Gabriele Gottwald

Gabriele Gottwald (born July 8, 1955 in Wettringen ) is a German politician of the LEFT and a former member of the Greens .

Life

Gottwald graduated from high school in 1974 and then studied social science and German studies . In 1980 she passed the first state examination. A year earlier she had already worked in the educational work of IG Metall and the German Trade Union Federation (DGB). After taking her first state examination, she became involved in the Central America solidarity movement.

politics

In the election for the 10th German Bundestag in 1983, Gottwald was elected to the Bundestag via the NRW state list. She was a full member of the Committee for Economic Cooperation and a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. On May 4, 1983, together with Petra Kelly, on the occasion of the government declaration by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the Bundestag, she organized a protest on the occasion of the murder of West German development aid worker Albrecht Pflaum in Nicaragua a few days earlier. On March 31, 1985, she resigned her mandate, as was the party's resolution, in order to allow another member of parliament to enter the Bundestag. This system was called MP rotation. She later resigned from the Greens and has been a member of LINKE since 2007 , for whose parliamentary group she coordinates the health and social affairs group.

In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 , she initially ran unsuccessfully at number 25 on the state list of Left Berlin and in the constituency of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 1 . On February 1, 2017, she finally moved to the House of Representatives following the resignation of Labor Senator Elke Breitenbach .

Conviction and miscarriage of justice

Gottwald was convicted of libel in the 1980s after she was wrongly accused by a police officer. The policeman confessed his act in 2008.

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 273.

Web links

Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives for the 18th electoral term
Gaby Gottwald together with Petra Kelly on May 4, 1983 in the German Bundestag during their joint protest action on the occasion of the murder of Tonio Pflaum

Individual evidence

↑ Gaby Gottwald's website ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Jens Anker: Left Senators give seats: Philipp Bertram moves up. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
↑ False testimony in the 80s: Late confession by a police officer . Die Tageszeitung , November 21, 2008, accessed on August 19, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Gottwald, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (The Greens / Left Party), MdB, MdA
DATE OF BIRTH	July 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Competition

[1] Gaby Gottwald's website ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Jens Anker: Left Senators give seats: Philipp Bertram moves up. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .

[3] False testimony in the 80s: Late confession by a police officer . Die Tageszeitung , November 21, 2008, accessed on August 19, 2017.