Uwe Lehmann-Brauns

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Uwe Lehmann-Brauns (born August 28, 1938 in Potsdam ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1979 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2016 , where he was elderly president in 2006 and one of the two vice-presidents from 2006 to 2011.

Education, work and family

Uwe Lehmann-Brauns attended elementary and grammar school in Berlin and studied law at the Free University of Berlin ; In 1965 he received his doctorate . In 1967 he held the post of attaché in the German Foreign Service . He was admitted to the bar in 1966 and as a notary in Berlin since 1976 . His grandfather is the painter Paul Lehmann-Brauns , who died in 1970, and his daughter is the photographer Anna Lehmann-Brauns .

Until the end of 2012, Lehmann-Brauns ran his law firm together with Michael Braun , the CDU politician, who was temporarily serving as Berlin Senator for Justice and Consumer Protection at the end of 2011 . The law firm gained notoriety because Lehmann-Brauns represented the map provider Euro-Cities AG for its controversial mass warnings for many years.

politics

Election campaign poster from the 1980s

Uwe Lehmann-Brauns has been a member of the CDU since 1966, was local chairman in Dahlem and district chairman in Zehlendorf .

From April 26, 1979 to November 29, 2001 and again from December 23, 2004 to October 27, 2016 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives. In the 16th legislative period he was one of the two vice-presidents of the House of Representatives. During his membership in the state parliament he was also the cultural policy spokesman and deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group , as well as a member of the committee for cultural affairs.

In the federal election on September 27, 1998 , he ran unsuccessfully in constituency No. 253 (Berlin-Zehlendorf - Steglitz) ; he lost to the SPD - candidate Renate Rennebach .

further activities

Lehmann-Brauns is a co-founder of the Bürgerbüro e. V. - Association for the processing of consequential damage caused by the SED dictatorship . He is co-chairman and founding member of the German-Italian Friendship Society and 2nd chairman of the Federal Republic of Germany's group of authors; He was also the founder of the initiative to award Berlin honorary citizenship to the singer and songwriter Wolf Biermann .

2019 he published in the book "Benn's last love" for the first time the letters and telegrams that Gottfried Benn of the former Tagesspiegel - journalist wrote Gerda Peacock, and thus fulfilled their desire posthumously become known as the last mistress Benn. In the same book there is also Lehmann-Brauns' essay on the relationship of the late Benn to his lover, but also to his daughter and wife.

Publications

  • Benn's last love (essay, with first published original letters from Gottfried Benn to Gerda Pfau), Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-381-1
  • The spurned nation , Stuttgart & Leipzig, 2005
  • Handbook of Central and Eastern European cultural metropolises , Berlin, 1993
  • Kreuzberg - between the riots , Berlin, 1988

Contributions in the following books, among others:

  • On the return of socialism (Eds. Christian Striefler, Wolfgang Templin), 1996
  • German drafts - answers to Stefan Heym

as well as various essays critical of time and culture in newspapers and on the radio.

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 237.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plutionia Plarre: The midnight notary as a warning lawyer? In: Taz.de. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, December 8, 2011, accessed on December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Portrait on the pages of the CDU district association Steglitz Zehlendorf ( Memento from June 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Portrait at the authors' group of the Federal Republic ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Stefan Schulz: Dispute about honorary citizen Biermann. In: Berliner Morgenpost. January 9, 2007, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Helmut Böttiger: Cleverly staged romance. In: Deutschlandfunkkultur.de. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, April 10, 2019, accessed on December 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann-Brauns, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA, Vice-President of the Berlin House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam