Regine Marquardt

Regine Marquardt (* August 2, 1949 in Grevesmühlen as Regine Baltzer ; † February 24, 2016 in Schwerin ) was a German journalist and politician ( Neues Forum , later SPD ).

Life and work

Regine Marquardt grew up in a pastor's family. After attending the schools in Röbel , Pampow and Wittenberge , she completed a church seminar in Potsdam in 1966/67 . In 1968 she began studying theology at the University of Rostock , which she completed in 1974 with the examination to become a graduate theologian. After completing the vicariate and the second church exam in 1977, she worked for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg . In this role, she was in the area of community education in the parish Carlow (Mecklenburg) operates and served as director of the provost Convention of catechists .

From 1990 to 1993, Marquardt was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Mecklenburg Aufbruch , the first independent weekly newspaper in the GDR . She then worked as a freelance journalist.

She was married and had three children.

Political party

At the time of the political collapse of the GDR, Marquardt was a member of the New Forum and the GDR program commission in 1989/90 . She later joined the SPD and in 1998 became a member of the shadow cabinet for the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania of the SPD top candidate Harald Ringstorff . However , she no longer became a minister in the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture , which was newly formed after the election .

Public offices

Regine Marquardt held office from December 9, 1994 to November 2, 1998 as minister of culture in the government of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania led by Prime Minister Berndt Seite . After that she was u. a. the director of the state center for political education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Furthermore, she was the chairwoman of the Ernst Barlach Foundation .

Since mid-2007, she has been the representative of the Minister of Culture for the Ernst-Barlach-Stiftung Güstrow , Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald and until her retirement in 2014 for the Mecklenburg Foundation .

Cabinets

• Cabinet page II

Web links

• Literature about Regine Marquardt in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Regine Marquardt in the state bibliography MV
• State Center for Political Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• Ernst Barlach Foundation Güstrow

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for ex-minister Regine Marquardt . Norddeutscher Rundfunk , February 25, 2016.
2. ↑ Press release. State Chancellery Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, February 25, 2016, accessed on May 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ 25 years, 25 heads: The greatest miracle . Schweriner Volkszeitung , June 2, 2015.