Thomas Welz
Thomas Welz (born January 2, 1957 in Bad Berka ) was active in the GDR opposition movement.
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Life
Thomas Welz, b. Berndt was born in Bad Berka in 1957 and grew up in Berlin-Altglienicke .
In the DDR
During his military service in the NVA , Thomas Welz was imprisoned for several months in the GDR military prison in Schwedt (Oder) in October 1978 .
As head of the "Information Working Group", he was together with Rainer Eppelmann the editor and author of several illegal samizdat publications by the Peace Circle of the Samaritan Community in Berlin-Friedrichshain , which became the mouthpiece of the GDR civil rights movement , including "Schalom", "Wegzehrung" and "Wendezeit" , one of the first publications in which the term "Wende" was used. Welz has handed over documents from the Peace Circle of the Samaritan Church together with personal documents to the archive of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship, where they are currently being archived. Welz, active in various initiative and ad hoc groups of the opposition and peace movement , co-founded the opposition party Democratic Awakening in 1989 .
After German reunification
After reunification in 1990 , he was first for the SPD , later in the Independent Citizens' Group Friedrichshain (UBF) in the district assembly of Berlin-Friedrichshain . He worked as the managing director and education officer of the “Märkische Arbeiter Bildungs undberatungswerk” in Potsdam , which was dissolved in 1997 for financial reasons. Thomas Welz is also actively involved as a contemporary witness of the reunification in the contemporary witness portal "20 Years of Peaceful Revolution and German Unity". As a member of the "GDR military prison Schwedt" association, he is active in remembering and coming to terms with the history of the GDR military prison in Schwedt . He lives in Berlin .
Literature and media
- Ehrhart Neubert : History of the opposition in the GDR 1949–1989 . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Series Volume 346, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-89331-294-3 .
- Ehrhart Neubert : Our revolution. The history of the years 1989/90 . Piper-Verlag, Munich – Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05155-2 .
- Rainer Eppelmann : Outside the company. My life in the other Germany. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-462-02279-2 .
- Article in the RBB magazine Stilbruch: Off to Schwedt! The history of the GDR military penal system
- Article in the MDR magazine Barbarossa: The Schwedt myth - about the NVA military prison - not to be streamed online for legal reasons.
- Die Welt : Soldiers who pricked up ended up in solitary cells , June 1, 2015.
Web links
- GDR 1989/1990 documents on the democratic awakening
- "Shalom" Samizdat publication of the Samaritan community
- Contemporary witness portal 1989/1990
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- ^ Documents of the Peace Circle of the Samaritan Church
- ^ An initiative to commemorate the Schwedt military prison founded
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welz, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berndt, Thomas (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DA, SPD), active in the GDR opposition movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Berka |