Ellen Brombacher

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Ellen Brombacher at the 12th People's Chamber Conference in Berlin (1989)

Ellen Brombacher , née Harter (born February 15, 1947 in Westerholt ), is a German politician from the SED , PDS and Die Linke . She is one of the spokespersons for the Federal Council of Speakers of the Communist Platform . In the GDR she was an FDJ functionary and from 1976 to 1990 a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Ellen Brombacher's parents were both in the resistance against National Socialism and were members of the KPD . Her father was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, her mother emigrated to Belgium, where, as a German Jew, she was a member of the German-Austrian section of the Belgian resistance. Ellen Harter attended elementary school in Westerholt from 1953 to 1959 . In the summer of 1959, her family moved to the GDR . Ellen first attended a polytechnic high school (POS) in Berlin-Köpenick. From year 9 she was a student at the Köpenicker EOS "Alexander von Humboldt" . There she graduated from high school with vocational training and thus simultaneously received a skilled worker training as a radio mechanic at the Funkwerk Köpenick between 1962 and 1965 . Then she, who had been a member of the FDJ since 1961 at the age of 14, was delegated to the Komsomol University in Moscow , where she studied from September 1965 to June 1966. Since February 1965 she was also a candidate for the SED , in February 1966 she became a member of the party.

After her stay in Moscow, Ellen Brombacher worked for one year as an instructor in the schools department of the FDJ district leadership in Berlin from August 1966. At the same time she began evening courses in Russian studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which she graduated with a degree in Russian studies in June 1970. From autumn 1967, when she was only 20 years old, she was increasingly employed in functions of the pioneering organization "Ernst Thälmann" . She moved to the FDJ district leadership Berlin-Friedrichshain , where she was also the district chairman of the pioneer organization in her function as secretary for school youth. From September 1969 until the summer of 1971 she headed the Young Pioneers / Schools department in the FDJ district leadership in Berlin. Subsequently, until August 1973, she was the full-time secretary of the FDJ district management and chairwoman of the Berlin district organization of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann. At the same time, she was elected to the office of the FDJ Central Council for the first time in May 1971 , of which she remained until she left the FDJ in 1984.

From September 1973 until June 1974, Brombacher completed a year of study at the party college of the SED , which was indispensable for her further appointment as functionaries. In March 1975, after the mother's year, she was given the position of 1st Secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Berlin. At the same time, she was co-opted as a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin . As part of this functionary career, representative offices also joined. In 1974 she became a city councilor for East Berlin. In the 1976 elections to the city council, the FDJ presented her as a candidate in the Pankow constituency 16. The city council sent her to the Volkskammer as one of 66 East Berlin members. From then on she sat in both bodies until 1990 as a member of parliament.

At the age of 37, Brombacher was retired from the FDJ in June 1984. Now she became secretary for culture in the SED district leadership in Berlin and thus had a major influence on all cultural institutions in East Berlin .

After the political change and the termination of her membership in the Volkskammer elections in March 1990, Brombacher initially found a job as a kitchen assistant in a Berlin kindergarten until the end of 1991. This was followed by retraining, unemployment and a year-long job as a doctor's assistant. From 1994 she worked with interruptions in the social sector, taking care of foreigners, repatriates and asylum seekers. In 1992 she became involved in the PDS as a member of the Communist Platform. She is now a member of the Federal Council of Speakers of the Communist Platform in the party Die Linke. She is the spokeswoman for the preparatory alliance for the Liebknecht Luxembourg demonstration .

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Stop on the line. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 1991.
  • The punch. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-928999-21-4 .
  • Returnees. EPO, Berlin 1994, ISBN 90-6445-840-5 .
  • The new rethinking. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-928999-71-0 .
  • The modern is beautiful. R. Thieme, Suhl 2001.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ellen Brombacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The new 1st secretary of the district leadership of the FDJ. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 3, 1975, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Berliners achieve high achievements in the 35th anniversary year of the republic. In: Neues Deutschland , June 22, 1984, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Wilfriede Otto :  Brombacher, Ellen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  4. ↑ Willi Effenberger: "They are a symbol for walking upright". In: young world . December 29, 2015, p. 8 , accessed on July 5, 2019 (interview).
personal data
SURNAME Brombacher, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harter, Ellen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, Die Linke), FDJ functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerholt