Gunter Weissgerber

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Gunter Weißgerber (born November 24, 1955 in Mildenau / Erzgebirge ) is a German politician and was one of the Leipzig founding members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the GDR . In 1990 he represented them in the freely elected People's Chamber and was then a member of the German Bundestag until 2009 . In 2019 he left the SPD.

Life and work

After graduating from the Extended High School (EOS) in Borna in 1975 , Weissgerber worked as a chipper in the Zwenkau open-cast lignite mine until 1978 , during which time he also did his military service as a construction soldier . He then began studying deep drilling technology at the Bergakademie Freiberg , which he completed in 1982 as a mining engineer (specializing in drilling technology). He then worked until 1990 as a production engineer and head of the exploratory drilling department in the Silberschacht Auenhain branch of the Borna lignite mine .

Gunter Weißgerber is married and has four children. He lives as a management consultant and journalist in Leipzig .

Political activity since 1989

Gunter Weißgerber signed up for the meeting in the Michaeliskirche in Leipzig on October 8, 1989 with Michael Arnold in the list of the New Forum .

On November 7, 1989, Weißgerber was one of the founding members of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP) in Leipzig. From November 1989 to March 1990 he was a speaker for the SDP at the Leipzig Monday demonstrations .

From March to October 1990 he was a member of the first freely elected People's Chamber in the GDR and was one of the 144 members elected by the People's Chamber who became a member of the German Bundestag on October 3, 1990 .

In 1990 he moved into the Bundestag via the state list of Saxony and thereafter always as a directly elected member of the Leipzig II constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag elections , he received 35.3% of the first votes , which means that he achieved the best individual SPD result in Saxony as a direct candidate (without state lists). From 1990 to 2005 he was the chairman of the Saxony regional group in the SPD parliamentary group . He worked on Parliament's Budget Committee. In 2009 he no longer ran for the Bundestag.

Weißgerber speaks out against government coalitions of the SPD with the " SED successor party" Die Linke . In view of the new challenges facing the transatlantic security architecture , Weißgerber is working in the non-partisan New Ostpolitik (AKNO) working group .

Weißgerber left the SPD on February 7, 2019. According to him, the specific reason was a warning from the online magazine Tichys Insight by the Madsack publishing company based on an article by its editor Roland Tichy , who critically dealt with the media influence of the SPD in the form of the German printing and publishing company . Weissgerber also complained about the destruction of earlier principles of the SPD and stated that the party would “only claim freedom for itself and treat its critics repressively”. In principle, he no longer agrees with the SPD policy.

Acting as a publicist

Weissgerber has published several books, writes for the Huffington Post, and is a regular guest author on the Axis of Good .

Honor

Books

  • “… Was there…” From the peaceful revolution in the German Bundestag. Memories of turbulent times. OsirisDruck, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-941394-48-3 .
  • The GDR - an injustice state from birth. With historical documents on lies and deceit in GDR history. OsirisDruck, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-941394-54-4 .
  • The SPD and the dispute over the dispute with the heirs of the KPD, SED, SED-PDS, left wing. Issue 01: Five years of the SPD in East Germany 1989 - 1994. Self-published, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052833-0 .
  • Spatzenfritz and Spatzengret. (Ed., Written by Dorothea Nennstiel-Deilmann), OsirisDruck, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-941394-49-0 .
  • with Richard Schröder and Eva Quistorp : Cosmopolitan Germany? - Ten theses that will change our country. Herder, Freiburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-38187-4 .

Web links

Commons : Gunter Weißgerber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Beier and Uwe Schwabe (eds.): "We only have the street". The speeches at the Leipzig Monday demonstrations in 1989/90. A documentation. Halle (Saale), Mitteldeutscher Verlag , 2016.
  2. ^ Federal Returning Officer ( Memento from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Gunter Weissgerber: Essay - What the SPD is sacrificing , in Die Welt of October 7, 2014
  4. ↑ See e.g. B. Joachim Schaller: Criticism of the position paper of the SPD parliamentary group on current Russia policy from July 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier : No fight: Roland Tichy makes himself a victim. In: Übermedien. February 8, 2019, accessed February 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ "The measure is full": Ex-Bundestag member resigns from SPD , Focus online, February 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Gunter Weißgerber: The measure is full! I am leaving the SPD. February 7, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Short profile and contributions by Gunter Weißgerber at the Axis of the Good .
personal data
SURNAME Weissgerber, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mildenau / Ore Mountains