Alexander Tassis

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Alexander Tassis (2015)

Alexander Tassis ( Greek : Αλέξανδρος Τάσης, born June 2, 1970 in Athens ) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). From 2015 to 2019 he was a member of the Bremen Parliament and is a board member of the Patriotic Platform .

education and profession

Tassis was born in Athens as the son of a German and a Greek. He grew up in Bremen . After graduating from high school at Rübekamp in Bremen-Walle , he completed a degree in history , which he completed in 2009 with a master's degree. He wrote his master's thesis on Johann Wolfgang Heydt's travel report from 1744 in collaboration with the German Maritime Museum and the University of Bremen . He then received a three-year research grant from the Leibniz Association in 2010 . From 2006 to 2015 he worked in a career counseling institute.

Political career

Tassis was a member of the CDU and temporarily chairman of the district association of the CDU Bremen- Stadtmitte. He left the party in 2012 and joined the 2013 electoral alternative . He became a co-founder of the AfD Bremen , whose deputy spokesman he was until April 2016. Tassis is a member of the Federal Program Commission and the Advisory Board "Immigrants for Germany" as well as the national spokesman for the interest group "Homosexuals in the AfD" and the national chairman of the "Migrants in the AfD - New German Hope Bearers". In 2015, he ran for third place on the state list of the AfD Bremen for the citizenship election and was elected as the first openly gay member of the state parliament of the AfD. On June 6, 2015, he was confirmed in his office as deputy spokesman at the 7th state party conference of the AfD Bremen. He is the secretary of the völkisch-nationalist AfD-affiliated association “Patriotic Platform”.

After the power struggle at the AfD party conference in Essen in July 2015, three of the four citizens elected for the AfD left their party. From then on he was the only member of the AfD in the citizenry. In the general election in Bremen in 2019 , he lost his mandate.

Tassis resigned as deputy chairman (spokesman) of the AfD Bremen at the end of April 2016, whereupon a party exclusion procedure was initiated a few days later by the Bremen AfD state executive against Tassis because there were irregularities in the minutes he had drawn up at a party congress the previous year. The media attributed the move to a power struggle with members who wanted to get the state board voted out.

A comment made by Tassis in July 2016, in which he compared Angela Merkel with Adolf Hitler and Walter Ulbricht , caused outrage . Merkel went down in history with Hitler and Ulbricht as one of the three great damage-makers between 1933 and 2033. What these three German values ​​would have given up and destroyed is what history tells us, not these characters.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Tassis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alexander Tassis MdBB biography ( memento from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), portal of the Bremen citizenship, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Annual report of the German Maritime Museum 2008 , p. 32, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Daniel Goffart: What do AfD MPs actually do when they are elected? Focus Online , March 10, 2016, accessed June 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Krsto Lazarević: Alexander Tassis, Greek, gay, member of the AfD: We asked him: Why? Vice , June 1, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ Board of Directors - Patriotic Platform ( Memento from February 12, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Citizenship Election - European Election / Citizenship Election 2019 in the 'Land Bremen' district - overall result. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  7. ^ AfD Bremen wants to throw the last member of the state parliament out of the party. Focus Online, April 28, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ AfD deputy draws Merkel-Hitler comparison . weserreport.de, July 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Tassis, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-German historian and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd June 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens