AfD Berlin
| AfD Berlin | |
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| Chairman | Nicolaus Fest (Emergency Board) |
| Deputy |
Jeannette Auricht Rolf Wiedenhaupt |
| Treasurer | Frank-Christian Hansel |
| Establishment date | April 27, 2013 |
| Place of foundation | Berlin |
| Headquarters | Kurfürstenstrasse 79 10785 Berlin |
| Landtag mandates |
25/160 |
| Number of members | 1,505 (as of January 2019) |
| Website | afd.berlin |
The AFD Berlin is the Berlin Regional Association of the party Alternative for Germany (AFD). The state association of the party is led by Georg Pazderski as state chairman. With Pazderski as the top candidate, the state party ran for the first time in the 2016 election and moved into the Berlin House of Representatives with 14.2% of the votes as the fifth largest parliamentary group . For the 2017 federal election , the then co-state chairman Beatrix von Storch was at the top of the state list , through which four members moved into the 19th Bundestag .
history
The Berlin regional association was founded on April 27, 2013. The first chairman of the AfD Berlin was the management consultant and long-time president of the Berlin State Association of the German Taxpayers Association, Günter Brinker , who stood for a more nationally liberal course. The national conservative wing of the federal party around Alexander Gauland was dissatisfied with Brinker. Against the resistance of the country leadership at the time, Hans-Joachim Berg introduced the Blue Circles , Berlin-wide round tables at which, among other things, the journalist of the Querfront magazine Compact Jürgen Elsässer spoke. In a special edition of the AfD-related magazine Polifakt , Brinker was heavily attacked. The typeface was produced by the same company that later also produced the so-called extra sheet and presented itself as politically independent.
In mid-February 2016, two national conservatives, Beatrix von Storch (AfD member of the European Parliament ) and Georg Pazderski (former AfD federal manager), were elected to lead the AfD in Berlin. After the election to the state board in January 2016, there were allegations of fraud . Two party members are said to have tried to vote twice at the state party conference. A party exclusion procedure was then initiated against the two AfD members and the ballot papers were counted again by a notary. A complaint against the two prosecutors was also received. A graphologist should check whether there were multiple ballots with the same handwriting. Some party members who distrust the elected board of directors had applied to be there when the ballot papers were counted again. However, this was rejected by the AfD leadership. One week after the election, Götz Frömming , who had been a member of the state board since the establishment of the state association, resigned from the post of deputy state chairman. In February 2017, after Heike Rubert and Frank Scheermesser brought a lawsuit, the party's arbitral tribunal decided that the election of the assessors had to be repeated due to irregularities and that the members had to be informed of the verdict. The party's federal arbitration court confirmed the state arbitration court's judgment in the summer of 2017. Until the beginning of September 2017, neither the members had been informed of the verdict, nor had a new election of the board been scheduled. The new election of the board took place in November 2017.
On September 21, 2016, the state party with Georg Pazderski as the top candidate in the election to the Berlin House of Representatives received 14.2 percent of the vote and moved into the House of Representatives with 25 elected representatives . In the simultaneous election to the district council assemblies , the state party moved into all twelve district parliaments at the municipal level, with double-digit results being achieved in nine districts. In seven districts, the AfD is allowed to provide one of five city councils for the first time.
At the beginning of July 2017, the Neukölln City Councilor for the Environment, Bernward Eberenz, resigned from the AfD because of the short-term nomination of Andreas Wild as a direct candidate for the 2017 federal election . A little later, Wild's nomination was withdrawn and he was excluded from the AfD parliamentary group.
In November 2018, the Berlin AfD had 1,500 members, around 230 more than a year earlier.
politics
According to Tagesspiegel , the Berlin AfD is known for “its loud and polarizing manner - not least because of its state chairwoman Beatrix von Storch”. Both von Storch and Pazderski belong to the national conservative wing of the AfD.
Party platform
At the beginning of 2016, the regional association adopted an election program for the House of Representatives election in September 2016 . In it, the AfD Berlin speaks out against the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV). The 190 members entitled to vote rejected the legalization of cannabis only with a narrow majority. The party wants to continue operating Tegel Airport even after Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens.
