Alfred Dagenbach

Alfred Dagenbach (born November 17, 1947 in Heilbronn - Sontheim ) is a German gardener, freelance journalist and right-wing extremist politician. He was deputy federal chairman of the Pro Germany party until it was dissolved in November 2017 and is chairman of the Pro Heilbronn association . He was a member and member of the state parliament of the party The Republicans .

Life and work

Alfred Dagenbach attended the boys' middle school in Heilbronn from 1958 to 1964 and graduated with a secondary school leaving certificate. From 1964 to 1966 he did a shortened training as a horticulturist specializing in flower and ornamental plants and from 1967 to 1969 he completed his 18-month military service with the German armed forces in Nagold and Calw. From 1971 to 1973 he headed the garden department of a company in Heilbronn. From 1972 to 1975 he was chairman of the Heilbronn-Hohenlohe group of young gardeners. In 1973 he started his own business and took the gardener examination as an autodidact. Since then he has also worked as a freelance specialist journalist. He took part in various garden shows and received gold, silver and bronze medals at the Federal Garden Show in 1977, the honorary award of the city of Stuttgart. 1981 to 1989 he was chairman of a Heilbronn school promotion association. He is a member of numerous clubs and associations, u. a. of the White Ring and the League of Displaced People .

He is married and has a daughter.

Political career

1973 Dagenbach joined the Free Voters' Association (FWV) Heilbronn. He is chairman of the Heilbronner Bürgerervereinigung (HBV) eV

In 1989 he moved into the Heilbronn municipal council as city councilor and chairman of the Republican parliamentary group . In 1992 he ran for the office of mayor in the neighboring town of Neckarsulm in Heilbronn ; in the election on September 27, 1992, he came third out of ten candidates with 7.77%. In 1992 he also took over the office of Country Executive Director of the Republicans, which he held until 2001. In addition, he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg State Executive from 1991 to 2001 (from 1991 to 1995 and 1999 to 2001 Deputy State Chairman), and from 2000 to 2002 he was a member of the Federal Executive. In 1995 he published the paperback book The Tip of the Iceberg . Dagenbach belonged to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from April 15, 1996 to June 11, 2001 with a second mandate in constituency 20 (Neckarsulm) . In the state parliament, he was a member of the rural area committee and the committee for schools, youth and sport , and during its duration in the investigative committee for rural social insurance . In addition, he was a deputy member of the Standing Committee, the Interior Committee, the Finance Committee and the Environment and Transport Committee.

In 1999 Dagenbach was a member of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President. In the Heilbronn mayor election on June 28, 1999, he achieved third place with 9.03% out of five candidates. In 2000 he was involved in the uncovering of a financial scandal in the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Republicans, among others .

From 1995 to 2008 Dagenbach was district chairman of the Republicans in the Heilbronn district association. He was dismissed from his office in 2005 by a regulatory measure because he had called for the resignation of the REP Federal Chairman Rolf Schlierer and his deputies Ursula Winkelsett and Johann Gärtner and had sharply criticized their political course. He commented on the results of the Republicans in the North Rhine-Westphalian state elections in 2005 as follows: "Now we are even being overtaken by the NPD ". For the 2005 Bundestag election , he was elected to 11th place on the state list of republicans in Baden-Württemberg , despite the regulatory measures taken by the general assembly. For the 2006 state elections , he ran as a candidate for constituencies 19 Eppingen and 20 Neckarsulm . In 2008, he was expelled from The Republicans party by a federal arbitration court ruling which, in the opinion of his lawyer, had serious shortcomings. According to his own statements, however, he refrained from filing an action for a declaration of party membership because he was no longer interested in participating in a party which, according to his observations, had taken a development that raised doubts as to whether organization and decision-making within the party were still under the rule of law Principles sufficed.

On April 25, 2006, Dagenbach and like-minded people founded the Pro Heilbronn citizens' movement , of which he is chairman. At the same time he joined the right-wing extremist citizens' movement pro Germany , of which he was Deputy Federal Chairman from November 3, 2007 until the party was dissolved on November 11, 2017. At the end of March 2009, the Republican parliamentary group in the Heilbronn municipal council decided with two out of three votes to rename itself Pro Heilbronn ; a city council resigned from the parliamentary group on April 1. In the municipal council election on June 7, 2009, Dagenbach was re-elected to the municipal council for Pro Heilbronn , also on May 25, 2014 and May 26, 2019. In January 2020, the previously non-attached Dagenbach council moved to the Heilbronn municipal council to join the AfD faction.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2011, p. 35
2. ↑ AK RUHR / LAGA NRW (ed.): Right-wing populism in the form of a “citizens' movement” Structure and political methodology of PRO NRW and PRO DEUTSCHLAND. 2010 ( PDF file ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
3. ^ The limits of tolerance: right-wing extremist milieu and democratic society in Brandenburg (author: Christoph Kopke ), p. 49 ISBN 978-3-86956-038-0
4. ↑ Barbara Löslein, Bernd Liebig: Chronicle of the City of Neckarsulm 1977–2000 . Neckarsulm City Archives, Neckarsulm 2005, ISBN 3-9808419-1-X , p. 445
5. ^ Alfred Dagenbach: The tip of the iceberg . 1995.
6. ^ Gerd Kempf: Himmelsbach new Heilbronner OB . In: Heilbronn voice . June 28, 1999.
7. ^ Gerd Kempf: Dagenbach threatens to be excluded from the party . In: Heilbronn voice . July 22, 2005 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on April 26, 2009]).
8. ↑ Dagenbach's replica to press releases at dagenbach.de
9. ^ Citizens' movement PRO Heilbronn eV
10. ^ Citizens' movement PRO Germany elects a new federal board
11. ^ Joachim Friedl and Carsten Friese: Municipal council without republicans . In: Heilbronn voice . April 3, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed April 4, 2009]).
12. ↑ Joachim Friedl: The CDU wins in seven districts . In: Heilbronn voice . June 10, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 11, 2009]).
13. ↑ Result of the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on heilbronn.de 
14. ↑ City of Heilbronn Municipal Council , accessed on August 11, 2019
15. ↑ Joachim Friedl: Pro-City Councilor Dagenbach changes to the AfD . Stimme.de , January 22, 2020

Web links

• Dagenbach's website
• Portrait of Dagenbach in the House of Representatives for the 12th electoral term (PDF; 15 kB)