Jump to content

Antje Vollmer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Fogelstrom (talk | contribs) at 23:48, 16 March 2023. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Antje Vollmer
Antje Vollmer in 2013.
Vice President of the Bundestag
In office
November 1994 – 2005
PresidentRita Süssmuth
Wolfgang Thierse
Personal details
Born(1943-05-31)31 May 1943
Lübbecke, Gau Westphalia-North, Germany
Died15 March 2023(2023-03-15) (aged 79)
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens
Profession
  • Theologian
  • Politician
Websitewww.antje-vollmer.de

Antje Vollmer (German pronunciation: [ˈantjə ˈfɔlmɐ]; 31 May 1943 – 15 March 2023) was a German Protestant theologian, academic, teacher and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. She became a member of the Bundestag in 1983 when the Greens first entered the German parliament, before joining the party in 1985. From 1994 to 2005, she was Vice President of the Bundestag, the first Green in the position. She was a pacifist.

Education and early career

Vollmer was born in Lübbecke (Westphalia). After graduating from Wittekind-Gymnasium Lübbecke in 1962, she studied Protestant theology in Berlin, Heidelberg,[1] Tübingen, and Paris,[2] completing her first theological exam in 1968, her second in 1971, and receiving her doctorate in 1973.[3] From 1969 to 1971, she was a research assistant at the Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin.[4] In 1971 she started a postgraduate course in adult education, which she completed in 1975.[5] From 1971 to 1974 she worked as a pastor in Berlin-Wedding, and later as a teacher in an adult education center from 1976 to 1982.[5] She wrote a book related to the 20 July plot together with Lars-Broder Keil, Stauffenbergs Gefährten: Das Schicksal der unbekannten Verschwörer ("Stauffenberg's companions: The fate of the unknown conspirators"), which was published in 2013.[6]

Political career

In the 1970s, Vollmer was politically active in the Anti-Imperialist League (Liga gegen den Imperialismus), close to the Maoist KPD/AO, but did not join the party.[7] She became a member of the Bundestag in 1983, as a representative without party membership.[8] In 1985 she joined the Green Party.[9] Due to the party principle of rotation she had to give up the parliamentary seat in 1985, but was reelected in 1987 and again in 1994, 1998, and 2002.[10]

In November 1994, Vollmer was the first politician of the Green Party to be elected into the Presidium of the Bundestag. She remained vice president of the Bundestag until the 2005 elections, at which point she did not run for re-election.[2]

Later life

In 2009 Vollmer was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the Universität Essen-Duisburg's NRW School of Governance. She gave both seminars and lectures at the university.[11][12]

Vollmer was one of the first signatories of an open letter on the German position on the Russo-Ukrainian War, published in the magazine EMMA in April 2022, which called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to not supply Ukraine with offensive weapons during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to do everything he could to end the war, in order to prevent an escalation of the conflict into "a third world war".[13]

Vollmer died on 15 March 2023, at age 79, after a long illness.[8][14][15]

Awards

Source:[16]

References

  1. ^ "Im Sommer haben wir am Neckar nachts Kirschen geklaut". Universität Heidelberg (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Antje Vollmer: Die Einheit kam mir zu schnell". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 29 October 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae – Dr. Antje Vollmer › NRW School of Governance". NRW School of Governance (in German). 10 October 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Bundestagsvizepräsidentin a. D. und Autorin: Vollmer, Antje". BR.de (in German). 4 August 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Antje Vollmer". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  6. ^ Vollmer, Antje; Keil, Lars-Broder (2013). Stauffenbergs Gefährten / Das Schicksal der unbekannten Verschwörer (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-446-24156-5. OCLC 828789231.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Kühn, Andreas (2005). Stalins Enkel, Maos Söhne : die Lebenswelt der K-Gruppen in der Bundesrepublik der 70er Jahre (in German). Frankfurt/Main: Campus. p. 230. ISBN 3-593-37865-5. OCLC 62143825.
  8. ^ a b "Frühere Bundestagsvize : Grünen-Politikerin Antje Vollmer ist tot". ZDF (in German). 16 March 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Grünen-Politikerin Antje Vollmer wird 75 Jahre alt". domradio.de (in German). 31 May 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  10. ^ Bundestag Datenhandbuch
  11. ^ "Pressemitteilung der Universität Duisburg-Essen". www.uni-due.de (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Dr. Antje Vollmer spricht über China und Tibet". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - Nachrichten (in German). 8 June 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  13. ^ Polenz, Ruprecht. "Wer einen Atomkrieg verhindern will, darf Putin nicht gewinnen lassen". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Ex-Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Antje Vollmer ist tot". Der Spiegel (in German). dpa. 16 March 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  15. ^ "Zum Tode von Antje Vollmer: Die Grandin der Grünen". Die Welt (in German). 16 March 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Antje Vollmer". Biografie WHO'S WHO (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2023.

Further reading

  • Oltmanns, Reimar; Schlei, Marie (1990). Frauen an der Macht : Marie Schlei, Renate Schmidt, Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer, Rita Süssmuth, Antje Vollmer : Protokolle einer Aufbruchsära (in German). Frankfurt am Main: A. Hain. ISBN 3-445-08551-X. OCLC 24702191.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antje Vollmer.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antje_Vollmer&oldid=1145041982"