Helin Evrim Summer

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Helin Evrim Summer (2016)

Helin Evrim Baba (* 7. February 1971 as Helin Evrim Baba in Varto , Turkey ) is a German politician and Historian. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 and was previously a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 1999 .

Origin and family

Helin Evrim Sommer was born in the small town of Varto in Eastern Anatolia . Her family is of Kurdish - Alevi origin. She was not allowed to use her first name Hêlîn due to the ban on Kurdish names in Turkey. Her father, Kazim Baba, was the founder of the first socialist teachers' union "TÖP-DER" in Turkey. As a left and Kurdish politician, he was persecuted by the Turkish military regime, sentenced to 15 years in prison and imprisoned in the military prison in Diyarbakir from 1971 to 1973 . He was released through a general amnesty for political prisoners , but was on the regime's death list after the 1980 military coup . The Baba family fled Turkey to West Berlin .

Evrim Baba grew up in the West Berlin district of Schöneberg . She has lived in the Lichtenberg district since 2006 . In 2009 she married the historian Robert Sommer and took his last name. She has been using her Kurdish first name Helin since 2012. She is the mother of one child.

Study and job

After her language training, in summer 1997 she passed the state examination to become an interpreter and translator and until 2000 ran a translation agency for all languages ​​and subject areas. She worked as an interpreter, translator and expert for notaries and courts as well as for the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees in Berlin and Brandenburg. From 2005 to 2007 she studied social sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin , then history and gender studies. She completed her studies in November 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts .

politics

Helin Evrim Sommer, 2020 in the German Bundestag

In 1997 Baba became a member of the PDS . From 1999 to 2006 she was chairwoman of the PDS district association in Berlin-Neukölln . From 1999 to 2016, Sommer was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and for the PDS parliamentary group and, from 2006, Die Linke in the House of Representatives, spokeswoman for women's and development policy. Since 2006 she has been a directly elected member of the Lichtenberg 1 constituency in the Berlin House of Representatives. Most recently she was a member of the Committees Committee on Labor, Integration, Vocational Training, Women , Economy, Research and Technology and in the Presidium of the House of Representatives.

Sommer was deputy chairwoman from 2007 to 2012 and chairwoman of the district association of the party Die Linke in Lichtenberg from 2012 to November 2016 .

When she was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 , Sommer no longer ran in her constituency, but ran as the top candidate for the District Assembly (BVV) Lichtenberg. The Left was the strongest party in the district with 29.8%. Sommer was nominated for the office of district mayor by the BVV parliamentary group of the Left . However, it did not achieve the required majority in two ballots.

During the ballot, a report by the RBB suggested that she had given an academic degree that had not yet been awarded. Reference was made to the handbook of the House of Representatives from May 2015, in which she described herself as a historian and would have stated in her résumé “Study of history and gender studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Bachelor of Arts (BA)”, although the studies had not yet been completed. She only got this one day before the election of the district mayor. A little later, the Humboldt University announced that the abbreviation BA would denote a course of study and a Bachelor of Arts degree. The term historian is also not protected, as confirmed by the Association of Historians.

Sommer withdrew her candidacy for another ballot and gave up her position as chairwoman of the Left in Lichtenberg. In a press release, she said that she believed her information was correct. She alleged that her own party friends had let her down. She said she had underestimated that part of the party was unwilling to tread new and unconventional paths in the interests of the district. “The distrust shown in me by parts of my own group, anonymous no votes from my own group and the otherwise party-damaging behavior of parts of the group towards the Berlin media show me that a trusting cooperation with my group and parts of my party is no longer possible . "

Sommer was charged with any title abuse. The Berlin public prosecutor's office closed the investigation because there was no “sufficient suspicion” and completely cleared up the allegation. According to her, Bachelor of Arts was not just a degree, but a course that summer had taken. The broadcaster RBB later admitted this.

Since February 2017, Sommer has been working as a research assistant for the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament for the Commission of Inquiry "Confrontation with racism, group-related enmity and discrimination in Thuringia".

The Assembly of Representatives of the Berlin Left elected Sommer on April 1, 2017 to place 5 on the state list of the Berlin Left for the 2017 Bundestag election , thereby moving into the Bundestag as the holder of a compensation mandate. For Die Linke she looks after the constituency of Berlin-Spandau - Charlottenburg North . Sommer is a member of the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development , a delegate in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the German-South Caucasian parliamentary group.

Positions

Sommer advocated strengthening the Berlin districts vis-à-vis the Senate . She called for the district offices to be adequately financed and staffed for their tasks and for the principle of subsidiarity to be respected . The districts should have a stronger political voice.

