Wolfgang Ullmann
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, theologian, politician
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Life
Wolfgang Ullmann was born in Bad Gottleuba near DresdenDresden
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. From 1948 to 1954 he studied Protestant
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theology and also philosophy
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, first in Berlin
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and then at the University of Göttingen.
Following graduation he returned to East Germany in 1954 and became minister in Colmnitz, Saxony
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. In 1963 he was appointed lecturer
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in Church History
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at Naumburg
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From 1978, he was lecturer in Church History at the training centre of the Eastern Region of the then divided Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg in East Berlin
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Protected by the Protestant Church in East Germany, opposition movements against the regime in the GDR formed and in 1987 Wolfgang Ullman became a member of one of these group, the “Initiative for the Refusal of Practice and Principle of the Demarcation”.
After German reunification
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in 1990 he was a member of parliament (Bundestag
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) and from 1994 to 1998 a member of the European Parliament
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for Alliance '90/The Greens
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He was married since 1956 and had three children. He died during a holiday in the Erzgebirge.
Writings
- Wolfgang Ullmann: The psychological Trinitätslehre August in as a theological condition of the medieval ethics. Goettingen, Theol. F., Diss. v. 11. Nov. 1954
- Friedrich de Boor, Wolfgang Ullmann (Hrsg.): Sources: Selected texts from D. History christl. Church. Berlin, Evang. Verl. - Institute, 1980
- Wolfgang Ullmann: Preparatory school of the democracy: Church and round table. Berlin, Berlin: Evang. Verl. - Anst., 1990, ISBN 3-374-01356-2
- Wolfgang Ullmann: Democracy - now or never: Perspectives of the justice. Munich, Kyrill and Method Verl., 1990, ISBN 3-927527-24-6
- Bernhard Maleck, Wolfgang Ullmann: I will not be silent: Discussions with Wolfgang Ullmann, Berlin, Dietz, 1991, ISBN 3-320-01753-5
- Bernhard Maleck, Wolfgang Ullmann: Condition and parliament. A contribution to the condition discussion, Berlin, Dietz, 1992, ISBN 3-320017-75-6
- Wolfgang Ullmann: Future clearing-up. A stocktaking after the end of the utopias. Berlin, context Verl., 1995, ISBN 3-931337-10-3
- Wolfgang Ullmann: Patience, loves Dimut!: Brussels letter. Leipzig, forum Verl., 1998, ISBN 3-931801-04-7