Markus Meckel
1959 to 1967 General High School, 1967 to 1969 Extended High School, had to leave school for political reasons. 1969 to 1971 church high school Potsdam Hermannswerder, university entrance qualification; 1971 to 1978 theology studies in Naumburg and Berlin.
1980 to 1988 Vicariate and Protestant pastorate in Vipperow/Müritz. 1988 to 1990 director of the Ecumenical Meeting and Education Center in Niederndodeleben near Magdeburg. 1988 to 1989 delegate to the Ecumenical Assembly in the GDR and the European Ecumenical Assembly in Basel.
Member of the IG BCE, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur" (Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship), member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1996 to 2000 Chairman of the Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Bundesverband e. V. (German-Polish Association), since 2003 member and co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation.
Oppositional political work since the 1970s, participation in numerous initiatives and in attempts to network political groups; with Martin Gutzeit, initiator of the founding of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP). SDP representative at the Central Round Table. Since the founding of the SDP on October 7, 1989, second SDP spokesman; February to September 1990, deputy chairman; April to June 1990, acting chairman of the SPD East.
Member of the Bundestag since 1990; 1992 to 1994 spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Enquete Commission "Coming to Terms with the History and Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany" and 1994 to 1998 spokesman in the Enquete Commission "Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity," since 1994 chairman of the German-Polish Parliamentary Group; Deputy member since 1991, full member and head of the German delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly since 1998, its vice president from 2000 to 2002; deputy foreign policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group since 2001.
1980 to 1988 Vicariate and Protestant pastorate in Vipperow/Müritz. 1988 to 1990 director of the Ecumenical Meeting and Education Center in Niederndodeleben near Magdeburg. 1988 to 1989 delegate to the Ecumenical Assembly in the GDR and the European Ecumenical Assembly in Basel.
Member of the IG BCE, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur" (Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship), member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1996 to 2000 Chairman of the Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Bundesverband e. V. (German-Polish Association), since 2003 member and co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation.
Oppositional political work since the 1970s, participation in numerous initiatives and in attempts to network political groups; with Martin Gutzeit, initiator of the founding of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP). SDP representative at the Central Round Table. Since the founding of the SDP on October 7, 1989, second SDP spokesman; February to September 1990, deputy chairman; April to June 1990, acting chairman of the SPD East.
Member of the Bundestag since 1990; 1992 to 1994 spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Enquete Commission "Coming to Terms with the History and Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany" and 1994 to 1998 spokesman in the Enquete Commission "Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity," since 1994 chairman of the German-Polish Parliamentary Group; Deputy member since 1991, full member and head of the German delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly since 1998, its vice president from 2000 to 2002; deputy foreign policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group since 2001.