Heidi Lippmann

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Heidi Lippmann (born April 2, 1956 in Göttingen ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and former member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Lippmann attended the Lutherschule in Göttingen from 1962 to 1966, then the Personn-Realschule for girls, which she graduated in 1972 with the secondary school leaving certificate. This was followed by training as a correspondent for the English and French languages ​​at the Foreign Language and Interpreting Institute in Göttingen. From 1975 to 1977 she was at the university clinics in Göttingen and then until 1987 at the Lower Saxony University of Education. During this time she obtained the subject-specific university entrance qualification. Since 1987 she has worked as an employee in the foreign language service of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. After leaving politics, Lippmann went into business for herself and opened a swingers club in Simtshausen, Hesse, in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .

politics

In 1989 Lippmann became a member of the Greens . She was a member of the Northeim-Einbeck district executive until 1991 and then of the Lower Saxony state executive until 1993. From 1994 to 1998 Lippmann was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group. Her main focus was on asylum and migration policy. Among other things, she was the deputy chairwoman of the Commission for Foreigners and set up various round tables, for example on the problem of returning Bosnian refugees and the ban on the PKK .

In March 1998 she resigned from the Greens in order to join the PDS in May of the same year , for which she was also a member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2002. As the peace policy spokeswoman for the PDS, she was the only representative on the Defense Committee who spoke out clearly against the Bundeswehr's missions abroad. Lippmann also made a name for himself as the chairman of the prisoners' aid organization "Prison Watch International", which campaigned for the rights of political prisoners, especially in Turkey. She also campaigned for the release of those detained at the G8 summit in Genoa. In 2002, Lippmann did not run again for personal reasons. In November 2008 she was elected for the party Die Linke as direct candidate in constituency 16 ( Lahn-Dill-Kreis Nord ) and ran for the Hessian state parliament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/linke-in-hessen-wahlparty-im-swingerclub-1.378692
  2. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/simtshausen/640188.html

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personal data
SURNAME Lippmann, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, PDS), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen