Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marianne Birthler is a German human rights advocate and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. Since 2000, she has served as the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, being the head of a government agency responsible for investigating the past crimes of the former communist secret police, Stasi, of East Germany. She grew up in East Germany, where she became a member of the Initiative for Peace and Human Rights, which formed part of the resistance to the Soviet-imposed communist regime in the 1980s. She was elected to the only democratically elected People's Chamber in the GDR in March 1990, where she served as spokeswoman of the Alliance 90. From German Reunification on 3 October 1990 until the elections of 2 December 1990, she was a member of the Bundestag, the Parliament of Germany. In October 1990, she became a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg, and in November, she was appointed as Minister for Education in the state government of Manfred Stolpe