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Heilmann is the only official full-time Stasi employee to be elected MP to the Bundestag (although several other Die Linke politicians have been "unofficial" Stasi informants<ref>[http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2005/0924/seite1/0011/index.html "Birthler: Linksfraktion ist stasiverseucht"], in ''[[Berliner Kurier]]'', September 24, 2005</ref>). |
Heilmann is the only official full-time Stasi employee to be elected MP to the Bundestag (although several other Die Linke politicians have been "unofficial" Stasi informants<ref>[http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2005/0924/seite1/0011/index.html "Birthler: Linksfraktion ist stasiverseucht"], in ''[[Berliner Kurier]]'', September 24, 2005</ref>). |
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On November 13, 2008, he pressed charges against ''Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.'', causing a preliminary injunction which bars the internet address www.wikipedia.de from being redirected to de.wiki.x.io as long as certain information about him is included in the German Wikipedia in the article [[:de:Lutz Heilmann|Lutz Heilmann]]. He also took legal action against three Wikipedia users who had worked on the article. According to ''Spiegel's'' online service, Heilman objected to claims that he had not completed his university degree, and that he had participated in business venture involving pornography.<ref>[http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/wikipedia-einstiegsseite-wegen-klage-blockiert_aid_348743.html Focus Online - Wikipedia: Einstiegsseite wegen Klage blockiert] </ref> The report also suggests that the Wikipedia article had been repeatedly altered in line with his claims by an anonymous user operating within the Bundestag building, but Heilmann denied having been involved in an edit war. |
On November 13, 2008, he pressed charges against ''Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.'', causing a preliminary injunction which bars the internet address www.wikipedia.de from being redirected to de.wiki.x.io as long as certain information about him is included in the German Wikipedia in the article [[:de:Lutz Heilmann|Lutz Heilmann]]. He also took legal action against three Wikipedia users who had worked on the article. According to ''Spiegel's'' online service, Heilman objected to claims that he had not completed his university degree, and that he had participated in business venture involving pornography.<ref>[http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/wikipedia-einstiegsseite-wegen-klage-blockiert_aid_348743.html Focus Online - Wikipedia: Einstiegsseite wegen Klage blockiert] </ref> The report also suggests that the Wikipedia article had been repeatedly altered in line with his claims by an anonymous user operating within the Bundestag building, but Heilmann denied having been involved in an edit war. |
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Lutz Heilmann (born September 7, 1966 in Zittau) is a member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag, for the far left[1] party Die Linke. Following his election in 2005, strong controversy erupted when it was revealed by the magazine Der Spiegel that he worked for the Stasi (infamous East German secret service) from 1985 to 1990.[2] Heilmann only left Stasi after it was dissolved following the fall of the communist regime. Heilmann narrowly survived an impeachment by the party electorate following his untruthfulness about his Stasi career prior to becoming MP.
He became a member of the communist party of the German Democratic Republic, the SED, at a time the party was still hardline totalitarian, in 1986, and has remained a member of its successor parties (SED-PDS, PDS, Die Linkspartei.PDS and now Die Linke), although he left the party in 1992 and rejoined in 2000.
Heilmann is the only official full-time Stasi employee to be elected MP to the Bundestag (although several other Die Linke politicians have been "unofficial" Stasi informants[3]).
Censorship of Wikipedia
On November 13, 2008, he pressed charges against Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., causing a preliminary injunction which bars the internet address www.wikipedia.de from being redirected to de.wiki.x.io as long as certain information about him is included in the German Wikipedia in the article Lutz Heilmann. He also took legal action against three Wikipedia users who had worked on the article. According to Spiegel's online service, Heilman objected to claims that he had not completed his university degree, and that he had participated in business venture involving pornography.[4] The report also suggests that the Wikipedia article had been repeatedly altered in line with his claims by an anonymous user operating within the Bundestag building, but Heilmann denied having been involved in an edit war.