Eberhard Zastrau

Eberhard Zastrau (born March 19, 1954 in Berlin ; † May 22, 2012 in Berlin) was a German human rights activist and publicist who campaigned primarily for the interests of homosexuals

Life

Zastrau graduated from high school in Göttingen . He then studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Berlin . Later he changed the focus of his studies to urban and regional planning . He was politically active in the general student committee of the TU Berlin.

For many decades Zastrau was active in human and civil rights policy as well as in memorial work. a. with Joachim Müller . In the 1980s he was a member of the FDP youth organization German Young Democrats . As chairman of the official working group on homosexuality of the young democrats, he campaigned in the FDP for the deletion of section 175 from the penal code, which made sexual acts between persons of the male sex a criminal offense.

From 1986 to 1988 he was the press spokesman for AIDS support . He was a co-founder of the Victory Column magazine and, alongside Thomas Brüggemann, a co-organizer of the meeting of Berlin gay groups . In 2005 he was a leader in the artistic tender for the memorial to the homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism for the lesbian and gay association in Germany , whose public relations officer he was and whose magazine respekt! - Magazine for lesbian and gay politics he was editor-in-chief together with a colleague for many years. However, he did not fully agree with the implementation. In addition, for many years he was a member of the international advisory board of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , which is responsible for the administration of the memorials in the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps .

After his time in the FDP, Zastrau was active in the SPD for a few years and then in the pirate party until shortly before his death . At the federal party convention of the Pirate Party in 2010 he was one of the meeting leaders.

literature

• Man for man: biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area. Article about Hansjörg Trost, p. 1182. [1]
• Homosexual men in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Editor. [2]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ piratenpartei.de: In memoriam Eberhard Zastrau - an obituary saved as a memento on May 29, 2012
2. ↑ Distancing tango in the Pädofrage , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 11, 2013. Memento from the Internet Archive of April 15, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Working group homosexuality of the FDP: Documentation. Better a warm brother than a cold warrior. , December 1980. Memento from the Internet Archive of May 6, 2018 (PDF file)
4. ^ The FDP wants to delete paragraph 175 from the penal code. Der Spiegel 25/1981. Memento from the Internet Archive of September 25, 2010. PDF file
5. ↑ siegessaeule.de, Günter Dworek : Obituary for the Victory Column co-founder Eberhard Zastrau. Eberhard Zastrau died in May. He was active as a gay civil rights activist all his life. His companion Günter Dworek remembers him , saved as Memento 2018
6. ↑ Lüthke political advice: Presentation by Eberhard Zastrau on the subject of public relations for the Lesbian and Gay Association of Germany (LSVD eV) , presentation to the interns 'regulars' table on September 4, 2006. Memento from the Internet archive of September 21, 2013
7. ↑ gedenkort.de Art competition Memorial to the homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism (PDF; 1.4 MB), saved as a memento 2018
8. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Misery kiss quote saved as a memento 2017
9. ↑ Hype without end . Süddeutsche Zeitung from October 15, 2009. Memento from archive.is from September 18, 2013
10. ↑ User page in the Pirate Party Wiki , memento from the Interbnet Archive from June 3, 2012
11. ↑ Eberhard Zastrau: the last 500 posts in the wiki of the Pirate Party , saved as Memento 2018
12. ↑ piratenpartei.de-Wiki: Bundesparteitag 2010.2 / Assembly offices , saved as a memento 2016