Kerstin Kaiser

This article deals with the politician Kerstin Kaiser. For the artist see Kirsten Kaiser .

Kerstin Kaiser (2012)

Kerstin Kaiser with Bodo Ramelow at an election rally in Dresden, 14 August 2009

Kerstin Kaiser (* 16 July 1960 in Stralsund as Kerstin Henschke ) is a German politician ( The Left ). She was the top candidate of her party for the state elections in Brandenburg in 2009 and until 2012 chairwoman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament . She was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

Life and work

Kerstin Henschke grew up in Franzburg . After completing her high school diploma in 1979 at the institute in preparation for studying abroad in Halle , she studied Russian language and literature at the Leningrad State University until 1984, where she graduated with a degree in Slavic Studies .

From 1984 to 1989 she was employed as a teacher in the intensive language training of the party school at the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED "Karl Liebknecht" in Kleinmachnow . She then worked at the BIT-Center Kleinmachnow until 1991 and from 1995 to 1999 as a research assistant for the parliamentary group of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the Brandenburg state parliament .

She has four children and is the third marriage with Jörg Kokott, co-founder of the East German band Juniper , married.

politics

Kaiser joined the SED in 1980, after the change and renaming of the party, she was a member of the PDS from 1990 to 2007 and has since been part of the DIE LINKE party. From 1991 to 1995 she was deputy federal chairman of the PDS and from 1995 to 1997 deputy state chairman of the PDS Brandenburg. Since 1998 she has been the district chairwoman of the PDS Märkisch-Oderland .

From 1993 to 1996 she was a member of the district assembly in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district and since 1998 a member of the district assembly in the Märkisch-Oderland district .

She has been a member of the Brandenburg state parliament since September 1999. In October 2004 she became a member of the presidium and initially deputy chair of the PDS parliamentary group, and in October 2005 she became the parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the Brandenburg state parliament. In doing so, she became the leader of the opposition against the coalition government of the SPD and CDU in Brandenburg, led by Prime Minister Platzeck (SPD) . From October 2004 to December 2009 she was chairman of the committee for labor, social affairs, health and family in the state parliament and spokeswoman for the parliamentary group for social policy, family and equality.

In the 2009 state election campaign, she also performed as a singer of political songs with her band Kerstin Kaiser & Ko. on.

On October 6, 2009 Kaiser was re-elected chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament with 91.6%. She is the spokesperson for the parliamentary group for constitutional, federal and state affairs and a member of the main committee of the state parliament. On November 2, 2010 she was confirmed with 69.6% in the office of chairman of the left parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament. On August 14, 2012, she announced that she would no longer run for election in the upcoming parliamentary group chairmanship.

On March 1, 2016, Kaiser took over the management of the Moscow office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . As a result, she resigned her mandate in the state parliament on February 29, 2016.

Kaiser was also a member of the Die Linke faction in the Strausberg city ​​council . In January 2016, she resigned from the Strausberg City Council due to her move to Moscow.

Employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR

During her studies she spied on her fellow students as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR under the code name "Kathrin" and denounced them, among other things, for wearing "unclean jeans" and for listening to western broadcasters. She signed her handwritten declaration of commitment on April 3, 1979. Her reports on non-GDR students were forwarded to the Soviet secret service KGB . According to the wording of the report of the independent expert commission for the review of the members of the Brandenburg state parliament, there are 27 meeting reports of the command officers , eight reports based on oral information from IM "Katrin", a handwritten report and 23 tape copies (13 of which are signed with their aliases) in their files .

Even before her advertisement as an IM, she reported in six documented conversations about political attitudes and the social and personal behavior of students in her environment.

She informed the State Security about who was in contact with Western students and who was "very sexually needy". It is described that she carried out the informing assignments with great enthusiasm and dictated several personal descriptions to her command officer at each meeting.

At the beginning of 1983 the State Security lost interest in Kerstin Kaiser, but she asked "not to be put on a dead track because of her pregnancy". According to Kerstin Kaiser, the collaboration with the MfS ended in 1984. The MfS only put their case on file in 1988.

