Peter Porsch

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Peter Porsch

Peter Porsch (born October 15, 1944 in Vienna ) is a German politician and Germanist of Austrian origin. As a member of the PDS or its successor Die Linke, he was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1990 to 2009 .

job

From 1962 to 1968, Porsch first studied German and English at the University of Vienna , from 1968 he continued his German studies at the Free University of Berlin , where he also studied political science . In 1972 he received his doctorate there .

In 1973 he moved to the GDR , where he took citizenship in 1979. He initially worked as an assistant , later as a senior assistant in the Department of German Linguistics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1981 , Porsch completed his habilitation there with a thesis on text assessment as a method for ascertaining linguistic and communicative norms . In 1982 he became a lecturer at Leipzig University, and in 1983/84 he was a visiting lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Rzeszów . From 1988 to 1990 he was full professor for language theory and sociology of language in Leipzig, and from 1990 to 2005 for dialectology and sociolinguistics .

politics

Porsch joined the SED in 1982 . Since the Saxon state election in October 1990, he was a member of the state parliament for the PDS . From 1991 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2001 he was chairman of the PDS in Saxony. From 1994 to July 2007 he was chairman of the PDS parliamentary group and the left parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament. From 2000 to 2003 he was one of the deputy federal chairmen of the PDS. In the state elections on September 19, 2004 , he ran as the top candidate and challenger to Prime Minister Georg Milbradt ( CDU ). The PDS was able to easily gain votes in this election and again became the second strongest party.

In 2004 and 2005, the news magazine Focus reported that Porsch was suspected of having provided information as IM Christoph to the Ministry for State Security from 1970 to the 1980s . Porsch denied this and claimed to have been unwittingly skimmed off. After the allegations became known, he was unanimously classified by the Leipzig University staff commission as having been charged with the Stasi . As a result, the Ministry of Culture gave him extraordinary notice in 2004. Porsch, through his lawyer Peter-Michael Diestel , brought an action against this at the Dresden Labor Court. The result of the legal proceedings was a settlement: The Free State of Saxony withdrew the extraordinary termination and paid the remuneration up until May 31, 2005. In this ordinary termination, the reason for dismissal from the Stasi could not be mentioned.

On May 11, 2006, in the Saxon state parliament, the CDU , SPD , Bündnisgrüne and FDP decided with the votes of the NPD against the Linkspartei.PDS (with 83 out of 119 votes with five abstentions) to raise a deputies' action under Article 118 of the Saxon constitution with the Porsche due to the alleged cooperation with the MfS, his mandate in the state parliament should be revoked. However, the Constitutional Court of the Free State of Saxony unanimously rejected the lawsuit as inadmissible at the beginning of November that year, as it had only been filed in June 2006, although Parliament had been aware of the allegations against Porsch since summer 2004. This had violated the deadline according to § 38 I SächsVerfGHG of one year after the respective allegations became known, within which the complaint must be filed. The court did not find the merits of the action.

Porsch also sued against relevant publications about his alleged informant activity as well as against the federal commissioner for the Stasi files . Some newspapers were prohibited from presenting the allegations as fact by means of a preliminary injunction and a judgment by the Hamburg Regional Court . He was initially successful in two other proceedings before the Hamburg Regional Court and the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court. However, the Federal Court of Justice overturned these decisions and referred them back to the court of appeal. The defendant newspapers should have had increased confidence in statements made by the Federal Commissioner for the records of the State Security Service of the GDR.

In the Saxon state elections in 2009 , Porsch did not run again, in the federal elections in 2009 he ran for the direct mandate in constituency 152 (Northern Saxony) without being secured through the state list , but only came second.

family

Porsch is third married and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PDSler Porsch - Stasi allegations are confirmed. focus.de , August 9, 2004, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Left Party / PDS - New trouble for Porsch. focus.de , October 10, 2005, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  3. ^ Stasi allegations - Telegram incriminates PDS man Porsch. focus.de , August 19, 2004, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  4. ^ Stasi suspicion - Peter Porsch fired. focus.de , August 27, 2004, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  5. ^ Judgment of the Saxon Constitutional Court of. November 2, 2006 in the Porsch case, file number 55-IX-06 (PDF; 87 kB)
  6. ↑ Judgment of the LG Hamburg from September 24, 2004, file number 324 O 512/04
  7. ↑ Press release of the Federal Court of Justice 204/12 of December 11, 2012 [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Porsch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna