Wolfgang Ullmann
Wolfgang Ullmann (born August 18, 1929 in Gottleuba ; † July 30, 2004 in Adorf / Vogtl. ) Was a German theologian , church historian , politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and editor of the weekly newspaper Freitag .
Life
Wolfgang Ullmann attended elementary schools in Bad Gottleuba and Dresden and passed the Abitur at the Real-Gymnasium in Dresden-Blasewitz in 1948. After the Second World War he studied Protestant theology and philosophy from 1948 to 1954 at the Church University of Berlin (West) and at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1953 he was briefly a member of the All-German People's Party .
After completing his doctorate - the subject of the dissertation was Augustine's psychological doctrine of the Trinity as theological prerequisite for medieval ethics - he returned to the GDR in 1954 and became a pastor in Colmnitz (Saxony). In 1963, the Naumburg Catechetical College appointed him lecturer in church history . In his work he devoted himself to the Church Fathers of the Old Church, Thomas Müntzer and the work of philosophers such as Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Pawel Alexandrowitsch Florenski . In 1978 he took over the lectureship for church history in the Language Convict Berlin of the Evangelical Church Berlin / Brandenburg . In 1987 he joined the initiative for the rejection of practice and the principle of demarcation .
Together with Konrad Weiß and Ulrike Poppe , he founded the citizens' movement Democracy Now in 1989 . In this capacity, he was also a member of the round table , a newly formed committee with the aim of considering the interests of as many groups involved as possible. From February to April 1990 Ullmann was a minister without portfolio in the government of Hans Modrow , then as a representative of Bündnis 90 in a parliamentary group with the East Greens and one of the vice-presidents of the GDR People's Chamber . He had previously been elected spokesman for the joint parliamentary group, and Marianne Birthler was his successor . He worked out the no longer adopted draft for a new GDR constitution.
From October 3, 1990 to 1994, he was a member of the German Bundestag for the joint purely East German list Bündnis 90 / Greens citizens ' movements.In 1993, his party Bündnis 90, formed in 1991, finally merged with the Greens to form Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . In the Joint Constitutional Commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat (1991–1993), he advocated anchoring popular initiatives , referendums and referendums in the Basic Law . When the demands were rejected, he left the commission. From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the European Parliament .
Ullmann was 1994, the Theodor Heuss Medal and the 1996 Arnold Freymuth price , it was him for his commitment to Berlin as beyond federal capital in July 2004, the honorary title of a Berlin city elders awarded. Until his death he was one of the editors of the weekly newspaper Freitag .
Wolfgang Ullmann died in 2004 at the age of 74 while on vacation in Saxony. He was buried in the Sophienfriedhof II in Berlin-Mitte .
On December 9, 2019 , a Berlin memorial plaque was unveiled at his former residence, Berlin-Mitte , Tieckstrasse 17 .
Family and estate
Ullmann had been married since 1956 and had three children, one of whom is the composer Jakob Ullmann . His daughter Esther-Marie Ullmann-Goertz was his private secretary for a long time. The former pastor has lived in Berlin since 1989. His estate as a theologian, politician and editor is in the archive of the Robert Havemann Society (Berlin). It has been archived and can be viewed largely without restrictions on use.
Fonts
- Editor with Friedrich de Boor : Sources. Selected texts from the history of the Christian Church. Evang. Verl.-Anstalt, Berlin 1980.
- Preschool of Democracy. Church and round table. Evang. Verl.-Anst., Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-374-01356-2 .
- Democracy - now or never. Perspectives of Justice. Kyrill-und-Method-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-927527-24-6 .
- With Bernhard Maleck: I will not be silent. Conversations with Wolfgang Ullmann. Dietz, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-320-01753-5 .
- With Bernhard Maleck: Constitution and Parliament. A contribution to the constitutional discussion. Dietz, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-320-01775-6 .
- Future enlightenment. An inventory after the end of utopias. Context Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-931337-10-3 .
- Patience, dear Dimut! Brussels letters. Forum-Verl., Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-931801-04-7 .
- Citizens Movements and Parliament. In: Raban Graf von Westphalen (ed.): German government system. (Textbooks and handbooks in political science). Oldenbourg, München / Wien 2001, pp. 525-543, ISBN 3-486-25737-4 , table of contents: DNB 961134771/04
- Human rights obligations and human rights engagement of the European Union (EU). In: Heiner Bielefeldt , Volkmar Deile , Brigitte Hamm, Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach, Hannes Tretter (eds.): Yearbook Human Rights 2001. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001.
- Ordo rerum. The Thomas Müntzer Studies. Published by Jakob Ullmann. Context Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-931337-43-X .
literature
- Jan Wielgohs: Ullmann, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Has the people perished? In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1990 ( online - SPIEGEL conversation with Wolfgang Ullmann, Rupert Scholz and Ulrich K. Preuss about constitutional problems of German unification).
- Doris Liebermann : Portrait of a Truth Seeker. Wolfgang Ullmann , in: dies .: Conversations with Oppositionists, Berlin 2016, pp. 173–202.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 49. "GDR civil rights activist Wolfgang Ullmann was buried in Berlin" . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 23, 2004. Accessed February 17, 2019.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Ullmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Irmgard Zündorf: Wolfgang Ullmann. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
- Biography of Wolfgang Ullmann . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)
- Obituary in the weekly newspaper Freitag , accessed on May 23, 2016
- Entry on Wolfgang Ullmann in the Members' database of the European Parliament
- Marlies Menge : Advocate for the citizens' movement in Zeit Online from February 16, 1990, accessed on May 23, 2016
- Tina Krone: Wolfgang Ullmann's estate in the archive of the GDR opposition on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's website , accessed on May 23, 2016
- Audio picture of Wolfgang Ullmann from MDR Figaro, accessed on May 23, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ullmann, Wolfgang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, church historian and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag, MEP |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gottleuba |
DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 2004 |
Place of death | Adorf / Vogtl. |