He collapsed on the toilet
Green politician Werner Schulz dies at the event
Former GDR civil rights activist Werner Schulz is dead. He died on Wednesday during an event at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. This was announced by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, according to participants at the conference. Schulz was 72 years old.
ARCHIVE – Werner Schulz died at the age of 72. Photo: Karlheinz Schindler/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
The Office of the Federal President ended the event early on November 9th, citing the death of one of the participants as the reason. It wanted to inform the relatives immediately.
According to dpa information, Schulz collapsed on the toilet. He was born on January 22, 1950 in Zwickau (Saxony). He studied food chemistry and technology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1968 he was active in various opposition groups in the GDR.
In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the New Forum, which he represented at the Round Table. In 1990 Schulz became a member of the first freely elected People’s Chamber of the GDR. From October 1990 to October 2005 he was a member of the Bundestag for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and from 2009 to 2014 of the European Parliament. Schulz was honored with the German National Prize last June for his commitment to democracy and the opposition in Russia. (SDA)