1. Werner Schulz was an activist for peace ecology and human rights in several oppositional groups from the 1970s.
18 Facts About Werner Schulz
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Werner Schulz lost his university job in 1980 when he protested against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
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Werner Schulz was elected to the first freely elected Volkskammer.
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Werner Schulz grew up there, the son of an independent haulage contractor and former professional officer from a social-democratic dominated family.
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Werner Schulz's father recommended him not to join the Young Pioneers.
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Werner Schulz received a degree in food technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1974.
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Werner Schulz was dismissed in 1980 because he protested against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Werner Schulz then worked as a research assistant at the Institut fur Sekundarrohstoffwirtschaft, dealing with recycling technology.
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Werner Schulz was active from the beginning in the Protestant church movements for peace, ecology and human rights.
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Werner Schulz was an activist in several oppositional groups from the 1970s, and a member of the Friedenskreis Pankow from 1982.
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Werner Schulz became a member of the Green Party in Germany, elected to the first freely elected Volkskammer in 1990, where he served from March to October 1990 as speaker of his party.
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Werner Schulz did not run in the second round; instead Wolfgang Tiefensee of the SPD was elected.
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Werner Schulz's speech was honoured as the Speech of the Year by the seminar of rhetoric of the University of Tubingen, with the jury saying that he used his limited time for a concise analysis and personal confession, although it was not immediately successful.
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Werner Schulz was vice president of the council of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship from 2003 to 2008, and a member of the board of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag from 2003 to 2009.
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Werner Schulz served until 2014, as vice chair of the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and as a member of the parliament's delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly from 2012 to 2014, among others.
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Werner Schulz died from a heart attack in Berlin on 9 November 2022, at age 72.
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Werner Schulz had been scheduled to speak at a memorial event at Schloss Bellevue where he collapsed.
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Werner Schulz was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015; President Joachim Gauck honoured him and others who had worked towards a united Germany on German Unity Day.