Regine Hildebrandt

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Regine Hildebrandt (2001)

Regine Hildebrandt (born Radischewski ; born April 26, 1941 in Berlin ; † November 26, 2001 in Woltersdorf near Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Regine Radischewski was born on April 26, 1941 in Berlin-Mitte . After the evacuation, the family returned to Berlin in 1945. For the first five to six years of her schooldays, Hildebrandt attended the closest school in the west of Berlin, after which the parents decided on a school in the east. After graduating from school, Radischewski studied biology at Berlin's Humboldt University between 1959 and 1964 . Since she is not a member of the FDJwas, her application to study was initially rejected. Through a subsequent enrollment process, she was finally able to get a place at university and was able to do a doctorate in 1968 through a women's advancement plan. She married in 1966. After graduating, she worked for almost 15 years as deputy head of the pharmacological department in drug research at VEB Berlin-Chemie until 1978 and then until 1990 as head of the Central Office for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases in Berlin.

In July 1996 it became known that Regine Hildebrandt had breast cancer . She succumbed to the disease in 2001 at the age of 60. The burial took place in the forest cemetery of Woltersdorf near Berlin.

family

Regine Hildebrandt was married to the journalist and publishing editor Jörg Hildebrandt from 1966 until her death in 2001 . In 1950 they met in their parish, lived as friendly neighbors right on the still permeable sector border until 1961 and experienced their everyday life immediately. The shared experience of the division of Berlin brought them together humanly and ideologically. With Herbert Hildebrandt , her husband's brother, they founded the Berliner Domkantorei in October 1961 , to which they belonged for decades and whose choral activities and social relationships played a decisive role in their lives. There were three children from their marriage: Frauke (* 1969, professor of social science at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences ), Jan (* 1971) and Elske (* 1974, SPD member of the Brandenburg state parliament).

politics

Regine Hildebrandt, 1990
Hildebrandt's gravestone.

During the political upheaval in the GDR in 1989, Hildebrandt was involved in the citizens' movement Democracy Now and on October 12, 1989, she joined the Social Democratic Party of the GDR . In the first free elections in the GDR, she was elected to the People's Chamber . In the first freely elected government of the GDR, she was Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in Lothar de Maizière's cabinet from April to August 1990 . She was later elected to the federal executive committee of the SPD . In December 1999 and in November 2001 (shortly before her death) she was re-elected to the federal executive committee of the SPD with the best result of any candidate, but her health deteriorated rapidly.

In autumn 1990 Hildebrandt joined the first Brandenburg state government in the Stolpe I cabinet as Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Women . Hildebrandt was particularly popular in Brandenburg, but also far beyond the country, because of her extraordinarily open, people-oriented, often undiplomatic appearance, which was also expressed in the nickname "Mother Courage" (often supplemented by: of the East). After Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe entered into a coalition with the CDU after the state elections in autumn 1999 , Hildebrandt resigned from the state government.

The public prosecutor's office was investigating Hildebrandt and employees of her ministry for violations of budget law that she herself had admitted to in court . The proceedings against the employees resulted in acquittals and the investigations into them were closed. However, she was reprimanded by the Brandenburg state parliament because she had asked her employees "to go to the limits of legality".

One day after Hildebrandt's burial in the immediate family, a memorial service took place in the St. Nikolai Church in Potsdam , which was attended by the then Federal Chancellor Schröder and former Federal President von Weizsäcker from all parties represented in the Bundestag. She was buried in the cemetery where she lived in Woltersdorf, with great sympathy from the population.

Awards

Hildebrandt received the Golden Hen in 1997 and the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Fritz Bauer Prize of the Humanist Union in 2001 . In 1991 she was voted Germany's Woman of the Year . The Regine-Hildebrandt-Park in Berlin-Hellersdorf as well as several senior centers and nursing homes were named after her. There are Regine Hildebrandt comprehensive schools in Birkenwerder and Magdeburg.

reception

Hildebrandt was parodied by Anke Engelke in the weekly show .

The " Regine Hildebrandt Prize " of the SPD has been awarded annually since 2002, honoring people or social groups who work in the spirit of Regine Hildebrandt for East Germany and its people - for the internal unity of Germany, against right-wing extremism and violence and for peace , Freedom and social justice.

A few days before her death, she opened a hospice in Frankfurt an der Oder that bears her name.

The Regine-Hildebrandt-Park was inaugurated in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in 2007 .

Publications

  • Pharmacological and biochemical studies of phenyl-substituted carbamic acid esters . Humboldt University of Berlin 1968 ( dissertation ).
  • with Ruth Winkler (ed.): Half of the future. Life worlds of young women . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7663-2570-1 .
  • What I think . Edited by Horst Herrmann, series of non-fiction books "querhaben!", Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-442-12557-X .
  • If you don't move, you've already lost . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachhaben GmbH, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0236-4 .
  • (Ed.): Stories from the other Christmas . Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, ISBN 3-451-04486-2 .
  • Heart with a snout. Proverbs and objections . Econ, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-612-26484-2 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Regine Hildebrandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Regine Hildebrandt  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Regine Hildebrandt.
  2. ↑ Regine Hildebrandt: What I think. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-442-12557-X .
  3. ↑ Jörg Hildebrandt: It remains a miracle - even twenty years later. In: Petra Heß, Christoph Kloft (ed.): The fall of the wall. November 9, 1989. 20 years later. Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Zell / Mosel 2009, pp. ISBN 978-3-89801-045-0 , pp. 73-78.
  4. ↑ 50 years of the Berlin Cathedral Choir. Festschrift. Self-published, Berlin 2011
  5. ↑ Hildebrandt on the witness stand. Retrieved August 28, 2016 .
  6. ↑ In six years of "Wochenshow" there were wonderful moments. But they were becoming increasingly rare. Laughing fit , Berliner Zeitung , May 25, 2002
  7. ↑ Wichern Diakonie Frankfurt Oder - hospice work and bereavement support. Retrieved January 21, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Regine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radischewski, Regine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdV, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2001
PLACE OF DEATH Woltersdorf (near Berlin)