its members to vote in favor of entering into coalition negotiations with the Left and the Greens; on November 4, 2014, the SPD base voted with 69.93 percent for the recommendation of the party executive and thus de facto against the continuation of the black and red state government. Lieberknecht announced on December 2, 2014 that she would no longer run as party chairman at the upcoming state party congress and, despite the narrow red-red-green majority, she would not run as a candidate for the CDU against Bodo Ramelow in the election of the prime minister. On December 5, 2014 Ramelow was elected in the second ballot to succeed Christine Lieberknecht in the office of Thuringian Prime Minister.

After the office of prime minister (2014-2019)

On December 13, 2014, Mike Mohring was elected Lieberknecht's successor as chairman of the CDU regional association in Thuringia. Lieberknecht remained in Thuringian politics as a simple member of the state parliament. In 2015 she was elected by the Board of Trustees as a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship . After she had meanwhile considered running again for a mandate in the 2019 state election , she announced in May 2018 that she would not run again and would withdraw from professional policy at the end of the legislative period.

Proposal as Interim Prime Minister (2020)

In the course of the government crisis in Thuringia in 2020 and the resignation of Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich ( FDP ), her successor in office and Kemmerich's predecessor Bodo Ramelow ( Die Linke ) proposed Lieberknecht as transitional minister-president on February 17, 2020 ; it could be elected with the votes of the Left, SPD , Greens and CDU . Previously, the state parliament should two-thirds majority its resolution decide Lieberknecht with three ministers (for the areas of Finance , Justice and State ), the state government lead and election preparation.

After her own party, the Thuringian CDU , spoke out against quick new elections in negotiations about a possible transitional government , Lieberknecht distanced herself from her party colleagues and withdrew her willingness to run for interim ministerial president. She is no longer available for the office because she only wanted to accept Ramelow's proposed solution with quick new elections. This contradiction cannot be resolved, Lieberknecht told the Thuringian General .

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Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Christine Lieberknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Determann. In: Literaturland-Thueringen.de .
  2. ↑ Ekkehard Schulreich: Advertisement for election fraud: The courageous lawyer from Bad Lausick. Leipziger Volkszeitung, Muldental edition, p. 31, February 4, 2015 (full-page newspaper article)
  3. ↑ Erhard Neubert: The letter from Weimar. On the self-liberation of the CDU in autumn 1989 (pdf)
  4. ↑ Manfred Agethen: Unrest potentials and reform efforts at the base of the Eastern CDU in the run-up to the turnaround. The "Letter from Weimar" and the "Letter from Neuenhagen" (pdf)
  5. ↑ Portrait of Christine Lieberknecht. ( Memento of 11 September 2009 at the Internet Archive ) In: MDR.de .
  6. ↑ Return from Althaus forces CDU vote for Lieberknecht , Reuters, September 8, 2009
  7. ↑ Till Erdtracht: Third attempt: Christine Lieberknecht new Prime Minister. In: The Parliament , No. 45, 2009.
  8. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2009-10/thueringen-koalitionsvertrag-bestimmen
  9. ↑ nb / dpa / AFP: Thuringia: Lieberknecht fails, Ramelow competes. In: Focus Online . October 30, 2009, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  10. ↑ dpa / AP / AFP / omi: Prime Minister election in Thuringia: Lieberknecht fails, Linker Ramelow takes over. In: welt.de . October 30, 2009, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  11. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: CDU state party congresses: Müller and Lieberknecht confirmed in office
  12. ^ In southern Thuringia: Lieberknecht re-elected as Thuringian CDU chairwoman
  13. ↑ Erfurt public prosecutor's office applies for the lifting of Lieberknecht's immunity. lvz-online.de, August 19, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2013.
  14. ↑ Justice and Constitutional Committee ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ^ Immunity of the deputy Lieberknecht lifted. ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: thueringer-landtag.de , September 11, 2013.
  16. ↑ Christine Lieberknecht loses her immunity. In: focus.de , September 11, 2013, accessed on September 11, 2013.
  17. ↑ Preliminary proceedings against the Thuringian Prime Minister discontinued Public Prosecutor's Office Erfurt, February 3, 2014, accessed on February 3, 2014.
  18. ↑ State list of the CDU Thuringia for the state election 2014 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ State lists for 2014 elections adopted ( memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) CDU Thuringia, February 15, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2014.
  20. ^ Thüringer Allgemeine: Election thriller in Thuringia: CDU wins - left majority possible
  21. ^ Thuringian General: Media: Lieberknecht announces talks with the Greens
  22. ↑ Süddeutsche: Probing after the state elections: Greens in Thuringia want to concentrate on red-red-green
  23. ^ Deutschlandfunk: Thuringia: SPD considers alliance with CDU possible
  24. ↑ Focus: Thuringia: SPD leaders advocate red-red-green
  25. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine: Thuringian SPD base votes for red-red-green ( memento from November 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  26. ↑ Ostthüringer Zeitung: “Don't go into the lion's arena”: Christine Lieberknecht's era ends
  27. ^ Die Welt: Linke-Politiker: Bodo Ramelow is Prime Minister of Thuringia
  28. ↑ Christine Lieberknecht leaves politics completely. Thüringer Allgemeine, May 6, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Ramelow suggests Lieberknecht as Prime Minister. In: MDR.de. February 17, 2020, accessed February 18, 2020.
  30. ↑ Matthias Meisner : Ramelow proposes Lieberknecht's predecessor as Prime Minister. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 18, 2020, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Martin Debes: Rejection: Lieberknecht is not available for the transitional government. In: Thueringer-Allgemeine.de. February 19, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Christine Lieberknecht: Young people still know little about the GDR , idea.de, article from October 2, 2018
  33. ↑ Board of Trustees of ProChrist e. V. , accessed on March 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Dear servant, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Determann, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, State Minister in Thuringia
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar