Uwe Ostendorff

Uwe Ostendorff (* 1964 in Aachen ) is a German social worker . From 2001 to 2007 he was General Secretary of the international falcon organization , the International Falcon Movement - Socialist Educational International IFM-SEI , based in Brussels . Today he works as a clinic expert for the ver.di union . He is the representative of the German Federal Youth Association (DBJR) in the National Action Plan NAP and responsible for the DBJR for the coordination of children and youth activities related to the NAP.

Life

Ostendorff studied social affairs , political science and history and later specialized in sex education . He started numerous “queer” emancipation projects , including the queer forum, and is still active in the queer easter he initiated , a global meeting of social democratic and socialist LGBT groups. In addition, he is committed to the enforcement of children's rights, on which he lectures worldwide, including for political foundations such as the Olof Palme International Center .

After holding various positions in the Jusos (including as deputy district chairman Weser-Ems), the Socialist University Association (SHB), the children's and youth organization Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands (SJD - Die Falken) and in local youth representatives, he started in 1991 as regional secretary for SJD in northwest Germany. In 1994 he became federal secretary in the nationwide training and education center SBZ (Socialist Education Center "Salvador Allende Haus") of the SJD in Oer-Erkenschwick and at the same time also headed the Olof Palme Institute (OPI), the IFM-SEI's training institute. For four years he was a member of the committee for international youth affairs of the German Federal Youth Association (DBJR).

He is politically active in Berlin and belongs to the Kasseler Kreis, a nationwide association of social democratic trade unionists.

Function of Secretary General of the IFM-SEI

In 2001, Ostendorff was elected General Secretary of the International Falcon Movement IFM-SEI and was re-elected in 2004. As such, he was involved in the preparation of international conferences and forums such as the UN - World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, the European Social Forum (ESF) in Florence in 2002, the ESF was in Athens 2006. 6 years he representatives of the Coordination Committee the PES .

He campaigns against child labor (including the World Social Forum Nairobi, 2007), was involved in the international congresses of socialist children's organizations in Nuremberg in 2004 and in Vienna in 2007, attended and supported in 2006 after the Lebanon War together with the federal chairman of the SJD, Sven Frye , Partner organizations of the falcon movement in Israel (including Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed ) to promote the dialogue between Arabs and Jews within the framework of peace work and participated in the project of an Austrian peace camp for Israeli and Palestinian children and young people. But he was also involved in international socialist congresses in his role as IFM General Secretary. He is one of the co-founders of the Global Progressive Youth Forum (GPYF) as well as the "Weltjugendring" International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organizations (ICMYO).

Publications

Article in the magazines Frontal, SPW, AJ, Schlaglichter, IFM Magazine, Red & Pink, Global Voice, Die Propagandistin, Jugendpolitik etc.

• Susanne Jendral, Uwe Ostendorff, Heike Pestrup: Sexual abuse. Also a topic for youth association work . 1995, ISBN 978-3-926734-27-3
• 24 hours are not a day, issue 8: Man, girl! Man, boy. Actions in the tent camp. (1999) (PDF)
• Uwe Ostendorff: From Queer Theory to Diversity Mainstreaming . In: Red & Pink (May 2006) (PDF) on World Day Against Homophobia (with photo)
• Another world is needed. Information and campaigns around the Millennium Development Goals (2006) (PDF; 51 kB).
• "Span the world with friendship". A short history of the international IFM-SEI tent camps in pictures. (PDF) DIN A4 brochure, 2007.
• 24 hours are not a day, issue 19: Discover the diversity. Gender roles and sexual identity (2007) (PDF).
• We make Germany child-friendly, Deutscher Bundesjugendring (Ed.), Anne Schirmer, Uwe Ostendorff, Berlin, 2008.
• Schwarzbuch Charité Facility Management GmbH, ver.di District Berlin (eds.), Sylvi Krisch, Uwe Ostendorff, Maik Sosnowsky, Sascha Stanicic, Kati Ziemer, Berlin, 2011.

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• ZoomInfo Business People Information about Uwe Ostendorff
• http://www.falconpedia.de/index.php5?title=International_Falcon_Movement_%E2%80%93_Socialist_Educational_International

Web links

• Photo by Uwe Ostendorff 2003
• adam.cz: Czech article from October 2, 2006 about IFM-SEI and Uwe Ostendorff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ groups.msn.com: Executive members of the IFM-SEI with photo
2. ↑ Clinical expert
3. ↑ Works council elections for Charité Facility Management Uwe Ostendorff . In: Tagesspiegel
4. ↑ German Federal Youth Council: National Action Plan for a Child-Friendly Germany
5. ↑ Queer Easter: an event by IUSY, ECOSY and IFM-SEI
6. ↑ Article during the World Summit on Sustainable Development with quotation
7. ↑ ESF preparatory meeting in Vienna 2002 with list of participants  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Stop Child Labor!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Max van den Berg , MEP, Cecillia Brighi , workers member of the ILO governing body, Uwe Ostendorff, Milli Ongila , Central Organization of Trade Unions (Kenya) COTU (K)  
9. ↑ PM of the SJD of May 5, 2004 ( Memento of the original of February 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 90 kB) 
10. ^ SJD news on Uwe Ostendorff and Sven Frye's visit to Israel
11. ^ Jewish News from Austria 2007 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Global Voice, 20th July 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ^ Congress of the Socialist International 2003 in São Paulo
14. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.