Sommer calls for management positions in state companies to be filled equally. In 2010 she was involved in the amendment of the Berlin State Equal Opportunities Act (LGG) under the SPD-Left government in Berlin.

In the debate about the social ostracism of prostitution called for by Alice Schwarzer , she took an opposing position in 2013 and defended the liberalization through the red-green prostitution law of 2002. Sommer criticized the appeal as a “huge step backwards into the Stone Age under women's law, in which prostitutes legal and were defenseless, ”and signed the countercall appeal for prostitution .

Sommer is a supporter of freedom instead of fear .

Sommer advocates an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq.

She criticizes the authoritarian politics of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and describes him as a “post-modern sultan” who is creating an anti-democratic state.

Victim of right-wing extremist violence

In March 2010, an arson attack was carried out on Helin Evrim Sommer's car. The Berlin police suspected perpetrators from the right-wing extremist scene. In 2011, Sommer was denigrated as "left-wing criminals" on the Internet portals of Berlin neo-Nazis and therefore filed a criminal complaint. In April 2018, she was threatened with rape by a Turkish right-wing radical.

Fonts

  • Evrim Baba / parliamentary group of the PDS in the Berlin House of Representatives (ed.) History of an award ceremony. Louise Schroeder Medal 2002 for Daniela Dahn. Berlin 2003.
  • The amended Prostitution Act of 2016 in the historical context of prostitution control in Germany (Bachelor thesis) Contents , rules of repression , excerpt from the work

literature

Web links

Commons : Helin Evrim Sommer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Zimmer: Peace would be nice. In: Clara , No. 48 (Winter 2019), p. 30.
  2. ↑ a b Homepage of Helin Evrim Sommer , accessed on September 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Members of the Bundestag Helin Evrim Sommer , German Bundestag, accessed on April 5, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Evrim Sommer at the Berlin House of Representatives ( memento from July 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2016
  5. ↑ Hannes Heine: Left wants power in Lichtenberg. In: Tagesspiegel. September 14, 2015, accessed April 14, 2016 .
  6. ^ The State Returning Officer for Berlin: Elections to the District Council Assemblies 2016 , final result
  7. ↑ Evrim Sommer failed two ballots . Der Tagesspiegel , November 17, 2016
  8. ↑ Left boss Evrim Sommer resigns after allegations of cheating . Der Tagesspiegel, November 21, 2016
  9. ^ Scandal in BVV: Evrim Sommer fails in two ballots . BZ, November 18, 2016
  10. ↑ RBB Online: Evrim Sommer resigns after unsuccessful mayoral election ( Memento from November 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), notification from November 21, 2016
  11. ^ After Evrim Sommer resigned: Die Linke sweeps up the broken pieces in Lichtenberg , Berliner Zeitung of November 24, 2016
  12. ↑ Press release Evrim summer November 21, 2016
  13. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Berlin Left Fights for the Bundestag List Tagesspiegel, March 14, 2017, accessed on March 30, 2017
  14. ↑ rbb-exclusive - Evrim Sommer fails in two ballots, addendum from March 2017 RBB, March 2017, accessed on 23 September 2017
  15. ↑ DIE LINKE website. Parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament, accessed on March 30, 2017
  16. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Evrim Sommer prevails in a fight vote by Tagesspiegel, April 1, 2017, accessed on April 2, 2017
  17. ↑ Evrim Sommer: We need the district political office. In: New Germany. April 4, 2016, Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  18. ^ Speech by Evrim Sommer on June 17, 2000 in the plenary session of the Berlin House of Representatives ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2016
  19. ^ Evrim Sommer: Prostitution: Not a German Scandal. In: New Germany . November 6, 2013, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  20. ^ Demonstration of freedom instead of fear , list of supporters
  21. ↑ Evrim Summer: Celebration of joy for 40 million people. In: New Germany . August 30, 2014, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  22. ↑ Evrim Sommer: (Anti-Democratic) Choice of Fate in Turkey. In: New Germany . May 29, 2015, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  23. ↑ dpa: Politician's car set on fire Police are looking for car arsonists in the right-wing scene. In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 26, 2010, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  24. ^ Arson attack on left-wing politician Evrim Baba's car Der Tagesspiegel March 26, 2010
  25. ↑ Press release Evrim Sommer on November 15, 2011. accessed on April 13, 2016
  26. ↑ Observed by neo-Nazis, threatened by Turkish fascists: Berlin parliamentarian is on the “enemy list” , Tagesspiegel, July 12, 2020
  27. ↑ History of an award ceremony on www.linksfraktion-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Helin Evrim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Summer, Evrim; Baba, Helin Evrim (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German politician (PDS, Die Linke), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Varto , Turkey