Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz

Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz (born March 29, 1950 in Altenburg ) is a German politician.

Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz (1990)

Life

Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz studied biology and biophysics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1974 to 1981 he worked as a biochemist at the Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch and at the Humboldt University. After he had already done his basic military service in the National People's Army , he refused to be drafted again. Therefore, he had to quit his job at Humboldt University. Misselwitz then began to study theology at the Sprachenkonvikt Berlin and in autumn 1981 was a founding member of the Pankow Peace Circle , the largest opposition group in East Berlin, alongside the graphic artist Martin Hoffmann , Freya Klier , Vera Lengsfeld and others . Together with his wife, Pastor Ruth Misselwitz , he directed its work. From 1987 to 1988 Misselwitz was a fellow of the World Council of Churches in the USA. He was in the church service for six months, from September 1989 to March 1990 in Hennigsdorf .

At the same time, he was involved in the SDP start-up initiative and, from January 1990, he was involved in setting up the central SDP working bodies. From March of the same year Misselwitz sat for the Social Democrats in the first freely elected People's Chamber, became Parliamentary State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry and took over the leadership of the GDR delegation in the two-plus-four negotiations . Until December 1990 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

From 1991 to 1999 Misselwitz was head of the Brandenburg State Center for Political Education in Potsdam. From 1999 to August 2015 he worked on the SPD party executive. From 1999 to 2005 he was the office manager of Wolfgang Thierse and from 2002 to 2006 district chairman of the SPD Pankow. Until the end of 2010 Misselwitz was the managing director of the Forum Ostdeutschland der Sozialdemokratie eV . he is an advisory member and secretary of the SPD's Fundamental Values Commission . He is also a member and treasurer of the Willy Brandt Circle . For reasons of age, he retired from the SPD party executive in 2015. Occasionally Misselwitz expresses himself in essays critical and "against the spirit of the times" on current political events. He is a founding member of the Solidarity Modern Institute .

Misselwitz has lived in Berlin since 1972, married his wife Ruth in 1974 and has two grown daughters.

Works

No longer facing west. The new self-confidence of the East Germans . Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0235-6 .
Together with Christoph Kleßmann , Günter Wichert (Ed.): German Pasts - A Common Challenge. The difficult handling of the double post-war history . Ch. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-180-1 .
Together with Richard Schröder (Ed.): Mandate for German Unity: The 10th People's Chamber between the GDR Constitution and the Basic Law . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-8100-2771-5 .
Together with Katrin Werlich (Ed.): 1989: Late departure - early end? A balance after the turning point . Berlin debate Wiss. Verl., Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931703-66-5 .

literature

Marianne Subklew-Jeutner: The Pankower Peace Circle. History of an East Berlin group within the Evangelical Churches in the GDR 1981-1989 . Der Andere Verlag, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-89959-145-3 .
Marianne Subklew (Ed.): I became more courageous. The Pankower Peace Circle - political self-assertion and public contradiction . Exhibition catalog (texts: Marianne Subklew, design: Martin Hoffmann), Berlin 2003 (revised 2009).
Reinhard Höppner: No Solo Ost , review of the book No longer with the face to the west , in: Zeit Online , April 5, 1996.
Bernd Florath : Misselwitz, Hans-Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Nobody had to give me my freedom! Interview by Alexander Thomas with Hans Misselwitz, in: Lost times? GDR life stories in retrospect - a collection of interviews , edited by Cornelia Siebeck u. a., Past Publishing, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940621-11-5 .
↑ Hans-J. Misselwitz: Pankower stations on the way to the SDP , in: We 89er - 20 years of social democracy in Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee , published by the district association of the SPD-Pankow, 2009, pp. 59–61, ISBN 3-928918-78-8 .
↑ Basic Values Commission for Members. Fundamental Values Commission of the SPD, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .
^ Members of the Willy Brandt Circle - Dr. Hans Misselwitz. Willy-Brandt-Kreis, accessed on January 29, 2015 .
^ In the totalitarian trap , in: Friday , January 6, 2012.
^ Institute Solidarity Modern: Founding members .

personal data
SURNAME	Misselwitz, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altenburg

[1] Nobody had to give me my freedom! Interview by Alexander Thomas with Hans Misselwitz, in: Lost times? GDR life stories in retrospect - a collection of interviews , edited by Cornelia Siebeck u. a., Past Publishing, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940621-11-5 .

[2] Hans-J. Misselwitz: Pankower stations on the way to the SDP , in: We 89er - 20 years of social democracy in Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee , published by the district association of the SPD-Pankow, 2009, pp. 59–61, ISBN 3-928918-78-8 .

[3] Basic Values Commission for Members. Fundamental Values Commission of the SPD, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 29, 2015 .

[4] Members of the Willy Brandt Circle - Dr. Hans Misselwitz. Willy-Brandt-Kreis, accessed on January 29, 2015 .

[5] In the totalitarian trap , in: Friday , January 6, 2012.

[6] Institute Solidarity Modern: Founding members .