Christine Ostrowski

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Christine Ostrowski, 2007

Christine Ostrowski (born Pippig ; born August 24, 1945 in Plauen ) is a former German politician ( SED , PDS , Die Linke ) and was a Dresden city ​​councilor until 2009 . In 2000 she was controversial in her party because of talks with neo-Nazi cadres .

Education and political career

After Christine Ostrowski had attended the polytechnic high school and then the extended high school in Plauen , she trained as a teacher for mathematics and physics at the Dresden University of Education from 1964 to 1968 . She continued this profession until 1978. Meanwhile she rose to the position of pioneer leader and chairwoman of the pioneer organization Dresden-Süd. Between 1978 and 1989 she worked as a full-time employee at the SED in various functions, most recently as party secretary at the Dresden State Theater . In 1990 she became a member of the first freely elected People's Chamber in the GDR and, after German reunification, was one of those MPs who moved to the Bundestag from October to December 1990 . From 1998 to 2002 she was again a member of the Bundestag, this time through the state list of Saxony .

In 1993 Ostrowski was elected deputy PDS chairman; She was also a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1994 to 1998 and a city ​​councilor in Dresden from 1994 to 2009 . In 1994 she ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Dresden .

politics

As city chairman of the PDS Dresden, Ostrowski led her party for over ten years. Ostrowski advocated ideas of a social housing policy in the party for many years . Her person was always controversial within the party. She met with neo-Nazi cadres such as the Saxon state chairman of the national offensive Constantin Mayer. In order to win new groups of voters, she campaigned for medium-sized companies and founded the PDS employers ' association OWUS .

She and Ronald Weckesser made her severely criticized demands clear in May 1996 in the “Letter from Saxony”. It said that “left economic policy” should strengthen “down-to-earth small business”. Furthermore, she called for the efforts of the PDS to establish itself as a West German party to be dropped. Instead, it was demanded that the PDS be transformed into a strategic "East German People's Party". However, their call for a change of direction did not meet with great support from the party as a whole. On January 1, 2008, she resigned from Die Linke and accused the party, especially Oskar Lafontaine, of increasing populism .

Christine Ostrowski became known as the local politician of her party. In the mayoral election in Dresden in 1994, it achieved almost 30% of the votes cast. Ostrowski once again caused great resentment when she was one of the councilors of the Left Party.PDS in 2006 who approved the sale of the housing company WOBA GmbH of the city of Dresden. Internal party critics even demanded that they be expelled from the party.

Their style and their political convictions were controversial and led to disputes within the left-wing parliamentary group / PDS in the Dresden city council. As a result of these disputes, the city council faction split into the "Left faction / PDS" and the new faction "Die Linke". Ostrowski was one of the most determined critics of the Waldschlößchenbrücke in the city council .

A renewed candidacy for the 2014 city council election via the list of the FDP was rejected by its nomination party conference on February 8, 2014. At the beginning of 2016, she called for voting for the AfD .

Books

literature

  • Hannah Hoffmann, Henning Bösherz, Mark Spitz: Man, Christine! A little résumé of the representative Christine Ostrowski over four years of work in the German Bundestag and a lifelong love for the city of Dresden. Project Piccolo, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-933236-28-2
    • Review in Dresdner Blätt'l , No. 12/2002 ( PDF , 522 kB)

Web links

Commons : Christine Ostrowski  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caution, the enemy is on the left ( memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jungle World No. 52, December 20, 2000 Domestic  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jungle-world.com
  2. ↑ Neo-Nazis mask in red By means of infiltration tactics, neo-Nazis want to bypass the ban on their parties. Der Spiegel March 8, 1993
  3. ^ Prominent Left Ostrowski resigns from the party www.sz-online.de, January 3, 2008
  4. ↑ Surprising candidacy whirls FDP party conference on sz-online.de, February 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ Erik Peter: Left Party and AfD: Attack and Defense . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on July 10, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Ostrowski, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pippig, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon politician (SED / PDS / Die Linke), MdV, MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen