Gerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann

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Gerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann (born June 14, 1952 in Luckau ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). From 2004 to 2014 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament , since December 2009 as a non-attached member, and was an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security .

Life and work

Hoffmann passed the Abitur in Senftenberg in 1971 . Following his three-year service in the NVA , he began studying philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1974 and graduated in 1979 as a graduate philosopher and teacher . He then worked at the University of Leipzig from 1979 to 1992 as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1984 with the thesis on factors and current trends in the development of non-Marxist philosophy in Africa .

In 1993 he became unemployed and then worked as a freelancer. From 1995 to 2004 he worked as an employee of a member of the state parliament.

Hoffmann is married, has three children and lives in Senftenberg.

politics

Hoffmann was a member of the SED from 1970 to 1989 . When they were renamed, he became a member of the PDS in 1990 , Linkspartei.PDS from July 2005 and finally from June 2007 a member of the “Die Linke” party. From 1998 to January 30, 2010, he held the office of district chairman in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .

As a candidate for his party, he reached in the 2002 general elections in the federal election district Elbe-Elster - II Oberspreewald-Lausitz 18.6 percent and was thus not elected to the Bundestag. In the 2004 state elections , he was directly elected as a member of the state parliament in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz II / Spree-Neisse IV state constituency. There he was a member of the committee for science, research and culture and temporarily deputy chairman of the committee. Until he left the parliamentary group on December 4, 2009, he was also his party's spokesman for cultural and minority politics. After the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , he left the state parliament.

State Security staff

According to information from the news magazine Focus , Hoffmann was IM Schwalbe of the Ministry for State Security between 1970 and 1975 . Among other things, Hoffmann reported on classmates, teachers and comrades in the NVA, as well as on church meetings and received several money for this. According to the file, he was also intended to be an informant for Department IV of the Headquarters Reconnaissance . The handwritten declaration of commitment dated June 5, 1970 was approved by the BStU together with the 200-page file on November 20, 2009. Hoffmann himself initially denied the allegations and initially received support from the former IM Kerstin Kaiser and Thomas Nord , as well as from Matthias Platzeck . He later stated that he could not remember the context. Since he violated an internal party regulation to disclose activities for the MfS in the event of a candidate for a mandate, his own party asked him to renounce his mandate. On December 3, 2009, he resigned from the Left Party in order to forestall an impending expulsion, but remained a member of the state parliament. Hoffmann is represented in the matter by Peter-Michael Diestel . On April 8, 2010, it was announced that Gerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann was also listed under the code name Jürgen as an unofficial employee for Department II / 5 of the Headquarters Enlightenment from December 6, 1981 to the end of 1989 and together with his wife (IM "Bärbel" ) Traveled abroad on behalf of the State Security.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Handbook of the Landtag Brandenburg. Archived from the original on June 16, 2007 ; Retrieved December 15, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Members elected in the constituencies. Brandenburg State Parliament, archived from the original on June 9, 2007 ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c Hoffmann signed the Stasi declaration of commitment. In: Focus. November 20, 2009, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Hoffmann was a "swallow". In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ Left Party: New Stasi disclosure in Brandenburg. In: Focus. November 14, 2009, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b cf. Süddeutsche Zeitung: Hypothek Stasi: Linke turns away from its own MP ( memento of the original from November 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  7. ↑ Left Party demands Hoffmann's resignation. The Brandenburg Left Party MP, Gerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann, wants to stay in the state parliament despite Stasi accusations. The group, however, demands that he go. In: TAZ. November 24, 2009, archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Left politician was a Stasi informant until the fall of the Berlin Wall. In: Focus Online. April 8, 2010, archived from the original on July 21, 2013 ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Gerd-Rüdiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL Brandenburg, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckau