Thomas Welz

Thomas Welz ( born January 2, 1957 in Bad Berka ) was active in the East German opposition movement.

Life

Thomas Welz, born Berndt was born in Bad Berka in 1957 and grew up in Berlin - Altglienicke.

In the GDR

During his military service in the NVA Thomas Welz in October 1978 for several months in the GDR military prison in Schwedt ( Oder) was imprisoned.

As head of the " Working Group information " he was with Rainer Eppelmann editor and author of several illegal samizdat publications of the peace circle of the Samaritan community in Berlin -Friedrichshain, which became the mouthpiece of East German civil rights movement, including "Shalom ", " Viaticum " and " Turning Point ", one of the first publications in which the term " revolution" was needed. Welz, active in various initiatives and ad hoc groups of the opposition and the peace movement, 1989 was a co-founder of the opposition party Democratic Awakening.

After German reunification

After the reunification in 1990, he was initially responsible for the SPD, later in the Independent Citizens' Group Friedrichshain ( UBF ) in the Borough Assembly of Berlin -Friedrichshain. He worked as a Managing Director and Education Officer of the " Märkischen employee training and consulting work" in Potsdam, which was disbanded in 1997 for financial reasons. Thomas Welz is also actively involved as a witness the reunification of the witnesses portal "20 ​​Years of Peaceful Revolution and German unity" as well as on the Board of the Institute New impetus for German - Israeli- Palestinian encounter. As vice chairman of the association " GDR military prison Schwedt " it is active in memory and analysis of the history of the East German military prison Schwedt. He lives in Berlin.

Literature and Media

  • Ehrhart Neubert: History of the opposition in the GDR from 1949 to 1989. Federal Centre for Political Education, Series Volume 346, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-89331-294-3.
  • Ehrhart Neubert: Our revolution. The story of 1989 / 90th Piper -Verlag, Munich, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05155-2.
  • Rainer Eppelmann: foreign in-house. My life in the other Germany. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-462-02279-2.
  • Post on RBB - magazine style break: Take Schwedt! The history of the East German military penal
  • Contribution to the MDR- magazine Barbarossa: The Myth Schwedt - not to stream online for legal reasons - of the military prison of the NVA.
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