Werner Schulz
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Werner Gustav Schulz (22 January 1950 – 9 November 2022) was a German politician of
Early life and career
Schulz was born in Zwickau, then part of East Germany, on 22 January 1950.[1][2][3] He grew up there, the son of an independent haulage contractor and former professional officer from a social-democratic dominated family.[4] From 1964 to 1968, he attended the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium . His father recommended him not to join the Young Pioneers.[5]
Schulz received a degree in food technology at the
Political career
Schulz was active from the beginning in the Protestant church movements for peace, ecology and human rights. He was an activist in several oppositional groups from the 1970s, and a member of the Friedenskreis Pankow from 1982.[2][8] During the Peaceful Revolution, he was a founding member of the New Forum in 1989,[2][9] representing the group at the Round Table and contributing to its constitution.[2][3]
Schulz became a member of the
In April 1998, Schulz ran for mayor of Leipzig. With 8.2 percent of the vote, he came fourth in the first round of voting. Schulz did not run in the second round; instead Wolfgang Tiefensee of the SPD was elected.[10]
When Chancellor Gerhard Schröder engineered the loss of a no-confidence vote in Parliament and asked President Horst Köhler to allow an early vote in 2005, Schulz and Jelena Hoffmann of Schröder's Social Democrats filed a complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court against the dissolution of parliament.[11][12][9] His speech was honoured as the Speech of the Year by the seminar of rhetoric of the University of Tübingen, with the jury saying that he used his limited time for a concise analysis and personal confession, although it was not immediately successful.[13]
Schulz was vice president of the council of the
In a political come-back, Schulz became a Member of the European Parliament in 2009.[9] He served until 2014,[1][3] as vice chair of the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and as a member of the parliament's delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly from 2012 to 2014, among others.[1]
Personal life
Schulz was married and the couple had two children.[16] The family lived in the Boitzenburger Land in Brandenburg, where he founded a support association for his church parish.[17]
Schulz died from a heart attack in Berlin on 9 November 2022, at age 72. He had been scheduled to speak at a memorial event at
Recognition
Schulz was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015; President Joachim Gauck honoured him and others who had worked towards a united Germany on German Unity Day.[17] In 2022, he was awarded the Deutscher Nationalpreis .[18] Ex-President Gauck described Schulz as "a tireless fighter for a policy based on democratic values".[19]
Publications
- Schulz, Werner; OCLC 50052368.
- Schulz, Werner (29 June 2009). "'Was lange gärt wird Wut' - Der Vorlauf der DDR Opposition zur friedlichen Revolution". Die demokratische Revolution 1989 in der DDR. Köln: Böhlau Verlag. pp. 103–120. ISBN 978-3-412-20462-4.
References
- ^ a b c "Werner Schulz". European Parliament. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f "Werner Schulz". stiftung-aufarbeitung.de (in German). 2009. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f "Früherer DDR-Bürgerrechtler Werner Schulz (†72) stirbt bei Tagung im Schloss Bellevue" (in German). TAG24. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- OCLC 65166428.
- ^ "Abschied von einem Weggefährten. Zum Tode von Werner Schulz". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in German). 11 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ "Werner Schulz". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ Böhm, Claudius. "Interview mit Werner Schulz". Gewandhaus Leipzig (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ Wolff, Christian (24 June 2016). "Studentisches Engagement gestern und heute" (in German). Stiftung Friedliche Revolution. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ a b c Gathmann, Florian (24 January 2009). "2. Stiftungsrat (2003–2008)". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ Werner Schulz gibt OB-Kandidatur auf Die Tageszeitung, 11 April 1998.
- ^ Bertrand Benoit (27 June 2005), German fringe parties try to call a halt to election Financial Times.
- New York Times, 10 August 2005.
- ^ "Rede des Jahres 2005 / Werner Schulz: Mündliche Erklärung nach der Aussprache zur Vertrauensfrage" (in German). Seminar of rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. 24 January 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "2. Stiftungsrat (2003–2008)". stiftung-aufarbeitung.de (in German). 2009. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009.
- Tagesspiegel(in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Werner Schulz". werner-schulz-europa.eu (in German). Archived from the original on 30 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Bundesverdienstkreuz für zwei Brandenburger – Gauck ehrt Richard Schröder und Werner Schulz" (in German). Brandenburg. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Deutscher Nationalpreis 2022 verliehen". Deutsche Nationalstiftung (in German). 21 June 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ "Deutscher Nationalpreis: Ehrung für DDR-Bürgerrechtler Werner Schulz". MDR.DE (in German). 14 June 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
Further reading
- "✝ Werner Schulz" (in German). Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- Eisel, Jan. "Bundestagsabgeordnete erheben sich in Gedenken an Werner Schulz" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- Lang, Ricarda; Nouripour, Omid; Büning, Emily (10 November 2022). "Wir trauern um Werner Schulz" (in German). Alliance 90/The Greens. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- FAZ.NET. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
External links
- Media related to Werner Schulz (politician) at Wikimedia Commons