Andreas Kalbitz

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Andreas Kalbitz (2016)

Andreas Edwin Kalbitz (born November 17, 1972 in Munich ) is a right-wing extremist German politician (non-party, formerly AfD , Die Republikaner , CSU ). From 2017 until the withdrawal of AfD membership on May 15, 2020, he was state chairman of AfD Brandenburg and a member of the AfD federal board . Since 2017 - with an interruption from May 15 to June 23, 2020 - he was parliamentary group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Brandenburg . On August 18, 2020, Kalbitz announced that he would be stepping down as chairman of the parliamentary group. According to the intelligence of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Kalbitz was a member of the now banned neo-Nazi Heimattreue Deutschen Jugend (HDJ).

Kalbitz belonged to the wing , a völkisch right- wing extremist party wing around Björn Höcke , and was partly at the same time a member of several right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi associations or was and is connected to them. On February 13, 2020 it was announced that he - alongside Björn Höcke and Hans-Thomas Tillschneider - has been observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution since the beginning of the year.

On May 15, 2020, the federal executive declared the majority of Kalbitz's membership in the AfD null and void, because Kalbitz had not indicated that he was a member of the neo-Nazi organization Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend and the Republicans when he joined the party. The decision was confirmed on July 25, 2020 by the Federal Arbitration Court of the AfD, so that Kalbitz is no longer a member of the party. His urgent application filed on July 30, 2020 at the Berlin Regional Court was rejected on August 21, 2020: The withdrawal was not obviously illegal.

Life

Andreas Kalbitz was initially a temporary paratrooper soldier from 1994 to 2005 . According to the Bundeswehr Journal , he ended his career with the rank of sergeant major . After that he began to study computer science at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences . Research by the Märkische Allgemeine revealed that he was enrolled there from 2005 to 2007, but did not take an exam. As a result, he was forcibly de-registered from the university . In his curriculum vitae on the Brandenburg State Parliament website, Kalbitz continues to state “Studied computer science (without a degree)”, but admitted in an interview that he “never really studied”, but only “been there” and “with to have spoken to a professor ”. He couldn't remember any names.

According to his own information, Kalbitz completed vocational training as a digital and print media clerk from 2006 to 2008 . From 2010 to 2014 he was managing director of the audio book publisher Edition Apollon in Königs Wusterhausen . After the publisher's bankruptcy , he worked as a freelance IT consultant .

Kalbitz has been married to a British woman since 1994 . The couple has three children.

politics

Political party

In terms of party politics, he was initially a member of the Junge Union , where he belonged to the district association committee, and the CSU . At the beginning of the 1990s, he was a state delegate in the CSU. In the Junge Freiheit , he called for “a rightful departure in the CDU / CSU”. At the age of 21 he joined the Republicans, who were then observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and classified as right-wing extremists . In retrospect, journalists described him as a representative of a “conservative innovation” in Munich.

In March 2013 he joined the AfD, which had recently been founded. Among other things, he became a member of the Dahme-Spreewald district board and campaign officer for the electoral and rural district. In March 2015 he signed the Erfurt resolution initiated by Björn Höcke and André Poggenburg ; at the so-called Kyffhäusertreffen in June 2015 he appeared as a speaker. On November 21, 2015, he was elected as the first deputy state chairman of the AfD Brandenburg . In April 2017, Kalbitz was elected as Alexander Gauland's successor to the state chairman of the Brandenburg AfD at the state party conference .

In December 2017, Kalbitz was elected one of the six assessors on the AfD federal board. In June 2018, Stern reported that Kalbitz was a possible successor to Gauland as federal chairman of the party. Kalbitz himself said he was patient and saw himself on a political "long-distance run". “It is no secret where I personally stand politically within the AfD. But we have to create a balance between all forces. ”On December 1, 2019, Kalbitz was re-elected as the second AfD assessor with 50.3%.

MP

Kalbitz at an election campaign event (2019)

In the municipal elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , Kalbitz was elected to the city ​​council in Königs Wusterhausen and has been chairman of the AfD parliamentary group there since June 2014.

In the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , he ran in the state constituency of Dahme-Spreewald II / Oder-Spree I as a direct candidate and achieved 10.4 percent. He moved into the Brandenburg state parliament via the state list (list position 9) and is a member of the Committee for Infrastructure and State Planning (A10), the BER special committee and a deputy member of the Committee for Science, Research and Culture (A6). From 2015 to 2019 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Investment Bank of the State of Brandenburg (ILB).

First Kalbitz was elected deputy parliamentary group leader and in November 2017 as the successor to the parliamentary group chairman Alexander Gauland elected to the Bundestag .

He is also the representative of the AfD parliamentary group for the affairs of the Sorbs and the Wends as well as media policy spokesman.

Kalbitz was the top candidate of the AfD in the state elections in Brandenburg in 2019 . The alternative for Germany received 23.5% of the vote and numerous direct mandates. Kalbitz started in the constituency of Dahme-SpreewaldII / Oder-Spree I, but clearly missed the direct mandate.

On 16 December 2016 criticized CDU -Abgeordnete Steeven Bretz AFD in a speech sharply and expressed, addressed to the group members: "The only thing you understand about finances, your personal profit maximization" and "AFD for me just say rip-off for Germany". He was referring to the fact that the AfD MP Alexander Gauland wanted to keep his state parliament mandate at least temporarily after the election he was aiming for in the Bundestag . Andreas Kalbitz then told Bretz that his speech was “ Goebbels for the poor”. After Kalbitz refused to apologize for this ("I cannot apologize to you for your pathetic speech"), Landtag President Britta Stark ( SPD ) excluded Kalbitz from the further session. Then the entire remaining AfD parliamentary group also left the room in protest. Kalbitz also later defended his statement and stated that it had been an exaggeration that had to be endured in politics.

At the Kyffhäuser meeting of the “wing” in 2018, Kalbitz shouted: “Mass immigration is knife immigration”, which the audience answered with “deportation, deportation” calls.

Kalbitz denies man-made climate change and, in a debate with young people, made wind turbines responsible for bird deaths. In this round Kalbitz also described the climate protection activist Greta Thunberg as a "plait-faced moon-faced girl".

At the start of the AfD's election campaign before the Brandenburg state elections in 2019, Kalbitz, who comes from West Germany, said: "We did not enter this process in 1989 and people did not take to the streets to get what we now have to endure here." The historian Patrice Poutrus disagreed with equating the political conditions in the GDR with those of today's Federal Republic. He accused the AfD of being "a long way from recognizing the constitutional order of the Federal Republic" with this attempt to take over the turning point in the GDR . In another campaign speech in Erfurt in October 2019, Kalbitz spoke of Germans who “no longer dare to go out into the streets or at train stations at night because there are some young Syrian or Afghan deserters (...) hanging around. Behind them the headscarf squadron with multiple strollers. ”More than a“ meaningless, mindless, self-destructive welcoming culture ”is needed, according to Kalbitz, a“ consistent deportation culture ”.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been using intelligence services to monitor Kalbitz since the beginning of 2020 . This observation relates to extra-parliamentary activities, not to work in parliament. According to the Bundeswehr Journal , the military counterintelligence service has banned him for reserve exercises.

Withdrawal of AfD membership

In mid-April 2020, the federal board of the party decided that Kalbitz had to "submit a list of the political organizations and associations of which he was a member or to which he was in contact - with details of the year and an explanation of the type of connection". The allegations against him "massively damaged the reputation of the AfD", it said in the statement of the 13-member committee. However, the decision of the AfD federal executive committee was only narrowly made, with seven yes, four no and two abstentions.

On May 15, 2020, the federal executive board decided by seven votes to five with one abstention to declare Kalbitz's membership null and void because he had “concealed substantial facts” in his application for membership. Kalbitz's name appeared on a member list of the right-wing extremist homeland - loyal German youth . Kalbitz himself denies this accusation; According to information from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Kalbitz's application for membership from 2013 has been lost. Jörg Meuthen said that there were at least two witnesses who would remember exactly when the form was checked. Observers rated the decision as a success for Meuthen, who prevailed against parliamentary group leaders Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel as well as against co-chairman Tino Chrupalla .

The withdrawal of membership was a legal and not a political decision, said Meuthen. The question of right-wing extremism did not arise in connection with the decision.

Criticism and protests against the decision came from MEPs Björn Höcke , Jürgen Pohl and Frank Pasemann . Dennis Hohloch , parliamentary managing director of the Brandenburg AfD parliamentary group, called the decision a serious mistake and called for an extraordinary federal party conference with new elections for the federal executive committee. Three days after the decision to withdraw AfD membership, the AfD parliamentary group in Brandenburg decided that Kalbitz should remain a member of the parliamentary group. According to parliamentary groups, 18 of the 21 MPs present voted for this at a special session in Potsdam, two were against, one MP abstained. In order to enable a non-party member to belong to the parliamentary group, the parliamentary group changed its rules of procedure.

