An event on November 9th at Bellevue Palace was overshadowed by a dramatic event. The former GDR civil rights activist Werner Schulz collapsed there and died.
The former GDR civil rights activist Werner Schulz died at the age of 72 – under dramatic circumstances.
The long-standing member of the Bundestag for the Greens collapsed on November 9 on the sidelines of an event hosted by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin’s Bellevue Palace. To star-Information, among others, Josef Schuster, doctor and president of the Central Council of Jews, still tried to revive Schulz.
Werner Schulz was active in the GDR civil rights movement
Born in Zwickau, he had already been involved in the opposition in the GDR in the 1970s. After the fall of 1989, he was a member of the Round Table and the first freely elected People’s Chamber. In 1990 he moved into the all-German Bundestag and remained in parliament until 2005 as a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2009 to 2014, the bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit was a member of the European Parliament. Werner Schulz leaves behind a wife and two children.
You can read an obituary by stern policy chief Nico Fried on Werner Schulz here:
In a first reaction, Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt paid tribute to the deceased. “Personally, I am very, very sad,” said the Green politician during a brief break in the government’s parliamentary debate. Schulz was very well recognized across the party, “an East German by origin, an all-German at heart, a European with a special view of Eastern Europe, a tireless fighter for freedom.”
Editor’s note: This article has been updated since it was first published.
Source: Stern
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