Herbert Rusche

Herbert Rusche ( born May 6, 1952 in Bad Neuenahr ) is a German politician and activist in the gay movement. Until 2001 he was a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens. Today he is a member of the Pirate Party Germany.

Personal

By job-related mobility Herbert Rusche his family lived in his childhood in different cities and attended the schools. After the end of the main and trade school he lived in Kaiserslautern, Heidelberg, Berlin, Hamburg, Offenbach and Frankfurt am Main, where he still lives today.

Rusche joined in 1970 from the Evangelical Church in 1977 and converted to Buddhism. Also in 1977, he opened with his friend the first health food store Offenbach. In the 1980s and 1990s Rusche was self-employed in the telecommunications sector. Thus began Rusche in 1988 in videotex system of the German Federal Post Office (a precursor of T-Online) a first -time quote for gay men ( " BTX for friends "). After a long illness he is retired since 2004 and lives in Frankfurt.

Political development

During his school years in Tairnbach and Wiesloch Herbert Rusche was in a local socialist student initiative, which was in contact to the SDS in Heidelberg, active. Later, in Heidelberg, he came as a young first time in 1970 with the newly emerging gay movement in conjunction with friends and founded in 1972, "Homo heidelbergensis ", the first gay group in Heidelberg. From 1973 he was a member of the Berlin gay action West Berlin ( HAW). He then worked in gay Frankfurt communication center "other shore " with.

He was on the board of AUD district association Offenbach / Frankfurt and became a member of the Green List Hesse ( GLH). 1978 ran unsuccessfully Rusche on the country's list of GLH for the Hessischer Landtag. The GLH then reached only 1.1 % of the vote.

Later he was a founding member of the "other political unification THE GREEN " and then also the Green Party. From 1981 to 1983 Rusche served as country manager of the Hessian Land Association of the Greens. During his tenure, the Greens in 1982 attracted 8.6% of the vote for the first time in the Hesse state parliament.

From 1983 Rusche was a member of the Bundestag, the Bundestag of the Greens group, which consisted of 28 members of parliament and 28 substitutes on. In 1985 he was a deputy member of the German parliament ( Bundestag ).

Rusche was shot on March 12, 1984 in Munich at a lecture on the issue of § 175 because of his homosexuality by a neo-Nazi and slightly injured.

As a Member Rusche brought to the Group of the Greens 1985 Criminal Law Amendment Act ( Bundestag printed paper 10/2832, plenary 10/184 ) for the deletion of § § 175 and 182 of the Criminal Code, and again in 1986 a motion for cancellation of § 175 of the Criminal Code a. Rusche was also the first politician who dealt with the newly emerged problem of AIDS. Many inquiries helped to draw public attention to the subject. Annual requests for budget made ​​it clear that funding for research and prevention are needed.

Herbert Rusche was the first deputy in the history of the German Bundestag, which was open to his homosexuality.

Together with Petra Kelly brought the Buddhist Rusche 1985, a small request ( printed matter 10/6127 ) for human rights and international law situation in Tibet in Parliament. With this request, the issue of Tibet was first mentioned in the German Bundestag. She pulled out a number of other inquiries and hearings.

After his time in the Bundestag Rusche worked with at various AIDS service organizations and the gay self-help.

In 2001, he stepped out of Alliance 90/The Greens, partly because of the mitverantworteten of the Greens Kosovo politics of the federal government.

From 2004 to 2012 Rusche was one of three representatives of the " Buddhist community," the association of the individual members of the German Buddhist Union ( DBU) and from 2008 to April 2011 Member of the Council of the same.

On 24 August 2009, he joined the Pirate Party of Germany in the Hesse Land Association. In the local elections in Hesse 2011, he ran for his new party for a seat on the town council of its Frankfurt residential district.

In preparing meeting on 16-17. February 2013 in Green Mountain, he was elected to the second list position of the Hessian list for the federal election of 2013. On June 22, 2013 Herbert Rusche was also chosen as Direktkandidierender for the parliamentary constituency 174 ( Fulda).

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