Hanna-Renate Laurien

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Hanna-Renate Laurien next to Bishop Martin Kruse in 1991 at the ceremony in the Plötzensee Memorial
Hanna-Renate Laurien (2009)

Hanna-Renate Laurien (born April 15, 1928 in Danzig ; † March 12, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German high school teacher and politician ( CDU ). From 1976 to 1981 she was Minister of Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate , from 1981 to 1989 School Senator of Berlin and from 1991 to 1995 President of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Life and work

Hanna-Renate Laurien (1978)

Hanna-Renate Laurien was born the daughter of a teacher and a chemist. Her father later worked as a ministerial advisor. She attended high schools in Spremberg in Niederlausitz and in Berlin. Because of good performance, Laurien skipped a class. From 1944 to 1945 she was with the Reich Labor Service . After graduating from high school in 1946, she studied German , English and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1948 she co-founded the Free University of Berlin .

In 1951 Hanna-Renate Laurien passed the state examination and switched to higher education in North Rhine-Westphalia , first in Euskirchen , then in Bonn . In 1952 she received her doctorate in German . From 1957 to 1963 she worked in the Düsseldorf Ministry of Culture. From 1963 to 1965 she was the head of department at a study seminar.

As senior director of studies at the Königin-Luise-Schule in Cologne from 1965 to 1970, she ensured in 1967 that a pregnant student was admitted to the Abitur , contrary to the laws in force at the time . A year later she also succeeded in ensuring that a pregnant, unmarried teacher was not given a disciplinary punishment and was not transferred. Because of her resolute demeanor as a Berlin school senator, Hanna-Renate Laurien was nicknamed "Hanna Granata" in the 1980s.

Hanna-Renate Laurien last lived in Berlin-Lankwitz , where she died in 2010. The Requiem was held on March 27, 2010 in her home parish Mater Dolorosa in Lankwitz. Two days after her funeral, Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky celebrated a pontifical request in St. Hedwig's Cathedral . Her grave is in the In den Kisseln cemetery in Berlin-Spandau.

MPs

Grave of Hanna-Renate Lauriens in the Spandau cemetery In den Kisseln

Hanna-Renate Laurien joined the CDU in 1966. From 1967 to 1970 she was deputy district chairwoman of the CDU in Cologne. From 1975 to 1981 she was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .

At the constituent session of the newly elected Berlin House of Representatives on December 2, 1990 , Laurien was elected President of the House of Representatives in Berlin on January 11, 1991 as the first and so far only woman. Among other things, she was committed to the relocation of the federal government's headquarters from Bonn to Berlin. In autumn 1992, the Berlin population successfully called on them to demonstrate against burgeoning xenophobia and racism . It is thanks to Hanna-Renate Laurien's commitment that five paintings by Gerhard Richter could be hung in the ballroom of the House of Representatives. She turned down a very lucrative offer from a museum to take over the pictures. When she did not run again in the Berlin parliamentary elections in 1995, a choir of MPs from all parliamentary groups serenaded her as a farewell .

In 1996 Laurien resigned from the CDU federal executive committee and withdrew from politics.

Public offices

From 1970 Hanna-Renate Laurien was the main department head, from 1971 State Secretary in Mainz under the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Education, Bernhard Vogel , with whom she had been friends since then.

From 1976 to 1981 she belonged as culture minister the Cabinet of Bernhard Vogel when he Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate was. From 1977 to 1981 Markus Schächter was the head of the public relations department in her ministry.

In 1981 Richard von Weizsäcker brought her to Berlin as the Senator for Schools and Youths after his election as Governing Mayor of Berlin. When von Weizsäcker became federal president in 1984 , she applied for the office of governing mayor, but was defeated by Eberhard Diepgen in an internal CDU vote . However, Laurien remained a senator and in 1986 also became mayor of Berlin.

With Walter Momper's election victory in January 1989, she resigned from both offices.

Hanna-Renate Laurien volunteered at the head of the International Federation as co-founder and deputy chairwoman of the Association Against Forgetting - for Democracy , patron of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society Berlin and the church positHIV and as chairwoman of the Association of Former Members of the Berlin House of Representatives active. She was also the patron of the Tabea children's burial site in the Kreuz cemetery in Berlin-Lankwitz, the first children's burial site in Berlin.

Catholic

Laurien grew up in a Protestant home. In 1952 she converted to the Roman Catholic Church . Laurien's sister was a Protestant pastor at the St. Nikolai Church (Spandau) .

