Klaus Lederer (politician)

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Klaus Lederer (2017)

Klaus Lederer (born March 21, 1974 in Schwerin ) is a German politician ( PDS , Die Linke ) and since December 8, 2016 mayor and cultural and European nator of Berlin . From June 30, 2007 to December 10, 2016 he was the Berlin state chairman of his party, after having been the state chairman of the Linkspartei.PDS since December 2005 . He was the top candidate of the party Die Linke for the election of the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2016 .

Life

Youth and Studies

Lederer grew up in Frankfurt (Oder) and went to the polytechnic high school there until he moved to Berlin- Hohenschönhausen with his parents in 1988 . When he moved, he switched to the Heinrich Hertz Oberschule in Berlin-Friedrichshain , an EOS with a mathematical and scientific focus, from 1990 high school. He finished this in 1992 with the Abitur. After that he worked for a year in youth social work. In 1993 he began studying law at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he completed in 1998 with the first state examination in law. After graduating, he did a year of community service in senior care. He then worked on his dissertation on privatization in the water sector at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University, where he received his doctorate in 2004. In February 2005, Lederer received the Carl Goerdeler Prize from the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation Leipzig and the German Institute for Urban Studies as well as the John Desmond Bernal Prize from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brandenburg for his doctoral thesis . In February 2006 he passed the 2nd state examination in law.

Political party

In 1992 Lederer joined the PDS . From 1992 to 1995 he was a member of the youth welfare committee of what was then the Mitte district . In 1995 he became district councilor and deputy parliamentary group leader of the PDS in the Prenzlauer Berg district , where he had since moved. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Federal Arbitration Commission of the PDS. In 2000 he became deputy district chairman of the PDS in the Pankow district , and in 2003 deputy state chairman.

In December 2005, Lederer replaced Stefan Liebich as state chairman of the Linkspartei.PDS. At the state party conference he received almost 90 percent of the vote. In June 2007 he was elected the first state chairman of the newly founded Berlin state association of the party Die Linke with almost 80 percent of the delegate votes. In December 2008 he was confirmed as chairman with 73 percent of the vote. His appearance at a solidarity rally for Israel on January 11, 2009 on the occasion of the Gaza war was controversial . The Communist Platform of the Left Party criticized the speech in an open letter. For the Bundestag elections in 2009 and 2013, Lederer ran as a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency of Berlin-Mitte , but was unable to achieve a Bundestag mandate.

Within the party, Lederer works in the forum for democratic socialism and has been a member of the federal executive committee since 2012.

Public offices

Klaus Lederer (2010)

Since 2003 he is a member of the Berlin House of Representatives , where he initially as substitutes the place of Harald Wolf took, which had become the year 2002/03 Senator for Economics in Berlin. Lederer was the political spokesman for the left parliamentary group and a member of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Immunity and Rules of Procedure.

When the red-red-green Senate took office on December 8, 2016, Lederer took over the office of mayor and cultural and European nator in the state government led by Michael Müller (SPD) .

Private

Lederer lives in Prenzlauer Berg , is a member of the Queer Nations initiative and took part in the Parada Równości in Warsaw as part of the Queer Nations Conference 2007 . He performed several times with the a cappella combo Rostkehlchen , based in Prenzlauer Berg, and produced a CD in 2002, where he recorded songs from the GDR punk band Feeling B in the style of the 1920s as a tenor .

On June 5, 2009 he entered into a civil partnership with his long-term partner . He has been married since August 2018.

Political positions

Controversy about Andrej Holm

In the case of Andrej Holm , who was appointed State Secretary for Housing in the Senate of Berlin at the beginning of December 2016 at the suggestion of Senator for Urban Development and Housing Katrin Lompscher ( Die Linke ) , and whose appointment due to his previous work as a full-time employee at the MfS and had led to widespread criticism - especially from Hubertus Knabe - because of his false statements about this activity towards the Humboldt University , Lederer carefully distanced himself from Holm.