On June 19, 2020, in response to Kalbitz's application, the Berlin Regional Court declared the cancellation of party membership until a decision by the Federal Arbitration Court was inadmissible because the party executive had not complied with the procedure prescribed in Section 10 of the Law on Political Parties (PartG), so there is a need for legal protection for the regulation issued by the court. According to the political party law, the federal board of the AfD could not obtain a - final - exclusion of Kalbitz 'for procedural reasons. The regional court also let substantive doubts about the justifications of the federal board shine through: Among other things, it had not been made sufficiently clear whether the AfD would definitely not have accepted Kalbitz at the time if he had indicated HDJ membership.

As a result, in June 2020 at the AfD's federal convention, a motion was brought up that accused Jörg Meuthen of "irresponsible attempts at division" and called for personal consequences. Applicant was u. a. Armin-Paul Hampel . However, the majority of the Federal Convention backed Meuthen. After the court decision, Kalbitz was re-elected chairman by the AfD parliamentary group in the Potsdam state parliament in June 2020. Kalbitz declared that he would again hold the party chairmanship in Brandenburg.

At the end of June, the AfD arbitration tribunal rejected Kalbitz's urgent application for the reinstatement of his membership by seven to one vote with one abstention, as he had no prospect of success in the main proceedings. The status of his membership was therefore initially unclear. Shortly thereafter, Kalbitz took part in a meeting of the AfD federal executive in Suhl. Meuthen admitted that Kalbitz had the right to do so. The decisive factor is the decision of the regional court, according to which Kalbitz was reinstated in his rights until the main decision of the federal arbitration court.

On July 25, 2020, the Federal Arbitration Court of the AfD ruled that the exclusion from the party would remain, whereas Kalbitz again took civil action. He initially retained the parliamentary group chairmanship in Brandenburg, but let it rest. At the beginning of August 2020, the chairmen of the district association Rhein-Kreis Neuss and the district association Aichach-Friedberg demanded a nationwide membership decision in order to enforce Kalbitz's re-entry into the party. According to her, the procedure was coordinated with the Thuringian co-state spokesman Stefan Möller . At least 25 district boards would have to approve the application.

On August 21, 2020, the Berlin Regional Court rejected Kalbitz's further urgent application against the AfD because of the dispute over the continued existence of his party membership. The court saw no evidence that the decision of the AfD federal executive committee to terminate Kalbitz's party membership was evidently illegal. Therefore, there is no basis for issuing an interim order. The former Brandenburg state chief remains excluded from the party.

Resignation from the parliamentary group chairmanship

A few weeks later, on August 18, 2020, Kalbitz resigned the chairmanship of the Brandenburg parliamentary group after the Potsdam public prosecutor's office started investigations into suspected negligent bodily harm because Kalbitz punched his acting deputy Dennis Hohloch in the stomach with his fist during a greeting. Hohloch then had to be hospitalized for a ruptured spleen . The FAZ reported, citing party circles, that it was an "open secret" that Kalbitz had outbursts of anger and violence and had previously dealt apparently friendly but painful and threatening blows to a Brandenburg AfD politician. In addition, an employee of the parliamentary group was hit hard in the face because of loud phone calls. Furthermore, Kalbitz is said to have falsely spread via Frank Pasemann that Hohloch had burst a cyst in the spleen. Hohloch said he was in hospital with a "ruptured spleen".

Activities in right-wing extremism

Homeland loyalty youth / Heimattreue German youth

At the end of August 2019, joint research by the ARD political magazine Kontraste and the rbb magazine Brandenburg aktuell revealed that Kalbitz had apparently taken part in a summer camp of the right-wing extremist association Die Heimattreue Jugend in a Thuringian village in July 1993 when he was twenty . This emerges from a file of the protection of the constitution. In 1993 the Thuringian police searched the camp and recorded Kalbitz's personal details. According to Dietwald Claus, who spoke in 1995 to the far-right Thule network about Kalbitz's activities in the HJ summer camp, this should have been "one of the toughest". He also carried a Reich war flag , anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial literature. The club later renamed itself Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend (HDJ).

In March 2018, photos were published that show Kalbitz in 2007 in a camp of the neo-Nazi German youth who had been banned from home since 2009. Kalbitz admitted participation. He had denied any further participation in HDJ camps and did not mention participation in the 1993 camp. According to a list of members of the HDJ from 2007, which was available to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the "Andreas Kalbitz family" had membership number 01330. According to the BfV, Kalbitz had been in contact with the HDJ for fourteen years and was also a member.

In 2009, according to Spiegel and Tagesspiegel , Kalbitz received an email from the former federal leader of the HDJ along with six other addressees. The federal leader informed them about an interview on the ban on HDJ.

In the hearing before the Berlin Regional Court on June 19, 2020 regarding the exclusion of Kalbitz from the party, his lawyer Andreas Schoemaker presented two affidavits from Kalbitz, in which he stated that he was neither a member of the home-loyal Deutsche Jugend nor of its predecessor organization. In order to invalidate statements made by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution that an "Andreas Kalbitz family" was listed in an HDJ membership list with a number, Kalbitz's lawyer also submitted an affidavit from the former HDJ federal leader Sebastian Räbiger , in which he stated that he had the HDJ member software did not distinguish between numbers of members and mere interested parties. (The submission of a false affidavit is punishable.) In the vicinity of the HDJ association there were so-called “FFK” (= friends and family groups). Its purpose was to provide accompanying support, also materially and organizationally, without the people concerned being members of the association themselves.

Kalbitz denies membership in the HDJ and filed a lawsuit against the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the Cologne Administrative Court at the end of June 2020 . He demands, among other things, information about the controversial list of members, which is said to be mentioned in an internal report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which concerned the observation of the "wing". The Office for the Protection of the Constitution made the report available to the AfD's federal executive board at its request. The facilities for this, u. a. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution keeps the list under lock and key. Kalbitz demands that the documents be handed over. Whether Kalbitz was a member of the home loyalty German Youth (HDJ), which has been banned since 2009, or its predecessor organization Heimattreue Youth, is one of the deciding factors for his AfD membership, as the HDJ is on the AfD's incompatibility list .

Young country team East Prussia

Because of his membership in the right-wing extremist Junge Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen (JLO) or its successor Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland , Kalbitz was interrogated several times by the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) during his time as a Bundeswehr soldier . In 2001 Kalbitz admitted to the MAD that he had been a member of the association since before joining the Bundeswehr in 1994, i.e. for at least seven years. Kalbitz also admitted that he had hosted JLO events as an event manager in late 2000 and early 2001. At this point in time, the East Prussian Landsmannschaft had already separated from the youth organization because it was being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution due to right-wing extremist activities. In 2003, Kalbitz wrote for the Fritz of the JLO, at a time when it was already essentially neo-Nazi, of a "consciousness of ethnocide in the minds of West German youth" and, with regard to the memory policy, of an "understanding implantation of 12 years as 99% of German history ". In another article, he described a book by the French author Thierry Meyssan, known for his conspiracy theories, about the attacks of September 11, 2001, as a "spiritual weapon" that should be used. According to the MAD note in Kalbitz's master file, he is still banned for reservist services by the Bundeswehr.

The JLO is on the AfD's incompatibility list .

Participation in neo-Nazi events abroad

Participation in neo-Nazi events in Belgium

Andreas Kalbitz took part in the IJzerbedevaart pilgrimage near Diksmuide organized by Flemish nationalists on several occasions . As early as 1994, video recordings show him there in a "uniform-like" shirt in conversation with Hans-Ulrich Kopp . In 1994, the German visitors to the pilgrimage included Holger Apfel , then a functionary of the NPD youth , as well as functionaries of the later banned FAP and the later banned Wiking youth . The military counterintelligence service confronted Kalbitz in a subpoena in March 2001 that his car had been sighted in 2000 during the meeting, which was accompanied by right-wing extremist riots. Kalbitz admitted to having been there in 1999 and 2000, but according to his own statements he was not involved in comradeship meetings or in the riots.

Participation in a neo-Nazi trip to Athens

In 2007 Kalbitz traveled with 13 neo-Nazis, among them the then NPD chairman Udo Voigt , to Athens to take part in a meeting of the neo-Nazi Patriotic Alliance (a split from Chrysi Avgi , "Golden Dawn"). The German delegation stayed overnight together in a hotel in Athens and, according to the Greek news agency ANA, hoisted a two-meter black, white and red swastika flag there. This resulted in an arson attack that night and burned completely. Then a flag of the NPD Gröditz was hung. Kalbitz admitted that he had traveled to Athens with the delegation, but denied taking part in the events surrounding the flags and the arson attack. In the “retrospective evaluation of this event”, according to his words, it was “not suited” to “arouse further interest or approval”.

