Jutta Braband
Judith "Jutta" Braband b. Czichotzke (born March 13, 1949 in Barth ) is a former German politician. She was an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security , representative of the civil rights movement of the GDR and a member of the Bundestag on the list of the PDS .
Life
Jutta Braband was born in Stralsund, trained as an industrial clerk from 1965 to 1967 and then worked as a clerk. In 1967 she joined the SED . After completing her Abitur at the adult education center, she began studying at the Berlin School of Foreign Trade in 1969. After exmatriculating for political reasons in 1972, she had to "prove herself in production" and was a clerk, later a research assistant in a Berlin textile company, at the same time she was registered by the MfS as an unofficial employee (IM). At least three GDR citizens were also arrested based on their reports.
Since 1975 she worked as a freelance textile and fashion designer and had contacts with opposition groups. In 1979 she left the SED and turned into a dissident. After collecting signatures against the exclusion of critical writers from the Writers' Union, she was sentenced to nine months in prison in 1980.
In December 1989 she became a member of the Independent Women's Association (UFV) and the first managing director of the United Left , whose representative at the Berlin and Central Round Table she was. From 1990 to 1992 she was on the list of PDS members of the Bundestag . In September 1991 she publicly acknowledged her work in the Stasi. Due to the discussion about her work for the Stasi, she gave up her mandate.
From 1995 to 2005 she was the managing director of the ACUD in Berlin, and since 1997 she has been the chairman or member of the board of trustees of the House of Democracy and Human Rights Foundation .
literature
- Jutta Braband: A GDR biography , in: PIZZA (ed.): Odranoel. The Left Between the Worlds , Association A, 1992, ISBN 978-3-922611-28-8
- Müller-Enbergs, Schulz, Wielgohs (eds.): From illegality to parliament. Career and concept of the new citizen movements , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-86153-017-1
- Silvia Müller: Braband, Jutta . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ New victim of the wall . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1992 ( online - Feb. 24, 1992 ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braband, Jutta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braband, Judith; Czichotzke, Judith (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (PDS), Member of the Bundestag, representative of the civil rights movement of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barth |