Lutz Heilmann

Life

Education and work

Lutz Heilmann attended from 1973 to 1983 the Polytechnic High School of Oberseifersdorf / Wittgendorf ( Zittau ) and then the Advanced High School in Zittau, where he in 1985, the Abitur. Then Heilmann made ​​military service in the Department of Personal Protection of the Ministry of State Security and stayed there then as full-time employees. Heilmann indicates that he had filed a petition for release in October / November 1989; According taz this should be done only after the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989. With the dissolution of the Ministry Heilmann resigned in January 1990, finally leaving the service.

In 1991, he first began studying business administration at the Technical University of Zittau. A year later he moved to the Free University of Berlin to study law. From 1997 he continued his studies at the Christian- Albrechts- University in Kiel. He finished his studies in 2004 as a graduate lawyer. His 2005 begun in the District Court of Luebeck legal clerkship he interrupted, after he was elected on the regional list in the Bundestag. As of November 2009, he continued his legal training continued at the District Court Lübeck.

Employees of the Ministry of State Security

In October 2005, the mirror Heilmann's revealed so far not publicly become full-time employees of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi ) of the GDR. Heilmann are to this day publicly, to have done from 1985 to 1990 an "extended military service (personal protection Stasi) ". Hubertus Knabe, director of Stasi victims memorial Berlin- Hohenschonhausen that holds for a trivialization; the staff of the Department personnel protection would have formed a " highly professional, armed guarding" the central state organs, and for victims of the GDR regime it was " an intolerable idea that a man with this past sits in Parliament ".

Before the election, Heilmann had reported claims to be only a few comrades of his work with the Stasi. This constituted a breach of internal party rules, which require that an activity for the Stasi was disclosed of each electoral body. At the state convention on December 4, 2005, members of the National Association of Schleswig -Holstein voted on a motion of censure against Heilmann. The result was 47 votes for Heilmann to 42 against him. Heilmann has since been controversial within the Left in Schleswig -Holstein.

Policy

In 1986, Lutz Heilmann member of the SED. In 1991 he held the position of district branch manager of the District Association Zittau (Saxony ) the PDS. In 1992 he resigned from the PDS. Eight years later he was again a member of the PDS. From 2000 to 2002 belonged Heilmann, in Pötenitz lived at this time (since 2004 the district of Dassow ), the board of the PDS District Association North West Mecklenburg on. In 2004 he built in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern on a solid group. In 2005 he moved into the district association Lübeck and was elected in the candidate selection in July 2005 against Harald Koch top candidate of Schleswig-Holstein Land list of the party for the 2005 federal election. About his list place he moved into the Bundestag.

Heilmann, the openly gay lives since around 2006, is engaged in the group queer within the Left in Schleswig -Holstein.

For the general election of 2009, Heilmann competed at the state party of the left in Neumünster to the second list position, but lost the election of the delegates and not moved into the 17th German Bundestag.