Gesine Loetzsch

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Gesine Lötzsch (2018)

Gesine Lötzsch (born August 7, 1961 in East Berlin ) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . From 2005 to 2010 she was deputy chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . From 2010 to 2012 she was one of the two party leaders.

Life and work

After graduation in 1980 at an Extended Secondary School graduated (EOS) Gesine Lötzsch at the Humboldt University of Berlin to study as a graduate teacher for the subjects English and German , which she graduated 1985th Afterwards she was an aspirant at the same institution and in 1987 spent a semester abroad in the Netherlands . In 1988 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the thesis Computer-assisted studies on the Central Dutch Plenary Ms. germ. 1612 . Since then Lötzsch has been working as a research assistant at the Humboldt University. Your employment relationship is currently suspended.

Lötzsch was married to the linguist Ronald Lötzsch (1931–2018) and has two children.

Gesine Lötzsch had a supporting role in the comedy Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere! .

Political career

Lötzsch in the Bundestag, 2019

In 1984 Lötzsch became a member of the SED . From 1989 to 1990 she was a member of the District Assembly of Berlin-Lichtenberg and from May to December 1990 of the City Assembly of East Berlin . From 1991 to 2002 Lötzsch was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . From 1991 to 1993 she was chairwoman of the PDS parliamentary group and from 1996 to 2002 chairwoman of the committee for European and federal affairs and media policy.

Gesine Lötzsch, 2005

From 1991 to 1993 Lötzsch was a member of the PDS state executive in Berlin . In 1994 she became chairwoman of what was then the PDS Berlin-Lichtenberg district association. After the merger of the districts of Lichtenberg and Hohenschönhausen , she chaired the also merged district party until 2012. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since the Bundestag election in September 2002 . Since November 2005 she has been deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary group of the party Die Linke and head of the parliamentary group regional / structural policy, East Germany, budget and environment. She is also chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Committee on Budgets and has been a member of the Defense Committee since September 2007 .

Lötzsch moved into the Bundestag in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 with a direct mandate from the constituency of Berlin-Lichtenberg . In the 2002 Bundestag election she received 39.6% of the first votes in her constituency , 42.9% in the 2005 Bundestag election, 47.5% in the 2009 Bundestag election, 40.3% in the 2013 Bundestag election and 34.7 % in the 2017 Bundestag election %.

Gesine Lötzsch and Klaus Ernst were proposed at the end of January 2010 by the party executive of Die Linke for dual leadership of the party. In the election on May 15, 2010 Gesine Lötzsch received 92.8% of the votes cast. On April 10, 2012, she resigned from this post because of her husband's illness.

In January 2012 it became known that Gesine Lötzsch, as one of 27 members of the Bundestag of the Left, is under observation by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which has been criticized by politicians from all political groups .
→ See also: Monitoring of the party Die Linke by the protection of the constitution .

On January 15, 2014, Gesine Lötzsch was elected chairwoman of the budget committee of the German Bundestag. In 2017 she was re-elected directly to the 19th German Bundestag . Since this legislative period, she has been a member of the body pursuant to Section 23c (8) of the Customs Investigation Service Act . She is also a member of the trust committee for the secret budgets of the federal intelligence services .

After Evrim Sommer resigned , Lötzsch was re-elected as district chairman of the Lichtenberg district association of the Left.

criticism

Dealing with former Stasi employees

Lötzsch came under fire several times because of her dealings with former employees of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). So she pleaded u. a. for the tolerance of former Stasi employees in parliaments and ministerial offices, provided that they are elected. The then federal chairman of the Greens , Claudia Roth , accused her of wanting to “sweep the past under the table”.

It was also criticized that her district association in Berlin-Lichtenberg, with her support, organized several panel discussions with former full-time and unofficial employees of the MfS, such as the last foreign espionage chief of the Stasi Werner Großmann . The Bundestag member Wolfgang Wieland (Greens) accused her of not having acted against their historical revisionism during their visit to the " Initiative group for the protection of the social rights of former members of armed organs and the customs administration of the GDR" , but instead presented themselves as " Saint Johanna the Alt - Chekists ”to have staged. Lötzsch responded to criticism of her closeness to the Stasi milieu by pointing out her position as directly elected MP and her husband's biography of the victim. He was imprisoned in 1957 because of his membership in the so-called Schröder-Lucht group and sentenced to three years imprisonment. He served almost two years of the sentence in the Bautzen correctional facility (see also Political Detention (GDR) ). With reference to the fate of her life partner, Lötzsch forbade himself to " defamation " in the Bundestag debate on April 7, 2006 .

Lötzsch portrayed her husband as a victim of the SED state . On March 16, 2010, Die Welt revealed that, according to documents from the Birthler authorities , Lötzsch's husband was an unofficial employee of the Ministry of State Security from 1963 to the mid-1980s Code name "Heinz" reported among other things about colleagues at the East Berlin Academy of Sciences . In a statement, Gesine Lötzsch then stated that she would oppose any attempt to “abuse my husband's fate for transparent campaigns”, but did not address the allegations directly.

"Paths to Communism"

On January 3, 2011, an article by Gesine Lötzsch was published under the heading “Ways to Communism” in the daily newspaper Junge Welt , which led to some controversy in the political debate. The newspaper had asked her to comment on this year's topic at her annual Rosa Luxemburg conference Where, please, is Communism ? Left reformism or revolutionary strategy - ways out of capitalism to write down some thoughts. In her contribution, Gesine Lötzsch dealt with Rosa Luxemburg's theory of revolutionary realpolitik and its discrepancy to Soviet party communism. One passage caught the attention of the media: "We can only find the path to communism if we set out and try it out, whether in the opposition or in the government."

In Union , FDP and SPD contribution sparked sharp criticism. The then CSU General Secretary Alexander Dobrindt accused Lötzsch of positioning himself outside the constitution. For this reason, he demanded nationwide surveillance of the Left Party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Lötzsch later explained to Spiegel Online : “The left is left-wing socialist , we are not and will not be a communist party. And I'm not going to be a member of the communist platform either . ”With her participation in the Rosa Luxemburg Conference on January 8th, she wanted to“ win over those on the left who consider our party too adapted ”. Instead of her planned participation in a panel discussion with the former RAF terrorist Inge Viett and the chairwoman of the German Communist Party (DKP), Bettina Juergensen , Lötzsch gave a statement at the conference on her statements in which she rejected the cross-party criticism .

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Web links

Commons : Gesine Lötzsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DNB, catalog of the German National Library. In: portal.dnb.de. December 24, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Porsche-Klaus and the "Lie of Life". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung -Online from August 5, 2010
  3. ^ Gregor Gysi: A double leadership for DIE LINKE . Speech from January 26, 2010, (online) , (accessed January 19, 2011).
  4. ↑ Party Congress. Ernst and Lötzsch lead leftists. In: Spiegel Online
  5. ↑ Resignation from party chairmanship Statement by Gesine Lötzsch. April 10, 2012. ( Memento of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Secret service: The protection of the constitution observes 27 left-wing MPs. In: Spiegel online . January 22, 2012, accessed October 26, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Supervision of MPs “unbearable”. In: tagesschau.de . January 22, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Berlin direct candidates Who is in - and who is out? (Berliner Zeitung online, September 24, 2017)
  9. ^ Lichtenberg: Michael Grunst is now candidate for mayor of the Linke Berliner Zeitung, November 26, 2016
  10. ↑ Jochen Gaugele, Karsten Kammholz: Interview: "Even Steinmeier is suddenly friendly" . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 6, 2010, (online) , (accessed January 19, 2011).
  11. ^ Jochen Gaugele: Greens: Left sweep GDR times under the table . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 8, 2010, (online) , (accessed January 19, 2011).
  12. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: Lafontaine successor maintains contacts in the Stasi milieu . In: Handelsblatt . January 27, 2010, (online) , (accessed January 19, 2011).
  13. ↑ Cf. speech by MP Wolfgang Wieland in the current hour of the German Bundestag on January 28, 2010, text version ( memento of July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  14. ^ German Bundestag, stenographic report, 33rd session, Berlin, Friday, April 7, 2006 here: page 2804.
  15. ↑ Dirk Banse, Uwe Müller: Stasi problem for future Left Party leader Lötzsch . In: The world . March 16, 2010, (online) , (accessed January 19, 2011).
  16. ↑ Stasi: Gesine Lötzsch's husband is under IM suspicion . In: Der Spiegel , March 16, 2010
  17. ^ Gesine Lötzsch: Paths to Communism . In: young world . January 3, 2011, p. 10, Paths to Communism ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 12, 2012)
  18. ↑ Left leader declares communism to be the party's goal . At: spiegel.de , January 4, 2011
  19. ↑ Answer from Gesine Lötzsch: The gentlemen from the mirror completely lose their composure!
  20. ↑ a b zeit.de of January 5, 2011: party leader irritated with communism statement.
  21. ↑ Confession of Communism. CSU calls for total surveillance of the left
  22. ↑ Wording of the speech .
personal data
SURNAME Lötzsch, Gesine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, PDS, Die Linke), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichtenberg