Luc Jochimsen
Lucretia Louise " Luc " Jochimsen, born as Lucretia Schleussinger (* March 1, 1936 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German sociologist, television journalist and politician (The Left ).
Life
Luc Jochimsen was born as the daughter of a shipping merchant in Nuremberg in 1936. The school in Frankfurt am Main, she finished 1956 with the Abitur. She studied sociology ( with Helmut Schelsky and Heinz Kluth ), Political Science ( with Siegfried Landshut ) and philosophy at the University of Hamburg. 1961 was followed by her doctorate to Dr. phil. at Schelsky at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster with the work Gypsies today - investigation of a maverick group in a German medium-sized town.
Jochimsen was 1961-1975 freelance writer, 1975-1985 editor of Panorama in Hamburg. 1985 to 1988 she worked for the ARD correspondent in London. 1988-1991 she was in charge of the department Feature / International documentation of the NDR and 1991-1993 Head of ARD television studio in London. 1994 to 2001 she was editor in chief of the Hessischer Rundfunk Television and moderated inter alia, the policy shipment three two one.
At the 2002 elections Lucretia Jochimsen was in Hessen top candidate of the PDS, the party but failed nationwide at the five-percent hurdle. In 2003 she had the Theodor Herzl lecturer at the Institute for Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Vienna, held and published, 2004, Herzl Biography This year in Jerusalem. In the 2005 federal election, she moved about the country a list of Thuringia Left Party / PDS in the German Bundestag and was cultural policy spokeswoman for the Left Party. She suggested, among other things, introduce 8 May ( the end of World War II ) as a national holiday. At the 2009 federal election she managed the new list to the Bundestag. Because they a scarf with the inscription " Now less at the inauguration of the memorial of the German Armed Forces in September 2009. Get out of this war was " denied her entry to the field hunter subsequent reception of the Federal Minister of Defence.
The Left nominated Jochimsen, scheduled for after the resignation of incumbent President Horst Köhler - election on 30 June 2010. In a subsequent interview, she judged the GDR as a state that had committed as a dictatorship unpardonable injustice to its citizens. You should, however, not been a rogue state " by legal definition ." This statement received attention in many media and has given rise to sharp criticism. In the first ballot of the Federal Presidential election, they accounted for 126 of 1242 votes cast, in the second 123, the third ballot, she withdrew her candidacy.
In the general election in 2013, they no longer came on.