Heinz Vietze

Vietze retired from active politics in 2007, being elected chairman of the PDS's Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, a position he left in 2012.

[1][2][3][4]: 72  He then studied at the "Karl Marx" Party Academy until 1977, graduating with a diploma in social sciences (Dipl.-Ges.-Wiss.).

[9] As the Bezirk Potsdam FDJ leader in 1982, he summoned the future Brandenburg Finance Minister Rainer Speer, who was then working in an FDJ cultural center, and forced him to cancel a planned event because church groups were also supposed to participate.

[6][7][10][12][13] During his time as an FDJ functionary, Vietze also passed on critical remarks about the GDR made by young people, including their names and addresses, to the Stasi.

[8][9][11] In 2011, a report prepared for the Enquete Commission for the review of the post-reunification period by the Landtag of Brandenburg concluded that Vietze should have been asked to return his parliamentary mandate during the 1990-1994 legislative period due to his collaboration with the Stasi.

[8][9] In September 1989, Vietze stated at a meeting of the Potsdam SED: "If the enemy rises in his trench to directly fight against us, aims sharply, and uses all he has, then in the German Democratic Republic, the discussion about the last leaflet or trench newspaper must stop, and we must talk about who is aiming at this enemy, and with combat power, with class-based positions.

[1] From the inaugural 1990 state election, Vietze was a member of his party in the Landtag of Brandenburg and, from October 1990 to September 2007, also served as deputy parliamentary group leader and parliamentary manager (whip) of the state parliament group.