Helga Wullweber

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Helga Wullweber (* 1947 - died September 28, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and former politician ( GAL ).

Life

Legal career

Helga Wullweber studied legal history and jurisprudence in Göttingen and Berlin . She worked as a lawyer in Hamburg and Berlin and specialized in labor law and social security law . Among other things, she was involved in the Republican Lawyers' Association , where she was a member of the federal executive board, and the Berlin Bar Association. Wullweber was one of the founders and long-standing editor of the specialist journal Recht & Psychiatrie .

Wullweber published various articles on legal topics. In 1993, in Critical Justice , she dealt with the first two wall riflemen's judgments and criticized the fact that the specific situation of the border guards had not been sufficiently taken into account due to the deviation from the wording and meaning of the shooting order. She also published on the subject of rape as a weapon of war and international law.

Wullweber was also a board member of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).

Political career

In her political work, Wullweber was predominantly in opposition to traditional organizations. She worked with workers and works councils as well as women's groups such as Bread and Roses and the Scheherezade women's peace network . She was a member of the parliamentary inquiry committee for orthopedics at the general hospital in Barmbek .

Wullweber, the mother of two sons, initiated the first “baby shop” in Berlin - it was always important to her to encourage women to work. In addition to various publications, this was also reflected in her political work.

From 1989 to 1991 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament ( 13th electoral term ). Until March 1990 she belonged to the GAL faction. On October 4, 1989, her party introduced a bill for a quota law , which provided for the gradual increase in the proportion of women in vacancies, a right of co-determination for elected women's representatives and sanctions if the quota was not achieved. Wullweber gave a speech in which she advocated the adoption of the bill. Quoting gainful jobs and giving preference to women with the same qualifications would, in their opinion, be necessary until the goal of gender equality is achieved. Working women should be the yardstick for organizing everyday work. She argued: “Because the compatibility of work and family is the most urgent problem for women today, only a future-oriented policy is one that frees women from the confines of the bourgeois family and opens up the full spectrum of social life to both women and men ". However, the draft law was rejected by the Committee on Equality for Women. Instead, a less far-reaching equality law came into force in 1992. Wullweber expressed his disappointment that little had changed for women and that the closer the implementation of a women's political measure came, the greater the resistance of the men.

During the 13th electoral period, there were strong differences and splits within the GAL, partly due to the decision of the state members' assembly to recognize the GDR . On April 9, 1990, Wullweber became part of an independent women's parliamentary group in order to "get out of the flow policy clinch".

Publications (selection)

  • Helga Wullweber: Mama in, child outside - A plea for the dignity of women in Parliament in: Zeit online , March 9, 1990.
  • The impatience of women is the power of men. Dead end “positive discrimination” in: Standpunkt: Sozial, Hamburg Forum for Social Work. 2/1992: Woman in Hamburg. Hamburg 1992, pp. 83-86.
  • War crimes rape. in: mass rape. War on women. ed. by Alexandra Stiglmayer, Freiburg / Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-926023-41-4 , pp. 247-268.
  • Rape as a weapon and the law of war. in: Kritische Justiz , 1993, No. 2, pp. 179–193.
  • The Mauerschützen judgments in: Kritische Justiz 1993, No. 26, pp. 49-62.
  • The 'psychiatric will' or 'Das psychiatrische Testament' , in: Recht und Psychiatrie , 3rd Jg. (1985), No. 1, pp. 15-18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Wullweber in the attorney's directory ( memento of the original from October 1, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anwaltsverzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ Interview with Helga Wullweber in Schattenblick (2013)
  3. ↑ Gerhard Mauz: Justice unattainable. Gerhard Mauz on the resistance of the judiciary to the shifting of the GDR past to criminal law. In: Der Spiegel December 27, 1993.
  4. ^ Organs of IALANA
  5. ↑ Inge Grolle, Rita Bake: "I practiced juggling with three balls": women in the Hamburg citizenship; 1946 to 1993. State Center for Political Education, Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 , p. 411.
  6. ↑ Inge Grolle, Rita Bake: "I practiced juggling with three balls": women in the Hamburg citizenship; 1946 to 1993. State Center for Political Education, Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930802-01-5 , pp. 245–250.
  7. ↑ Heide Soltau: And now: women's policy. After the split, the former faction of the Green Alternative List is planning a fresh start. in: Die Zeit , April 13, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Wullweber, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (GAL), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
DATE OF DEATH 28th September 2017
Place of death Berlin