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Place of Birth: Angermünde, Brandenburg, Germany
About Gerlinde Stobrawa
- Gerlinde Stobrawa (born 23 January 1949 in Altkünkendorf), also known under her Stasi code name IM Marisa, is a former politician for Die Linke and its predecessors.
- She was a member of the council of the Bezirk of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1984 to 1989, and completed a degree in sociology at the Parteihochschule Karl Marx of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany from 1986 to 1988.
- She was elected to the Landtag of the state of Brandenburg in 1990 and served as its Vice President from 2005 to 2009.
- The fact of Stobrawa having a past as an informer for the East German secret police Stasi was public knowledge since 1991.
- However she resigned in November 2009 as Vice President of the Landtag when the extent of her past was revealed by the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.
- Stobrawa argued that as part of her activities on the council of the Bezirk of Frankfurt (Oder) she met and was responsible for international delegations from a variety of countries, and that related security matters had to be monitored by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi).
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