Lutz Heilmann

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Lutz Eberhard Heilmann (born September 7, 1966 in Zittau ) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . Heilmann was the only member of the German Bundestag so far who was known to be a full-time employee of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR . His mandate in the 16th German Bundestag ran from 2005 to 2009. Heilmann drew media attention when on November 13, 2008 he had the Wikipedia access via wikipedia.de blocked by an injunction .

Life

education and profession

From 1973 to 1983 Lutz Heilmann attended the Polytechnic Oberschule in Oberseifersdorf / Wittgendorf (Zittau) and then the Extended Oberschule in Zittau, where he graduated from high school in 1985 . Heilmann then did military service in the Personal Protection Department of the Ministry for State Security and then remained there as a full-time employee. Heilmann states that he submitted a release request in October / November 1989; According to the taz , this should only have happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. When the ministry was dissolved, Heilmann finally left the service in January 1990.

In 1991 he began to study business administration at the Technical University of Zittau . A year later he moved to the Free University of Berlin , to where law to study. From 1997 he continued his studies at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He finished his studies in 2004 with a degree in law . He interrupted his legal traineeship , which he started at the Lübeck Regional Court in 2005 , after he was elected to the Bundestag via the state list . From November 2009 he continued his legal clerkship at the Lübeck Regional Court.

Employee of the Ministry of State Security

In October 2005, the magazine Spiegel revealed Heilmann's full-time work for the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR, which had not been made public . Heilmann publicly states to this day that from 1985 to 1990 he did an "extended military service (personal protection MfS)". Hubertus Knabe , director of the Stasi victims' memorial in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , considers this to be trivialized; the employees of the main department of personal protection had formed a "highly professional, armed guard" of the central state organs, and for victims of the GDR regime it was "an unbearable idea that a man with this past is sitting in parliament".

Before the election, Heilmann said he had only reported to a few comrades about his work at the MfS. This constituted a violation of internal party guidelines, according to which activity for the MfS had to be disclosed to the respective electoral body. At the state party conference on December 4, 2005, the members of the Schleswig-Holstein state association voted on a motion of no confidence against Heilmann. The result was 47 votes for Heilmann to 42 against him. Heilmann has since been controversial within the left in Schleswig-Holstein.

politics

In 1986 Lutz Heilmann became a member of the SED . In 1991 he exercised the function of the district branch manager of the district association Zittau (Saxony) of the PDS . In 1992 he left the PDS. Eight years later he became a member of the PDS again. From 2000 to 2002, Heilmann, who at that time lived in Pötenitz (since 2004 a district of Dassow ), was a member of the board of the PDS district association in Northwest Mecklenburg. In 2004 he set up a solid group in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In 2005 he moved to the Lübeck district association and was elected as the top candidate on the party's Schleswig-Holstein state list for the 2005 Bundestag election against Harald Koch when the candidates were drawn up in July 2005 . He moved into the Bundestag via his list.

In March 2006 Heilmann signed the founding appeal of the anti-capitalist left (AKL), which was observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and classified as left-wing extremist .

Heilmann, who has been openly gay since around 2006 , is involved in the queer group within the left in Schleswig-Holstein.

For the 2009 federal election , Heilmann applied for second place on the list at the state party conference of the Left in Neumünster, but lost the election among the delegates and did not make it to the 17th German Bundestag.

