Christof Tannert

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Christof Tannert (born April 4, 1946 in Wehrsdorf , Bautzen district ; † April 12, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German biologist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Tannert studied biology at the University of Leipzig . In 1971 he was arrested for group formation that was dangerous to the state. His dissertation on questions of plant metabolism under the influence of herbicides, which he had started at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR , was canceled. In 1972 he was granted an amnesty, in 1977 he discovered the senescence antigen in human erythrocytes . In 1979 he received another doctorate, now at the Berlin Charité on the subject of investigations into the aging of red blood cells. The habilitation , scheduled for 1982, was blocked by the Ministry of State Security . From 1980 he studied Protestant theology in a correspondence course and passed the theological exam in 1984. From 1981 to 1989 he worked as a bookseller and art gallery owner in East Berlin .

In 1987 he took part in the Olof Palme Peace March for a nuclear-weapon-free corridor in Central Europe. In the same year he was one of the signatories of the basic church initiative "Rejection of Practice and Principle of Demarcation", with which the SED was called on to enter into a dialogue about democratic changes and from which the citizens' movement " Democracy Now !" In 1989 he played a key role in founding the “ Neues Forum ” in Berlin-Lichtenberg . In 1989/90 he was a co-founder of Greenpeace GDR and the first independent environmental institute of the GDR (UfU) and its chairman.

From 1992 to 1994 he was deputy state chairman of the Berlin SPD , from 1991 to 1994 a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and from 1994 to 1999 a member of the European Parliament .

From 2007 onwards, Tannert published several works of fiction in various cost publishers .

Publications (selection)

Scientific publications

  • Cultural aspects of biomedicine - bioethics, religions and everyday perspectives. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-593-37388-1 (as editor, together with Silke Schicktanz, Peter Wiedemann).
  • The future of stem cell research in Germany - A delphi study. In: EMBO Reports 2004 (Vol. 5), pp. 927–931 (together with Peter Wiedemann, Judith Simon and Silke Schicktanz).
  • Stem cells in discourse. A reading and work book for a citizens' conference. Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-936581-69-0 (as editor, together with Peter Wiedemann).
  • Gentherapy - Prospective Technology Assessment in its Societal Context. Elsevier, Amsterdam a. a. 2006, ISBN 9780444528063 (as editor, together with Jörg Niewöhner ).
  • Ethics of Uncertainty. In: EMBO Reports 2007 (Vol. 8), pp. 892–896 (together with Horst-Dietrich Elvers, Burkhard Jandrig)

Works of fiction

  • Schulle in ordinary socialism - episode novel on German contemporary history. Forum Verlag Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-931801-68-7 .
  • The man behind the screen - The latest cases from Chief Inspector Stilz. BookRix, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7368-4440-7 .

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 364 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Zschiesche: Christof Tannert - Mourning the founder - honorable memory, Independent Institute for Environmental Issues, April 17, 2019 (accessed April 23, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Tannert, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and politician (SPD), MdA, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehrsdorf , Bautzen district
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2019
Place of death Berlin