Martin Gutzeit

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Martin Gutzeit
Martin Gutzeit with Ibrahim Böhme at the 6th round table in Berlin

Martin Gutzeit (born April 30, 1952 in Cottbus ) is a German clergyman and politician, founder of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR , MdV , MdB , and until 2017 was the state representative for the documents of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR in Berlin.

Life

He is the son of a pastor and trained as an electrician from 1968 to 1970. In 1970 he first worked as a relay mechanic. In 1971 he passed the Abitur at an evening school. He refused to do military service in the National People's Army and worked as a social welfare worker. From 1972 to 1979 he studied theology at the Protestant Language Convict in Berlin . From 1980 to 1982 he was vicar in Berlin-Pankow and from 1982 to 1986 pastor in Schwarz near Neustrelitz . Between 1986 and 1990 he was an assistant at the Sprachenkonvikt in Berlin.

In 1977 he formed a Hegel circle with Markus Meckel . In October 1989 he co-founded the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP), as a representative of the SDP at the Central Round Table of the GDR. In 1990 Gutzeit became a member of the party executive committee of the SPD and a member of the first freely elected people 's chamber . There he was the parliamentary director of the social democratic group and from October to December 1990 a member of the Bundestag .

From 1993 to 2017 he was the Berlin State Commissioner for the documents of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. He worked as a member of the advisory board of the Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the Ministry for State Security of the former GDR (BStU). On October 8, 1995, together with other civil rights activists from the former GDR, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Since 1997 he and other founders of the SDP have been warning against alliances with the PDS . Regarding the Brandenburg coalition with the stasi-burdened left, he said:

“The assertion by the left that it broke with the Stasi is not expressed in its personnel decisions. The party understands the art of breaking taboos. She wants to make a career as a normal part of an East German biography socially acceptable. "

Works

  • with Markus Meckel : Opposition in the GDR . Bund-Verlag GmbH, 1996, ISBN 978-3766324986
  • Eberhard Kuhrt u. a. (Ed.): Opposition in the GDR from the 1970s until the collapse of SED rule (Volume 3 of the series: At the end of real socialism, published on behalf of the Federal Minister of the Interior). Opladen 1999 (in it an essay with Stephan Hilsberg about the founding of the SDP / SPD in the GDR)
  • Mit.-Hrsg .: Opposition and SED in the Peaceful Revolution. Organizational history of the old and new political groups 1989/90. Düsseldorf 2011.
  • The way to the opposition. About the self-image and the role of the "opposition" in autumn 1989 in the former GDR. In: Walter Euchner (ed.): Political opposition in Germany and in international comparison. Göttingen 1993, pp. 84-114.

literature

  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Gutzeit, Martin . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk & Tom Sello (eds.): For a free country with free people. Opposition and Resistance in Biographies and Photos. Robert Havemann Society, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938857-02-1
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Endgame. The 1989 revolution in the GDR. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58357-5 .
  • Peter Gohle: From the founding of the SDP to the all-German SPD. Social democracy in the GDR and German unity in 1989/90 . Verlag JHW Dietz, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-8012-4227-5 .
  • Wolfgang Herzberg , Patrik von zur Mühlen (ed.): It all depends on the beginning - a new social democratic beginning in the GDR in 1989. JHW Dietz-Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-8012-0198-8
  • M. Köckert: From Language Convict to Theological Convict [BThZ 26 (2009), 256–272].
  • W. Krötke: The profile of the Berlin Language Convict for the independent training of theologians in the GDR [ZThK 107 (2010), 123-138].
  • R. Mau: The "Language Convict". Theological training center of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg ("Church University Berlin-Brandenburg") 1950–1991. In: Berliner theologische Zeitschrift 9 (1992) , 107–118. Reprinted in: Committed to God's Truth. Theological contributions from the Language Convict Berlin. Festschrift for Rudolf Mau. Edited by Matthias Köckert . Berlin 1993.
  • M. Waechter, AK Kauf, A. Formozov, M. Daues: A real free space. Former reports from the Language Convict and the Theological Convict 1950–2007 , Berlin 2008.

Web links

Commons : Martin Gutzeit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.chronikderwende.de/lexikon/biografien/biographie_jsp/key=gutzeit_martin.html
  2. ↑ Stasi informers are pushing left into parliaments . In: Die Welt , September 24, 2009
  3. ↑ Review (PDF; 54 kB) in Horch und Guck
personal data
SURNAME Good time, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and politician (SPD), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus