Antje Vollmer Explained

Antje Vollmer
Office:Vice President of the Bundestag
Term Start:November 1994
Term End:2005
Party:Alliance '90/The Greens
Birth Date:1943 5, df=y
Birth Place:Lübbecke, Gau Westphalia-North, Nazi Germany (now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Antje Vollmer (pronounced as /de/; 31 May 194315 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 West 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). Her parents ran a textile shop which they later had to close.[1] After graduating from Wittekind-Gymnasium Lübbecke in 1962, she studied Protestant theology in Berlin, Heidelberg,[2] Tübingen, and Paris, 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. From 1971 to 1974, she worked as a pastor in Berlin-Wedding, a problematic district at the time.[5] From 1976 to 1982, she was an instructor in adult education at the of the Bethel Foundation in Bielefeld; she collaborated with the local Protestant and Catholic organisations for rural young people (Landjugend), and experienced the beginning of the ecological movement.[6] 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.[7]

Political career

In the 1970s, Vollmer was politically active in the Anti-Imperialist League, close to the Maoist KPD/AO, but did not join the party.[8] [9] [10] They were activists against the Vietnam War. She became a member of the Bundestag in 1983 on the ticket of the Green Party, although she was not a party member.[11] In 1985, she joined the Greens.[12] In 1984, she was elected to the party's board in parliament, as one of three women. In 1985, she initiated a dialogue of the state and prisoners of the Red Army Faction. Within the party, she called in "Grüner Aufbruch" for a bridge between the "Realos" and "Fundis", those adjusting to the realities of possible developments, and fundamental thinkers. 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.[13]

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.

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.[14] [15]

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".[16]

Personal life

In 1979, Vollmer gave birth to a son, Johann, whom she raised as a single mother.

Vollmer died on 15 March 2023, at age 79.[17] [18]

Katrin Göring-Eckardt, vice president of the Bundestag then, said of Vollmer, "She was there from the beginning and fought through much of what we benefit from today. And she kept her own head, unbending!" ("Sie war von Beginn an dabei und hat Vieles von dem durchgekämpft, wovon wir heute profitieren. Und sie hat ihren eigenen Kopf behalten, unbeugsam!)

Awards

Source:[19]

Publications

Dissertation

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antje Vollmer . Munzinger Biographie . de . 16 March 2023.
  2. Web site: Im Sommer haben wir am Neckar nachts Kirschen geklaut . . de . 16 March 2023.
  3. Web site: Curriculum Vitae – Dr. Antje Vollmer › NRW School of Governance . NRW School of Governance . 10 October 2022 . de . 16 March 2023.
  4. Bundestagsvizepräsidentin a. D. und Autorin: Vollmer, Antje . BR.de . 4 August 2014 . de . 16 March 2023.
  5. Leinemann . Jürgen . Die Große Grüne . 35 . 1994 . . de . 17 March 2023.
  6. Web site: Antje Vollmer: Die Einheit kam mir zu schnell . . 29 October 2010 . de . 16 March 2023.
  7. Book: Vollmer . Antje . Keil . Lars-Broder . Stauffenbergs Gefährten / Das Schicksal der unbekannten Verschwörer . München . 2013 . 978-3-446-24156-5 . 828789231 . de .
  8. News: Nachruf auf Antje Vollmer: Streitbare Pazifistin . 16 March 2023 . . 17 March 2023 . de.
  9. News: Obituary for Antje Vollmer: A combative pacifist (translation of Taz) . 16 March 2023 . Die Tageszeitung. News in Germany . 17 March 2023 . en.
  10. Book: Kühn, Andreas . Stalins Enkel, Maos Söhne : die Lebenswelt der K-Gruppen in der Bundesrepublik der 70er Jahre . Campus . Frankfurt/Main . 2005 . 3-593-37865-5 . 62143825 . de . 230.
  11. News: Frühere Bundestagsvize : Grünen-Politikerin Antje Vollmer ist tot . . 16 March 2023 . de . 16 March 2023.
  12. Web site: Grünen-Politikerin Antje Vollmer wird 75 Jahre alt . domradio.de . 31 May 2018 . de . 16 March 2023.
  13. https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/189498/4b3f91ce2df0df2fc96b28172930e5f1/Datenhandbuch1994_2003-data.pdf Bundestag Datenhandbuch
  14. Web site: Pressemitteilung der Universität Duisburg-Essen. www.uni-due.de. de. 24 May 2018.
  15. Web site: Dr. Antje Vollmer spricht über China und Tibet . Informationsdienst Wissenschaft – Nachrichten . 8 June 2009 . de . 16 March 2023.
  16. News: Polenz . Ruprecht . Wer einen Atomkrieg verhindern will, darf Putin nicht gewinnen lassen . . de . 3 May 2022.
  17. Web site: Ex-Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Antje Vollmer ist tot . . 16 March 2023 . dpa . de . 16 March 2023.
  18. Web site: Zum Tode von Antje Vollmer: Die Grandin der Grünen . . 16 March 2023 . de . 16 March 2023.
  19. Web site: Antje Vollmer . Biografie WHO'S WHO . de . 16 March 2023.

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