Evelyn Zupke

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Documentation board, Friedrich-Jacobs-Promenade, in Berlin-Rummelsburg

Evelyn Zupke , née Wiehler (born February 28, 1962 in Binz ), is the first federal commissioner for the victims of the SED dictatorship . The former civil rights activist in the GDR was a member of the Weißensee Peace Circle and, as one of the organizers of the uncovering of electoral fraud in the local elections on May 7, 1989, was instrumental in the peaceful revolution in the GDR .

Life

After graduating from high school , Zupke was not allowed to study because she did not conform to the regime when she was at school. She therefore completed an apprenticeship in the catering sector . After a few years in the business, problems arose here too, because she did not want to take part in the voting called “folding paper”. For example, Zupke switched to the social field of “looking after mentally handicapped people” under the umbrella of the Diakonie of the Protestant Church in the GDR . After moving to East Berlin , she made contact with the Friedenskreis Weißensee , one of the opposition groups in the GDR.

The local election on 7 May 1989 has been used by many groups throughout the GDR to the fraudulent activities of observational and counting and checking the results SED - regime to prove. In contrast to other cities and districts, only Berlin-Weißensee Evelyn Zupke managed to get the list of all polling stations. This was the prerequisite for being able to provide almost complete evidence of the systematic electoral fraud. In a conspiratorial way, the actual results were passed on to Western journalists, who in turn initiated publication in the media of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the period that followed, Zupke was significantly involved in the organization and implementation of public protests on the 7th of the month at 5 p.m. under the motto: “Never enough of electoral fraud”: on June 7th, 1989 in the Sophienkirche , on July 7th on the Alexanderplatz , on August 7th in the Hoffnungskirche Berlin-Pankow , on September 7th and October 7th again on Alexanderplatz. In addition, from September 1989 she took part in the permanent vigil and the contact telephone in the Gethsemane Church.

After the fall of the wall , Zupke devoted himself to political work in various areas. So she sat at the round table in Berlin-Weißensee in 1989/90 , worked on the committee for the dissolution of the Office for National Security and on March 18, 1990 was a member of the election commission in the first and last democratic elections in the GDR. She also worked in the Peace and Human Rights Initiative (IFM) and in the Matthias Domaschk Archive of the Robert Havemann Society . Then Zupke switched back to the social sector, where she has been working in various areas to this day.

On March 5, 2009 Evelyn Zupke was named as a deputy member of the 13th Federal Assembly by the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives . As such, she took part in the election of the Federal President on May 23, 2009.

On June 10, 2021, the Bundestag elected Evelyn Zupke as the first federal commissioner for the victims of the SED dictatorship , a newly created office of the German Bundestag. The MfS documents and their staff previously kept by the Stasi records authority will be taken over by the Federal Archives as of June 17, 2021 .

Evelyn Zupke is married and has one son.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Evelyn Zupke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uta Keseling: 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: “The most important experience for me is the citizens' movement”. In: Berliner Morgenpost . May 5, 2019, archived from the original on May 5, 2019 ; accessed on June 4, 2021 (interview with Andreas Otto).
  2. ^ GDR civil rights activist Zupke is the first representative for SED victims , Stern, June 10, 2021
personal data
SURNAME Zupke, Evelyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiehler, Evelyn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opposition members in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Binz