Michaela Huebschle

Michaela Hübschle (* 21st September 1950 as Michaela Kuntze in Otjiwarongo , South West Africa ) is a Namibian politician and former Deputy Minister of Prisons and prison .

education and profession

After attending school in her hometown, Hübschle studied at the University of Pretoria in South Africa from 1970 to 1973 . She completed her studies with a BA . She then worked as a translator for the German embassy in Pretoria until 1976 . Then Hübschle traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany and was active in the local environmental movement. In 1984 she returned to what was then South West Africa and carried out public relations work for various projects in Katutura , a township in Windhoek .

Since 2000, Hübschle has been chairwoman of the Criminals Return Into Society (CRIS), which she founded and which has been called Change since August 2009 . The association is committed to start-up and livelihood assistance for former prisoners and in the field of professional development. It also organizes the Gildehaus , an informal forum for leading figures from government and politics.

Political career

Hübschle was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia and from 1990 to 2000 a member of the National Assembly for SWAPO . In 1995, Hübschle was appointed Deputy Minister for Prisons and the Penal System. She held this office until 2000. During her tenure, she campaigned for free condoms to be given to prisoners for AIDS prevention. However, this view did not gain acceptance in the government because it was seen as support for Sodomite acts.

For the parliamentary elections in 2000, Hübschle was not re-run as a candidate after she had voiced criticism of the mistreatment of prisoners in connection with the Caprivi conflict the previous year. She had also called for the SWAPO leadership to apologize for the mistreatment of prisoners during the liberation struggle.

In 2007, in an article written together with the SWAPO politician Shapua Kaukungua in the daily newspaper The Namibian , Huebschle accused the party leadership of inadequate internal party democracy and interference in regional and local elections. As a result, there was a break with SWAPO.

In the parliamentary elections in 2009 , Hübschle ran for the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), of which she is a member of the Central Committee. However, she did not succeed in entering parliament.

In 2017, Hübschle became a SWAPO member again.

Private

Hübschles parents were the German-Namibian farmer Eberhard Kuntze and the writer Lisa Kuntze . Hübschle was married to the former head of the Namibian veterinary authority, Otto Hübschle , who died in 2008 at the age of 63. The marriage had two children, including director Tim Hübschle .

literature

• Who's who of Southern Africa . Ken Donaldson, Johannesburg 1992, OCLC 7083249 , pp. 549 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Graham Hopwood: Guide to Namibian Politics. 2nd edition. Namibia Institute for Democracy, Windhoek 2007. ISBN 99916-797-5-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung from August 20, 2009 ( Memento from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Die Zeit No. 48/1999; Allgemeine Zeitung from October 4, 2010. ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Namibia Plus Online from July 16, 2007. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung of September 22, 2009.
5. ↑ Hübschle returns home to SWAPO; Allgemeine Zeitung of October 11, 2017 (accessed on May 22, 2018)
6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung of July 17, 2008; New Era of July 28, 2008.