Kerstin Köditz

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Kerstin Köditz (2019)

Kerstin Köditz (born March 14, 1967 in Leipzig ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). Since 2001 she has been a member of the Saxon state parliament and spokeswoman for her parliamentary group for anti-fascist politics.

Life

She grew up as the daughter of a nurse and a lathe operator in Leipzig. She attended the Polytechnic High School in Grünau and then studied mathematics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . She broke off this course and worked full-time in the FDJ district leadership Leipzig-West. She then began to study Marxism-Leninism , which she continued after 1989 as a study of philosophy with the minor subjects sociology and modern and contemporary history . She finished her studies with a Magistra Artium . From 1994 to 2001 she was a research assistant for Monika Runge, member of the state parliament .

politics

Kerstin Köditz joined the SED in 1989 and was a member of the state executive committee of the PDS Saxony from 1991 to 2003. Since 1997 she has been chairwoman of the PDS Muldentalkreis . In 2004 she became a district councilor and is the deputy chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group there.

In 2001 she moved in for Maria Gangloff in the Saxon state parliament, where she is the spokesperson for anti-fascist politics for the left-wing parliamentary group . In the Saxon state parliament, she repeatedly asked small questions about right-wing extremism . Within Parliament is deputy chairman of the commission of inquiry Demographic trends and their impact on the areas of life of the people in the Free State of Saxony and its consequences for the political action areas . She is also a member of the Interior Committee and the Petitions Committee . From April 2012 to 2014 she was one of 19 members of the first Saxon NSU investigative committee on neo-Nazi terror networks in Saxony and is also a member of the second NSU committee (since 2015).

Memberships

In addition to partisan work, she is involved as a member of the United Service Union (ver.di), Pro Asyl and the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA).

Activities against right-wing extremism

In 2001 Köditz wrote an article in the anthology Tut was! Edited by VVN chairman Ulrich Schneider . Strategies Against Right .

In 2009 she published the book And Tomorrow? Extreme rights in Saxony , which was judged on the Endstation Rechts portal as the “most comprehensive, up-to-date and productive analysis” of the Saxony NPD . In a collective review in the yearbook Extremism & Democracy , however, Jürgen R. Winkler found that Köditz described the “Saxon conditions” well, but neglected the reasons for and possible solutions for right-wing extremism. In addition, it is a politically motivated analysis, which is inadequate in the references given.

In 2013, together with Henning Homann (SPD), Miro Jennerjahn (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), the deputy chairman of the DGB Saxony Markus Schlimbach and the superintendent of the Protestant church district of Dresden Mitte, Christian Behr, she advocated the cutback of the Means to prevent right-wing extremism. They asked the Saxon state government to quickly commit to financing mobile counseling and victim counseling.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Köditz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Britta Schellenberg : The right-wing extremism debate. Characteristics, conflicts and their consequences . 2nd edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04176-2 , p. 320.
  2. ↑ 3. Investigative Committee on Neo-Nazi Terror Networks in Saxony. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; accessed on February 1, 2014 .
  3. ^ Foundation Science and Democracy (ed.), Portal for Political Science. The annotated bibliography, see: [1] .
  4. ↑ Robert Scholz: “And tomorrow?” Study by Kerstin Köditz about the NPD in Saxony . Right end of the line , April 9, 2009.
  5. ↑ a b Jürgen R. Winkler: Right-wing extremism of the present and its fight . In: Yearbook Extremism & Democracy 2010 (Volume 22), pp. 274 ff.
  6. ↑ (Saxon advisory network against right-wing extremism is threatened with financial failure (DNN, November 4, 2013), in: HP Kerstin Köditz, see: [2] )
  7. ^ Philipp Nowotny, Saxon Advisory Network Against Right-Wing Extremism Threatened Financial End, in: Dresdner Latest News, November 4, 2013, see: [3] .
personal data
SURNAME Köditz, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig