Ulla Jelpke

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Ulla Jelpke (2014)

Ursula "Ulla" Jelpke (born June 9, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German publicist and politician ( Die Linke , previously KB , GAL and PDS ). From 1981 to 1989 she was a member of the Hamburg Citizenship for the GAL , from 1990 to 2002 of the Bundestag (non-party member of the PDS group of representatives). From 2002 to 2005 she was Head of the Interior Department of the Young World . Since 2005 she has been a member of the Bundestag again for the PDS and the Left. In her party she was a member of the “spokesperson council” of the current “Anti-capitalist Left ”.

Life and work

Ulla Jelpke completed training as a hairdresser , clerk and bookseller . From 1981 she worked as a prison assistant . From 1986 to 1993, she studied at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics (HWP) via the second education path and obtained degrees in sociology and economics .

From 2003 to 2005 she worked as head of the domestic affairs department at the daily newspaper Junge Welt . Ulla Jelpke is also co-editor and author of the two-week magazine Ossietzky .

politics

Ulla Jelpke has been involved in autonomous women's politics since 1968 , as well as in the environmental and peace movement . In 1971 she was one of the founding members of the Communist League (KB), of which she was a member in 1982. In the 1980s, Jelpke was a member of the Hamburg Green Alternative List (GAL), for which she was a member of the Hamburg parliament.

Ulla Jelpke at the 1983 peace demonstration in Hamburg

Jelpke was elected twice from 1981 to 1989 as a member of the GAL in the Hamburg parliament, where she was part of the left wing of the party . She then resigned from the party and ran for the 1990 Bundestag election on the PDS list. From 1990 to 2002 she was a member of the German Bundestag for the first time as a non-party member , where she belonged to the PDS group of members. During this time she was chairwoman of the domestic and legal policy working group and domestic policy spokeswoman for the PDS - parliamentary group . Since 2005 , in which she also joined the PDS, she has been a member of the Bundestag again and is the domestic policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group and its chairwoman in the interior committee. Ulla Jelpke has always entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Jelpke is a member of the Rote Hilfe association , which supports left-wing activists in legal matters.

In her party, she has been a member of the spokesperson's council of the “anti-capitalist left” movement, which is assigned to the left wing and, among others, a. Consistently rejects military operations. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance .

In the 19th German Bundestag , Jelpke is the chairwoman of the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs. She is also a deputy member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid .

Positions

Jelpke is a supporter of the surveillance-critical data protection demonstration " Freedom Instead of Fear ". She rejects data retention and is against an internal deployment of the Bundeswehr. She also advocates the dissolution of the Federal Intelligence Service and secret services in general.

Other political goals of Jelpke include higher compensation for Greek and Italian Nazi victims and the abolition of tuition fees.

In connection with the spreading reign of terror of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq , it did not rule out military actions vis-à-vis Deutschlandfunk as part of a “strategy against these barbaric Islamists”.

Jelpke is considered a critic of the asylum policy in Germany and the Dublin III regulation . She confirmed that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees was unable to process asylum applications on several occasions.

Controversy

In March 2006, in an interview with the magazine Kontraste , Jelpke commented on the question of whether there are human rights violations in Cuba. She explained that in Cuba there are primarily human rights that are observed. When an editor threw in a hint that there is no freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Cuba and that there are prisoners there who have been imprisoned for political reasons, she responded with the answer: "Yes, but I think this is now a petty discussion." Jelpke herself claims that the interview was cut out and that her answer was wrongly contextualized in this way.

In June 2008, Jelpke made headlines when, in a Bundestag debate on the reform of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), she said that the new BKA would become a “state police investigating secretly”. Politicians from other factions considered this to be an allusion to the Gestapo and thus an inappropriate Nazi comparison . Jelpke called this a "false report". You have warned against the transformation of the BKA into a secret state police.

Because Jelpke is against the ban on the Kurdish broadcaster Roj TV and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the CSU politicians Joachim Herrmann and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , as well as Der Spiegel , accused her of having contacts with the terrorist organization that is banned in Germany To coordinate the PKK. According to the CSU politician zu Guttenberg, there were also several meetings between Ulla Jelpke and politicians from the Batasuna party, which the EU has classified as a terrorist organization .

In 2010, Jelpke caused a stir after she thanked the former agents of the Enlightenment Headquarters of the GDR Ministry for State Security for their “courageous commitment to peace” in a greeting published in the Junge Welt . She praised the work of former employees for their commitment to the disclosure and processing of their previous work and criticized the "demonization" of the Stasi. The Association of Victims of Stalinism accused her of glorifying history, and members of the Bundestag from the CDU and CSU demanded an apology from Jelpke. Jelpke later supplemented her statement, citing a quote from former US President Bill Clinton : The spies on both sides had ensured that the Third World War did not break out. She was not interested in "playing down, withholding or justifying misconducts or even crimes actually committed by members of the MfS", since these "primarily inflicted serious damage to socialism" and "often enough even against subjectively convinced socialists" would have directed. She accused the reporting media like Die Welt and Der Spiegel of anti-communism . The federal foundation for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship called this statement a "derailment" and demanded consequences from the Left Party, since Jelpke did not honor any Stasi victims who had not committed themselves to socialism in her second speech .

The news magazine Focus reported in the four-page article Spy Attack in Parliament? in January 2014, citing “Police and the Protection of the Constitution in Berlin” that the members of the left-wing parliamentary group Ulla Jelpke, Jan van Aken , Jan Korte and Andrej Hunko are a “danger to the security of Germany” because they “insider knowledge” at “ militant anti-militarists "should have passed on. The chairman of the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag Wolfgang Bosbach is quoted as saying that the passing on of the information goes far beyond the legitimate interest in parliamentary control: “Our suspicions against the Left Party are confirmed - this information is used by militants for the fight against our state abused. And maybe you also have to think about whether it is really only the questions from Ms. Jelpke that are asked here ... ”What was meant was the parliamentary right of the minor inquiries on the part of the opposition - all the answers of the federal government are published and published by the Bundestag administration posted on the Parliament's website for documentation and used and disseminated by the media.

At the beginning of November 2019, Ulla Jelpke made a statement at an event co-organized by LINKEN Neukölln regarding the increased action of the Berlin police against alleged activities of organized crime in the milieu of large Arab families; she accused the politics of racist motivation and called for an end to what she called the "dirty campaign" strategy. The Islamic scholar and expert on clan crime , Ralph Ghadban , described their attitude as "irresponsible" and accused them of "sabotage" through their actions.

Publications

  • With Annelie Buntenbach , Helmut Kellershohn , Dirk Kretschmer (eds.): Backward into the future: On the ideology of neo-conservatism. Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research V., ISBN 3-927388-64-5 .
  • As publisher: Racism in Europe . Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-89144-157-6 .
  • With Albrecht Maurer, Helmut Schröder (ed.): The conquest of the files: The Stasi records law. Origin / consequences. Analyzes / documents. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag successor GmbH, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-89144-154-1 .
  • On the situation in the penal system. An interim balance. Mainz 1992.
  • Preface to the book: Stammheim - The trial against the Red Army parliamentary group: The necessary correction of the prevailing opinion. Red help e. V.
  • As editor: The highest happiness on earth. Women in left organizations. Essays and interviews. Buntbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-88653-028-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ulla Jelpke  - collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Ulla Jelpke  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rote-hilfe.de
  2. ↑ AKL declaration: Making resistance tangible - building DIE LINKE as a social movement party ulla-jelpke.de of May 15, 2012
  3. ↑ buendnis-toleranz.de
  4. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Demonstration “Freedom instead of Fear”, list of supporters
  6. ↑ Speech in the Bundestag, December 18, 2008
  7. ↑ Jelpke: Bundeswehr is not a police reserve, November 11, 2008
  8. ↑ Jelpke: Dissolve the BND instead of building the spy headquarters in Berlin. May 5, 2008
  9. ↑ Jelpke: Greek and Italian Nazi victims must finally be compensated, July 9, 2008
  10. ^ Open letter to the rectorate of the Ruhr-Uni-Bochum, August 28, 2006
  11. ↑ Interview with Jürgen Zurheide: Left-wing politician Jelpke does not rule out actions of a "military nature" , Deutschlandfunk, August 9, 2006
  12. ↑ Ulla Jelpke: Asylum procedures are taking longer again, especially for minors. LandesPressPortal . August 19, 2016, accessed March 1, 2018.
  13. ↑ Hubertus Knabe: Honecker's heirs. The Truth About the Left, p. 344.
  14. ↑ “kontraste” broadcast puts statements in the wrong context ( memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), press release by the parliamentary group Die Linke from March 24, 2006; accessed on February 28, 2018
  15. ↑ Thorsten Jungholtz and Martin Lutz: Nazi comparison of the left causes a scandal in the Bundestag . In: world . June 21, 2008 ( online [accessed July 7, 2008]).
  16. ↑ Reply by Ulla Jelpke
  17. ^ Spiegel online Lafontaine and the chic of the guerrillas.
  18. ↑ Focus Online - Left Party: Flirt with terrorists worldwide
  19. ↑ See Spiegel-Online: Greetings to ex-foreign spies: Left MPs praise Stasi agents , viewed on May 20, 2010.
  20. ↑ See Süddeutsche.de: NRW-Linke: A cheer for the Stasi , viewed on May 20, 2010.
  21. ↑ See Handelsblatt: Controversial greeting: Left MPs criticize “demonization” of the Stasi , viewed on May 20, 2010.
  22. ↑ a b Ulla Jelpke: Greetings to enlighteners , in: Junge Welt from May 18, 2010, p. 8. Also documented on Ulla-Jelpke.de , viewed on May 20, 2010.
  23. ↑ Cf. Focus Online: Stasi Greetings Outraged Union , viewed on May 20, 2010.
  24. ↑ a b Ulla-Jelpke.de: Statement on the dispute about my greeting to the meeting of the former employees of the GDR foreign intelligence (HV A) , viewed on June 1, 2010.
  25. ↑ Die Welt: GDR Past: Federal Foundation calls for consequences from Left Party , viewed on June 1, 2010.
  26. ↑ Left party reveals inside knowledge to militant groups. In: Focus. January 26, 2014.
  27. ↑ Detlef Borchers : Focus: Alleged spy attacks in the Bundestag , heise.de, January 26, 2014.
  28. ↑ Florian Rötzer : Small inquiries in the Bundestag are defamed as "espionage attacks" , Telepolis , January 27, 2014.
  29. ↑ Organized crime in Berlin: Left railing against police - fight against Arab clans in Berlin "racist". In: Focus . online, November 2, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019.
  30. ↑ Islamic scholar Ralph Ghadban: When the women rebel, the clans disintegrate. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 4, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jelpke, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jelpke, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician (Die Linke, KB, GAL, PDS), MdHB, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg