Angelika Barbe

Angelika Barbe
Barbe in 1990
Born
Angelika Mangoldt

(1951-11-26) 26 November 1951 (age 73)
Brandenburg an der Havel, East Germany
Occupation(s)Peace activist
Politician
Political partySDP
SPD
CDU

Angelika Barbe (née Mangoldt, 26 November 1951) is a German biologist who became a politician.[1]

During the changes in the later 1980s, which led to a restoration of democracy in East Germany and German reunification just over six months later, she played a leading role in the opposition movement, and was a co-founder of the relaunched (in East Germany) Social Democratic party.[2] Following reunification she served as a member of the national parliament (Bundestag) between 1990 and 1994.[3] She has been identified with a certain "moral rigour" which was on display in 1996 when she switched her political allegiance from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the CDU (centre-right party) because she found her SPD party colleagues unnecessarily accommodating with the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) (which was at that stage a partially re-invented successor to what had been the ruling party in the old East German one-party dictatorship).[4]

  1. ^ "Angelika Barbe deutsche Biologin und Politikerin; CDU". Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  2. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Barbe, Angelika geb. Mangoldt * 26.11.1951 Mitbegründerin der SDP". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Angelika Barbe: Referentin der Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Sachsen" (PDF). Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  4. ^ Stefan Berg; Andreas Wassermann (24 April 2000). "Einfach ausgedient: Die ehemaligen DDR-Bürgerrechtler geraten in der CDU Angela Merkels ins Abseits. Ihr moralischer Rigorismus stört beim Kampf um Mehrheiten im Osten". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 3 February 2017.