Jutta Braband was born on Jutta Czichotzke, 13 March 1949 and is a former German politician.
22 Facts About Jutta Braband
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Jutta Braband's father was a building engineer: her mother was a police officer.
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Jutta Braband passed her school final exams and the local sixth form college and moved on to work in industry, first in Stralsund and later in Berlin.
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Jutta Braband's relationship with the Socialist Unity Party was a complicated one that changed over time.
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Jutta Braband was a member of the Young Pioneers and then of the Free German Youth and, after she was permitted to join the party itself on reaching the age of 18, proud to back the party ideals and keen to keep a finger on the party pulse.
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Between 1971 and 1975 Jutta Braband was registered with the Ministry for State Security as an informant.
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Jutta Braband herself believed at the time that information she provided to her Stasi handlers was of little importance, but she nevertheless took the slightly unusually step of expressly ending her collaboration after four years.
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Subsequent research of the records indicated that Jutta Braband's spying activities led to imprisonment for at least three fellow citizens.
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Jutta Braband later tried to put the Stasi collaboration out of her mind, but when confronted with the evidence of the archives she acknowledged that she had been stupid and naive, and that she must have signed a standard Stasi "Statement of obligation" and received both a Stasi cover name and, over the four years of her activity as an "IM", at least the 14,000 Marks disclosed by the records, in return for information provided.
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Jutta Braband withdrew from further active involvement with the party, acknowledging to herself that tight adherence to some kind of "party discipline" had not led to a better society.
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Jutta Braband felt personally affected by the overtly political trials of Rupert Schroter and Rudi Molt, the house arrest of Robert Havemann and the sentencing of Rudolf Bahro.
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Klein and Jutta Braband were identified as the leading instigators of the letter.
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On her release Jutta Braband remained outside the political mainstream, and adhered to her "dissident" views, but while her political ideas continued to evolve, for most of the 1980s her dissent was more theoretical than activist.
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Jutta Braband now had a young daughter and in 1983 her son, Till, was born.
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Jutta Braband lived as a divorced single mother in Berlin.
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Jutta Braband's candidature was contentious because she had recently, as an East German citizen, worked with a West German film company.
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Jutta Braband was opposed to what she saw as the west's masculine value system and the dominating role assigned to money, which perverted the possibilities for personal development.
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Jutta Braband was keen to work with others completely to democratise the "German Democratic Republic", and to ensure that fellow citizens were fully empowered through being informed about political developments.
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Jutta Braband was not in favour of some sort of incorporation of East Germany into an unreformed version of the German Federal Republic.
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In December 1989 Jutta Braband became a member of the newly created Independent Women's League, a short-lived political party which four months later would be the only all-women political party to compete in East Germany's first free election.
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The proliferation of left-wing splinter groups that had been a feature of the German Democratic Republic during its final months now rapidly fizzled out, and it was on the candidate list of the PDS that Jutta Braband presented herself for election to the German parliament.
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In East Germany before 1989 Jutta Braband had supported herself as a free-lance fashion designer, but in the reunited Germany she found this career was no longer so readily available.