Katharina Bormann

Katharina Bormann (née Fiedler) (born September 26, 1937 in Cottbus ; † September 2010 in Altdöbern ) was a German music teacher and CDU politician . As a member of parliament, she represented the GDR CDU in the last, for the first time freely elected, People's Chamber .

Life

Katharina Bormann was born as Katharina Fiedler on September 26, 1937 in Cottbus. She grew up in a Spremberg merchant family for the first few years , but became an orphan as a result of the Second World War. From 1946 on she lived with a grandmother in Altdöbern. She first attended elementary school in Spremberg from 1943 to 1946, but then moved to the central school in Altdöbern, where she passed her Abitur in 1955. She then worked for a year at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , after which she worked from 1957 to 1958 for the council of the Calau district in the now defunct town of Reppist . Since Bormann did not start teaching until 1961, it can be assumed that she was a mother and housewife until then, as she gave birth to a total of 3 children. Bormann was able to carry out her studies on site at the Institute for Teacher Education in Altdöbern, with a focus on music. After completing her studies, she was initially employed from 1964 to 1970 as a lower school teacher at the Altdöberner Zentralschule. In 1969 Bormann began a combined direct and distance learning at the further education institute in Berlin-Pankow, which she completed in 1972 as a qualified music teacher. During this time she joined the party, Katharina Bormann joined the CDU bloc party in 1970. Already during her distance learning she was now teaching older classes from 1970 onwards in the former Altdöberner Zentralschule, now renamed POS “Hans Beimler” Altdöbern. In 1984 Bormann was appointed senior teacher. After the political change in the GDR, after her parliamentary function, which ended in October 1990, she taught as a music teacher at the Altdöbern comprehensive school, the successor to the POS, until the end of the school year in summer 1992. Afterwards, at the age of 55, she took the early retirement that was offered to her.

Political commitment

After joining the CDU, Bormann was a formative member of the Altdöbern CDU local group for decades, for which she also sat on the Altdöbern local council for years. Most recently she was on the local council with a mandate from the free voters until autumn 2008. For the first free Volkskammer elections on March 18, 1990 , Bormann was placed number three in the Cottbus constituency. Since the CDU was able to win nine seats there, Bormann became a member of the People's Chamber. In the last GDR parliament, she was a member of the education committee. In the first all-German federal elections , Bormann was ranked 13th on the Brandenburg state list, which was ultimately not enough to move into the Bundestag.

Web links

• Katharina Bormann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)