Helmut Lippelt

Urn grave of Helmut Lippelt on the III. Municipal cemetery Stubenrauchstrasse in Berlin

Helmut Lippelt (born March 24, 1932 in Celle ; † January 3, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German historian and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1987 to 1990 and from 1994 to 2002 .

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After graduating from high school in 1950, Lippelt studied history, philosophy and German at the universities of Munich , Erlangen and Göttingen , but returned to Celle in 1955 to take over the management of his father’s agricultural trading company. After running the company for ten years, he returned to his academic career in 1965 and became a research assistant at the Institute for European History in Mainz. In 1966 he received his doctorate in Göttingen. phil. with a work on Thietmar von Merseburg suggested by Hermann Heimpel . In doing so, Lippelt tried "to investigate the connections between Thietmar's chronic representation and his individual utterances, to follow the associations of his dictates, to recognize his problems in his conflicts and scruples, but to relate these to the powers that form him spiritually: aristocratic origin, spiritual office and kingship ”. In 1970 he went to London for two years to study archives. Since 1972 he has worked as a historian and since 1974 also as a social studies teacher in Hanover.

From 1964 to 1977 Lippelt was a member of the SPD . In 1978 he was involved in the founding of the GLU in Lower Saxony, which after its founding in early 1980 joined the party The Greens . Lippelt was three times a member of the federal board of the Greens. First from 1980 to 1981 and 1990 to 1991, after the unification of the Greens with Bündnis 90 also from 1993 to 1994 with the all-German party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Lippelt gained parliamentary experience at state and federal level. From 1982 to 1985 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . In 1987 he was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time, was one of three parliamentary group spokesmen in 1988/89, but had to retire from the 1990 Bundestag elections because the Greens in West Germany failed to pass the five percent hurdle . After the Greens returned, Lippelt was again a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2002. He was particularly involved in foreign policy and represented the Greens in the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee, among others .

Fonts

• Thietmar von Merseburg - Reich Bishop and Chronicler (= Central German Research. Vol. 72). Böhlau, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-412-83673-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Lippelt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Alliance 90 / The Greens: We mourn for Helmut Lippelt , press release January 4, 2018.

Remarks

1. ↑ Andreas Schinkel: Mourning for politicians Green co-founder Helmut Lippelt has died . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , January 5, 2018.
2. ↑ See the reviews of Anna-Dorethee von den Brincken in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 31 (1975), p. 253 ( online ); Gerd Heinrich in: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany 29 (1980), pp. 173–174.
3. ^ Helmut Lippelt: Thietmar von Merseburg. Reich bishop and chronicler. Cologne 1973, p. 4.