From 1967 to 2000 she was a member of the main committee of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and from 1975 to 1997 she headed the cultural policy commissions of the ZdK. From 1972 to 1975 she was a member of the Presidium of the Würzburg Synod and from 1991 to 2000 chairwoman of the Berlin Diocesan Council of Catholics. From 1996 to 2004 Laurien was chairwoman of the Berlin Diocesan Association of the Catholic German Women's Association (KDFB) . She spoke in the First German Television , the word on Sunday .

Laurien was consecrated and since October 2, 1960 a member of the Dominican lay community . She lived in Berlin-Lankwitz and felt particularly close to the Mater Dolorosa community and the Berlin Institute M.-Dominique Chenu. From 1991 to 2010 she was a member of the Diocesan Council of the Archdiocese of Berlin, which she chaired from 1991 to 2000. She supported the establishment of the Catholic Academy in Berlin .

As a member of donum vitae , on July 20, 2006, with an “interjection”, together with the politicians Hans Maier , Bernhard Vogel , Annette Schavan and Friedrich Kronenberg , against a declaration by the German bishops of June 20, 2006 on the Donum Vitae association . In 2009 she also campaigned for the Pro Reli referendum .

Memorial culture

In the public discussion, Hanna-Renate Laurien dealt intensively with National Socialism , the appreciation of its victims and the fight against its successors. On August 17, 2004, on the occasion of a counter-demonstration to the annual marches of the neo-Nazis on the day of Rudolf Hess's death in his burial place Wunsiedel, she gave a much-noticed speech against the “shameless myth ” about Hess. She turned against the expression "Aryan peace", which is no peace, but the farewell to the human dignity of the different. “We don't want to be Aryans, we want to be people,” she emphasized. Laurien was a supporter of the erection of a central memorial to the persecution of homosexuals in the time of National Socialism and said: “We must not divide the victims of terror into quality classes. God has given everyone the same dignity. "

Awards

Bernhard Vogel and Cerstin-Ullrike Richter-Kotowski at the inauguration of the Hanna-Renate-Laurien-Platz

In 1996 Hanna-Renate Laurien was given the honorary title of City Elder in Berlin . Laurien was awarded the Louise Schroeder Medal of the Berlin House of Representatives in 1999. In 2002 she returned the medal in protest against the award given to the writer Daniela Dahn . She was an honorary member of the Friends and Supporters of the Georg-Meistermann-Museum Wittlich Der Schwebende Punkt .

Laurien was honored with an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster for her commitment to the Catholic Church .

In 1981 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Bernhard Vogel, Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, and in 1995 the corresponding star.

On April 14, 2016, the forecourt in front of the Lankwitz town hall at Berlin-Lankwitz train station was named after her. The ceremony was held on the square with the participation of Prime Minister a. D. Bernhard Vogel , Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters and District Councilor Cerstin-Ullrike Richter-Kotowski .

Cabinets

literature

  • Ute-Beatrix Giebel , Verena Wodtke-Werner (ed.): Out of respect for people. Arguable, political, committed - Hanna-Renate Laurien. Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-7966-0927-9 .

Web links

Commons : Hanna-Renate Laurien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berlin says goodbye to Laurien on March 29 , Berliner Morgenpost, March 15, 2010, accessed on April 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Birthday: Granata with courage . In: Tagesspiegel .
  3. ↑ CIVIS Media Foundation .
  4. ↑ Father is leaving . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1983 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Spokespersons since 1954 - Catholic Das Wort zum Sonntag - Geschichte, daserste.de; accessed on June 11, 2015
  6. ↑ U. Engel: “The happiness of my life!” On the death of Hanna-Renate Laurien (1928–2010) . In: Kontakt , 38, pp. 56-57. UB. Gable u. a. (Ed.): Out of respect for people. Arguable. Politically. Involved. Hanna-Renate Laurien . Ostfildern 1998, pp. 96-98.
  7. ↑ Hanna-Renate Laurien at mater-dolorosa-lankwitz.de; Twenty-five Sunday questions to Hanna-Renate Laurien . In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 10, 2008
  8. ^ Institute M.-Dominique Chenu .
  9. ↑ Press release at erzbistumberlin.de, March 12, 2010; Retrieved March 12, 2010
  10. ↑ Welcome page .
  11. ↑ Inauguration of the Hanna-Renate-Laurien-Platz in Lankwitz on April 14th , 2016, District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, press release No. 263 of April 6th, 2016, accessed on April 10th, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Laurien, Hanna-Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, MdA
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2010
Place of death Berlin