Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen

Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen 1990

Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen (* 11. November 1934 as Cornelia Helmrich in Berlin ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 1985 to 1989 she was Senator for Youth and Family of the State of Berlin, from 1988 to 1991 General Secretary of the FDP and from 1991 to 1998 the Federal Government's Commissioner for Foreigners .

Life

During the Second World War, she grew up on the Darß on the Baltic Sea with an uncle and his wife. In a detailed interview entitled "I wasn't afraid of the Russians" (Neues Deutschland, May 7, 2020, p. 15), she made very positive comments about this time and the connections with Russians. After graduating from high school in 1954, Schmalz-Jacobsen studied singing and languages ​​in Berlin, Perugia and Rome and then did a traineeship at Sender Freie Berlin . She has been working as a journalist since 1962 .

Party and public office

Schmalz-Jacobsen has been a member of the FDP since 1968 . Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen was a member of the Munich City Council from 1972 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1989, as Senator for Youth and Family of the State of Berlin , she was a member of the Senate headed by the Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen . From 1988 to 1991 she was then FDP general secretary and from 1995 to 1998 deputy federal chairwoman of the FDP. From 1990 to 1998 she was a member of the German Bundestag . It was drawn into the German Bundestag via the Bavarian State List . From 1991 to 1998 Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen was the Federal Government Commissioner for the interests of foreigners .

Documents about her activities as a member of the German Bundestag and for the FDP from 1985 to 2004 are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

family

Schmalz-Jacobsen is the granddaughter of Ernst Hardt and great-granddaughter of Konstantin von Hößlin , she is the daughter of Donata Hardt and Eberhard Helmrich . She was married and has three children.

In her book Two Trees in Jerusalem , she writes “about the natural resistance that the author's parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, put up under National Socialism . Both were independently in Yad Vashem , the Israeli Holocaust memorial, honored . There, in the 'Allee der Gerechten', two trees with their names remind of the courageous rescue operations of the Helmrichs. "

Volunteering

• Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen is deputy chairwoman of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy .
• Until 2009 she was chairwoman of the German association Humanity in Action and has been a member of the board since then. In 2012 she became honorary chairwoman.
• From 1997 to 2014 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Publications (selection)

• Easy entry, difficult exit. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe. Right outside - right "center"? (= Interdisciplinary cultural studies series. Volume 7). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-5817-6 , pp. 151–155.
• Two trees in Jerusalem. Series: Publications of the Silent Heroes Memorial Center. 2nd Edition. Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-86331-144-2 . First Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09378-7 . As TB Heyne, 2004, ISBN 3-453-87933-3 .
  • also in: Im Spiegel der Zeit. Reader's Digest , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-89915-221-0 (therein as the last of four articles).
• Russian summer. My memories of the liberation from the Nazi regime. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-10311-1 .

Web links

Commons : Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Biography on the website of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
• Liberal deadline for the 80th birthday of Schmalz-Jacobsen of the Archives of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
• Interview by Ewald Grothe (Archive of Liberalism) with Schmalz-Jacobsen as part of the “Lüdenscheider Talks” at the FernUniversität in Hagen
• »I was not afraid of the Russians« Interview about the liberation in 1945, German guilt and responsibility, Neues Deutschland , May 7, 2020