Silke Wahlgren
Silke Wahlgren (born April 12, 1968 in Borna near Leipzig ) is a German doctor and civil rights activist . In the 1980s she belonged to the civil rights movement and as a member of the coordination group of the Justice Working Group for organized resistance against the GDR state.
Life
Childhood and early adolescence
Silke grew up in the Krasulsky family as the second of three children in Borna. Her mother only decided to become a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony at the end of the 1970s . Silke Krasulsky was prevented from studying medicine in the GDR due to her church and political commitment by a decision in the Borna SED district leadership . Therefore, in 1986, she began training as a nurse at the Deaconess Hospital in Leipzig .
Engagement in the GDR until the turn of 1989
From the end of the 1970s, Silke Krasulsky was active in various church groups. Together with Rainer Müller , Christian Denecke u. a. the Borna environmental group.
In Leipzig, Silke Krasulsky was involved in the Gerechtigkeit Leipzig working group and worked among the speakers and in the coordination group. In the event of several spokespersons being arrested, additional people had already been elected to work in the coordination group. Silke Krasulsky was one of these people.
Until the autumn of 1989, the Gerechtigkeit Leipzig working group was one of the most important subversive groups in preparation for the mass demonstrations and ultimately one of the three groups who signed the appeal for non-violence for the decisive October 9, 1989. Even before the two groups were dissolved, Silke Krasulsky was with other employees of the Joined the Peace and Human Rights Initiative (IFM) .
Within the initiative Peace and Human Rights Leipzig she belonged to the working group Health and Social Affairs .
Work since the unification of Germany
From 1991 to 1998 Silke Krasulsky studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , and from 1999 to 2004 she completed her specialist training in general medicine.
As a married Silke Wahlgren, she moved to Sweden in 2005 . Today she lives in Skärholmen and works as a doctor in Stockholm at Karolinska University Hospital .
literature
- Thomas Rudolph , Oliver Kloss , Rainer Müller , Christoph Wonneberger (eds.): Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Araki, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941848-17-7 .
- Hermann Geyer: Nikolaikirche, Mondays at five: the political services of the time of the fall in Leipzig . Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007 (University of Leipzig, Habil.-Schr. 2006), ISBN 978-3-534-18482-8 , table of contents .
- Ehrhart Neubert : History of the opposition in the GDR 1949–1989. Berlin, Christoph Links Verlag, 2nd edition 1998 (Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2000) ISBN 3-86153-163-1 .
Web links
- Silke Krasulsky: Warning strike in the health system in Leipzig , in: Initiative Peace and Human Rights Leipzig (ed.): IFM info sheet No. 3 of February 3, 1990 , Samisdat, Leipzig, p. 6.
- Oliver Kloss / Rainer Müller : Foreword , in: Thomas Rudolph , Oliver Kloss, Rainer Müller, Christoph Wonneberger (Ed. On behalf of the IFM-Archives Sachsen eV ): Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Volume 1, Leipzig, Araki, 2014, ISBN 978-3-941848-17-7 , pp. XV – XXXII.
- Thomas Mayer: We just succeeded in some things, in: Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ) from April 25th / 26th, 2015, p. 19.
- IFM-Archiv Sachsen eV: Leipzig human rights groups 1989, sheet 4: The pace is sharper. Leipzig, 1st edition 1999.
- IFM-Archiv Sachsen eV: Leipzig Human Rights Groups 1989, Sheet 9: October 9, 1989 - Decision Day , 3rd edition 2009.
- Working group human rights & working group justice Leipzig (ed.): Die Mücke. Documentation of the events in Leipzig . Leipzig, GDR samizdat , March 1989.
- Reprint of the foreword and part of the Leipziger Chronik 1989 (part 1) from Die Mücke. In: East-West Discussion Forum. No. 6, April 1989, pp. 8-11 as well as another part of the Leipziger Chronik 1989 (part 2) In: East-West-Discussion Forum. No. 7, June 1989, pp. 7-10.
- Continued as Leipziger Chronik 1989 (Part 3) and Leipziger Chronik 1989 (Part 4) , compiled by Kathrin Walther and Thomas Rudolph in: East-West Discussion Forum No. 8-9 , October 1989, p. 14 f. and in: East-West Discussion Forum. No. 10, February 1990, pp. 18-20.
- Justice Working Group Leipzig , Human Rights Working Group and Working Group on Environmental Protection: Appeal of 9 October 1989 on non-violence .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Thomas Rudolph / Oliver Kloss / Rainer Müller / Christoph Wonneberger (eds.): Way in the uprising. Chronicle of opposition and resistance in the GDR from August 1987 to December 1989. Vol. 1, Leipzig, Araki Verlag, 2014, pp. 281–284.
- ^ Appeal of the organized resistance to nonviolence on October 9, 1989
- ↑ See Silke Krasulsky: Warning strike in the health system in Leipzig , in: Initiative Frieden und Menschenrechte Leipzig (ed.): IFM info sheet No. 3 of February 3, 1990 , Samisdat, Leipzig, p. 6.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wahlgren, Silke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and civil rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borna near Leipzig |