In the course of her candidacy for the federal election in 1994 , her work for the Ministry of State Security was discussed in public and internal party debates. She only admitted what was already known. In 1994 Karin Dörre accused her of having "lied to the party about the true extent of their Stasi involvement". After she was elected to the German Bundestag in 1994 (state list of the PDS Brandenburg, 3rd place on the list), some of the PDS MPs (e.g. Stefan Heym , who did not want to sit next to an informer) in the parliamentary group demanded that she be because of the Activity for the state security should not accept the mandate. In the end, she complied with this request.

Because of her previous burden of previous Stasi activities, her party waived the demand for a ministerial office for emperors in 2009.

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Kaiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography page for the 7th electoral term in the Brandenburg state parliament
• Website by Kerstin Kaiser
• Mandate and official information of the parliamentary documentation of the Landtag Brandenburg (the exact data record must be determined with the search function)
• Kerstin Kaiser on the website of the parliamentary group Die Linke. in the state parliament of Brandenburg
• Wording of the report of the independent commission of experts to review the members of the Brandenburg state parliament on the case

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marion Klemp: That little bit of Stasi ... Brandenburg's left boss wants to go all the way up despite the MfS biography. In: Berliner Kurier . January 9, 2009, accessed September 11, 2015 . 
2. ^ Kerstin Kaiser on the website of the Landtag Brandenburg
3. ↑ Gudrun Mallwitz: CDU is losing its nerve in coalition poker. The dispute over government participation escalates within the top management of the Brandenburg CDU. While CDU leader Wanka does not want to join the opposition, her deputy Funck makes new demands. Now it is feared that red-red has become more likely in Brandenburg. In: Berliner Morgenpost. October 6, 2009, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Left and Greens elect parliamentary groups. In: Bild.de. November 2, 2010, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Background of the change in leadership in the left-wing parliamentary group in Brandenburg in neue Deutschland August 16, 2012
6. ^ Andreas Fritsche: Kerstin Kaiser moves to Moscow (new Germany). In: www.neues-deutschland.de. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Andreas Fritsche: Kaiser can already speak Russian (new Germany). In: www.neues-deutschland.de. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
8. ^ The city council of Strausberg. Election period 2014–2019 ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2018 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. 
9. ↑ Bartel Software Engineering GbR (www.bartelsoft.de): City of Strausberg - Ratsinfo. (No longer available online.) In: www.stadt-strausberg.de. Archived from the original on February 25, 2016 ; Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 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.  
10. ↑ Uwe Müller and Grit Hartmann: Forward and Forget! Cadres, informers and accomplices: the dangerous legacy of the SED dictatorship . Berlin 2009, p. 159.
11. ^ Wording of the report of the independent commission of experts to review the members of the Brandenburg state parliament on the case
12. ↑ Report of the commission to review the deputies according to § 33 of the deputies law. (PDF) Final report on the findings of the commission to review the members of the Brandenburg State Parliament and declarations in accordance with Section 33 (4) sentence 8 of the Members' Act. In: Drucksache 5/4600. Landtag Brandenburg, January 13, 2012, p. 24 , accessed December 18, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Cicero : Spy candidate IM "Kathrin" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . April 2009 (excerpt from the book Honeckers Erben by Hubertus Knabe )
14. ↑ meeting report of 4 January 1983 BStU, ZA, AIM 5220/88, Part 2, Volume 1, page 87th
15. ^ Website of Kerstin Kaiser: On my political past: Declaration on cooperation with the MfS . (Part 3)
16. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: Stasi informers push for leftists in parliaments. In Brandenburg, eight informers from the GDR State Security are running on the Left Party's lists for the federal and state parliament. There is no such high number in any other federal state. It is a tradition that the SPD overlooks this fact: the long-time Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe (SPD) also maintained contacts with the Stasi. In: welt.de. September 24, 2009, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
17. ^ Brandenburg: Left Party renounces ministerial posts for Kaiser. Politician is controversial because of her previous Stasi work - decision should clear the way for Red-Red. In: the standard. October 11, 2009, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
18. ↑ BRANDENBURG: "Lowered the shame line". Sex and betrayal - Left parliamentary group leader Kerstin Kaiser has a nasty Stasi file. Prime Minister Platzeck is still negotiating with her. In: Focus.de. October 19, 2009, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
19. ↑ Ex-IM Kerstin Kaiser renounces the ministerial office Berliner Morgenpost, October 11, 2009