Hermann Kuhn (politician)

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Hermann Kuhn (2014)

Hermann Kuhn (born March 14, 1945 in Taucha ) is a Bremen politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and was a member of the Bremen Parliament .

biography

education and profession

After graduating from the Kiel School of Academics and studying, Kuhn passed the state examination for teaching at primary and secondary schools. He completed his legal clerkship in Bremen, but was not employed there in school. From 1974 to 1977 he was a teacher at the secondary school in Brinkum . Because of his functionary work for the Communist League of West Germany (KBW) and a candidacy on its list for the elections for Bremen citizenship in 1975, he was banned from working . He wrote many articles for the Communist People's Newspaper (KVZ), mainly about Eastern Europe. From 1978 to 1981 he was editor of the KVZ in Berlin with a focus on topics related to Eastern Europe. From 1980 he worked as a proofreader and typesetter at the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG . Since 1984 he has been a member of the works council there . In 1989 he received his doctorate at the University of Bremen with the work Der Bruch. Autobiographical writings by ex-communists in divided Germany. Since reaching retirement age, he has devoted himself more to political work.

politics

Kuhn was a member of the Communist League of West Germany from 1973 to 1981. In the early 1980s he actively supported the Solidarność workers' movement in Poland - also personally . From October 19, 1991 to 2003 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. From 1995 he was one of the Vice-Presidents of Parliament. After a break in the 16th legislative period, he was again a member of the Bremen parliament from 2007 to 2015. He was represented in the Committee for Integration, Federal and European Affairs, International Contacts and Development Cooperation, Works Committee “Performa Nord”, Budget and Finance Committee (State and City), Audit Committee (State and City), Legal Committee, Election Supervision Court and the temporary committees “Extension of the right to vote ”and to amend the state constitution.

On November 12, 2011, he and the political scientist Henrike Müller were elected to succeed Susan Ella-Mittrenga as the two board spokesmen of the regional association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Bremen . At the state general assembly he received 119 out of 147 valid votes. In 2013, Kuhn decided not to run again. After the resignation of Ralph Saxes , he was re-elected as state board spokesman in September 2018. In 2019 he was succeeded by Florian Pfeffer .

Kuhn is also chairman of the Bremen regional association of the European Union Germany and treasurer of the German-Israeli Society .

Publications

  • with Gerd Koenen & Krisztina Koenen: "Freedom, Independence and Bread". On the history and the struggle goals of the labor movement in Poland. Sendler, Frankfurt 1981
  • Break with communism. About autobiographical writings by ex-communists in divided Germany. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 1990, ISBN 3-924550-45-X (plus dissertation phil.)
  • with Klaus Wedemeier , Miryam Shomrat, Raul Hilberg , Arnold Mostowicz & Elvira Noa: Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943–1993. Temmen, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-86108-218-7
  • (Ed.): Stutthof . A concentration camp at the gates of Gdańsk. Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-267-5

literature

  • Wolfgang Tersteegen: In the hands of the state, the school will always rot. Teacher in the service of the KBW. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). No. 168 of July 23, 1977, p. 3
  • dpa: Two teachers dismissed after KBW activities. In: FAZ. August 6, 1977
  • Handbook of the Bremen Citizenship: 13th electoral period 1991/95 -1. Delivery- p. 43; 14. WP 1995/99 - 2nd run - p. 42a; 15th WP 1999/2003 - 1st row - p. 45

Web links

Commons : Hermann Kuhn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ -MK, Bremen- (Karin Maier): Whoever votes for the CDU is far from moving to the right. In: Communist People's Newspaper . No. 23 of November 7, 1974, p. 8
  2. ↑ Hermann Kuhn ran for fourth place on the KBW list ( Official Gazette of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. No. 69 of September 16, 1975, p. 648)
  3. ↑ taz : Parliament rejects the revival of the radical decree (Bremen local). February 19, 1993, p. 22: “Kuhn told how he himself was twice a victim of the decree. In 1974 he was refused employment as a teacher: Kuhn had demonstrated against the radical decree and disrupted a meeting of the education deputation, carried a red flag at a KBW demonstration and sold the communist people's newspaper. That is why he was later thrown out of school in Lower Saxony. "
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Taucha