Else Ackermann

Else Ackermann
Member of the Bundestag
In office
3 October 1990 – 20 December 1990
In office
22 October 1991 – 10 November 1994
Personal details
Born6 November 1933
Berlin, Germany
Died14 September 2019(2019-09-14) (aged 85)[1]
Neuenhagen bei Berlin, Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union (East Germany) (1985–1990)
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (from 1990)
Occupation
  • Physician
  • pharmacologist
  • politician

Else Ackermann (6 November 1933 – 14 September 2019) was a German physician and pharmacologist who became an East German politician (Christian Democratic Union of Germany). The report on the power relationships between the citizen and the state which she drafted, and in 1988 presented, known as the "Neuenhagen Letter", was a significant precursor to the changes of 1989 which led to the ending, in the early summer of 1990, of the one-party system, followed by German reunification later that same year.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ https://www.neuenhagen-bei-berlin.de/startseite-de/neuigkeiten/zum-tod-von-dr-else-ackermann/ [dead link‍]
  2. ^ Manfred Agethen. "Ackermann, Else * 6.11.1933 CDU-Reformerin". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  3. ^ Manfred Agethen. "Der 'Brief aus Weimar' und der "Brief aus Neuenhagen"" (PDF). Unruhepotentiale und Reformbestrebungen an der Basis der Ost-CDU im Vorfeld der Wende. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin. pp. 89–114. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Dr. Else Ackermann, Brandenburg (Neuenhagen)". "Der von mir verfasste 'Neuhagener Brief' war ein Zustandsbericht über die beklagenswerten politischen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse in der DDR.". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin (Zeitzeugenportal). Retrieved 1 January 2018.