Movies

Together with his father-in-law Stuart Russell, who died in 2006, he wrote the script for the films The Unknown Soldier about Adolf Hitler in World War I and Von Garmisch in the Caucasus about the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht .

Further activities in right-wing extremism

Kalbitz wrote, among other things, for the new right weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . He was a member of the Völkisch Witikobund and author of the magazine Witikobrief , in which he wrote in 2001 about an "ethnocide on the German people". In 1993 he took part in a panel discussion of the Witikobund led by right-wing extremist Hans-Ulrich Kopp . Kalbitz's name and address were also on a list of interested parties from the NPD . He was mentioned in the mid-1990s (“no wimp”) in the Thule network mailbox system used by right-wing extremists .

Various media, such as Bayerischer Rundfunk , indicate in connection with a right-wing extremist network in the Bundeswehr (keyword Hannibal ) that Andreas Kalbitz had been an instructor at the former airborne and air transport school in Altenstadt (Upper Bavaria) for several years between 1994 and 2005 , which is of particular importance for this network. The Ostsee-Zeitung quotes a former supervisor of the Altenstadt air landing school with the words: "If Kalbitz is now on the AfD line, he must have developed properly to the left."

Kalbitz also had contacts to the Munich fraternity Danubia , mentioned in reports on the protection of the constitution because of right-wing extremist activities , which temporarily resided at the same address as the striking student fraternity Saxonia-Czernowitz , of which Kalbitz has been a member since school.

In 2008 Kalbitz received an email from right-wing extremist Horst Mahler , who had been convicted of sedition and who had represented the NPD as a lawyer in the ban proceedings . In this email Mahler reported on the first day of the trial at the Potsdam Regional Court.

From 2014 to 2015, Kalbitz was chairman of the right-wing extremist association for culture and contemporary history, Archiv der Zeit, founded by the former SS-Hauptsturmführer and NPD functionary Waldemar Schütz . Before that, Kalbitz had been sitting for several years since 2010. a. with an NPD functionary on the board of the association. Right-wing extremism researcher Hajo Funke commented: “With his role in his cultural association, he shows himself to be a right-wing extremist. This is a right-wing extremist association. ”According to a report by the rbb magazine Klartext , which uncovered the connections, Kalbitz initially referred to the limited activity of the association in recent years, but then, according to information from AfD Brandenburg, resigned from his office in October 2015 and resigned from the club.

In March 2016, following initially contradicting claims, it became known that Kalbitz was employing the former neo-Nazi Alexander Salomon from Cottbus , who had previously been an NPD member for almost two years, as an employee in the Brandenburg state parliament. Kalbitz admitted that he knew about Solomon's neo-Nazi past. At the beginning of March 2020 it also became public that another employee of the Brandenburg AfD parliamentary group, the deputy federal secretary of the Junge Alternative (JA) Tim Ballschuh, according to the JA website , had fired a blank gun at counter-demonstrators in 2018 after an AfD election rally in Regensburg. In addition, according to a report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he admitted that he had earlier contacts with the NPD and was also a “member of the fraternities Frankonia Erlangen and Halle-Leobener Burschenschaft, which were classified as right-wing extremists ”. In a photo he can be seen during a neo-Nazi rally in March 2008 in the rooms of the then JN federal headquarters in Bernburg. Kalbitz left questions about the compatibility of the cooperation because of Ballschuh's vita unanswered and on the sidelines of a press conference let it be known that one “basically does not” speak to employees.

During a lecture at the new right Institute for State Policy by Götz Kubitschek , Kalbitz propagated "a kind of national socialism", according to Stern . In a speech at an AfD demonstration in May 2018, Kalbitz thanked the racist group Pegida and the new right-wing association One Percent for Our Country by Götz Kubitschek and Philip Stein and complained that the AfD was ostracized and ostracized, although it " the last evolutionary chance for our country ”. In a speech at the Kyffhäuser Monument in Thuringia, he also said: “The AfD is the last evolutionary chance for this country. After that, only 'helmet on' comes up. And I don't want that. ”He also said about members of the 1968 movement that they would“ dance on their graves ”.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Andreas Kalbitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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