Kerstin Bednarsky

Kerstin Bednarsky 1990

Kerstin Bednarsky (born Kerstin Behnisch , born March 12, 1960 in Eilenburg ) is a former German politician ( Die Linke ). From 1981 to 1990 she was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR for the SED and PDS and then from 1990 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2009 a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament .

Life

Kerstin Behnisch was born on March 12, 1960 in Eilenburg, Saxony, as the daughter of a craftsman. After attending the polytechnic high school , she completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker in the VEB service combine Eilenburg from 1976 to 1979. She then worked in this company until 1985. Moved to Cottbus , Behnisch initially worked again as a watchmaker, later as a processor of entries from the population in the VE Kombinat Hauswirtschaftlichedienste Cottbus from 1985 until the political change in 1989. In 2003 Bednarsky decided to take a distance learning course to become a curative educator at the Hoffbauer Foundation in Potsdam-Hermannswerder, which she completed in 2007 as a state-recognized curative educator. At the beginning of her studies she was still a member of the state parliament, but lost this mandate after the state elections in 2004. During her studies, she did a voluntary internship at the integration day-care center “Janusz Korzcak” Cottbus from 2005 to 2006. She then worked as an intern until 2007 and later as an employee in a Cottbus construction machinery rental company.

Kerstin Bednarsky lives in Maus , is married and has one child who died in 2003.

politics

After the FDJ membership from the age of 14, which was customary in the GDR, Behnisch became a member of the SED at the age of 19 and represented it from 1979 to 1981 in the city council of Eilenburg. In 1980 she joined the Democratic Women's Association of Germany . In 1981, Behnisch was a candidate of the People's Chamber of the GDR for the Volkskammer elections and represented the DFD, since their marriage in 1983 under the name Bednarsky, also in the 9th parliamentary term of the People's Chamber. In the Volkskammer she was initially a member of the Youth Committee, and in the 9th electoral term a member of the Constitutional and Legal Committee. In 1987 she was delegated to the Cottbus District Party School for a year to study. During the turning point and the peaceful revolution, she remained in the SED, which was renamed the PDS, and ran in the first free parliamentary elections in March 1990. She represented the PDS as its member until the dissolution of parliament in October 1990.

In the state elections on October 14, 1990 in Brandenburg, she successfully ran for the PDS and represented it as a member of parliament in the two following electoral periods up to 2004. In Cottbus local politics, she first made a name for herself from 1992 as PDS city chairman. Bednarsky held this office until 1999. In 1993 and 1994 she ran for her party in the Cottbus mayoral election and got into the runoff election, which she lost. From 2000 to 2004 she was PDS district chairman of the Spree-Neisse district . In the Brandenburg state elections in 2004, Bednarsky was nominated to a lower position in the list and initially failed to get back into the state parliament. On November 1, 2007, she replaced the resigned MP Kerstin Osten and was again a member of the state parliament until the end of the legislative period in 2009.

literature

• President of the Landtag Brandenburg (ed.): Landtag Brandenburg: Names - Dates - Facts. 4th electoral term 2004-2009 . 3. Edition. Potsdam 2007.

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Bednarsky  - Collection of Images

• Entry on the website of the Brandenburg State Parliament
• Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)
• Biography of Kerstin Bednarsky . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)