Wolfgang Ullmann

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Wolfgang Ullmann, 1990
Berlin memorial plaque on the house, Tieckstrasse 17, in Berlin-Mitte
The grave of Wolfgang Ullmann and his wife Christa-Irene in the Sophien Cemetery in Berlin.

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.

Wolfgang Ullmann (front right) 1990

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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.

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personal data
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.