Judith Demba

Judith Demba (born April 20, 1957 in Laucha , Nebra district ) is a German politician and co-founder of the Green Party in the GDR .

Life

Demba was initially a chemical worker in the Schwedt petrolchemical combine , then a political employee in a district executive of the FDGB . In 1979 she was accepted as a candidate in the SED . In the same year, due to political differences, she gave up her work on the district executive of the FDGB and then worked as a chemical laboratory assistant in the television electronics plant . In 1980 she left the SED.

In 1986 she founded an urban ecology working group in the GDR Cultural Association. In 1989 she was one of the co-founders of the Green Party in the GDR with Carlo Jordan , Carola Stabe and others , represented it at the Central Round Table and became a member of the party executive in February 1990.

From 1990 to 1999 she was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . There she represented the parliamentary group as environmental policy spokeswoman in the committee for urban development, environmental protection and technology and in the sports committee. She became known for her commitment to the (then failed) application of Berlin to host the Summer Olympics for the year 2000.

In 1999 she resigned from the Alliance 90 / The Greens party in protest against the war in Kosovo . Since then she has been involved in various initiatives against right-wing extremism .

In December 2000 she became an employee at the Center for Democratic Culture - at that time a project of the regional office for foreigner issues, youth work and school in Berlin. She left the RAA in 2003 and in September of the same year became managing director of the Bildungswerk Berlin, the state foundation of the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

From 2005 to 2009 she worked in the Berlin office of Member of Parliament Tobias Pflüger of the United European Left / Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament .

From 2010 to 2012 she was parliamentary group manager of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , which was represented by 11 members in this parliamentary term.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 116 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: How the Berlin Olympic Bear passed the grin. In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 4, 2007.