Anton Friesen

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Anton Friesen (born June 15, 1985 in Uspenka, Kazakh SSR ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Anton Friesen grew up as the son of a father of German descent and a Russian mother in Uspenka in northern Kazakhstan . Like other Germans from Russia under Stalin, Friesen's grandparents were deported to the sparsely populated area south of Western Siberia during World War II . In 1995 Friesen came to Germany with his parents as a ten-year-old Russian-German repatriate , where he grew up in rural East Westphalia. His grandparents had relocated three years earlier. In 2006 Friesen graduated from high school in Paderborn .

Friesen studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin from 2006 to 2011 , and he dealt with Russian foreign policy in his bachelor and master theses. In 2015 he worked with Manfred Kerner and Christian Lammert with the dissertation on the failure of the US strategy in the Afghan war , which he wrote under the Rilke quote on Wolf von Kalckreuth “Who speaks of victories? Everything is surviving ”published, doctoral degree.

Political party

Friesen, who claims to have been an SPD voter before , has been a member of the Alternative for Germany party since 2013 . After receiving his doctorate in 2015, he applied to several AfD parliamentary groups and then worked as a research assistant for the AfD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament until he moved into the Bundestag . From 2016 he was an assessor in the Thuringian state board of JA , in 2017 he became chairman of JA Thuringia.

In the 2017 Bundestag elections , Friesen was elected to the 19th German Bundestag , where he is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee , above number 5 on the list of the AfD Thuringia . Friesen lives in Suhl, where he also runs a constituency office (in addition to another office in Meiningen ).

MP

In the 19th German Bundestag , Friesen is the chairman of the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization subcommittee. He is also a full member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid .

Positions

According to Markus Wehner , Friesen's passion is foreign policy , he is considered a defender of Moscow politics. For Ukraine, he believes that stability is only possible under Russian leadership, and that Ukraine's accession to the EU or NATO is out of the question. The NATO expansion had led to legitimate security concerns on the Russian side. In his opinion, “thinking in spheres of influence” has “a stabilizing effect for all of Europe”. British foreign policy, on the other hand, was traditionally hostile to Russia, and the Skripal case was only a pretext for sanctions.

Friesen sees his values ​​in social politics as being shaped by his Russian-German origins. He sees the change in values ​​that began with the 1968 movement as a major cause of abortions , drug deaths and the crime rate . In his opinion, “the ostentatious display of homosexuality” contradicts the “moral order” and he considers same-sex marriage to be wrong.

Friesen rejects the scientific consensus on human-made climate change.

public perception

Donate to the Sonneberger Tafel

Friesen describes himself as a Christian and sees religion as an important aspect. His mother, originally baptized Russian Orthodox , switched to the Protestant Church . Such a change would be inconceivable for Friesen himself, since the Protestant Church spreads political ideology. After AfD politicians such as Höcke and Hampel officially call for leaving the church, people “wondered” according to the time when Friesen in December 2017 in his Thuringian constituency donated EUR 100 to the Sonneberger run by the Diakonisches Werk , the welfare association of the Evangelical Church in Germany Wanted to donate Tafel . The latter refused the donation, however, and justified this in an accompanying letter by stating that the “human image of diakonia and church” was “incompatible with that of the AfD” and the board wanted to clearly distinguish itself from it. While the AfD parliamentary group leader Weidel called the reaction “absolutely tasteless”, Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow commented on it with the words “As Prime Minister, I have nothing to say about this - but as a Christian, I respect the decision of the Diakonie in Sonneberg. The reactions of other AfD politicians to the rejection, the insults against the church, show that the Diakonie decision was the right one. ” On the one hand, Die Zeit saw in Friesen's action“ cool political calculation ”; if it were based on charity, he could have put the money "anonymously in an envelope". On the other hand, it is also the “task of the church to reconcile society - not to divide it”, instead of “continuously revolting itself”, she should seek the conversation.

Election observation during the Russian presidential election

In March 2018, Friesen traveled with seven other members of the AfD parliamentary group to Moscow as an election observer for the presidential election at the invitation of Russia ; the Russian government had invited 300 politicians itself. According to the Tagesspiegel , the Russian government was hoping for a benevolent assessment from them: If they say in front of the camera on election evening that they have not observed any forgeries, that will legitimize the vote domestically. Independent election observation organizations such as B. Golos , who documented forgeries in the 2012 presidential elections , had already complained in advance of massive pressure; Observers seeking journalist accreditation through a Golos-affiliated medium had been denied registration. Election observers from Germany are "often from the AFD", the subsequent media statements are "often very standardized". An official 482-member OSCE delegation , which Friesen was not a member of, who was also on site to observe elections , criticized the lack of competition in advance and documented various irregularities during the election. Friesen, on the other hand, reported that he had "noticed no irregularities in the six polling stations he visited [...], but there was a brisk turnout".

