Konrad Elmer-Herzig

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Elmer speaks at the large demonstration in Berlin on November 4, 1989

Konrad Elmer-Herzig (born February 9, 1949 in Bad Berka ) is a Protestant pastor and was a founding member of the SDP in the GDR .

His mother was a nurse, his father a forester and nature conservation officer. When he dared to propose to make the border strip in the Biosphere Reserve South Harz narrower in 1961, the family was forcibly relocated from the border area from Sülzhayn (South Harz) to Bleicherode ( Nordhausen district ) overnight.

After graduating from high school in Bleicherode in 1967 , Elmer refused to serve in the armed forces of the NVA . From 1968 to 1973 he studied theology at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) and received his doctorate in 1982 on the subject: "The essence of heresy in the view of Karl Barth ". From 1976 to 1982 he was a district youth pastor in Aschersleben , then until 1989 student pastor in East Berlin . In 1989 he became a lecturer in philosophy and theology at the "Paulinum" , a Berlin training facility for Protestant pastors.

On October 7, 1989 he led the founding assembly of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP) in Schwante , of which he became a board member, and on November 5 he was involved in the founding of the Berlin district association. Since February 1990 he was a board member of the SPD (GDR) and head of the statute commission for unification with the West German SPD . As a member of the Volkskammer from the Volkskammer election in 1990 until reunification , he was chairman of the Committee for Education and Science. He had been elected for the SPD in the constituency of Frankfurt / Oder .

From October 3, 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Bundestag . In October 1990 he was one of the members of parliament who were sent to the Bundestag by the People's Chamber . In the federal election in December 1990 he was directly elected in the constituency of Berlin-Pankow-Hohenschönhausen-Weißensee II . He was a member of the joint constitutional commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat (GVK). There Elmer tried to anchor a new constitutional article 2a in the Basic Law: “Everyone is called to be human and common sense.” With the Treaty of Nice , his concern found its way into the preamble of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union : “The exercise of these rights is responsible and duties both towards fellow human beings and towards the human community and future generations. "

From 1994 until his retirement in 2014 he was pastor at the Potsdam Church of the Redeemer . He was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg . His double name was created in 2002 through his marriage to the student Andrea Herzig.

Elmer-Herzig is involved in the local Agenda 21 in Potsdam. In 2004, Elmer-Herzig and the Potsdamer Stadtwerke (EWP) founded the church electricity tariff with Ökocentfonds to finance ecological projects. Here he favors gas-powered CHPs as the most effective bridging technology currently reducing CO 2 emissions, which, when the gas supply is later switched to biogas, which is generated by excess wind energy, becomes one hundred percent regenerative energy generation. The Erlöserkirchgemeinde thus won first prize in the climate competition of the 33rd German Evangelical Church Congress in 2010 .

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  1. ↑ http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/864591/

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SURNAME Elmer-Herzig, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elmer, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and politician (SPD), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Berka