As its most important topic, the AfD Berlin named the abolition of public broadcasters , more precisely "the abolition of the ARD umbrella organization while maintaining the individual state broadcasters as providers of primarily regional program content on radio and television".
organization
Party organs of the regional association are the regional party congress, the regional executive committee, the regional council and the regional arbitration tribunal.
State party conference
The highest party organ is the state party congress . It elects the state board , the auditors and the state arbitration court. The regional arbitration tribunal decides on internal party disputes and can expel members. The party congress takes place as a general assembly, whereby members who are at least three months behind with their membership fees have no voting rights . If the number of members of the regional association exceeds 1,000, the party congress can take place as an assembly of delegates by resolution of the regional executive committee. For this purpose, the district associations send a delegate for every 5 members or part thereof .
| No. | date | place | State Chairperson / Leading Candidate |
Election result | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st state party conference | April 27, 2013 | Berlin Tegel | Günter Brinker Annette Goldstein Matthias Lefarth |
Establishment of the regional association; Election of the state executive | |
| State election assembly | May 25, 2013 | Berlin Tegel | Joachim Starbatty | 94% | Election of the state list for the 2013 federal election |
| 2nd state party conference | 5th / 6th July 2014 | Günter Brinker | New election of the state executive; Amendment of the state statutes | ||
| 3rd state party conference | 11./12. April 2015 | Change of state statutes; Election of the delegates to the federal party congress | |||
| 4th state party conference | 16./17. January 2016 | Berlin center |
Beatrix von Storch Georg Pazderski |
78% 59% |
New election of the state executive; Change of state statutes; Decision on the election program for the 2016 election to the House of Representatives |
| 5th state party conference | March 13, 2016 April 3, 2016 |
Berlin-Moabit Berlin-Tiergarten |
Discussion and decision on the election program for the 2016 election to the House of Representatives | ||
| State election assembly | 23/24 April 2016 | Berlin Tiergarten | Georg Pazderski | 67% | Election of the state list for election to the House of Representatives 2016 |
| 6th state party conference | 11th August 2016 | Berlin-Charlottenburg | New election of the regional arbitration tribunal | ||
| State election assembly | 4th / 5th March 2017 | Schönwalde-Glien | Beatrix von Storch | 76% | Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election |
| 7th state party conference | 4th November 2017 | Berlin-Haselhorst | Georg Pazderski | 79% | New election of the state executive |
| 8th state party conference | May 12, 2018 | Berlin-Lichtenrade | New election of the regional arbitration tribunal; Change of state statutes; Decision on a housing construction policy concept |
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| 9th state party conference | 29th September 2018 | Berlin-Haselhorst | Election of the delegates to the European election assembly |
State Board
The party changed the composition of the board by voting: In the future, the AfD Berlin will be led by a state board consisting of a chairman, three deputies, a treasurer and six assessors.
| State Chairman | Georg Pazderski (MdA) |
| Deputy State Chair | Jeannette Auricht ( Member of the Bundestag ), Beatrix von Storch (Member of the Bundestag; Deputy Chairwoman of the Bundestag parliamentary group ), Karsten Woldeit ( Member of the Bundestag ) |
| Treasurer | Frank-Christian Hansel (MdA) |
| Assessor | Sarah-Emanuela Gröber, Ronald Gläser (MdA), Frank Scheermesser (MdA), Martin Trefzer (MdA), Carsten Ubbelohde (MdA), Thorsten Weiß (MdA) |
| MdA = member of the House of Representatives; MdB = member of the Bundestag | |
District Associations
The Berlin State Association is divided into twelve district associations, one in each Berlin district .
| District Association | Chairman |
|---|---|
| Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf | Nicolaus Fest , Hugh Bronson |
| Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg | Frank Scheermesser |
| Lichtenberg | Marius Radtke |
| Marzahn-Hellersdorf | Jeannette Auricht |
| center | Sabine student |
| Neukölln | Robert Eschricht |
| Pankow | Michael Adam |
| Reinickendorf | Rolf Wiedenhaupt |
| Spandau | Andreas Otti |
| Steglitz-Zehlendorf | Gottfried Curio |
| Tempelhof-Schöneberg | Karsten Franck |
| Treptow-Koepenick | Martin Trefzer , Alexander Bertram |
Party leader
| Party chairman | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|
| Günter Brinker | April 2013 - February 2016 | |
| Georg Pazderski , Beatrix von Storch | February 2016 - November 2017 | |
| Georg Pazderski | since November 2017 | |
Group leaders
| Parliamentary group leader | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|
| Georg Pazderski | since September 2016 | |
Young alternative Berlin
The youth organization of the AfD in Berlin is the Junge Alternative Berlin . State chairman is David Eckert. The deputy state chairmen are Stefan Mörs, Joel Bußmann and Jan Streeck. Christoph Rätscher acts as treasurer, Benjamin Austin, The-Hao Ha, Talisa Barfuss and Marc Vallendar as assessors . Elias Nicolaus is a co-opted board member (as of May 2018).
The boy Alternative Berlin works with the Protection of the Constitution as a right-wing extremist classified identitary movement together as early 2017 the then chairman of JA Berlin, Thorsten White confirmed. Until then, the AfD had denied ties to the Identitarian Movement. Observers had previously spoken of the fact that the youth association was founded from among the ranks of the Identitarian Movement. "The JA also represents a connection to the extra-parliamentary right," wrote the daily newspaper in 2016.
In May 2017, members of the Berlin JA took part in a failed campaign by the identity movement. The public prosecutor's office then obtained an arrest warrant for dangerous bodily harm against Jannik Brämer, at the time treasurer of the Berlin JA, because of which Brämer resigned from his post at JA Berlin and a party expulsion proceedings were opened against him. After Brämer was re-elected to the board of JA Berlin in December 2017, all newly elected board members resigned after only four days, with the exception of Brämer, making him unable to act. According to a report by the taz, JA Berlin would otherwise have threatened to withdraw its status as an AfD youth organization.
Relation to other right-wing organizations
According to the currently applicable membership regulations, “persons who are members of an extremist organization” cannot become members of the AfD. As extremist organizations apply according incompatibility List of Alternative for Germany mainly in the reports constitutional protection authorities of the Federation and the countries mentioned organizations.
The AfD Berlin distances itself from right-wing movements such as “Bärgida” and “Merkel must go”. However, some party members take part in the demonstrations as private individuals. For example, Heribert Eisenhardt, member of BVV-Lichtenberg, according to research by the anti-fascist press archive and education center, gave regular speeches at the Bärgida demonstrations, carried a banner from PI-News and appeared under a pseudonym as Bärgida's press spokesman. In the course of a party regulation procedure, the state arbitration court of the AfD decided that Eisenhardt had to give up his position on the district executive board. However, the AfD does not see a reason for exclusion from the party in participation. The deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the BVV-Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Bernd Pachal, who had praised "the wise policy of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich " in what was then Czechoslovakia and recommended a book by the British anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Douglas Reed , wore a Bärgida- Demo the front transparency.
Kay Nerstheimer , a direct candidate in the 2016 parliamentary elections , is the former head of the German Defense League in Berlin, which he said he wanted to expand into a militia . Because of his statements, Nerstheimer was not accepted into the AfD parliamentary group.
Ronald glasses , member of the state board and press spokesman for the Berlin AfD, was editor of the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit .
Tom Schreiber , spokesman for the protection of the constitution of the SPD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, called in May 2017 that individual AfD members be monitored by the Berlin constitutional protection agency , citing a “direct and indirect cooperation between the party and the identities” as the reason. June Tomiak from the Greens repeated this demand in February 2018. Niklas Schrader from the Left spoke out against an observation, as did Kurt Wansner from the CDU .
Election results
| State elections | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Direct mandates | Seats | space | Top candidate |
| 2016 | 231,492 | 14.2% |
5/78 |
25/160 |
4th | Georg Pazderski |
| Bundestag elections | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Direct mandates | Seats | space | Top candidate |
| 2013 | 88.060 | 4.9% |
0/12 |
0/27 |
5 | Joachim Starbatty |
| 2017 | 224,957 | 12.0% |
0/12 |
4/28 |
5 | Beatrix von Storch |
| European elections | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | space |
| 2014 | 91,759 | 7.9% | 5 |
| 2019 | 149.172 | 9.9% | 5 |
Group in the House of Representatives
In the constituent meeting on September 21, 2016, the top candidate Georg Pazderski was elected chairman of the parliamentary group . Kay Nerstheimer previously announced that he would not be a member of the parliamentary group .
The elected members of the AfD in the 18th electoral term of the Berlin House of Representatives are:
| Member of the political group | Moving into the House of Representatives about | Current functions and memberships in the parliamentary group and in the party |
|---|---|---|
| Jeannette Auricht | List position 12 | Deputy State Chair |
| Hanno Bachmann | List position 19 | |
| Hans-Joachim Berg | List position 4 | |
| Kristin Brinker | List place 6 | Deputy Group Chairperson |
| Hugh Bronson | List place 15 | |
| Christian Buchholz | Direct mandate Pankow 1 | |
| Ronald glasses | List position 3 | Deputy Group Chairman; Assessor in the state board |
| Frank-Christian Hansel | List position 5 | Parliamentary Director ; State Treasurer |
| Franz Dungeon | List place 14 | |
| Harald Laatsch | List position 7 | |
| Gunnar Lindemann | Direct mandate Marzahn-Hellersdorf 1 | |
| Herbert Mohr | List position 18 | |
| Dieter Neuendorf | List position 17 | |
| Georg Pazderski | List position 1 | Parliamentary group and state chairman, deputy federal chairman |
| Frank Scheermesser | List position 20 | Assessor in the state board |
| Frank Scholtysek | Direct mandate Treptow-Köpenick 3 | |
| Tommy Tabor | List place 21 | |
| Martin Trefzer | List place 8 | Assessor in the state board |
| Carsten Ubbelohde | List position 11 | Assessor in the state board |
| Marc Vallendar | List place 13 | |
| Thorsten White | List position 9 | Assessor in the state board |
| Karsten Woldeit | List place 2 | Deputy Group Chairman; Deputy State Chairman |
former members
- Kay Nerstheimer (moving into the House of Representatives through the direct mandate in the constituency of Lichtenberg 1 ; waiver of parliamentary group membership before the parliamentary group is constituted), expulsion from the party on January 21, 2020
- Andreas Wild (entry into the House of Representatives above list position 16; expulsion from the parliamentary group on July 18, 2017)
- Gottfried Curio (entry into the House of Representatives above list position 10; resignation from the parliamentary group and resignation from office on October 25, 2017 after entry into the Bundestag .)
- Jessica Bießmann (moving into the House of Representatives through the direct mandate Marzahn-Hellersdorf 3 ; expulsion from the parliamentary group on November 6, 2018)
Regional group in the German Bundestag
The state list for the 2017 federal election was presented at a two-day party congress in Paaren / Glien on May 4th / 5th. March 2017.
The state party moved into the German Bundestag with a total of four members who are part of the AfD parliamentary group :
| Member of the political group | Moved into the Bundestag over | Current functions and memberships in the parliamentary group and in the party |
|---|---|---|
| Gottfried Curio | List place 2 | Party chairman in the Committee for Home Affairs and Home Affairs |
| Götz Frömming | List position 3 | Party chairman in the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment |
| Birgit Malsack-Winkemann | List position 4 | Party chairwoman in the budget committee |
| Beatrix von Storch | List position 1 | Party spokesperson on the committee of inquiry "to the stop on the Berlin Breitscheidplatz on 19 December 2016 ," Deputy. Chair of the AfD parliamentary group ; Assessor in the federal executive committee; Deputy State chairwoman and anti-Semitism officer of the AfD parliamentary group |
literature
- Benedict Ugarte Chacón: Overburdened Populists. The parliamentary groups of FDP and AfD in the Berlin House of Representatives and their contribution to airport policy. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3918-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Klesmann, Melanie Reinsch: Surprising increase in membership: Berlin parties are enjoying great popularity. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 4, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ^ Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin: "Alternative for Germany" founds the Berlin State Association. In: www.morgenpost.de. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
- ↑ The pullers from the southwest of Berlin. (No longer available online.) In: www.rbb-online.de. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016 ; accessed on June 8, 2016 .
- ^ Authoritarian rebels: Visiting the Berlin AfD youth. In: VICE . Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Quarreling about fraud allegations in board elections. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
- ↑ election fraud? Berlin's AfD deputy Frömming throws down. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin: Complaint after the AfD board election: no judgment was made. In: morgenpost.de. December 3, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Malene Gürgen: Right wing: Career à la AfD. In: taz.de . February 22, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich Kraetzer wrote on September 2nd in an article for the digital edition of the Berliner Morgenpost that the arbitral tribunal had ruled accordingly "about a month ago".
- ↑ Ulrich Kraetzer: Berlin AfD leadership kept silent election fraud. In: morgenpost.de. September 2, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Berlin AfD goes into parliament without a controversial Nerstheimer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Uwe Aulich: AfD makes it into all Berlin district parliaments. September 19, 2016, accessed September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Marcus Böttcher: Because of his party colleague: Neukölln city councilor Eberenz resigns from AfD. In: berliner-zeitung.de. July 19, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
- ^ A b Felix Hackenbruch: Controversial politician: AfD throws Andreas Wild out of the parliamentary group. In: tagesspiegel.de . July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
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- ↑ a b The AfD decides to moderate the tone. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
- ↑ With this man, the AfD wants to go to the House of Representatives. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Landessatzung der Alternative für Deutschland Landesverband Berlin , accessed on September 17, 2018.
- ^ Alternative for Germany - Berlin. In: www.afd.berlin. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ http://jungealternative-berlin.de/vorstand/
- ↑ Young alternative: AfD MP confirms cooperation with the Identitarian Movement. In: zeit.de . January 30, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Malene Gürgen: Election party conference of the Berlin AfD: brought into line . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed June 7, 2016]).
- ↑ action of identitary movement: Berlin AFD functionary occurs after arrest warrant against him from office back. In: tagesspiegel.de . May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .
- ^ After a protest by the Identitarian Movement: Berlin AfD excludes ex-functionary. In: tagesspiegel.de . June 2, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Malene Gürgen: Identitarian Movement and the AfD: Blue goes well with yellow-black. In: taz.de . June 14, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Erik Peter: Young Alternative and Identitarians: The AfD has a youth problem. In: taz.de . December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Incompatibility list . In: AfD.de, as of April 26, 2019, accessed on May 14, 2019.
- ↑ apabiz: Failed masquerade - AfD functionary is co-organizer and press spokesman at Bärgida. In: Berlin far right. May 5, 2015, accessed July 8, 2016 .
- ↑ On Bärgida, please only private , Tagesspiegel, July 31, 2017
- ↑ Ingo Salmen: AfD parliamentary group vice praises “smart politics” of the Nazis. www.tagesspiegel.de, December 16, 2016
- ↑ Sebastian Leber: Mr. Keßler and his friends from the AfD. www.tagesspiegel.de, October 10, 2016
- ↑ Berlin House of Representatives - Glasses, Ronald. In: parlament-berlin.de. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Felix Hackenbruch: Interior expert of the Berlin SPD: Schreiber calls for surveillance of some AfD members. In: tagesspiegel.de . May 22, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
- ↑ A case for the informers? , taz, February 21, 2018
- ↑ a b Report of the Land Returning Officer at the same time statistical report B VII 2-3 - 5j / 16 - Elections in Berlin
- ^ Regional Returning Officer: Results of the Bundestag election in Berlin on September 22, 2013 , accessed on October 13, 2018.
- ↑ State Returning Officer: Results of the 2017 Bundestag election in Berlin , accessed on October 13, 2018.
- ^ Federal Returning Officer: Results of the 2014 European elections in Berlin , accessed on April 23, 2017.
- ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Results of the 2019 European elections in Berlin , accessed on May 28, 2019.
- ↑ Berlin AfD party regulation procedure excludes Kay Nerstheimer from the party , Berliner Zeitung January 21, 2020
- ↑ AfD excludes Kay Nerstheimer , Die Welt January 21, 2020
- ↑ Berlin AfD parliamentary group excludes Jessica Bießmann. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Beatrix von Storch is supposed to lead Berlin AfD into the Bundestag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on September 7, 2017 .
- ^ State lists of the parties in Berlin - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Von Storch (AfD) on the Al-Kuds Day “Nothing but a call to violence” Beatrix von Storch in conversation with Christoph Heinemann, Deutschlandfunk May 31, 2019, audio version
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