Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin

Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin (born February 25, 1941 in Jerusalem , Palestine ) is a German politician . From 1987 to 1990 she was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Jutta Schwerin is the daughter of the Jewish communist Heinz Schwerin (1910–1948) who emigrated from Germany in the late summer of 1935 and his wife Ricarda nee. Meltzer (1912-1999). She is the sister of the Israeli historian Tom Segev .

Schwerin spent her childhood in Israel . At the age of about 10 she became a member of the youth organization Haschomer Hatzair . Later she joined the communist youth. In 1958 - at the age of 17 - Schwerin refused to serve in the Israeli army . The reason given was that she was the child of a non-Jewish mother. In this context, there was also a personal conversation with Israel's founder of the state and then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion .

After attending school, she left Israel in 1960. For some time she worked in a Jewish children's home in Switzerland . In 1962 she began studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In the same year she began her political engagement in Germany in the Easter March movement. During this time she also came into contact with the SDS .

Schwerin married in 1967, their son was born in 1970 and their daughter in 1974. In 1969 she completed her studies as an interior designer . After separating from her husband, she worked as a freelance interior designer in Ulm from 1978 to 1987 .

Since the birth of her son, she has been involved in the children's shop - and the women's movement . In 1974 she became a member of the SPD , from which she resigned in 1980 in protest against NATO's double decision. In 1983 she became a member of the Greens . From 1975 to 1980 she was for the SPD and from 1984 to 1987 for the Greens on the Ulm City Council.

In 1987 she was elected to the German Bundestag via the state list and in 1989/90 she was, alongside Helmut Lippelt and Antje Vollmer, one of the three parliamentary spokesmen for the Greens . She became known as a committed politician who asked numerous questions in the Bundestag. Her most famous interjection was her protest - as well as the later move out of the plenary hall with other members of the Greens and the SPD - against the commemorative speech of the then Bundestag President Philipp Jenninger on the 50th anniversary of the November pogroms in 1938 . On November 9, 1989, Schwerin was one of the three members of parliament who left the plenary chamber when parts of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group were singing the German national anthem .

After the Greens failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 1990 Bundestag election , they left the Bundestag and worked for Christina Schenk, a member of the Bundestag group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. In 1990 she became the spokeswoman for the LesbenRing eV and in the following years she was committed to the inclusion of lesbian lifestyles in women's politics . Before the Bundestag election in 1994 , it failed when trying to re-establish it with the Greens. In February 1994 she left the party and ran for the feminist party Die Frauen in Bonn .

Until 2008 Jutta Schwerin worked as a freelance architect in Berlin .

In 2012, Spector Books Leipzig published her autobiographical story "Ricarda's Daughter - Life Between Germany and Israel".

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MPs since 1919. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , p. 196 ff.
• Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference. A collection of sources. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .
• Birgit Meyer: If we adapt, then we lose ourselves. In: Birgit Meyer: Women in the men's association. Politicians in leadership positions from the post-war period until today. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, ISBN 3-593-35889-1 , pp. 233-254.
• Luise Pusch : A dispute about words? A lesbian makes a scandal in the German Bundestag. In: Women in German yearbook. Vol. 10, 1995, ISSN  1058-7446 , pp. 239-266.
• Jutta Schwerin. Ricarda's daughter. Life between Germany and Israel. Spector Books, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-940064-33-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Conversation with Jutta Schwerin. In: specifically , 10/2012, p. 30 f.
2. ↑ Birgit Meyer: If we adapt, then we lose ourselves , in: Birgit Meyer: Frauen im Männerbund, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, p. 238
3. ^ Conversation with Jutta Schwerin. In: specifically , 10/2012, p. 31.
4. ^ Conversation with Jutta Schwerin. In: specifically , 10/2012, p. 31.
5. ^ Conversation with Jutta Schwerin. In: specifically , 10/2012, p. 31.
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin - lesbian champion in the Bundestag  
7. ^ Conversation with Jutta Schwerin. In: specifically , 10/2012, p. 31 f.
8. ↑ Birgit Meyer: If we adapt, then we lose ourselves , in: Birgit Meyer: Frauen im Männerbund, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, p. 248f.
9. ↑ Birgit Meyer: If we adapt, then we lose ourselves , in: Birgit Meyer: Frauen im Männerbund, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, p. 241