Peter Porsch

Peter Porsch (* October 15, 1944 in Vienna ) is a German politician (The Left ) and German studies.

Profession

From 1962 to 1968 Porsch studied in Vienna German and English, from 1968 he put the German Studies at the Free University of Berlin, where he also studied political science. He received his doctorate there in 1972.

In 1973 he moved to the GDR, whose citizenship he assumed in 1979. He worked first as an assistant and later assistant professor at the Department of German Linguistics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. 1981 Porsch habilitation with a thesis on text assessment as a method for collecting linguistic- communicative norms. In 1982 he became a lecturer at the University of Leipzig, 1983/84 he was a guest lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Rzeszow. From 1988 to 1990 he was in Leipzig Professor of Language Theory and Sociology of Language, 1990-2005 for dialectology and sociolinguistics.

Policy

Porsch occurred in 1982, the SED. Since the Saxon state parliament election in October 1990, he was a member of the Landtag for the PDS. From 1991 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2001 he was chairman of the PDS in Saxony. From 1994 to July 2007 he was chairman of the PDS group and the Left Party in the Parliament of Saxony. From 2000 to 2003 he was one of the deputy national chairman of the PDS. In the state election on 19 September 2004, he became the leading candidate and challenger to Prime Minister Georg Milbradt ( CDU). The PDS could easily win votes in this election and was again the second largest party.

2004 and 2005 reported the news magazine Focus that Porsch was suspected supplied information from 1970 to the 1980s as IM Christoph of the Ministry of State Security to have. Porsch denied this, claiming to have been unwittingly siphoned off. On learning of the allegations, he was unanimously classified by the personnel committee of the University of Leipzig as a Stasi - biased. Then he said, the Ministry of Culture 2004, the extraordinary termination. In contrast, Porsch raised by his lawyer Peter -Michael Diestel before the labor court action Dresden. Result of the court proceedings was a comparison: The Free State of Saxony took the extraordinary termination back and paid the salary until May 31, 2005 after, in this ordinary termination of the reason for dismissal Stasi accusation was not allowed to be mentioned.

On 11 May 2006 decided in the Saxon parliament CDU, SPD, FDP and Greens alliance with the votes of NPD against the Left Party ( with 83 of 119 votes in favor and five abstentions) bringing an action under Article 118 Members of the Saxon constitution, with the Porsch due to the alleged collaboration with the Stasi his seat in Parliament should be revoked. However, the Constitutional Court of Saxony had the beginning of November 2006, the action unanimously as inadmissible because it was not filed until June 2006, although the Parliament had the charges against Porsch been known since the summer of 2004. So you had the period pursuant to § 38 I SächsVerfGHG injured by a year after becoming aware of the relevant allegations, must be filed within which action. The court met on the merits of the lawsuit no finding.

Porsch also complained against corresponding publications about his alleged informants, as well as activity against the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives. Some newspapers were prohibited by injunction and by judgment of the Landgericht Hamburg, present the allegations as fact. He was initially successful in two other proceedings before the Regional Court of Hamburg and the Hamburg Higher Regional Court. The Federal Court but these decisions and dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The defendant newspaper had been allowed to have an increased confidence in pronouncements of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the GDR.

In the Saxon state election Porsch no longer joined to, at the 2009 federal election, he ran without protection over the national list for the direct mandate in the constituency 152 ( Nordsachsen ), but was only second place.

Family

Porsch is married his third wife and the father of three children.