Kurt Edler

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Kurt Edler (2019)

Kurt Edler (born April 10, 1950 in Oldenburg ; † December 19, 2021 ) was a German teacher and Hamburg politician on the Green Alternative List (GAL) .

Life

Edler passed his Abitur in 1968 and studied Romance and German at the University of Kiel and the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1975 . In 1976/77 he did a legal traineeship and since 1977 he has worked as a teacher at vocational schools in Hamburg. From 1999 to 2004 he taught at the Albrecht-Thaer-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Stellingen. From 2004 to 2015 he was head of department at the State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development in Hamburg.

politics

Edler developed his first political engagements in the GEW , which he joined in 1972, in the student self-administration of the University of Hamburg and in the anti-nuclear movement . In 1981 he co-founded the Hamburg Alternative List (AL) and the Green Alternative List (GAL) . Within the party, he was active on the GAL state executive from 1988 to 1990. In 1990 he was involved in the establishment of the GAL spin-off "Green Forum" , which had formed in protest against the demarcation of the majority GAL against the democratic civil rights movement in the GDR. After the reunification of Germany and the union of the Greens with Bündnis 90 , Edler was again a member of the state executive. From 2000 to 2001 he was together with Antje Radcke board spokesman for GAL Hamburg. He was a member of the right-wing extremism commission that existed at the federal executive board Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen until 2008.

From 2008 to 2017 Edler was chairman of the German Society for Democratic Education. and from 2009 to 2018 commissioned by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in the program "Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights" at the Council of Europe.

Mandates

Edler was a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the first time from 1985 to 1986 and then from 1993 to 1997 . In January 1985 Edler took over his mandate from a resigning GAL politician as part of a rotation principle that is unique in Hamburg politics . Halfway through the electoral term, the GAL replaced all eight elected representatives. When he returned to parliament in 1993, he was for his parliamentary group in the school committee and as a permanent representative in the budget committee. He was also the parliamentary group's spokesman for school policy.

Publications

  • The socialist legacy of the GREENS , in: Beate Meyer / Joachim Szodrzynski (eds.): From doubting and continuing. Fragments of the KPD history. For Helmuth Warnke on his 80th birthday , Hamburg, Results-Verlag, 1988 (pp. 141–153) ISBN 3-925622-42-X
  • Islamism as an educational challenge. Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2015. ISBN 978-3-17-028444-9
  • Democratic resilience - in a nutshell. Debus Pedagogy Publishing House. Schwalbach / Ts. 2017.

literature

  • Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship - Personal Data, 11th electoral term. Status: June 1985, pages 112 a, b, 112 c (1st supplement, October 1984).
  • Citizens' Handbook - Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 15th electoral period, Hamburg 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Greens mourn the party veteran Kurt Edler. In: welt.de , December 22, 2021, accessed on December 22, 2021.
  2. ↑ Kurt Edler on the board of the German Society for Democracy Education ( Memento from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Noble, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GAL), Member of the Bundestag
BIRTH DATE April 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2021