Günter Nooke
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Günter Nooke (born January 21, 1959) is a German Politician (CDU) and a former civil rights activist.
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[edit] Background
Nooke was born in Forst (region Lusatia), Germany, a small town in the State of Brandenburg. He grew up there only 150 km (90 miles) southeast of Berlin, in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), near the polish border.
He was educated in Forst (Lusatia), Cottbus and at the University of Leipzig, where he studied physics from 1980 to 1985. After graduating Nooke worked as a research assistant, latterly as a head of section from 1985 to 1990 at the industrial hygiene inspectorate in Cottbus.
He is married to sociologist Maria Nooke. They have three children.
[edit] Politician
Since 1987 he had been a member of a Church opposition group, and got involved in the growing democracy movement 1989, which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following the first (and only) democratic election in the GDR, he became Member of the People's Chamber for the opposition group named Alliance 90. From 1990 to 1994 Nooke was a Member of Parliament of the State of Brandenburg, being the chairman of the parliamentary group of Alliance 90, later called ALLIANCE. In 1996 he joined the CDU, together with other former civil rights acivists.
From 1998 to 2005 he was a Member of the German Bundestag, deputy chairman (2000 - 2002) and spokesperson for cultural and media affairs (2002 - 2005) of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
[edit] Administration
On March 8, 2006 he was appointed Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid by the German Bundesregierung of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
[edit] External links
- The Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office
- Appointment press release, German Embassy Washington, D.C., March 15, 2006
- (German) «Wir wollen andere Kulturen nicht platt machen» (We dont want to bulldoze any other culture) - Interview in online media 'Netzeitung' from April 12, 2006
- (German) "Schröder hat viel kaputtgemacht" (Schroeder destroyed a lot) - Interview in German newspaper 'Der Tagesspiegel' from March 26, 2006
- (German) "Wenigstens einer hat es geschafft" - SPIEGEL ONLINE from March 16, 2006
