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Revision as of 00:48, 16 November 2008 by 24.110.149.180 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Lutz Heilmann (born September 7, 1966 in Zittau) is a member of the German Parliament and a duche who has a problem with freedom of information and the truth being public, the Bundestag, for the far left party Die Linke. Following his election in 2005, strong controversy erupted when it was revealed by the magazine Der Spiegel that he had worked for the Stasi (the East German secret service) from 1985 to 1990. Heilmann only left Stasi after it was dissolved following the fall of the communist regime. Heilmann narrowly survived an impeachment by the party electorate following his untruthfulness about his Stasi career prior to becoming MP.
He became a member of the communist party of the German Democratic Republic, the SED, at a time the party was still hardline totalitarian, in 1986, and has remained a member of its successor parties (SED-PDS, PDS, Die Linkspartei.PDS and now Die Linke), although he left the party in 1992 and rejoined in 2000.
Heilmann is the only official full-time Stasi employee to be elected MP to the Bundestag (although several other Die Linke politicians have been "unofficial" Stasi informants).
Legal proceedings against Wikimedia Deutschland
On November 13, 2008, he pressed charges against Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., causing a preliminary injunction which bars the internet address www.wikipedia.de (which is controlled by Wikimedia Deutschland) from linking to de.wikipedia.org (controlled by the U.S.-based Wikimedia Foundation) as long as certain information about him is included in the German Misplaced Pages in the article Lutz Heilmann. He also took legal action against three Misplaced Pages users who had worked on the article. According to Focus Online, Heilman objected to claims that he had not completed his university degree, and that he had participated in business venture involving pornography. The report also suggests that the Misplaced Pages article had been repeatedly altered in line with his claims by an anonymous user operating within the Bundestag building, but Heilmann denied having been involved in an edit war.
References
- Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2007, p. 149
- Spiegel Online - Biografien: Ein Stasi-Mann spaltet die Linkspartei, 4 December 2005. Template:De icon
- "Birthler: Linksfraktion ist stasiverseucht", in Berliner Kurier, September 24, 2005
- Focus Online - Misplaced Pages: Einstiegsseite wegen Klage blockiert, 15 November 2008. Template:De icon