Herbert Rusche

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Herbert Rusche 1985 in the Bundestag

Herbert Rusche (born May 6, 1952 in Bad Neuenahr ) is a German politician and activist in the gay movement . He was on the board of the Offenbach district association of the nationalist action group of independent Germans . From 1980 to 2001 he was a member of Alliance 90 / The Greens . In 2009 he joined the Pirate Party Germany .

Personal

Due to the job-related mobility of his family, Rusche lived in different cities during his childhood and attended schools there. After finishing secondary and commercial school , he lived in Kaiserslautern , Heidelberg , Berlin , Hamburg , Offenbach and Frankfurt am Main .

Rusche left the Evangelical Church in 1970 and converted to Buddhism in 1977 . Also in 1977, he and his friend opened Offenbach's first health food store . In the 1980s and 1990s, Rusche was self-employed in the telecommunications sector . In 1988, for example, Rusche launched the first online offer for gay men (“BTX for friends”) in the screen text system of the Deutsche Bundespost (a forerunner of T-Online). After a long illness he has been a pensioner since 2004 and lives in Frankfurt.

Political development

During his school days in Tairnbach and Wiesloch , Herbert Rusche was active in a local socialist school initiative that maintained contacts with the SDS in Heidelberg. In 1970 he came into contact with the newly developing gay movement for the first time in Heidelberg and founded "Homo Heidelbergensis" with friends in 1972, the first gay group in Heidelberg. From 1973 he was a member of the Berlin Homosexual Action Westberlin (HAW). Afterwards he worked in the gay communication center “Anderes Ufer” in Frankfurt.

He was on the board of the district association of the nationalist - neutralist action group Independent German Offenbach / Frankfurt and became a member of the Green List Hesse (GLH). For the state election in Hesse in 1978 , Rusche ran on the GLH state list. The GLH received 1.1% of the votes and did not receive a mandate from the state parliament because of the 5 percent hurdle .

Later he was a founding member of the “other political association DIE GRÜNEN” and then the party Die Grünen . From 1981 to 1983 Rusche was the state manager of the State Association of Hesse of the Greens . During his term of office, the Greens first entered the Hessian state parliament in September 1982 (8.0% of the vote).

In the federal election in 1983 , the Greens entered the Bundestag for the first time (list of MdBs here ). Rusche belonged to the Bundestag group of the Greens, which consisted of 28 members of the Bundestag and 28 successors .

Rusche was shot and slightly injured by a neo-Nazi on March 12, 1984 in Munich during a lecture on the problem of § 175 because of his homosexuality .

As a member of parliament, Rusche and the Green Party introduced a criminal law amendment law in February 1984 (Bundestag printed paper 10/2832, plenary minutes 10/184) to delete Sections 175 and 182 of the Criminal Code and in 1986 another motion to delete Section 175 of the Criminal Code . Rusche was also the first politician to deal with the newly emerging problem of AIDS . Many inquiries helped raise public awareness of the issue. Annual requests to the budget made it clear that funds were needed for research and prevention .

Herbert Rusche was the first member of parliament in the history of the German Bundestag to be open about his homosexuality.

In 1985, together with Petra Kelly , the Buddhist Rusche brought a minor question (Drucksache 10/6127) on the human rights and international law situation in Tibet to Parliament. With this request, the subject of Tibet was mentioned for the first time in the German Bundestag; it was followed by further inquiries and hearings.

After his time in the Bundestag, Rusche worked in various AIDS aid organizations and in homosexual self-help .

In 2001 he resigned from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, among other things because of the Kosovo policy of the then red-green federal government ( Schröder I cabinet ), which was jointly responsible for the Greens . Rusche had already been to Chance 2000 and became one of the party leaders in October 1999.

From 2004 to 2012 Rusche was one of three representatives of the "Buddhist Community", the association of individual members of the German Buddhist Union (DBU) and from 2008 to April 2011 a member of the council of the same.

On August 24, 2009 he joined the Pirate Party Germany in the State Association of Hesse. In the local elections in Hesse in 2011 , he ran for his new party for a seat on the local council of his Frankfurt neighborhood.

At the assembly meeting on 16./17. February 2013 in Grünberg he was elected to second place in the Hessian state list for the 2013 federal election. On June 22, 2013 Herbert Rusche was also elected as a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency 174 (Fulda). In addition, he ran for the pirates in the state elections in Hesse in 2013 in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main V.

Web links

Commons : Herbert Rusche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Buddhism. Herbert Rusche's website ( memento from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Online. Herbert Rusche's website ( memento from October 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Pascal Beucker , Frank Überall : Behind the keyhole. Taz , June 10, 2006.
  4. ↑ Printed matter 10/2832 (PDF; 300 kB) German Bundestag, 10th electoral term, February 4, 1985.
  5. ^ Chance 2000: Information on the party's website ( Memento from June 11, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The Greens co-founded a pirate. Pirate Party press release, August 27, 2009 ( memento of August 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ That's how I imagine democracy. Interview with Herbert Rusche on Klarmachen-zum-Aendern.de ( Memento from December 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Local Advisory Board 3 - No apartment for Harry Potter. Frankfurter Rundschau, March 23, 2011 ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  9. ↑ State list elected for the Bundestag election. ( Memento from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release by the Hesse Pirate Party, February 17, 2013.
  10. ↑ Direct candidates of the Fulda Pirate Party elected. Press release of the Fulda Pirate Party, June 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Rusche, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens, pirates), Member of the Bundestag and gay activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Neuenahr