Total loss photo due to loose wheel nuts

After a public dialogue in Zella-Mehlis in May 2018 , Friesen and a passenger were brought to Suhl by car, after which the employee drove on alone. After he noticed a noise and an imbalance in Meiningen, about 30 km away , he stopped to contact ADAC and the police. The police found loose wheel nuts on all four wheels, but a “statement as to whether a politically motivated act had occurred” was not yet possible. In contrast, Friesen claimed in a press release as well as on Twitter and Facebook that the police assumed “a politically motivated attack” and wrote of a “new dimension of left-wing extremist violence”. Although the car - apart from the loose wheel nuts - was stopped undamaged on the hard shoulder, Friesen illustrated his reports with a five-year-old photo of a total write-off from the Pixabay image database . In the course of the investigations by the public prosecutor's office, an external expert opinion determined that "the wheel / tire combination installed on the vehicle did not correspond to the original condition of the vehicle. Defects in the vehicle or other connecting facts could be documented, which in their totality led to an independent loosening of the wheel bolts and, from a technical point of view, could also have been the cause for this. "

The New Germans

In March 2019, Friesen founded the association Die Neudeutschen together with other AfD politicians with a migration background . According to Friesen's statement, the association wants to tackle the AfD's image as a party of xenophobes. The demands include a “comprehensive de-Islamization of Germany”, “a fight against Islamic parallel societies with their own legal system” and “tough action against all forms of anti-Semitism”.

Web links

Commons : Anton Friesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Markus Wehner : The smart Anton and the wild Waldemar . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 31, 2018, p. 5.
  2. ↑ That's them: The Thuringian MPs in the new Bundestag. In: mdr.de . September 25, 2017, archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Anton Friesen: curriculum vitae . Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Anton Friesen: Russian Foreign Policy Between 1991 and 2004 . The Russia-NATO relations between cooperation and conflict ( Bachelor thesis ) GRIN Verlag 2013 ISBN 978-3-656-41994-5
  5. ^ Anton Friesen: Counterinsurgency in the Hindu Kush . The Soviet Union and the USA in comparison. ( Master's thesis ) AV Akademikerverlag May 2012 ISBN 978-3-639-40452-4
  6. ^ Anton Friesen: Who speaks of victories? Everything is surviving . 2015, ISBN 978-3-8381-5145-8 , urn : nbn: de: kobv: 188-fudissthesis000000097046-6 ( full text [PDF; 3.1 MB ; accessed on September 26, 2017]).
  7. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ PM: The condition of the forest in Thuringia is critical - set up a climate fund, protect our trees! . December 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b Andreas Öhler, Merle Schmalenbach: Can the Church refuse AfD donations? . In: The time . 16/2018.
  10. ↑ Thomas Krause: Panel rejects donation from AfD politicians - heated discussion breaks out . In: stern . December 28, 2017.
  11. ↑ Claudia von Salzen: AfD MPs as "election observers" in Russia - and in the Crimea . In the daily mirror . 18th March 2018.
  12. ^ Friedrich Schmidt: Putin in the election campaign: The protector of Russia's honor . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 16, 2018.
  13. ^ Sabine Adler : German election observer NGO banned . In: Deutschlandfunk . May 3, 2018.
  14. ↑ OSCE criticizes presidential election in Russia . In: Reuters . 19th March 2018.
  15. ↑ Observers report election irregularities . In: n-tv . 18th March 2018.
  16. ↑ Anton Friesen: As a # election observer in #Russia . 19th March 2018.
  17. ↑ a b Timo Stein: The almost accident story of an AfD member . In: watson . May 30, 2018.
  18. ↑ Police are investigating a possible attack on AfD politicians ( Memento from May 31, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ) In: MDR . May 25, 2018.
    Thuringian police are investigating loose wheel nuts on AfD politicians' cars . ( Memento from June 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Zeit . May 25, 2018.
    State Police Inspection Suhl: Loose wheel nuts on the car of a member of the Bundestag . May 25, 2018.
    Fabian Klaus: Maybe attack on AfD man Anton Friesen in Thuringia . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . May 26, 2018.
  19. ↑ Anton Friesen: Life-threatening attack on AfD members of the Bundestag ( Memento from May 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (press release) May 25, 2018.
    Anton Friesen: New Dimension of Left-Wing Extremist Violence ( Memento from May 31, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ) 25 May 2018.
    Anton Friesen: Feiger attack on MPs ( Memento from May 31, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ) May 25, 2018.
  20. ↑ Timo Stein: The almost accident story of the AfD MP Anton Friesen. Part II . In: watson . June 15, 2018.
  21. ^ "The New Germans": AfD members with a migration background found an association , Märkische Allgemeine, March 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Friesen, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Uspenka, Kazakh SSR