Dietlind Glüer

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Dietlind Glüer (* 1937 in Osterode in East Prussia ) was a co-founder of the New Forum in Rostock .

Life

Dietlind Glüer's family fled to Mecklenburg after the end of the Second World War . She attended school in Bützow and the city school in Rostock , where she passed her Abitur in 1956. In the Burckhardthaus , she completed an apprenticeship as a parish assistant at the Evangelical Church. After that, she was employed in child and youth work in Protestant communities, primarily Rostock, Güstrow and Schwerin . From 1974 to 1989 she was a consultant for family work in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg , then until her retirement she worked in the office for community service. She also worked as a community advisor and supervisor.

Dietlind Glüer initially helped to build the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rostock's southern city. In 1989 she was a co-founder of the “New Forum”. She organized a founding event in Michaeliskirche , to which unexpectedly large numbers of interested people flocked to discuss a political-scientific alternative to socialism . She also took part in the occupation of the Stasi headquarters in Rostock. From 1990 Glüer became involved in Bündnis 90, where he concentrated on representing Rostock's interests. As the “mother of Rostock democracy”, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class on October 8, 1995 . On September 5, 2018, the Rostock citizens unanimously decided to give Dietlind Glüer honorary citizenship of the city of Rostock. She is the first woman to receive this award.

Publications

  • Dietlind Glüer (Ed.): The Burckhardthaus-Ost - experienced and remembered - . Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-87503-214-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
  2. ↑ Glüer honorary citizenship: "Mother of the Peaceful Revolution" on welt-online.de, accessed on September 5, 2018.


personal data
SURNAME Glüer, Dietlind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German community educator and co-founder of the "New Forum"
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode in East Prussia