Katrin Eigenfeld

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Katrin Eigenfeld (born November 13, 1946 in Halle ) is a former German politician. She was a representative of the opposition movement in the GDR .

Self field completed until 1967 trained as a taxidermist , qualified to 1970 as a library skilled worker and was until 1990 a librarian at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg .

From 1980 to 1981 she was a member of the community leadership of the Evangelical Church of Halle-Neustadt and then switched to the voluntary work of the open youth work in this church until 1983 and took part in political group work, peace services and decades, youth workshops and set-up times . In 1982 she was active in collecting signatures for the Berlin appeal by Rainer Eppelmann and Robert Havemann , and in 1983 she took part in a bicycle rally to Buna for World Environment Day .

In 1983, she was three months because of " anti-state propaganda " at the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) in pre-trial detention in the "Red Ox" but in Halle / Saale, was after protests from Martin Niemöller and retired Bishop Kurt Scharf and Petra Kelly dismissed. In the following years she worked in the group " Women for Peace " and since 1986 in the initiative Peace and Human Rights . In 1986 she took part in human rights seminars in Magdeburg and Berlin and wrote for several samizdat magazines in the following years . In September 1989 she took part in the illegal establishment of the New Forum in Grünheide (Mark) and subsequently founded the New Forum in Halle. Her brother Gerhard Gabriel was also a representative of the opposition movement in the GDR .

From 1990 to 1994 she worked at the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU) and city councilor of Halle for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , and from 1990 to 1996 she was also a member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Eastern Europe Advisory Board . In 1999 she was appointed to the advisory board of the Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship , to which she is no longer a member. In 2000 she and the other first signatories of the “New Forum” appeal received the German National Prize , and in 2020 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . She has lived on the island of Rügen since 1994 .

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  1. ↑ "News Ticker" heading. In: the church . Volume 26, No. 3, January 19, 2020, p. 2.
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SURNAME Eigenfeld, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall