Dankwart Brinksmeier
Dankwart Brinksmeier (born December 11, 1956 in Naumburg (Saale) ) is a German Protestant pastor and was a co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP), which emerged in autumn 1989 and later became part of the SPD .
The son of a theologian attended elementary school in Querfurt , the POS and the Kreuzschule in Dresden . Brinksmeier was a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor . From 1976 to 1983 he studied at the Theological Seminary in Leipzig , which later became the Leipzig Church University . From 1983 to 1989 he was a youth pastor in the church district of Aschersleben , then a student pastor in Berlin .
Brinksmeier was one of the founders of the SDP on October 7, 1989 in Schwante and helped set up the Berlin district association. In 1990 he was involved in the founding of the citizens' committee “15. January “and worked in the security working group of the central round table . In February and March he was responsible for overseeing the dissolution of the MfS as a representative of the Interior Ministry . From March 18 to October 2, 1990, as a member of the SPD parliamentary group, he was a member of the People's Chamber and chairman of the interior committee.
After the Volkskammer election in 1990, the SPD had nominated Brinksmeier for the office of State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, which it had promised when the government was formed, but Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel and Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière refused to appoint him to this office. Brinksmeier headed the People's Chamber Committee to review the MPs for possible collaboration in the former MfS. After months of disputes with Diestel, particularly over the inspection of files, Brinksmeier was deposed on August 23, 1990 by the Volkskammer presidium and replaced by MP Peter Hildebrand .
In 1990 he ran unsuccessfully for the Bundestag. From October 1990 to April 1991 Brinksmeier was unemployed and from 1991 freelance work at the Treuhandanstalt , then city district councilor and SPD district chairman in Berlin-Mitte as well as chairman of the Bernstein-Kautsky district . Later he was deputy mayor of Strausberg .
literature
- Christopher Hausmann: Biographical Handbook of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (1990) , Böhlau Verlag Cologne, 2000, ISBN 3-412-02597-6 , p. 26.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Brinksmeier, Dankwart . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , August 24, 1990, p. 2.
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 41/1990
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brinksmeier, Dankwart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor and politician (SDP, SPD), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naumburg (Saale) |