Lothar Anys

Lothar Anys (born July 14, 1940 in Preußisch Eylau ) is a Protestant pastor and former member of the People's Chamber . For the DSU , he sat in the first freely elected GDR parliament in 1990.

Life

Anys was born in 1940 in the East Prussian Prussian Eylau as the son of a working class family. As the Red Army advanced to East Prussia , Anys' family was evacuated and initially found in Denmark , where they lived in a refugee camp for a long time after the end of the war in 1945. Anys was educated there for some time. At the end of the 1940s the family settled in the Soviet occupation zone in Dresden , where Anys first attended elementary school and later high school. In 1958 he passed his Abitur there. The working-class son then began studying theology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he completed in 1963.

On March 1, 1964, Anys began his vicariate in Crossen, West Saxony . In 1966 he was ordained in the rectory at the same place, where he worked until October 1969. He then took over a pastor's position in Sohland, East Saxony, in what was then the Bautzen district . In 1978 Anys took over the position of the prison chaplain in the Bautzen I prison , known as Gelbes Elend. In 1986 he moved to the pastor's office in Königsbrück , a small town in North Saxony that at that time suffered significantly from its proximity to the Soviet military training area . It was also through Anys' initiative in 1988 that there were no more nocturnal exercises.

In September 1989 Anys was one of the co-founders of the Königsbrück branch of the New Forum . As a result, however, he turned to the DSU, founded in January 1990, for which he ran in the first free Volkskammer elections. In addition, he was temporarily DSU district chairman in what was then Kamenz district and DSU city councilor in Königsbrück. Since the DSU unexpectedly became the fourth strongest party and achieved the second-best result in the republic in the Dresden constituency with 13.8%, Anys moved into the Volkskammer with 5th place on the list, as the DSU won 6 mandates in the Dresden constituency alone. Anys was elected by the GDR parliament to the Independent Commission to review the assets of the parties and mass organizations of the GDR .

Anys worked as a pastor in Königsbrück until 1997. During this time he was one of the main initiators of the protest against continued use of the Königsbrück military training area by the Bundeswehr . The protest was ultimately successful and the military training area has been the Königsbrücker Heide nature reserve since 1996 .

After a short retirement, Anys worked as a hospital chaplain in the Diakonissenkrankenhaus Dresden in 1998 and 1999 . From 2000 he dedicated himself to his original homeland. Anys worked from 2000 to 2006, first in the former Königsberg , then in the former Heinrichswalde , today Slavsk, as a pastor. The theologian then retired and has lived in Königsbrück ever since.

Web links

• Biography of Lothar Anys . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)