Michael Arnold (politician, 1964)

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Michael Arnold (born April 16, 1964 in Meißen ) is a dentist and a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1990 to 1994 and was involved in coming to terms with the SED dictatorship.

Life

Michael Arnold went to school in Meissen and graduated from high school there. After completing his military service in the medical field of the Feliks Dzierzynski Guard Regiment of the Ministry for State Security from 1982 to 1985, he studied stomatology in Leipzig and passed the state examination to become a qualified stomatologist in 1990. Afterwards he worked as a dentist. He has two children and lives in Radebeul .

politics

In 1987 Arnold joined the newly founded Initiative Group Leben (short form: IG Leben or IGL) , which had emerged from parts of the Leipzig Environmental Protection Working Group . The IG life saw political changes and environmental protection as a unit and campaigned publicly for this position. Arnold organized several campaigns and demonstrations and in this context was de-registered from the university for political reasons.

On January 15, 1989, he was detained for several days as a leader of a peace demonstration. As a result of international protests he was dismissed and his de-registration was later withdrawn. After his imprisonment, he tried to expose the Stasi interrogators. From 1989 to 1990 he was the spokesman for IG Leben . Michael Arnold was also involved in founding the New Forum in 1989 . Initially he was the district spokesman, later also the state spokesman for the New Forum.

After the revolution of 1989 he was elected in October 1990 as a member of the New Forum on the state list Bündnis 90 in the Saxon state parliament. There he worked as the domestic policy spokesman for his Bündnis 90 / Greens parliamentary group and dealt with the protection of the constitution and the structure and activities of the Ministry for State Security. In May 1991 he published lists of the MfS category Unknown Employees (UMA) for the first time . In June 1991 he published a documentation on Department 1 of the GDR Criminal Police, which worked on behalf of the MfS. In the special committee of the Saxon state parliament to investigate the abuse of office and power as a result of the SED rule, Michael Arnold submitted a minority vote. From 1990 he was a member of a joint working group of the new federal states for a Stasi Records Act (StUG).

In 1993 he published the book First animate, then denounce about the protection of the constitution .

“Today Micha, who comes from Meissen, has a modern dental practice in Dresden, where he conducts research and trains the next generation of dentists. […] The typewriter on which Micha wrote his entries and wrote leaflets is now in the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig. "

- Peter Wensierski

Honors

  • On May 26, 2000, the first signatories of the call to found the New Forum Aufbruch 89 - New Forum on September 10, 1989 in Berlin received the National Prize of the German National Foundation.
  • 2008 Award of the hot potato by the Central German Press Club of the mdr

literature

  • Peter Wensierski : The uncanny ease of the revolution. How a group of young people from Leipzig dared to rebel in the GDR. Munich, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04751-9 .
  • Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994; People's Handbook. Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , p. 20 (as of May 1991).
  • Joachim Raschke , Gudrun Heinrich: The Greens: how they became what they are. Bund, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7663-2474-8 , p. 412 ff.
  • Siegfried Suckut, Walter Suess : State Party and State Security on the relationship between SED and MfS Analyzes and documents. On the relationship between SED and MFS. Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-131-3 , p. 170 ff.
  • Thomas Mayer: The revolting student. Not conspiratorial, but offensive - Michael Arnold and the unmasking of the Stasi. In: Thomas Mayer: Heroes of the Peaceful Revolution: 18 portraits of pioneers from Leipzig. Leipzig, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02712-5 , pp. 64–70 or in: Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ) of August 28, 2008, p. 22.
  • Thomas Rudolph , Oliver Kloss , Rainer Müller , Christoph Wonneberger (ed. On behalf of the IFM-Archivs eV): Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Araki, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941848-17-7 .
  • Hermann Geyer: Nikolaikirche, Mondays at five. The political services of the turning point in Leipzig . Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007 (University of Leipzig, Habil.-Schr. 2006), ISBN 978-3-534-18482-8 , pp. 21-26, 33, 113, 144, 188f., 257 table of contents .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter of the Citizens Committee Leipzig eV, February 2009, review: “We are the people!” - Monday conversation in the “Round Corner” with Michael Arnold
  2. ^ Christian Dietrich and Uwe Schwabe (ed. On behalf of the Archives Citizens Movement eV Leipzig): Friends and Enemies. Peace prayers in Leipzig between 1981 and October 9, 1989 (PDF file; 3.91 MB) Documentation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1994.
  3. ^ German National Foundation: Civil courage yesterday and today. The National Prize 2000. A documentation with contributions by Helmut Schmidt , Richard Schröder , Charles Maier and Jens Reich . Hamburg 2000.
  4. ↑ Peter Wensierski: Click, click !, in: DER SPIEGEL 10 (March 4th) 2017, pp. 42–43.
  5. ↑ On this state list, members of several organizations of the civil rights movement in Saxony were candidates: New Forum, Initiative Peace and Human Rights (IFM), Democracy Now (DJ), Independent Women's Association (UFV) and The Greens .
  6. ↑ See, among other things, most secret Stasi people discovered? in: Die Union (Leipzig / Halle) from May 23, 1991, p. 2; New category of Stasi employees , in: FAZ of 23 May 1991, p. 7; New unknowns at the Stasi , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 23, 1991, p. 4; Stasi also had "unknown employees" , in: Berliner Morgenpost of 23 May 1991, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Thomas Dornheck: Working area 1 of the K was the Stasi auxiliary department. Interwoven "Security" , in: Neues Deutschland from July 1, 1991, p. 9.
  8. ↑ Minority vote of MP Arnold on the final report of the special committee of the Saxon state parliament to investigate abuse of office and power as a result of the SED rule of June 20, 1994 on printed matter 1/4773 of the Saxon state parliament.
  9. ^ Review in the Berliner Zeitung of February 8, 1994: Anatomy of the Secret Service .
  10. ↑ Peter Wensierski : The uncanny ease of the revolution. How a group of young people from Leipzig dared to rebel in the GDR. Munich, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04751-9 , p. 413.
  11. ^ Mitteldeutscher Presseclub , Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, November 21, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen