Gisela Bulla
Born
Gisela Elisabeth Gottschalk

(1932-03-06)6 March 1932
Hamburg, Germany
Died3 October 2018(2018-10-03) (aged 86)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Occupation(s)archeologist, author, and politician
Political partyHuman Environment Animal Protection

Gisela Elisabeth Bulla (born Gottschalk, (1932-03-06)6 March 1932 – (2018-10-03)3 October 2018) was a German archaeologist, author, and politician. She authored several books on the subject of domestic animals.[1][2] From March 1995 to September 2000, she was also the federal chairwoman of the Human Environment Animal Protection.

Biography

From the age of six, Bulla lived in Munich.[3] She received her PhD in classical archaeology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1972 with a dissertation entitled Typologische Darstellung griechischer Innenhofhäuser. She worked as a publishing editor until 1976. Since then she has been a freelance author. Under her birth name she wrote popular books on the pharaohs, the Roman emperors and the emperors of China. She has also written a number of books on pets, focusing on cats and rats and animal abuse. In 1984, she co-authored Endzeit für Tiere with Sina Walden, a book which gained some notoriety in animal rights circles. She also wrote articles for magazines such as Emma.[4] She was married and lived in Munich and Malta.[citation needed]

Political engagement

Bulla had already been living a vegetarian lifestyle since the 1970s. In the 1990s, she joined the Animal Protection Party, which was founded in 1993. At the third federal party conference, held in Braunschweig on 11 March 1995, she was elected federal chairwoman, succeeding Ingeborg Bingener.[5] She was confirmed in office in both 1997 and 1998. For the 1998 German federal election, Bulla was unanimously elected as the top candidate.[6]

In the 1999 European Parliament election in Germany, she was also the top candidate for her party.[2] With an election result of 0.7% in the European election, the Animal Protection Party participated in state party funding for the first time.[7] She was last re-elected as party chair in January 1999. She rejected electoral alliances with other parties during her tenure, so as not to dilute the idea of animal protection.[3]

On 8 September 2000, one day before the eighth federal party conference in Berlin, she resigned from this position, as she was elected deputy chairwoman of the party's Federal Arbitration Court the following day. First Deputy Federal chairman Egon Karp then took over as acting leader of the party for a year, before Jürgen Gerlach was elected to succeed her as party chairman on 29 September 2001.[8]

Works

Publication under the pseudonym of Nelly Hamilton

Publication under the name of Gisela Gottschalk

References

  1. ^ Ingeborg Gräßer (27 September 2003). "Wie alles begann – meine ganz persönlichen Erinnerungen". Tierschutzpartei.de. Archived from the original on 28 December 2003. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Europawahlen: Wahlbewerber der Partei Tierschutz, sortiert nach Listenplatz". Bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 10 March 2003. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Die Tierschutzpartei stellt sich vor". EVU-News. 1998. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  4. ^ Gisela Bulla (1 January 1994). "Frauen und Katzen". Emma. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  5. ^ Lucardie, Paul (2007). "Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz (Die Tierschutzpartei". In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (HRSG.): Handbuch der Deutschen Parteien.: 331.
  6. ^ "Landeslisten-Vorschläge bei der Bundestagswahl 1998 im Bundesland Bayern". Bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 18 December 2002. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  7. ^ Margret Giese (27 September 2003). "10 Jahre Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz – Die Tierschutzpartei: Eine kurze Zusammenfassung ihres Werdegangs seit der Gründung 1993". Tierschutzpartei.de. Archived from the original on 31 December 2003. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Chronik der Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz – Die Tierschutzpartei". Tierschutzpartei.de. 27 September 2003. Archived from the original on 24 February 2004. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

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