Heinz Stehr
Heinz Stehr (born March 6, 1946 in Pinneberg ) was chairman of the German Communist Party from 1990 to 2010 .
Life
Stehr is a graduate engineer for ship operating technology and lives in Elmshorn . Since the 1970s he was a full-time functionary of the Socialist German Workers' Youth (SDAJ) and the German Communist Party (DKP) in Schleswig-Holstein. After Herbert Mies resigned in 1990, Stehr was provisional chairman of the party together with the three other DKP spokesmen. In February 1996 he was elected party chairman at the 13th party conference in Dortmund . He is also a member of the VVN-BdA , IG Metall and the Elmshorn “ Aktion Stolpersteine ”. In 2004, Stehr and the DKP deputy chairwoman Nina Hager ran for the top positions on the DKP federal list for the European elections and achieved 0.1% nationwide (37,231 votes).
At the 18th party conference of the DKP in February 2008 in Mörfelden-Walldorf, Stehr was confirmed as chairman with 86% of the votes. At the 19th party congress on October 9 and 10, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main, he did not run again. His successor as DKP party leader was Bettina Juergensen .
He is one of the editors of the Marxist papers .
Publications
- (as editor with Rolf Priemer ) 25 years DKP: A story without end . Neue-Impulse-Verlag, Essen 1993. ISBN 3-910080-01-4
Individual evidence
- ^ Sebastian Knauer: DKP after the fall of the wall: wind chimes from China . Spiegel Online , November 8, 2004, accessed April 11, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stehr, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chairman of the DKP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pinneberg |