Gunhild Boeth

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Gunhild Böth as candidate for mayor (2015)

Gunhild Böth (born February 17, 1952 in Wuppertal ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) in North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2010 to 2012 she was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament and served as its vice-president. From 2012 to 2014, alongside Rüdiger Sagel, she was state spokeswoman for the Left in North Rhine-Westphalia .

biography

Böth studied from 1971 to 1977, first in Bonn , then in Wuppertal . She has been working as a grammar school teacher since 1980, first at the municipal grammar school in Haan and later at the all-day grammar school Johannes Rau .

Her last job was at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Gymnasium in Remscheid.

politics

From 1972 to 1978 Böth was a member of the SPD , then from 1979 to 1989 of the DKP . She joined the PDS in 1991 .

She has been a member of the Wuppertal city council since 2009 and was elected to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 from her party's state list. In the mayor election in Wuppertal on September 13 and 27, 2015, she ran for the Left as one of six candidates for the office of mayor. In the first ballot, she received the fourth-best result with 6,570 votes (6.66 percent), which was not enough for the runoff election on September 27, 2015. On November 18, 2019, she resigned her council mandate for health reasons.

Controversy about their attitude towards the GDR

In a broadcast by Report Mainz shortly after the state elections in 2010 , Booth's attitude towards the GDR was pointed out. In an interview, she replied to the question of whether the GDR was an injustice state : “Overall, in toto, I don't think you can say that like that. If you look at the ruins from which the GDR, so to speak, and with which reparation payments they built a new republic in a very democratic and also very anti-fascist way , then you have to say that I find that very impressive. ”The school management of the all-day high school Johannes Rau distanced itself from the statements of Gunhild Böth. According to the headmasters, "it is the private opinion of a leftist candidate for the state parliament who no longer teaches at 'our grammar school'".

In contrast, Böth refers to former Bishop Albrecht Schönherr on a more nuanced attitude, which was suppressed in the interview by abbreviation: The mere negation of the term "unjust state" does not imply a view of the GDR as a "rule of law" or the denial of its dictatorial character.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2010 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.dielinke-nrw.de
  2. ↑ Mayor election for the city ​​of Wuppertal , accessed on September 15, 2015
  3. ↑ https://www.wz.de/nrw/wuppertal/fraktionsvorsitzende-der-wuppertaler-linken-leger-ratsmandat-nieder_aid-47283069
  4. ^ Report Mainz : Left MPs in North Rhine-Westphalia: "GDR was a legitimate attempt"
  5. ↑ WZ Newsline of May 18, 2010
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-linke-wuppertal.de
personal data
SURNAME Booth, Gunhild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal