Lorenz Gosta Beutin

Lorenz Gösta Beutin, 2019

Lorenz Gösta Beutin (born July 18, 1978 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and historian . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Beutin is a son of the politician Heidi Beutin and the writer Wolfgang Beutin . In 1998/99 he did his community service at the Evangelical Academy in Bad Segeberg. Beutin has been a member of the ver.di union since 1999 .

Since the winter semester 1999/2000 Beutin has been studying history, politics and German at the University of Hamburg . He financed his studies as a service and security worker in an old people's and nursing home in Hamburg as well as by working in various archives. He completed it in 2008 with a master’s thesis in which he examined the changes in the historian Ludwig Beutin , his great-uncle, before, during and after the Second World War .

From 2000 to 2006 he was active in the student council history, the student council conference and various university committees. In the winter semester of strike 2003/04 he worked in the "strike center", then one semester in the university policy department of the AStA at the University of Hamburg.

As a historian he works a. a. on the history of National Socialism and on the subject of anti-Semitism .

politics

Beutin gained his first political experience in the BUND youth group "Milane". In 1996 he was involved in setting up a local group of green-alternative youth in the Trittau region . Because of his support for the Kosovo war in 1999, he broke with the Greens .

From 2000 to 2005, Beutin was a member of the PDS . In 2004 he supported the “Wahlalternative” and the “Work & Social Justice Initiative”, the predecessor organizations of the WASG . In 2005 he joined the WASG, and in 2006 also the Linkspartei.PDS.

From July 2005 to June 16, 2007 (merger of WASG and PDS to form Die Linke ) Lorenz Gösta Beutin was state spokesman and state council delegate of the WASG. From 2007 to 2014 he was a member of the executive state board of Linke Schleswig-Holstein . From November 2015 to November 2019, Beutin was state spokesman for the Left Schleswig-Holstein. From 2010 to 2014 he worked as an electoral district employee for Cornelia Möhring , member of the Bundestag, and from 2014 he worked for the parliamentary group in the North Regional Office in Kiel.

In the Bundestag, Gösta Beutin is a full member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and is a deputy member of the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety .

He is a member of the Kiel Peace Forum and the cooperation committee of the Schleswig-Holstein peace movement, a member of the VVN-BdA , the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein and the Leonhard-Frank-Gesellschaft .

Publications

• Sacrificed in the barbed wire of the fatherland. Leonhard Frank and the First World War . In: Heidi Beutin u. a. (Ed.): "The thinking of the future must make wars impossible". The war in art, literature and science. Mössingen-Talheim 2015, ISBN 9783893761647 .
• The “Nuremberg Laws” - requirement, content, consequences. In: Beutin, Lorenz Gösta u. a. (Ed.): In Nuremberg they made a law. Discrimination, marginalization, persecution - continuities and breaks. Political conference on the occasion of the 75th coming into force of the “ Nuremberg Race Laws ”, 1. – 3. October 2010, in the documentation center Prora / Rügen. Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2011 (=  Bremen contributions to the history of literature and ideas. Vol. 62), pp. 39–58, ISBN 3631615345 .
• "Vox populi, vox Dei". On the romantic hostility towards Jews in Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tales . In: Johann Dvorák (ed.): Enlightenment, democracy and the change in social conditions. Texts about literature and politics in memory of Walter Grab . Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2011, ISBN 9783631552926 .
• Freedom and socialism in the party “Die Linke” in the field of tension between parliaments and movements. In: Domination-free social models in the past and present and their prospects for the future. Edited by Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft ev, Lübeck 2010 (=  writings of the Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft. Issue 34), pp. 45–56, ISBN 9783931079444 .
• Semantic affirmation: Ludwig Beutin (1903-1958). Changes of a historian in the social upheavals of the first half of the 20th century. Master's thesis , University of Hamburg , 2008.
• Lorenz Knorr : Enlightenment, Peace, Antifascism. Selected speeches and writings. Edited by Lorenz Gosta Beutin. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89438-356-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lorenz Gösta Beutin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Lorenz Gösta Beutin
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Lorenz Gösta Beutin on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Munzinger archive : Article on Wolfgang Beutin
2. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .