Christel Wegner

Christel Wegner ( born November 16, 1947 in Hamburg -Moor Castle ) is a German politician of the German Communist Party ( DKP). She was from 2008 to 2013 Member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony. She was elected the Left on the electoral list of the party. In the same year, she was expelled from the group after they defended the construction of the Berlin Wall and had called for the reintroduction of a public authority such as the GDR State Security in building a new form of society.

Life

Wegner comes from a communist family home, she is a trained nurse. From 1968 to 1990 she was in this profession at the hospital in Buchholz in der Heide Nord worked and was a member on the staff and personnel Council President. From 1990 to 1992 she completed a professional training for nursing services and then officiated from 1992 to 1993 as Head of Department in the Lower Saxony State Hospital Lüneburg. From 1994 to 2002 she was Head of Nursing District Hospital Buchholz; In December 2007, she went into retirement.

Political offices

Wegner is a board member of the DKP in Lower Saxony, to which it belongs since the party's founding in 1968. In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2008, she moved about the country's list of the Left as deputies in the Landtag, but she closed the Left Party on 18 February 2008 in a crisis meeting by unanimous decision made ​​after Wegner the construction of the Berlin Wall and the East German State Security had defended. Wegner is also a member of the trade union Verdi and the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Federation of anti-fascists and anti-fascists ( VVN -BdA ).

Public policy positions and effect

Known of regional Wegner was in February 2008 with the claim that the German magazine Panorama expressed demand for a revolutionary overthrow herbeizuführenden by another company form under " deduction of capital" and " means of production ". To protect against " softening from within" " reactionary forces " should this state to protect themselves by re-introduction of a secret service. According panoramic press release that caused extensive media coverage, Wegner said in an interview context, hereby the Ministry of State Security of the GDR -like organ. Unlike their political positions to the party The Left Wegner said in the same interview: "The left wants to achieve change with reforms, and we are of the opinion: That's not enough. We want the reconstruction of society. " Further, Wegner defended the construction of the Berlin Wall and known in general for " unlimited solidarity "with" comrades who have put their lives in the construction of another form of society. " The interview was published by the ARD in cuttings.

Criticism and calls for his resignation learned Wegner as a result of their interviews of politicians of all parties represented in parliament, including the Left. Hubertus Heil, Secretary General of the SPD, called the statement Wegner's " anti-democratic history and forgotten." The executive committee of the Left distanced itself from the content of the utterances Wegner. The Lower Saxon leader of the Left Kreszentia Flauger suggested Wegner, resign their seat in Parliament. Gregor Gysi also criticized the West German party organizations for their cooperation with the DKP in the state elections in Lower Saxony, Hesse and Hamburg and suspected Wegner, to be Agent Provocateur of the constitutional protection. Klaus Ernst, Deputy Leader of the Left in the Bundestag, called the DKP as a " sect". The Lower Saxony Left caucus Wegner graduated from on 18 February 2008, as Wegner violated an agreement according to which they must return to her seat in Parliament as soon as fundamental differences with the programmatic orientation of the Left occur. Christel Wegner was, however, contrary to its mandate calls for his resignation not returned and remained thus as individual MPs.

In a statement, Christel Wegner Panorama accused a misleading section and said she would not know how it would have formulated panorama and the press, " the Stasi back ". It merely said that every state has a secret and this of course also applies to a socialist state. The opinion Wegner was mostly viewed within the left as rather inadequate, but simultaneously criticized the media coverage. Thus described, for example, Jurgen Reents the media response to the panoramic press release as " joy of rebellion ." In the magazine Specifically, she took on the events in an interview with George Fülberth position.

Parliamentary activity

On 17 December 2008 her little inquiry was published on 4 July 2008 on shipments of liquor from the Asse salt mine as parliament printed matter. The fact became public through this inquiry that for years liquor was brought out of the mine to abandoned mines of the K S AG.

Condemnation

On September 26, 2012, the majority of the Lower Saxony state parliament lifted the immunity Wegner. This paved the way for a lawsuit against the deputy was cleared, in which they " Castor gravel " because of a call for was indicted. The Left caucus voted against the waiver of immunity. The Lüneburg prosecutor had offered to dismiss the case against the payment of 500 euros. Wegner refused, however. In April 2013, it as well as Inge Hoeger and Sevim Dağdelen was sentenced to a fine.