Dominic Holy

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Dominic Heilig (born August 14, 1978 in Berlin-Buch ( East Berlin ); † October 31, 2017 ) was a German journalist , author and politician ( Die Linke ). From 2012 to 2014 and since 2016 he was a member of the national executive committee of his party and from 2013 to 2014 a member of the executive committee of the European Left Party . From 2014 he was the national spokesman for the Forum for Democratic Socialism .

Life

Heilig attended the 30th “Alexander Abusch” polytechnic and the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. After graduating from high school, he did community service at the International Malteser Aid Service in Berlin, where he was entrusted with coordinating the press work of the relief service on site and in Berlin during the Kosovo war . In 1999 he began studying political science at the University of Potsdam , which he completed in 2004 with a thesis on the Europeanization of national parties between 1994 and 2004. After spending several years abroad, he returned to Berlin in 2006 and worked, among other things, for the left-wing parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . At the same time, he remained active as a journalist and author and published several texts for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . From 2012 to 2014 and since 2016 he was a member of the party executive and from 2013 to 2014 a member of the executive committee of the European Left Party . From 2014 he was the national spokesman for the Forum for Democratic Socialism . In his party he was regarded as an expert on European politics and an exponent of the realpolitical reform wing.

Heilig died of cardiac arrest at the age of 39 . He was the father of three children.

Selected publications

  • together with Petra Pau (ed.): For a tolerant society - against right-wing extremism and racism. International Berlin Conference, May 12 and 13, 2001, Karl-Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2001
  • Trialogue on European Domestic Policy, Rosa Luxemburg Papers, Berlin 2007
  • together with Jan Korte : War Treason - Politics of the Past in Germany, Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2011
  • together with Torsten Haselbauer: Before the election is after the election, series: Positions of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, June 2012
  • Athens is difficult to export, analysis of the Portuguese left before the 2015 elections, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, February 2015
  • The Left in Europe - Socialist Parties in the EU, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation New York, April 2016
  • Mapping the European Left, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation New York, April 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Left-wing politician Dominic Heilig died at the age of 39" on bz-berlin.de from November 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Short biography at Perlentaucher.de
  3. ↑ Short biography on the Left Party website , accessed on November 1, 2017
  4. ↑ Stefan Reinecke: Obituary for Dominic Heilig: Actually irreplaceable , Die Tageszeitung from November 1, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Holy, Dominic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and politician (Die Linke)
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2017