Controversy about Hohenschönhausen

As a Senator for Culture, Lederer is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial . In September 2018, the historian Hubertus Knabe was unanimously dismissed as its director by the Board of Trustees and released from his position, as this allegation against his deputy for violent behavior and sexual harassment is said not to have credibly investigated. Knabe denied the allegations and filed a lawsuit against his dismissal. Three members of the Foundation Advisory Board resigned in protest due to the termination. An interim injunction of the Berlin Regional Court against the exemption obtained by Knabe was suspended again on the following working day. The CDU was divided on the matter: While the former GDR civil rights activist and Bundestag parliamentary group deputy Arnold Vaatz demanded Lederer's resignation, Dieter Dombrowski , Federal Chairman of the Union of Victims of Communist Tyranny and a member of the Foundation Council , wished that “those in the Union who stand up for Mr. Engabe Knabe, with half of this commitment also take note of the interests of thousands of SED victims ”. Sven Felix Kellerhoff from Die Welt doubted the rule of law of Lederer's actions and felt reminded of " Stalinism ". In the Tagesspiegel, Alexander Fröhlich did not rate the incident as a “late revenge of the old communist milieu”, but on the one hand paid tribute to Knabe's services to the memorial, but on the other hand accused him of failure regarding the harassment allegations. In December 2018, Knabe and the Board of Trustees agreed on a settlement . Florian Schmidt from the Berliner Morgenpost concluded that there were still many questions unanswered in this case.

Development of Checkpoint Charlie

Lederer announced in August 2018 that, according to the coalition agreement, a museum about the time of German division and the Cold War would be built in a planned office building at Checkpoint Charlie . After Alexandra Hildebrandt , the director of the privately operated Wall Museum there, demanded Lederer's resignation via the museum's Twitter account and called him a “communist” whose party “shot and executed” Hildebrandt's colleagues in the Cold War, Lederer blocked it Museum on his twitter channel with reference to netiquette .

literature

Web links

Commons : Klaus Lederer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement, Leipziger Volkszeitung, November 17, 2016, p. 11
  2. ↑ “Speech by Klaus Lederer, Die Linke” Jewish Community Berlin, January 15, 2009
  3. ↑ “Open letter to Klaus Lederer” Communist Platform, February 2009
  4. ^ Klaus Lederer - Personal - Memberships ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed: June 5, 2008
  5. ↑ Press release: Against homophobia - in Germany and everywhere! ( Memento from September 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), pds-queer.de, May 17, 2007, International Day Against Homophobia
  6. ↑ “Left boss says YES to his Oskar” Berliner Kurier, June 6, 2009
  7. ↑ GGG.at: "Secretly, quietly and quietly": Berlin Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer got married
  8. ↑ State Secretary for Housing Dr. Andrej Holm ( Memento from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, accessed on December 31, 2016.
  9. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/die-stasi-akte-andrej-holm
  10. ↑ The Andrej Holm cadre files as PDF
  11. ↑ Kevin Hagen: Designated Berlin State Secretary Holm: The problem politician. In: Spiegel Online . December 12, 2016, accessed January 12, 2017 .
  12. ^ Andreas Abel: Decision in January in the Andrej Holm case. In: Berliner Morgenpost . December 22, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Hipp Antje, Sirleschtov, Werner van Bebber, Stefan Jacobs: Stasi past of the Berlin State Secretary. Klaus Lederer marks the red line in the Holm case . In: Der Tagesspiegel from December 16, 2016
  14. ↑ Website of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (October 14, 2018)
  15. ↑ Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Result of the Foundation Council meeting of the Hohenschönhausen Memorial , press release of September 25, 2018
  16. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Hubertus Knabe sued against his dismissal. , Tagesspiegel, October 11, 2018.
  17. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Advisory board members resign in protest against the eviction of boys , Tagesspiegel, October 10, 2018.
  18. ↑ Jochen Gössmann: "Criminal energy!" CDU vice calls for Lederer to resign , in: Berliner Zeitung of November 29, 2018.
  19. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Dealing with boys is pure Stalinism. In: The world. November 29, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Hubertus Knabe failed because of himself. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 26, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Stasi memorial and boy agree. In: Deutschlandfunk . December 16, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Florian Schmidt: Many open questions about the Hubertus Knabe file. In: Berliner Morgenpost. December 16, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Lorenz Vossen: Senator Lederer wants a museum about the division of Berlin , in: Berliner Morgenpost from August 11, 2018
  24. ↑ Senator for Culture Lederer blocks the Wall Museum on Twitter , in: Berliner Zeitung of August 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lederer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin