Hans Schwenke (politician)

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Hans Schwenke (born February 28, 1934 in Düsseldorf ) is a former German photographer , politician ( SED , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , FDP ) and member of parliament . In 1989/90 he was active in the United Left (VL) and in 1990 worked on the committee for the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security .

Life

His father Jans Schwenke was executed as a communist resistance fighter on September 22, 1944 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison, and his mother moved with him to Berlin in the early summer of 1945 . According to his own statements, Hans Schwenke joined the SED in 1948 at the age of 14 . From 1951 he worked according to his own information as a full-time "Head of Agit-Prop" in the German Sports Committee (DS), sports association "Medicine".

According to his own statements, he was expelled from the party in 1981 upon his resignation. At the end of 1989 he joined the United Left (VL) citizens' movement , as their representative he participated in the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security. In September 1990, together with other civil rights activists, he took part in the occupation of the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin's Normannenstrasse , in order to use a hunger strike to force the files stored there to be released. He later became a member of the “January 15th Citizens Committee” and was temporarily its chairman.

From 1990 he wrote as a freelancer for the VL for the newspaper Neues Deutschland . In the same year he was elected to the East Berlin City Council as a member of the VL on the state list of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , and entered the Berlin House of Representatives of the reunified Berlin. There he then joined the parliamentary group New Forum / Citizens' Movement. Since 1990 Hans Schwenke assumed a survival order 8/86 from the Ministry for State Security, according to which all available GDR state assets should be given to the (secret) custody of officers of the MfS in special operations (OibE) in a possible turnaround . The thesis was the subject of a small question from the Bundestag member Angelika Barbe in 1992 and could not be confirmed in the answer of the federal government.

In 1992 he left the group and joined the left-wing liberal small party Liberal Democrats as a non-attached member of the Liberal Democrats and was temporarily its deputy federal chairman.

In 1993 he joined the FDP faction, which he left six months later. Until the new election he was a non-attached MP. Hans Schwenke then joined the FDP in 1997. On February 12, 2000, he ran for the national liberal wing of the Berlin FDP for the office of state chairman of this party.

At a discussion event on the subject of the citizens' movement on October 9, 1996, Schwenke defended his political changes after 1989 a. a. with the argument that the people did not want to take part in the transformation of the GDR into a better state and that the enormous sums that the Federal Republic spends on transfer payments to the East would not have been had.

Activity in victim associations

In 2000, the “Association of Persecuted and Opponents of Communism” was founded in Berlin. a. by Angelika Barbe and Hans Schwenke. The new lobby group was a declared competitor of the former West-dominated umbrella organization " Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny " (UOKG), but became superfluous when Barbe was elected to the board of the UOKG in 2001. In the same year Hans Schwenke became federal chairman of the “Union of the Stalinist Persecuted” (BSV). The association decided to dissolve itself in May 2009 and recommended that its members join the Association of Victims of Stalinism , VOS. Hans Schwenke is married and has two children.

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 344 f.
  • Anne Worst: The end of a secret service, or, How alive is the Stasi? Ch. Links Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-86153-015-2 , p. 100, limited preview in the Google book search.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the Berlin House of Representatives , 12th electoral period, Vol. II, parliamentary groups, committees, representatives
  2. ↑ https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/de/biografie/635
  3. ↑ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss, The "other" Reich capital, resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin 1933 to 1945, Lukas Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 , p. 583ff
  4. ↑ a b Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 31, 2001, p. 4
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , September 19, 1990, p. 3
  6. ↑ Wolf Biermann - The spy who came out of the rain . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 5, 2009
  7. ↑ Extra issue ( Memento of the original from November 14, 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. the magazine Horch und Guck @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horch-und-guck.info
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 31, 1990, p. 10
  9. ↑ Not even the right to apply . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 29, 1994
  10. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 9, 1990, p. 6
  11. ↑ Anne Worst: The end of a secret service, or, How alive is the Stasi? Ch. Links Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-86153-015-2 , p. 100, limited preview in the Google book search
  12. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the question: Is the Federal Government aware of the survival order 8/86 of the Ministry for State Security, according to which ... docs.google.com
  13. ↑ Burkhard best-life: 25 years Liberal Democrats . (PDF; 218 kB; p. 7)
  14. ↑ Stasi dissolver joins the FDP . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 13, 1997
  15. ↑ Alliance Greens amazed at Schwenke's entry into the FDP . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 16, 1997
  16. ↑ Rexrodt wants a culture of independence . In: Die Welt , February 12, 2000
  17. ^ Die Welt , March 18, 2002
  18. ↑ Article  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) VOS association magazine Freiheitsglocke , 59th volume, May 2009, No. 6799, Berlin, p. 8@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vos-ev.de  
  19. ↑ "ibid." (Presumably manual House of Representatives ???)
personal data
SURNAME Swivel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and politician (SED, LD, FDP), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf