Christa Luft

Christa Luft
Luft in 2010
Deputy Chairman of the
Council of Ministers
In office
18 November 1989 – 12 April 1990
ChairmanHans Modrow
Preceded byGünther Kleiber
Alfred Neumann
Succeeded byPeter-Michael Diestel
Minister of Economics
In office
18 November 1989 – 12 April 1990
Chairman of the
Council of Ministers		Hans Modrow
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byGerhard Pohl
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag
for Berlin-Friedrichshain-Lichtenberg
In office
10 November 1994 – 17 October 2002
Preceded byNils Diederich (Berlin-Friedrichshain – Treptow – Lichtenberg I)
Succeeded byGesine Lötzsch
Member of the Volkskammer
for Karl-Marx-Stadt
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Christa Hecht

(1938-02-22) 22 February 1938 (age 86)
Krakow am See, Nazi Germany (now Germany)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		The Left (2007–2022)
Party of Democratic Socialism (1989–2007)
Socialist Unity Party (1958–1989)
Children2
ResidenceBerlin
Occupation
  • Politician
  • academic
  • economist
Luft with Witho Holland in 1989

Christa Luft (née Hecht; born 22 February 1938) is a German economist and politician of the SED/PDS.[1] Luft joined the SED in 1958. From 18 November 1989 to 18 March 1990, she was the Minister of Economics in the Modrow government.[2] From 1994 to 2002 she was member of the Bundestag for the PDS.

From 1963 to 1971 Luft was registered as a Stasi informant under the code name IM Gisela.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Natürlich habe ich gesehen, was in der DDR leider alles schiefläuft". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 29 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Sie lernt ja täglich dazu". Der Spiegel (in German). 12 February 1990. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  3. ^ Dieter Wiefelspütz (19 June 1998). "Bericht des Deutschen Bundestags: Drucksache 13/11104 vom 19.06.1998" (in German). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Luft, Christa geb. geb. Hecht * 22.02.1938 Stellv. Vorsitzende des Ministerrats u. Ministerin für Wirtschaft". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 5 November 2018.