Klaus Grehn

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Klaus Grehn (born September 26, 1940 in Grevesmühlen ; † June 28, 2017 ) was a German politician ( PDS ), moderator at the round table , co-founder and president of the unemployment association Germany, unofficial employee of the GDR state security and member of the Bundestag.

Life

education

Grehn attended the central school in Grevesmühlen from 1947 to 1955 and then did an apprenticeship as a carpenter . From 1958 to 1960 he made his Abitur at the workers and farmers faculty and then studied veterinary medicine until 1962 , but he was expelled for political reasons and obliged to "political probation" as a worker at the cable works Oberspree (KWO) Berlin. He then had to do his basic military service from 1962 to 1964 . From 1971 to 1976 he completed a distance learning course in philosophy and sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1980 from the Humboldt University in Berlin and also studied education from 1981 to 1984 .

job

Grehn worked from 1964 to 1973 as an official in the Berlin customs administration . From 1973 to 1977 he was department head at Deutsche Post in the GDR . He was an aspirant until 1980 and then until 1985 assistant at the sociological faculty of the Humboldt University in the field of work and family sociology. From 1985 to 1990 he was a senior research assistant for corporate social policy at the Bernau Trade Union University . In 1990 he was one of the co-founders of the Unemployment Association Germany eV , of which he was also president. He was also vice-president of the East German Board of Trustees of Associations (OKV)

family

Grehn was married and had two children.

politics

In 1966 Grehn joined the SED and remained a member of the SED until 1989. In 2000 he became a member of the PDS. In 1998 he was elected to the German Bundestag as a non-party member via the state list of Saxony for the 14th legislative period . He was also vice-president of the European Network of the Unemployed and a member of the association council of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband . At the end of 2006, Grehn left the PDS.

State Security staff

From 1970 to 1974 Grehn was an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security under the code name Hans-Otto Schütt while working for the customs administration . According to Bundestag printed paper 14/3145, the files contain reports on “22 meetings, 32 reports that the command officers after information from Dr. Grehns made. ”According to Bundestag printed paper 14/3145, the last of these meetings took place in November 1972. "According to this fact, an unofficial activity of Dr. Grehns for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR from July 1970 to November 1972 without a doubt. "Grehn did not disclose his Stasi cooperation himself before the election, as his party demanded, but granted it" in full "after the discovery.

Publications

Grehn was the author of several book and magazine articles:

  • Unemployed - dealing with a new reality.
  • Unemployed - fate or chance.
  • Unemployed in Germany: Help for those affected - concepts for a different policy. with a contribution by Peter Grottian. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-82068-4 .
  • Woven poetry: the tapestry weavers; Christa and Günter Hoffmann - artists from Senftenberg. (= Artist from Lausitz. 1). Self-published, Drochow 2007, DNB 984439234 .
  • The colors of my life: the painter, graphic artist and sculptor Prof. Gerhart Lampa. (= Artist from Lausitz. Volume 2). Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2010, ISBN 978-3-86929-150-5 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel. In: The Parliament. No. 32–33, August 7, 2017. (das-parlament.de , accessed October 10, 2017)
  2. ↑ Klaus Grehn returns the party book. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. December 8, 2006, accessed October 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ dipbt.bundestag.de
  4. ↑ dipbt.bundestag.de
  5. ↑ A figurehead falls at the feet of the PDS - the non-party MP was a Stasi spy. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 28, 2000.


personal data
SURNAME Grehn, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (PDS), Member of the Bundestag, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevesmühlen
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2017