Marianne Brinckmeier

Marianne Brinckmeier (born June 4, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). The journalist was Vice-President of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1989 to 2001 and Chair of the SFB Broadcasting Council from 1993 to 2003. She has been the city ​​elder of Berlin since 2008 .

Life and work

Brinckmeier with her father Friedrich Dethlefs (1978)

Friedrich Dethlefs' daughter spent her childhood and youth in Hamburg. After graduating from high school in 1960, Brinckmeier studied economics in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. She then worked as a freelance journalist. From 1966 until his death she was married to the German politician Jürgen Brinckmeier (1935–1984). The football-loving politician has been a member of HSV since 1951 .

Political party

In 1957 Marianne Brinckmeier joined the SPD. From 1976 to 1984 she was a department head in Berlin-Neukölln. In 1988 Brinckmeier was elected deputy state chairman. Two years later she was confirmed in this function at the first joint party conference of the West and East Berlin SPD . She remained deputy chairwoman of the Berlin SPD for a total of six years. Brinckmeier was a district and state delegate for many years. She is currently a member of the Arbitration Commission in the SPD Neukölln.

politics

Marianne Brinckmeier began her political career in the Neukölln District Assembly . There she was a member from 1971 to 1979, from 1975 to 1979 also as deputy group leader. In 1979 Brinckmeier moved to the Berlin House of Representatives, of which she was a member until 2001. In 1989 Marianne Brinckmeier became Vice-President of the Berlin House of Representatives and remained so until 2001.

SFB / RBB

Marianne Brinckmeier was 1993-2003 chairman of the SFB - Broadcasting Council and then to 2007, member of the rbb -Verwaltungsrats. The chairwoman of the RBB Broadcasting Council, Dagmar Reim, describes Brinckmeier's role in the merger of the SFB into the RBB as follows in a press release:

“Our broadcaster, the rbb, owes you a lot. At an early stage you set the course for the merging of the SFB and ORB, and when the train headed for Fusion you were right at the front. "

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 106.
• The great wave . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 11, 2002

Web links

Commons : Marianne Brinckmeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography in the archive of the SPD Berlin
• List of city elders in Berlin
• Report at rbb-online
• Unification party conference of the SPD Berlin 1990
• Information. State Press Office Berlin