Jörg Steinert (activist)

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Jörg Steinert (l.) With Klaus Wowereit (2012)

Jörg Steinert (born February 10, 1982 in Zwickau ) is a German civil rights activist. He is the managing director of the Lesbian and Gay Association Berlin-Brandenburg (LSVD) .

Life

Steinert is a graduate political scientist. From 2008 to 2011 he was Federal Youth Commissioner of the LSVD and from 2012 to 2014 a member of the supervisory board of the Türkiyemspor Berlin football club . Jörg Steinert supports various socio-political initiatives, he is u. a. Ambassador of the initiative “We save TeBe”, is involved in the advisory board of the project “ Heroes - against oppression in the name of honor” and brought about the involvement of the LSVD Berlin-Brandenburg in the European citizens' initiative “Stop Extremism” of the women's rights activist Seyran Ates , which opposes turns all forms of political and religious extremism.

Under his leadership, the LSVD Berlin-Brandenburg established a cooperation with the Berlin Football Association . Among other things, Steinert set up the “Respect Gaymes” and “Community Gaymes” projects and successfully campaigned for the opening of Europe's first rainbow family center.
He also initiated the creation of a memorial for the world's first homosexual movement on Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer opposite the Federal Chancellery .

Other topics and projects of his activities are the cooperation with the Turkish Federation in Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB) and other migrant self-organizations in education and awareness-raising work on the subject of homosexuality in migrant communities, support of people affected by forced marriage, and homosexual and transgender refugees.

Jörg Steinert was involved in the founding of the protest movement «The Pope is coming» on the occasion of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. in Berlin. In 2011 he called for peaceful protest against the Pope's “misanthropic gender and sexual policy”. At the same time, he has been campaigning for a dialogue with and between religious and ideological communities for many years.

After the statutory introduction of “marriage for all” in 2017 by the German Bundestag, he was the organizer and best man for the nationwide first same-sex marriage on October 1, 2017.

Since Jörg Steinert took over the management, the LSVD in Berlin and Brandenburg has increased its voice and raised its voice against racism many times . The otherwise non-partisan civil rights association also clearly distinguishes itself from the right-wing populist AfD . In an initiative to amend Article 3 of the Basic Law , he supported the formulation of the Berlin Justice Senator and thus had a different opinion on the Berlin Left Party and the Federal Association of LSVD.

On June 26, 2019, Juliane Fischer, Women's and Equal Opportunities Officer for the Spandau district, asked Steinert in an email against the background of a joint photo at the lesbian and gay city festival with Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and US Ambassador Richard Grenell in 2018 How he would stand on the values ​​of "diversity, tolerance and respect", since Grenell, according to Fischer, "is still far to the right even among the Republicans". Jörg Steinert forwarded this email to the district office, including the Spandauer AfD district councilor Andreas Otti. As a result, the LSVD federal executive distanced itself from Steinert, but the state executive supported him. The dispute with the district office was settled in a personal conversation.

In autumn 2019 Steinert started the initiative to signpost the Way of St. James through Berlin as a European cultural route. The matter was taken up by the SPD, Greens and CDU and decided unanimously in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district assembly.

In January 2020, the Lesbian and Gay Association Berlin-Brandenburg was awarded the highest award of the Berlin Football Association, the Golden Football, which u. a. Jörg Steinert accepted.

Web links

Commons : Jörg Steinert (LGBT activist)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freiepresse.de
  2. ↑ LSVD announces partnership with Türkiyemspor Homophobe Signals in Turkish Football Club , report from October 8, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2016
  3. ↑ Website of the European citizens' initiative "Stop Extremism" ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 18, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stopextremism.eu
  4. ↑ LSVD supports "Stop Extremism" , report by queer.de from December 19, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2017
  5. ↑ Cooperation with the Lesbian and Gay Association Berlin-Brandenburg . berliner-fussball.de, 2011. Accessed March 23, 2016
  6. ↑ 5. Respect Gaymes on June 5, 2010 in the Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin . , Website buendnis-toleranz.de, accessed on March 23, 2016
  7. ^ Advice center in Schöneberg: Baby boom under the rainbow , report of the Berliner Zeitung of March 15, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2016
  8. ↑ "What kind of gay flowers are these?" , Interview in the taz on September 7, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2018
  9. ↑ Report of the Jewish Forum with opening speech by Jörg Steinert on September 7, 2017 , accessed on March 13, 2018
  10. ↑ The jury has decided: the "Calla" memorial for the homosexual movement , report from the Berliner Woche from November 19, 2015
  11. ↑ Press conference with the Senator for Integration: Preventing anti-homosexual attitudes . ( Memento from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) berlin.lsvd.de 2010. Archived version.
  12. ↑ "Gay" is not a dirty word Schools educate Muslim parents . tagesspiegel.de from August 15, 2011
  13. ↑ siegessaeule.de
  14. ↑ RBB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rbb-online.de  
  15. ↑ "We do not encourage people to throw eggs" . taz.de from April 24, 2011
  16. ↑ Alliance against Pope's visit? . New Germany, March 16, 2011
  17. ↑ Humanists and believers demand respect and equal rights for lesbians, gays and transgender people , report by diesseits.de on July 22, 2016
  18. ↑ First gay couple married in Berlin , report in the Berliner Tagesspiegel from October 1, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2018
  19. ↑ First same-sex weddings held in Germany , report by CBC News on October 1, 2017. Retrieved on March 18, 2018
  20. ↑ Germany celebrates first gay wedding after historic parliamentary vote , report by The Independent on October 2, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2018
  21. ^ Online platform against right-wing extremism: Berlin gegen Nazis , report by the Berliner Zeitung of March 5, 2014, accessed on August 5, 2016
  22. ↑ AfD inciting gays against Muslims , report from queer.de, accessed on August 5, 2016
  23. ↑ Protection against discrimination: Dispute in the Berlin Senate: Should "sexual identity" be included in the Basic Law? , queer.de, March 20, 2018
  24. ↑ Tagesspiegel : dispute over rainbow flag settled , Tagesspiegel, August 15, 2019
  25. ↑ Tagesspiegel : On the Jakobsweg from Schöneberg to Marienfelde , accessed on January 17, 2020
  26. ↑ Berlin Week: The Way of St. James in the district: Jörg Steinert initiated his marking , accessed on January 17, 2020
  27. ↑ Berliner Fußball : “Goldener Fußball” for the LSVD , report on January 18, 2020, accessed on July 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Steinert, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau