Ehrhart Neubert was a German evangelical minister and theologian.
13 Facts About Ehrhart Neubert
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From 1967 Ehrhart Neubert was taking part in various informal discussion groups, focusing on theology, sociology and the interface between them.
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Ehrhart Neubert was sympathetic to the civil right demands of Robert Havemann, who was seen by the regime as a high-profile political dissident.
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Ehrhart Neubert found himself increasingly in conflict both with the state authorities and with the inherently collaborationist leaderships of the official evangelical churches which were keen to retain a level of recognition and toleration from the party leadership.
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Ehrhart Neubert produced a number of quasi-political sociological and theological studies: some of his work appeared in West Germany under the pseudonym "Christian Joachim".
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Ehrhart Neubert contributed to the new party's programme and served as its first vice-chairman.
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Ehrhart Neubert represented Democratic Awakening at several of the East German Round Table sessions and served on various related investigatory commissions.
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In 1996 Ehrhart Neubert Neubart re-joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
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In 1997 Ehrhart Neubert took a post with the Stasi Records Agency, taking charge of the agency's research and education department.
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Together with the agency's commissioner of the time, Joachim Gauck, Ehrhart Neubert compiled the German contribution to the German-language version of The Black Book of Communism, writing the chapter entitled "Politische Verbrechen in der DDR".
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Erhart Ehrhart Neubert retired in 2005, but still filled in as a Lutheran minister in the Limlingerode area.
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Ehrhart Neubert later served for ten years as State Commissioner for Stasi records in Thuringia.
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Ehrhart Neubert died in Limlingerode, Germany on 17 November 2024, at the age of 84.