Laura von Wimmersperg

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Laura von Wimmersperg (2019)

Laura Freifrau von Wimmersperg (* 1934 in Berlin ) is a German peace activist .

Life

Laura von Wimmersperg came from the noble family of those von Wimmersperg. When she was three years old, her parents moved to Wroclaw with her . When the Red Army advanced west in early 1945, they fled and came to Greiz in Thuringia . Her father died of tuberculosis . Laura von Wimmersprerg also suffered from this disease for 16 years of her life. Her goal was to become a teacher . In Greiz, the authorities forbade her to attend secondary school because she had the word “Freifrau” in her name. Back in (West) Berlin in 1948, she began training as a kindergarten teacher . She had to stop this because of a relapse of tuberculosis. She came into contact with the Bundische Jugend . Then she attended a commercial college and then worked as a secretary . She later moved to Lüneburg and began a teacher training course there, which she completed in 1967. At the age of 35 she went to a secondary school in West Berlin as a teacher . Later she was a lecturer at the University of Education in Berlin and at the Free University of Berlin . She had to give up teaching because of a disease of the vocal cords . She moved in student circles. She took part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War.

She also dealt with the Nazi past of her father, who was very important to her. He was a member of the NSDAP and, according to his mother, went on business trips to Auschwitz as a building contractor.

She traveled to the Soviet Union . In 1980 she belonged to the " Carpet Circle" in West Berlin, in which there was a dispute against the NATO double resolution. She founded the "Wilmersdorf Peace Initiative". In 1984 she started the “Our city against nuclear weapons” campaign. She was one of the initiators of the Berlin Peace Coordination . During the entire duration of the Yugoslav wars , she and others held a vigil at the Memorial Church . She also traveled to various countries in order to network the peace coordination internationally. She was also one of the co-initiators for the Peace Film Prize . She moderated the "Axis of Peace" during the Bush visit in 2002 and the large nationwide demo against the Iraq war in 2003. Von Wimmersperg can be found at the annual Easter marches and supports actions against combat drones and German armed forces in Afghanistan .

In 2014 she received the human rights award from the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity .

Laura von Wimmersperg is a member of the Die Linke party in Berlin's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district association .

publication

  • The peace movement of the 1980s using the example of the peace movement in West Berlin in: Lothar Schröter (Hrsg.): Vom Kampf für den Frieden. Past and present of the peace movement in Germany , WeltTrends, Potsdam, ISBN 978-3-941880-94-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Laudation by Jutta Kausch at the presentation of the human rights award of the GBM 2014 (PDF)
  2. ↑ Kai Müller: A woman is fighting for peace in "Der Tagesspiegel", March 26, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wimmersperg, Laura von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimmersperg, Laura Freifrau von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lecturer and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin