Horst Peter (politician)

Horst Peter (* 16th February 1937 in Kassel , † 23 September 2012 ) was a SPD - politician and educator and co-editor of spw - Journal of socialist politics and business .

Life

Horst Peter was a member of the German Bundestag from the 9th to 12th electoral term (1980–1994) as a directly elected candidate for the constituency of Kassel . From the mid-1980s until 1994 he was the spokesman for the SPD left in the so-called Frankfurter Kreis . From 1993 his role as a contact person (KP "Kirchner") of the State Security of the GDR was discussed, that is, as one of those people who tried to instrumentalize without their knowledge. According to the 2013 BStU , the unknowingly skimmed “Kirchner” cannot be assigned to a specific member of parliament. After his voluntary resignation from the German Bundestag in 1994 he worked again as director of studies and head of politics and was head of the Hessian State Institute for Education (HeLP) until his retirement in 2000 . Most recently, Horst Peter became more involved with BUND and was spokesman for the board of BUND Kassel until 2008.

Services

Horst Peter achieved great merits in bringing together leftist currents in the SPD since the mid-1980s in the course of the creation of the SPD's basic program in Berlin , which was adopted in 1989. In 1994 Horst Peter joined the editorship of the spw - magazine for socialist politics and economy - together with Peter von Oertzen , Detlev von Larcher , Edelgard Bulmahn and Christel Riemann-Hanewinckel .

In addition to his work as the SPD spokesman in the petitions committee of the German Bundestag, Horst Peter was committed to more citizen participation and forms of direct democracy. In writings and lectures, he also promoted the concept of sustainability as a counter-model to neoliberal social and economic policy (see Peter et al. 2011).

Honors

• 1990: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

swell

1. ↑ SPD politician Horst Peter has died. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , September 24, 2012, accessed on September 24, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Inofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security Part 2. (books.google) Ch. Links Verlag , 1998, p. 114 , accessed on February 14, 2011 . 
3. ^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 232. ( PDF ( Memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).

literature

• Ulla Burchardt , Reinhold Rünker (Hrsg.): Sustainability as a reform principle - Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Horst Peter. spw-Verlag, Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-922489-29-X
• Peter, Horst; Moegling, Peter; Overwien, Bernd: Political education for sustainable development. Education in the field of tension between economy, social justice and ecology. Immenhausen 2011
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 636.