Marieluise Beck

Marieluise Beck, 2009

Marieluise Beck (born June 25, 1952 in Bramsche ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Until 2017 she was a member of the Bundestag and spokeswoman for her group for Eastern European politics. From 2002 to 2005 she was parliamentary state secretary to the Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth ( Renate Schmidt ) and from 1998 to 2005 the federal government's commissioner for foreigners . Since February 17, 2006 she has been married to her long-term partner, the Green politician and from 2001 to 2017 board member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation , Ralf Fücks , with whom she has two daughters. With him, she founded the Center for Liberal Modernity on November 15, 2017 after leaving the Bundestag and the end of his term of office as the Foundation Board member .

biography

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1970 at the “In der Desert” high school in Osnabrück , Beck completed a teaching degree for German, history and social studies in Bielefeld and Heidelberg . Then she worked as a secondary school teacher at the Konrad-Adenauer-Realschule in Pforzheim and at the comprehensive school in Bremen-Mitte.

During their first marriage, Beck was called Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf until the end of the 1980s .

Political party

During her studies in Bielefeld, Beck was involved in the Socialist University Association (SHB). She has been a member of the Green Party since 1980 . From 8./9. November 1980 to 26./27. June 1982 she was chairwoman of the Greens in Baden-Wuerttemberg and then remained as an assessor on the Baden-Wuerttemberg state executive until the federal election on March 6, 1983 .

MPs

Marieluise Beck at the parliamentary group of the Greens

In 1983 Beck was elected to the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list and was thus a member of the first Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag . From 1983 to 1984 she was one of their three speakers . In 1985 she resigned her mandate because of the rotation principle prevailing at the time with the Greens . After the Bundestag election in 1987 , this time she moved into the Bundestag again on the Bremen state list, to which she belonged until the Bundestag election in 1990 , in which the West German Greens failed to get back. From 1991 to 1994 she was a member of the Bremen citizenship . From 1994 to 2017 she was again a member of the Bundestag as a member of Bremen. Your home constituency was Bremen I .

After the end of the red-green federal government, Beck was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and deputy member of the Committee for Affairs of the European Union of the German Bundestag from 2005 . As spokeswoman for the Green parliamentary group for Eastern European policy, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the countries of the Western Balkans formed the focus of her foreign policy work. In 2010 she became chair of the newly founded parliamentary group Bosnia and Herzegovina of the German Bundestag.

For the general election in 2017 it has not raced for more.

After parliamentary work

Beck announced that she would devote herself to work on the network of civil rights activists and the democratic opposition in Eastern Europe that she had built up in ten years.

After leaving the Bundestag, she founded the non-governmental organization Zentrum Liberale Moderne together with Ralf Fücks . The center is dedicated to the defense of the open society against authoritarian developments and anti-liberal forces in Germany, the European Union and beyond.

Public offices

• After the federal election in 1998 (at that time the red-green Schröder I cabinet took over the government) she became the federal government's commissioner for foreigner issues .
• After the federal election in 2002 ( Schröder II cabinet ), Beck was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth from October 2002 to November 2005 and the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration in the Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) led government.

Positions

Renunciation of force

After her self-portrayal, Marieluise Beck changed her fundamentally pacifist stance in the Bosnian war due to encounters with Bosnians: “Aggression is never one side again. The other is: protecting those who are attacked. But to protect them, you need military means if necessary. "

Russia

In the Skripal case , Marieluise Beck took the view that the attack was not an isolated incident , that there was “a large number of people murdered in our western countries too”. There is a chain of contract killings. She was also surprised that in the case of Russia there was talk of free elections, since the two promising opposition candidates Navalny and Nemtsov were prevented from running.

Before the presidential election in Russia in 2018 , Marieluise Beck criticized the alleged influence of Vladimir Putin on German politics. In particular, with the former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) there is a proponent "who is in Putin's service and opens the door to the respective economic ministers in Berlin for Russian corporations close to the state," she told the AFP news agency . She called the fact that this hardly caused a stir in Germany "outrageous".

Honors

• 1995: Honorary citizen of the Bosnian city of Lukavac
• 1996: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2008: Regine Hildebrandt Prize for solidarity in the face of unemployment and poverty
• 2011: Solidarity Prize for Belarus
• 2016: Ramer Award for Courage in the Defense of Democracy
• 2017: Order of Princess Olga Third Class
• 2018: Honorary membership in the regional association of former ghetto and concentration camp survivors in Odessa

Web links

Commons : Marieluise Beck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Marieluise Beck on parliament watch.de
• Marieluise Beck's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Marieluise Beck at the Bundestag faction Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

Footnotes

1. ^ Website of the Center for Liberal Modernism
2. ^ Marieluise Beck at the Center for Liberal Modernism
3. ↑ Marieluise Beck & Ralf Fücks Zwei Greens have a central idea for Jamaica by Thorsten Jungholt, " Die Welt " November 16, 2017
4. ↑ Green ex-politicians set up think tank Transatlantic Retirement by Tobias Schulze, TAZ November 16, 2017
5. ^ History of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg. (No longer available online.) Pp. 12-14 , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on August 24, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Klaus Wolschner: Marieluise Beck on her withdrawal: “Bremen is making itself small” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 14, 2016, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 25, 2019]).
7. ↑ Thorsten Jungholt: Green Marieluise Beck and Ralf Fücks found a liberal think tank . In: THE WORLD . November 16, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed April 12, 2018]).
8. ↑ Center for Liberal Modernism: "Who we are and what we want."
9. ↑ Anna Kemper : Marieluise Beck: "It could hit anyone anywhere" . In: The time . August 22, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 25, 2019]).
10. ↑ The Skripal case - "We are openly confronted with lies from Russia". Retrieved January 25, 2019 (German). 
11. ↑ Putin's influence on German politics. Green politician raises allegations against Schröder. T-online.de , [1] , December 25, 2017
12. ^ Press release of the American Jewish Committee. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .