Helga Adler

Helga Adler (born Helga Obuchoff: 21 December 1943) spent the earlier part of her career as an East German historian and, latterly, politician.[1] She was politically engaged during the build up to German reunification, but in November 1991 resigned, sidelined and disillusioned, from what had by then become the Party of Democratic Socialism,[2] Since then she been formally unaffiliated politically, but very far from uninterested.[3]

She has been a committed feminist through most of her career, and was the director of the Paula Panke Women's Centre ("Frauenzentrum Paula Panke e.V.") in Berlin-Pankow between 1998 and 2009.[4]

  1. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Adler, Helga geb. Obuchoff * 21.12.1943 PDS-Politikerin". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Magdeburger Strudel: Die alte SED-Riege lähmt die PDS - Reformer geben resigniert auf". Der Spiegel (online). 9 December 1991. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  3. ^ Peter Steiniger (6 October 2009). "»Der Westen war für mich was ganz Schlimmes«  ..... Ein Gespräch mit Helga Adler. Über den Abfall vom Glauben, verpaßte Reformchancen in der DDR und weibliche Selbstbestimmung heute". linke perspektive This source includes a photo-portrait. junge Welt. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Projekte-Rückblick". Frauenzentrum Paula Panke e.V., Berlin. Retrieved 9 August 2016.