Marlis Dürkop-Leptihn

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Marlis Dürkop-Leptihn (2015)

Marlis Dürkop-Leptihn (born August 14, 1943 in Braunschweig ) is a German sociologist , university professor, politician of the party Die Grünen and state councilor a. D. She was the first woman to hold the office of President of the Humboldt University Berlin .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a travel agent , she took her secondary school diploma and studied sociology, psychology and journalism at the Free University of Berlin from 1966 to 1971 (degree: Diplom-Sociologist). She then worked as a research assistant for law at the Free University of Berlin (1973–1976) and for criminology at the University of Hanover (1976–1978). During this time, Marlis Dürkop obtained his doctorate. Phil. At the Institute for Psychology at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1978 she was appointed professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (today: Alice Salomon University Berlin ). From 1986 to 1990 she was rector there . In addition, she was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1991 to 1992 and spokeswoman for science policy for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

In 1992, Marlis Dürkop was elected the first female president of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU) after the fall of the Berlin Wall , which she headed for four years. She did not run for a second term; Dürkop did not want to continue to be responsible for the implementation of the savings targets of the Berlin Senate at the time , according to which several courses should be canceled.

After a brief activity as a university professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at the HU Berlin, she was appointed State Councilor for Science, Research and Equal Opportunities for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 1998 . Due to the change of government in November 2001, she was transferred to temporary retirement .

Private

In December 2005, Marlis Dürkop married the journalist and former editor and long-time director of the ARD programARD-Ratgebers Technik ”, Bernd Leptihn , who is also known as a presenter in other ARD advice programs and the NDR consumer program “Call us!”. He became known as the “consumer's lawyer” when he discovered in 2000 that it was easier to withdraw money from ATMs than the banks claim with stolen debit cards .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Women in prison. Frankfurt 1978.
  • Suffering as a mother's duty. Mothers of juveniles in prison report, Westdeutscher Verlag 1980.
  • Alice Salomon and Feminist Social Work. In: Rüdiger Baron, Rolf Landwehr (ed.): Social work and social reform. Weinheim 1983, pp. 52-80.
  • Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine . In: Feminist Studies. 1984 / H. 3, pp. 140-149.
  • Feminism and Labeling Approach . Approaches against discrimination against people, in: Kriminologisches Journal. 1986 / H. 4th
  • On the function of criminology in National Socialism. In: U. Reifner, BR Sonnen (ed.): Criminal justice and police in the Third Reich. Frankfurt / Main / New York 1984, pp. 97-120.

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. 124.
  • Adriane Feustel, Gerd Koch (ed.): 100 years of social teaching and learning. From the Social University to the Alice Salomon University in Berlin. Berlin 2008 (in it p. 194 ff. Interview and on p. 257 short biography).

Web links

Commons : Marlis Dürkop-Leptihn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblick/geschichte/reorien/duerkop on hu-berlin.de
  2. ^ Report in the Berliner Zeitung
  3. Archived copy ( Memento from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. http://www.imdb.de/name/nm1559550/
  5. Archived copy ( Memento from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. University Council of the University of Vienna on univie.ac.at