Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin

Jutta Oesterle -Schwerin ( born February 25, 1941 in Jerusalem ) is a German politician. She was from 1987 to 1990 Member of the German Bundestag.

Life

Jutta Schwerin is the daughter of the late summer of 1935, emigrated from Germany Jewish communists Heinz Schwerin and his wife Ricarda. She is the sister of the Israeli historian Tom Segev.

Schwerin spent her childhood in Israel. At the age of about 10 years, she was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth organization. Later she joined the Communist Youth. 1958 - at the age of 17 years - Schwerin refused the Israeli military. The reason she stated that she was the child of a non-Jewish mother. In this context, there has also been a personal conversation with David Ben- Gurion.

After school, she left Israel in 1960. For some time she worked in a Jewish children's home in Switzerland. In 1962, she began studying at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. The same year, her political involvement in Germany began in the Easter March movement. During this time she also came into contact with the SDS.

In 1969 she completed her studies as an interior designer. After separating from her husband, she was from 1978 to 1987 worked as an independent interior designer in Ulm.

Since the birth of her son in 1970 she became involved in the children's shop and the women's movement. In 1974 she became a member of the SPD, from which she resigned in 1980 but in protest against the NATO Double-Track Decision. In 1983 she became a member of the Greens. From 1975 to 1980 she was responsible for the SPD from 1984 to 1987, the Greens member in the Ulm City Council.

In 1987 she was elected on the regional list in the German Bundestag and was the 1989/90 alongside Helmut Lippelt and Antje Vollmer one of the three Group spokesman of the Greens, also she was a member of the Committee for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development. Schwerin was on 9 November 1989 to those three deputies who left the Chamber on the occasion of singing the German national anthem by parts of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

After the Greens had failed in the general election in 1990 at the five-percent hurdle, she retired from the Bundestag and was an employee of Deputies Christina Schenk of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group. In 1990, she was spokesperson for the lesbian ring eV and engaged in the following years, including for the inclusion of lesbian lifestyles in the women's policy. Prior to the 1994 Bundestag elections, they failed in attempting to re -up with the Greens. In February 1994, she resigned from the party and ran in Bonn for the Feminist Party Women.

By 2008, Jutta Schwerin worked as an independent architect in Berlin.

2012 was published by Spector Books Leipzig her autobiographical story " Ricarda's daughter - a life between Germany and Israel."