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Moers. President Siegmund Ehrmann invited the head of the Stasi records authority, Roland Jahn, to an extraordinary club evening of the Lions Club Moers in the Lower Rhine region.
Roland Jahn, born in Jena in 1953, studied economics there. As a protester against Wolf Biermann’s expatriation, he was forcibly de-registered, ultimately arrested through various other political protests and brutally deported to the former FRG.
There he worked as a journalist for the TV magazine Kontraste, the daily newspaper and for Radio Glasnost. He later worked in the political magazine Kontraste as editor, head of duty and deputy editor-in-chief.
In 2011 Roland Jahr became Federal Commissioner for the State Security Records of the former GDR.
Roland Jahn reported on life in divided Germany, on his career in the former GDR, the political persecution as a protester and his deportation to the FRG. He spoke about the process of German unity, open wounds of the unification process and the effort of growing together. He also underlined the enormous importance of political education, especially history and memory politics, for the stability of a free democracy.
In the year 30 of German reunification, this was a memorable encounter with an intensive discussion.
InfoKlick: https://www.lions.de/web/lc-moers
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