Gerhard Bartels

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Gerhard (Gerd) Bartels (born June 18, 1949 in Wittenberg ) is a German politician ( SED , PDS and Die Linke ).

After graduating from high school in Halle (Saale) , Bartels studied German and history at the University of Greifswald and then worked as a teacher and research assistant at the University of Greifswald. This was followed by an apprenticeship and a doctorate, after which he was a research assistant and senior assistant at the University of Greifswald, as well as a university lecturer for contemporary German and a freelance language teacher.

Bartels became a member of the SED in 1968 and joined the PDS in 1990. There he became district chairman, first in the district of Greifswald , then in the district association Anklam-Greifswald-Wolgast, which later became the district of East Western Pomerania . In 1999 he was elected to the citizenship of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald for the first time. Bartels was a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament from 1994 to 2002 and again from 2003 to 2006 as a replacement for Helmut Holter . There he was temporarily chairman of the committee for education, science and culture.

In March 2006 Bartels signed the founding appeal of the anti-capitalist left (AKL), which was observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and classified as left-wing extremist .

Bartels is married and has one child.

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Individual evidence

  1. Founding appeal “For an anti-capitalist left”. (PDF) March 2006, accessed May 24, 2020 .