Sieghard Kosel
Sieghard Kosel (born July 3, 1939 in Bautzen ) is a German - Sorbian journalist and politician ( SED , PDS ), former member of the Saxon state parliament and was an unofficial employee of the GDR state security .
Life
Sieghard Kosel attended elementary school in Guttau and the Sorbian high school in Bautzen. He first studied architecture in Dresden without a degree, then in the journalism section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He graduated in 1970 as a journalist. He also studied political science with a diploma.
From 1960 to 1968 Kosel was editor of Nowa doba . Between 1968 and 1973 he was an employee and department head on the national board of Domowina . From 1968 to 1970 Kosel was secretary of the working group of Sorbian writers in the German Association of Writers .
From 1973 to December 1990 he was editor-in-chief of Nowa doba . From 1973 to 1989 Kosel was a member of the Secretariat of the Domowina National Board. Between 1970 and 1990 he was a member of the central board of the Association of Journalists and in 1990 its deputy chairman. In addition, he was managing director of the Serbske Nowiny publishing house , chairman of the educational community of journalists e. V. and member of the Complaints Commission of the Saxon Newspaper Publishers Association.
Kosel is non-denominational, married and has two children. Heiko Kosel , member of the Sorbian state parliament, is his son.
politics
Sieghard Kosel was a member of the SED between 1963 and 1989 and of the PDS since 1990. However, he had the (today impaired) reputation of placing the interests of the Sorbs above party reasoning. From 1990 to 1994 he was district chairman of the PDS Bautzen, from 1993 a member of the state board of the PDS and from 1994 a member of the district council of Bautzen. In October 1990 Kosel was elected to the Saxon Landtag via the state list , to which he belonged for two terms. In the first electoral term he was there in the committee for federal and European affairs and in the second electoral term in the committee for science and universities, culture and media.
Stasi cooperation
Sieghard Kosel was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) for 18 years . While the MfS noted in its files that Sieghard Kosel had helped "in suppressing politically divergent currents in the editorial staff" of the Nowa doba through his spy activity, Kosel declared that he had not harmed anyone. In 1998, the state parliament therefore decided on a removal procedure in accordance with Article 118 of the Saxon constitution. The State Court of Justice dismissed the action with reference to the upcoming state election. Due to the shortness of the remaining electoral term there would be no need for legal protection.
literature
- Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Sächsischer Landtag: 2nd electoral period, 1994–1999; People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1995, ISBN 3-87576-335-1 , p. 35 (committee: p. 68). (As of December 1994)
- Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994; People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , p. 51 (Committee: p. 84). (As of May 1991)
Individual evidence
- ↑ No church choir . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1998, pp. 46 ( Online - Mar. 16, 1998 ).
- ↑ Flowers in the sun . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1974, p. 68-73 ( Online - Oct. 21, 1974 ).
- ^ SED HERITAGE - No more rummaging around ; in: FOCUS 49/1998
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kosel, Sieghard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Sorbian journalist and politician (SED, PDS), former member of the Saxon state parliament and was an unofficial employee of the GDR state security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |