Margot Theben

Last updated • 2 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Margot Theben
Member of the Landtag of Brandenburg
In office
1990–1999
Personal details
Born(1935-02-10)10 February 1935
Rostock
Died24 March 2024(2024-03-24) (aged 89)
Political party Party of Democratic Socialism (after 1990)
Other political
affiliations		 Socialist Unity Party (1957 to 1989)

Margot Theben (10 February 1935 in Rostock – 24 March 2024 ) was a German politician from the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and later the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

Contents

Life and career

Theben trained as a brush maker and studied finance and budgeting at the Potsdam-Babelsberg School of Finance. From 1956 to 1958 she was employed by the Stralsund City Council and from 1958 to 1966 she worked for the Frankfurt (Oder) District Council, where she was ultimately head of the district budget. From 1967 to 1970, Theben was an aspirant and research assistant at the Berlin-Karlshorst School of Economics, where she received her doctorate in 1971.

From July 1990 to July 1991 she was an administrative employee of the district administration authority of Frankfurt/Oder. She was also a member of the advisory board of the Investment Bank of the State of Brandenburg.

Politics

Theben was a member of the SED from 1957 to 1989 and of the PDS from 1990. She was a member of the finance committee of the Frankfurt (Oder) district council from 1971 to 1990 .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, she sat in the Landtag of Brandenburg from 1990 to 1999. [1] Both times she was elected to parliament via the state list. She was the party's budget policy spokesperson.

Theben died in 2024. [2] She was buried at the main cemetery in Frankfurt (Oder).

Further reading

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Neumann (East German politician)</span> East German politician (1909–2001)

Alfred "Ali" Neumann was an East German politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, and for a short time, he was East German Minister of Materials Management.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1. FC Frankfurt</span> German football club

1. Fußballclub Frankfurt (Oder) E. V. e. V., commonly known as 1. FC Frankfurt, is a German football club based in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg. The club was founded as the army club SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig in Leipzig in East Germany in 1951. The club won six East German championships as ASK Vorwärts Berlin and FC Vorwärts Berlin between 1958 and 1969.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kerstin Kaiser</span> German politician (born 1960)

Kerstin Kaiser is a German politician for the left wing party The Left.

Gerlinde Stobrawa was a German politician for Die Linke and its predecessors. She was a member of the council of the Bezirk of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1984 to 1989, and completed a degree in sociology at the Parteihochschule Karl Marx of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany from 1986 to 1988. She was elected to the Landtag of the state of Brandenburg in 1990 and served as its vice president from 2005 to 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elke Altmann</span> German politician (born 1957)

Elke Altmann is a German politician and member of the Left Party of Germany. From October 1999 until September 2009, she was a member of the Landtag of Saxony.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angelika Gramkow</span> German politician (born 1958)

Angelika Gramkow is a German politician.

Ursula Fischer is a German former national politician (PDS).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anita Tack</span> German politician (born 1951)

Anita Tack is a German politician who is a member of The Left. From 2009 to 2014, she was the Minister of the Environment, Health, and Consumer Protection for the state of Brandenburg. Since 1994, she has been a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">State of Brandenburg (1947–1952)</span> Subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone and one of the states of Soviet East Germany

The State of Brandenburg was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone and state of East Germany which corresponds widely to the present-day German state Brandenburg. The state was originally formed as administrative division Province of March Brandenburg by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) in July 1945, a re-establishment of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, excluding the Eastern parts behind the Oder–Neisse line to Poland. With the abolition of Prussia in February 1947, it was named State of March Brandenburg but in June 1947 the SMAD forced to change the name to State of Brandenburg. In August 1945, a transfer of territory was ruled out between Allied-occupied Berlin. Compared to the administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, it comprised the Western part of the Gau March Brandenburg and small parts of Berlin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dagmar Enkelmann</span> German politician (born 1956)

Dagmar Enkelmann is a German politician of Die Linke party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ina Leukefeld</span> German politician

Ina Leukefeld is a German politician for Die Linke and a member of the Regional Parliament of Thuringia.

Almuth Beck is a German former teacher and politician (SED/PDS).

Bernd Meier was a German politician (SED/PDS) and official of the FDJ. He served as first party secretary of the party leadership ("Bezirksleitung") for the Frankfurt (Oder) region and then as a member of the national parliament (Volkskammer) during the eventful run-up to reunification.

Else Ackermann was a German physician and pharmacologist who became an East German politician. 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">René Wilke</span> German politician

René Wilke is a German politician, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder), and a former member of Brandenburg's regional parliament. 2014 he became a directly elected Member of parliament for his native Frankfurt (Oder). On 18 March 2018 he was elected Oberbürgermeister of Frankfurt (Oder). With his inauguration on 6 May 2018, Wilke became the youngest mayor in the history of Frankfurt (Oder) and the mayor of the biggest city from his party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Birgit Pommer</span> German politician

Birgit Pommer is a German politician of The Left who has served as President of the Landtag of Thuringia from 2019 to 2024. She is the first member of her party to serve as speaker of any state parliament. Prior, she served as Minister for Infrastructure and Agriculture in the first Ramelow cabinet.

Heinz Vietze is a former German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and its successors, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and The Left.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Axel Henschke</span> German politician (born 1952)

Axel Henschke is a former German Stasi officer, politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and its successors, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and The Left.

Christa Zellmer was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Birgit Wöllert</span>

Birgit Ottilie Wöllert is a German politician of the Left Party. A professional teacher, she served as a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2004 to 2013 and of the Bundestag from 2013 to 2017.

References

  1. ↑ "Spuren im Schnee". Der Spiegel (in German). 1991-11-24. ISSN   2195-1349 . Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  2. ↑ "Margot Theben". trauer.moz.de.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.