Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin

{{Short description|German politician (born 1941)}}

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Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin (25 February 1941) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party and later in life of Alliance '90/The Greens. She is the sister of Israeli historian Tom Segev.

Life

Born and raised in Jerusalem to Jewish refugees from Germany, Oesterle-Schwerin's father Heinz Schwerin was killed in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and her mother Ricarda was a photographer. She studied Interior design in Stuttgart and graduated in 1969, and in 1974 became a member of Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 1980, (NATO Double-Track Decision), she left German party SPD and became 1983 a member of German party Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1987 to 1990 she was member of German Bundestag for Alliance '90/The Greens.[http://www.gruene-bundestag.de/cms/ausstellung/dok/11/11107.11_wahlperiode-seite~2.html Alliance '90/The Greens:Green member in Bundestag] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527050430/http://www.gruene-bundestag.de/cms/ausstellung/dok/11/11107.11_wahlperiode-seite~2.html |date=2010-05-27 }} On 28 November 1989, she objected to German reunification, stating that there was not a single sensible reason for German unity.{{cite web|title=Schlaglichter der deutschen Einheit. Eine kommentierte Chronik(1987-1990)|url=https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=b766e451-ebe2-cbd4-72f0-a1824f960320&groupId=252038|website=kas.de|publisher=Konrad Adenauer Foundation|author=Michael Borchard|page=30|date=1 October 2008|language=de}}

Until 2008 Oesterle-Schwerin worked as a freelance architect in Berlin.

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