Legal dispute with Wikimedia Germany

On November 13, 2008, Lutz Heilmann obtained an interim injunction from the Lübeck Regional Court that the forwarding of wikipedia.de to the still accessible internet address de.wikipedia.org had to be canceled due to factual assertions made there at times . Heilmann justified this step by stating that Wikimedia Germany did not allow him to reply to these claims. After the representations that, in his opinion, violated his personal rights had been largely removed, Heilmann declared the legal dispute over and said that he had "thought too briefly and had not overlooked the consequences". Heilmann's approach was criticized by some party colleagues; The Saxon state parliament member and media expert Heiko Hilker accused him of legal superficiality and a lack of technical understanding.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Left Party man worked for the Stasi. In: Spiegel Online. October 8, 2005, accessed November 17, 2008 .
  2. ↑ a b Politician triggers outrage by blocking Wikipedia. In: Tagesschau.de. November 14, 2008, archived from the original on December 8, 2008 ; Retrieved April 30, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Lawmaker apologizes for blocking Wikipedia. In: Reuters. November 19, 2008, accessed April 30, 2011 .
  4. ^ Un ex-agent de la Stasi fait fermer le site allemand Wikipédia. In: Le Monde. November 17, 2008, accessed April 30, 2011 .
  5. ↑ a b Spiegel: Lübeck member of the Bundestag was with the Stasi. In: HL-live. October 8, 2005, accessed January 17, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Body protection parliamentarian. In: taz. October 10, 2005, accessed January 17, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Lutz Heilmann, DIE LINKE. Archived from the original on August 20, 2009 ; accessed on January 17, 2009 (biography on the Bundestag website).
  8. ↑ a b Björn Hengst and Gunther Latsch: A Stasi man splits the Left Party. In: Spiegel Online. December 4, 2005, accessed November 15, 2008 .
  9. ↑ Interview: Wera Richter: »I see no reason to resign from the mandate«. In: young world. November 26, 2005, accessed January 19, 2009 .
  10. ↑ Deep crack goes through the regional association. (No longer available online.) In: www.LN-online.de. September 20, 2008, archived from the original on December 12, 2008 ; Retrieved November 15, 2008 .
  11. ↑ Esther Greis Linger: Left politician puts Wikipedia lame. In: taz.de. November 17, 2008, accessed November 19, 2008 .
  12. ↑ Esther Greis Linger: Left quarrel before board election. In: The daily newspaper. September 20, 2008, accessed November 20, 2008 .
  13. ↑ ['solid] takes off. In: Klar - Information sheet of the Member of the Bundestag Lutz Heilmann, edition June 17th, 2007, archived from the original on December 6th, 2008 ; Retrieved November 18, 2008 .
  14. ^ Lübeck Left Party fights for Heilmann. In: HL-live. August 1, 2005, accessed November 25, 2008 .
  15. ↑ Founding appeal “For an anti-capitalist left”. (PDF) March 2006, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  16. ↑ LAG Queer SH at the CSD in Kiel. In: Klar - Information sheet of the Member of the Bundestag Lutz Heilmann, edition 9th August 5th, 2008, archived from the original on December 6th, 2008 ; Retrieved November 18, 2008 .
  17. ↑ Lutz Heilmann: Lübecker on place 4 of the state list - candidacy for the list place 2 of the state list LINKE - SH for the federal election 2009. Retrieved on July 17, 2009 .
  18. ^ Election results Die Linke, May 2009. Accessed July 17, 2009
  19. ↑ No further legal action against Wikipedia. In: Press release Die Linke. November 16, 2008, archived from the original on December 6, 2008 ; Retrieved November 17, 2008 .
  20. ↑ Wikipedia again without restriction. (No longer available online.) In: Lutz Heilmann, own website. November 18, 2008, archived from the original on February 21, 2009 ; Retrieved November 21, 2008 .
  21. ↑ Wikipedia blocking: Lutz Heilmann and the “Streisand Effect”. In: Focus. November 17, 2008, accessed November 18, 2008 .
  22. ↑ Felix Rettberg: Guilt and atonement. In: The daily newspaper. November 17, 2008, accessed November 20, 2008 .
  23. ↑ Heiko Hilker: Lutz Heilmann blocks German Wikipedia access. November 16, 2008, archived from the original on December 6, 2008 ; Retrieved November 25, 2008 .
personal data
SURNAME Heilmann, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heilmann, Lutz Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag; full-time employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau