Ibrahim Böhme

Ibrahim Böhme (actually: Manfred Otto Böhme ) ( born November 18, 1944 in Bad Duerrenberg; † 22 November 1999 Neustrelitz ) was a German politician (SDP or SPD) and an unofficial member of the East German secret police.

Life

Education and work

Böhme completed a vocational training as a bricklayer in the Leuna works, then was youth club leader. After a party punishment because of his attitude to the suppression of the Prague Spring, he was transferred to the " probation " in production and worked as a postal worker. From 1971 to 1977 he was district secretary of the Cultural Alliance in Greiz. After a technical college distance learning in 1972 he acquired a degree as a librarian. From 1978 to 1982 he worked as a dramaturge at Neustrelitz, after his dismissal, he was also in Neustrelitz library employee. After moving to East Berlin in 1985, he worked as a cultural center conductor, then in various part-time jobs.

Family and Life

Manfred Böhme Otto was the son of an industrial mason who worked in the Leuna works. The name Ibrahim he gave later in the course of his IM activity itself His Jewish origin was a common legend of him.

After his forced retirement from politics Boehme lived the last years withdrawn in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. He suffered several strokes. He had never got over his Stasi unmasking.

His estate is located in the archives of Robert Havemann Society.

Party

Böhme was from 1962 to 1978 member of the SED.

On October 7, 1989 Boehme was in Schwante the founders of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP ) to its Managing Director, he was elected once. On February 23, 1990, he was elected chairman of the now renamed SPD party. Böhme saw in the case of an election victory of the SPD already as a future Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic, led on March 2, 1990, a political exploratory talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

After the accusation of the unofficial Stasi activity through the mirror on March 26, 1990 Böhme left all offices and his people chamber mandate rest and then finally resigned on 2 April 1990. A few weeks later he experienced after protestations of innocence a political comeback and was appointed by Mayor Tino Schwierzina to police officers of the Municipal Council of ( East) Berlin in July 1990. On the Unity Congress of the East and West SPD on 26 and 27 September, 1990 in Berlin Böhme was elected to the new board.

Stasi activity

Böhme was performed under several aliases by the Ministry of State Security of the GDR as informer (IM) since 1969. Under the pseudonym IM Maximilian he infiltrated from 1985 specifically oppositional circles in East Berlin. In March 1990, appeared on files of the Ministry of State Security, which refer to an assignment of Boehme on IM " Maximilian ". The author Reiner Kunze, who had been under surveillance in Greiz years of state security, Böhme designated on the basis of his own Stasi file as the one who had as IM " Paul Bonkarz " his family and pried and betrayed him. Following publication of the documentation code name lyric by Reiner Kunze in December 1990 Boehme's political career was over. He was expelled for " serious party -destructive behavior " from the SPD in 1992.

Böhme has made during his lifetime numerous conflicting information about his biography, which were taken over unexamined by the media to some extent. Most of it is now refuted.

The spying activities for the Ministry of State Security, he has played up to his death.