Wolfgang Templin
Wolfgang Templin ( born November 25, 1948 in Jena ) is a German civil rights activist and journalist.
Life
Training and Study
Templin grew up in the GDR began after graduating from high school in 1965 began an apprenticeship as a printer, but what he broke. From 1966 to 1968 he trained as a library student worker and attended in connection to a 1970 Education for Information and Documentation at the School of Library in East Berlin.
Starting in 1970, graduated from Templin studying philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he graduated in 1974. In 1970 he joined the SED and FDJ wude secretary. From January 1973 until his willful Dekonspiration in October 1975 Templin worked as IME "Peter" for the Ministry of State Security. In his voluntary unmasking of a student discussion group he was making full information on the nature and scope of its unofficial activity. Following his studies, he began his dissertation as a research student at the HU Berlin. There he participated in illegal Trotskyist student circles. From 1976 to 1977 he studied at the University of Warsaw and made first contacts with the Polish opposition, such as the Committee for the Defense of Workers ( KOR). From 1977 to 1983 he was assistant at the Central Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, and participated in the work of independent church-related peace and human rights groups. This causes him remained a completing his doctorate denied, so he resigned from the SED after his release from the Central Institute in 1983. He lost his job, received a prohibition as a philosopher and librarian and worked temporarily as a cleaner, forest workers and firemen.
Work in the unification process
In 1985 he was co-founder of the human rights group Initiative for Peace and Human Rights ( IFM), carried out the protests against human rights violations. He was co-editor of the samizdat journal borderline case. Several times he turned his apartment for meetings of GDR critics and dissidents available and maintained contact with various opposition groups. From the State Security, he was monitored and topped with decomposition measures. So the Stasi initiated against Templin in the operational process " traitor " to mentally put him under pressure. The married Templin was confronted with, among other requests on an allegedly connected him personal ad and " maintenance payments " with respect to an allegedly fathered by him, extramarital child. On 25 January 1988 he was arrested as participants in protest actions under the Liebknecht- Luxembourg - demonstration in Berlin with his wife Lotte and other opposition figures such as Bärbel Bohley, Stephan Krawczyk and Freya Klier for " treasonable espionage activities " and to leave in the Federal Republic of Germany forced, where he first began another study in Bochum.
Following the turn, he went back to the GDR, and took for IFM part in the round table and was its spokesman. He was also a member of the editorial board of the newspaper The Other, project staff of the DGB and employees of the popular chamber group Alliance 90 About the North Rhine-Westphalian list of the Greens 1990 he was a candidate for the Bundestag. In 1991, he was among the founders of the party alliance 90th 1996, he was removed as a member of the Greens.
Life after the fall of
1994 to 1996 he was secretary for press and public relations at the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, and then worked as a freelance journalist and co-workers in the political adult education. He has published several publications on the history of the GDR, the German unification process and current developments in Central and Eastern Europe and participated in the International Opposition Guide "Encyclopedia of dissidents " of the Polish organization Karta and the Robert Havemann Society. He has written for the Junge Freiheit, asked him why the provincial committee of the Berlin Green Party to exit.
Templin is a founding member of the Community Office for the processing of subsequent damage of the SED dictatorship and a member of the Green Academy at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Since 2001 he was a project employee of the " Central and Eastern Europe" initiative ( MOE) and worked on the study tour program of the Federal Agency for Civic Education with. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Wall in 1961 he protested against the co-operation of the SPD and PDS in Berlin. In contrast to other ex- civil rights activists from the GDR Templin held the use of the term " Monday demonstrations " in connection with the protests against the Hartz reforms of the federal government as legitimate. As a freelance writer, he wrote, inter alia, for the time, the Tagesspiegel and Frankfurter Rundschau. In 2009, he starred in the play " from the Resist " at the Hans Otto Theatre in Potsdam.
Wolfgang Templin was a research associate at the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, a board member of the Memorial Library in honor of the victims of communism and July 2010-December 2013 Head Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw.
Wolfgang Templin is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Ecology and democracy in the Ecological- Democratic Party.
Honors
2009 Presentation of the dialog price of the German - Polish Society.
2010 Wolfgang Templin received in the Reichstag building in Berlin in the presence of President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert, the thank medal of the European Centre of Solidarity. The medal presented to him the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski on September 3 for his support of Solidarity.