Gerd Krauss

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Gerd Krauss (born February 4, 1952 in Ruhla ) is a former opposition member in the GDR .

Life

Krauss was already opposition in the GDR school, was never in the Free German Youth , he was not admitted to the Abitur and thus could not study medicine. Krauss got involved in Bad Kösen and Naumburg / Saale in the "Junge Gemeinde", a youth organization of the Protestant Church. There he organized youth services with many like-minded people and was put on record at the MfS for the first time . In 1975, at a one-man demonstration on the Naumburg market square, he was arrested and fell into the clutches of the MfS. They wanted to advertise him as an IM . Krauss refused, however, he never wanted to spy on friends and acquaintances and never work for the GDR. In 1976 Krauss moved with his family to Thuringia because he saw no more professional prospects in Naumburg. There he began to work as an assistant nurse in an old people's and nursing home, later moved to a municipal hospital and began studying nursing at a medical college. Even during these years Krauss was monitored by the MfS, which in mid-1989 led to an OPK with the aim of arresting him. Krauss founded the NEUE FORUM in the Hildburghausen district and, together with like-minded people, dissolved the MfS and all branches in the district. Later, Krauss was at the round table in the district and town for the New Forum. On August 21, 2014 he was honored for his work in the opposition in the GDR by the Prime Minister of Thuringia, Christine Lieberknecht .

literature

  • "It's spring and we're so free!" by Hans-Jürgen u. Bastian Salier, ISBN 3-86180-080 - 2 pages: 42,43,45,84,90,102,127,131,139,146,150,161

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