Helga Rosenbaum

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Helga Rosenbaum (born August 8, 1942 in Łódź , then officially Litzmannstadt) is a former German local politician . Helga Rosenbaum is a chemical laboratory technician . In 1975, she was in the council of Heidelberg selected and was the only mandate bearer of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW). She was expelled from the municipal council after only one year when Heidelberg's citizenship was withdrawn.

The 1975 local election

For the municipal council election on April 20, 1975, the Communist League of West Germany had drawn up a list of 18 (out of 40 possible) candidates in its stronghold , the university town of Heidelberg, whose composition did not necessarily correspond to its claim to be a workers' party . The KBW election campaign went relatively unheeded in the local press. Only a statement by a candidate that the “ KBW was for armed coup ” caused a major stir. In response to a question, the KBW member also confessed that students had been asked to register with their first place of residence in Heidelberg. In its central organ, the Communist People's Newspaper (KVZ), the KBW declared on future parliamentary work:

“ We communists cannot prevent unemployment in the city council, neither can we in the city council prevent public expenditure from always being passed on to the people. What we can do, however, is to give the movements and demands of the working class and the people in the city council a mouthpiece, to confront the bourgeois parties and the state with these demands and to support the struggles in the factories and in the city. The whole work of the KBW serves the union of the working class and the people against the capitalists and the state with the goal of socialism and whoever chooses the KBW supports this goal ”.

The mandate

Completely surprising for the RNZ and the then mayor Reinhold Zundel , the KBW won a seat on the Heidelberg municipal council with this program. He received a total of 83,418 votes (3.60 percent) for his candidates. Rosenbaum received 6,000 votes because the voters of the KBW made ample use of the possibility of variegating and cumulating votes .

Already at the first meeting of the municipal council, the RNZ reported " tumults in the town hall hall ". Helga Rosenbaum refused to make a declaration of commitment to the free democratic basic order (FDGO). At the same time, in her capacity as city councilor, she called for demonstrations against fare increases on the Heidelberg Tram and Mountain Railway (HSB). She had a few hundred KBW supporters give her an imperative mandate for her actions . Several times she had to be excluded from meetings of the municipal council because of "disturbance". Criminal charges were filed against her for various offenses. Mayor Zundel filed a complaint against Helga Rosenbaum because she had called him a " friend of American war criminals " and a " symbol of meanness and exploitation ".

She was not admitted as a candidate for the mayoral election in 1976 because she made no secret of the fact that she was not on the basis of the free democratic basic order, which was, however, a condition for this according to Paragraph 46 of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code. With the votes of all other council members, she was finally expelled from the council in 1976. Your legal steps against it were unsuccessful. After their seat was long orphaned, it was gradually taken by other KBW members of the candidate list who faced similar difficulties.

Further life

The further life of Helga Rosenbaum is characterized by several demonstration processes, the change from Heidelberg to the regional management north of the KBW in Hanover and the serving of a prison sentence in the Vechta prison . For the 1980 federal election , she ran from prison on the Lower Saxony state list of the KBW, for which she did not receive the leave she had requested.

Publications

literature

  • likes: Fine against KBW city councilor. Again the Heidelberg police had to get the Rosenbaum out of the hall , in: Stuttgarter Zeitung (StZ) No. 205 of September 4, 1976, p. 7
  • mag: The council chamber is closed for KBW city councilor , in StZ No. 217 of September 18, 1976, p. 7
  • Theo Wurm: Beyond the Tolerance Threshold : A Communist in the City Council , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 211 of September 11, 1976, p. 3
  • (anon.): Your job: decomposition work in the local council. The Heidelberg KBW delegate Helga Rosenbaum / “Reason to joy for all dispossessed” , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 208 of September 17, 1976, p. 4
  • Communists: K and K . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1976 ( online - with photo by Helga Rosenbaum ).
  • Susanne Mersmann: Between Marx and Murks. Communist splinter groups in the Federal Republic - how strong they are , in: Der Stern , No. 27/1977, pp. 70,72,74,76,78 (p. 76 photo Helga Rosenbaum ex-city councilor in Heidelberg and Joscha Schmierer )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) No. 68 of 22./23. March 1975, p. 4 (ep); The RNZ reported very frequently between 1975 and 1980 on the activities of Helga Rosenbaum
  2. ^ Election event of the KBW in Heidelberg , in: KVZ No. 12 of March 26, 1975, p. 9
  3. ↑ RNZ No. 116 of May 23, 1975, p. 3
  4. ↑ Heidelberg: Fine for KBW City Councilor , in: Berliner Extra-Dienst (BED), No. 8 / XI of January 28, 1977, pp. 6-7; Heidelberg: KBW city councilor indicted , in: BED No. 9 / X of January 30, 1976, p. 8
  5. ↑ Heidelberg: KBW candidate for OB elections not admitted , in: BED No. 38 / X of May 18, 1976, p. 6
  6. ↑ Heidelberg has been practicing the one-time withdrawal of civil rights for KBW members , in: BED No. 11 / X of February 8, 1977, p. 5
  7. ^ Notes from the Province. Sworn or not , in: BED No. 17 of March 1, 1977, p. 12; Administrative Court: Denial of civil rights for KBW City Council confirmed , in: BED No. 15 / XII of February 21, 1978, pp. 2–3 (regarding her successor Rolf Köhler)
  8. ↑ Vechta: Prisoners' co-responsibility brings forward demands and the right to vote in the Prison Act , in Political Reports ( Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten ) No. 1 of October 13, 1980, pp. 26 and 27
  9. ↑ z. jöd. Jörg Detjen : Vacation and special leave - Comrade Rosenbaum, member of the Central Committee of the KBW and campaign candidate for the federal elections, has been agreed to exercise the right to stand as a candidate , in KVZ No. 28 of July 7, 1980, p. 2; No leave for Bundestag candidate , in: Die Tageszeitung No. 370 of September 18, 1980, p. 2; Penal system: Heated battles , in: Der Spiegel No. 39 of September 22, 1980, pp. 104, 106-7

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenbaum, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KBW)
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Litzmannstadt