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Heinrich George | Helmut Kind | Karl Heinrich | Ewald Ernst | Kurt Müller | Alfred Weiland | Arno Wend | Helmut Brandt | Georg Dertinger | Max Fechner | Karl Wilhelm Fricke | Wolfgang Harich | Walter Janka | Walter Linse | Paul Merker | Sigrid Paul | Rudolf Bahro | Heinz Brandt | Jürgen Fuchs | Gerulf Pannach | Michael Sallmann | Hans-Joachim Helwig-Wilson | Bärbel Bohley | Freya Klier | Stephan Krawczyk | Vera Lengsfeld | Ulrike Poppe
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 Vera Lengsfeld (divorced Wollenberger) is one of the leading figures of the East German civil rights movement. Born in 1952 in Sondershausen / Thuringia, she grew up in East Berlin in a regime-compliant household. According to a study of Marxist philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin, she worked at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR since 1975 and as a proofreader in the publishing house „New Life” since 1981. From 1975 to 1983 she jointed to the Socialist Unity Party (SED). 1981 she was one of the founders of the Pankow peacedistrict and the local Ökokreis. Due to public protests against the stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles in East Germany she was expelled from the SED in 1983 and was forbidden to work. In the following years she earned her money as a beekeeper and translator. She organized various peace-workshops and Ökoseminare and founded the group "Kirche von unten” in 1987. The Ministry for State Security (Stasi) monitored and followed her for years with help of her then husband, Knut Wollenberger, who was an unofficial collaborator (IM) for the state security service. In the lead-up to an official demonstration for murdered communist leaders, Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht, she was arrested and was sent to the prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen in January 1988. After sentencing by the district court of Lichtenberg, she was deported and sent to England with a temporary visa . In November 1989 she went back in the GDR and participated in the newly formed Green Party. After her husband's unmasking as a spy, they got divorced and she took back her maiden name. 1996 she changed from the Green Party to the CDU. In the same year she was involved in the creation of the “Bürgerbüro zur Aufarbeitung von Folgeschäden der SED-Diktatur". |
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