Armin-Paul Hampel

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Armin-Paul Hampel (2014)

Armin-Paul Hampel (actually Armin-Paulus Hampel ; born July 23, 1957 in Bielefeld ) is a German journalist , film author and politician of the AfD . Since the Bundestag election in October 2017 , he has been a member of the German Bundestag , where he is the foreign policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group . From November 2013 to January 2018 he was state chairman of the AfD Lower Saxony .

Life

Journalistic career

Hampel began his journalistic career as a freelancer for the Bonner Generalanzeiger . He was parliamentary correspondent in Bonn for RTL and Sat.1 before moving to the newly founded MDR as chief reporter in 1991 . From 1999 Hampel was parliamentary correspondent in the founding team of the new ARD capital studio in Berlin and from 2003 to 2008 as foreign correspondent head of the ARD South Asia studio in New Delhi . Since then he has been a freelance producer and media consultant. In 2013 he returned to Germany. His reportage from Afghanistan for the West German Radio received in 1998 because of the opinion of the participants of the annual media woman encounter lack of theming of women to each of their negative price (after his German colleague Fritz Pleitgen 1995 and before Sabine Christiansen 1999) Sour Cucumber . His ARD report Indian Hell Journey about the traffic madness on GrandTrunk Road ( Delhi - Calcutta ) was praised by Spiegel in 2006 : "Without arrogant undertones, without social accusations, without dramatic fuss ... what more can a documentation do?".

Hampel was nominated twice for the ARD Tagesthemen Award .

politics

Armin-Paul Hampel, 2019 in the Bundestag

At the age of 16, Hampel said he was a member of the Junge Union for a few weeks . In 2013 he became a member of the newly founded AfD party . On November 23, 2013 he became state chairman of the AfD Lower Saxony; he was re-elected in 2015 and 2017. In the 2014 European elections , he ran for the AfD in 9th place on the list. At the party congress in July 2015, where he received 59.1 percent of the vote, he was elected as an assessor in the AfD federal executive board, for which he was at the party congress in December Did not run again in 2017. At the assembly meeting for the 2017 federal election , the Lower Saxony AfD members present elected him as the top candidate with almost 90%. He was elected to the Bundestag via the state list .

In the 19th German Bundestag , Hempel is a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment .

Hampel advocated a radical reform of tax and social policy and, among other things, made a proposal in 2015 to set up protection zones for refugees in Syria and Iraq, which should also be secured by NATO troops through a robust mandate from the United Nations. In addition, Hampel said, Germany should introduce compulsory military service for all Iraqi and Syrian men between the ages of 18 and 45. After an infantry training, these men could be deployed to protect these zones alongside their NATO comrades. He called his proposal “unusual” but “worth considering”.

In April 2016, Hampel was very critical of the established media; he denied them the ability to criticize and accused them of being biased and being too friendly to minorities.

According to Focus Online , in 2017 Hampel belonged to the Goslarer Runde , a right-wing party network within the AfD, which is said to have agreed with Björn Höcke after the 2017 general election that this should succeed Frauke Petry as AfD national spokesman. Hampel denied the information from "Focus" in a letter dated October 14th as "complete nonsense". There was never an agreement to make Björn Höcke federal chairman, Hampel continued.

In 2016, Hampel gave a lecture at the Working Group for German Politics , which was labeled "right-wing extremist aspirations" in a Schleswig-Holstein constitution protection report from 1998. Hampel stated that, firstly, he did not have any eighteen-year-old state constitutional protection reports available and, secondly, with a look at the other speakers (including from the Kiel Institute for Economic Affairs), he had no suspicions about the working group, which was completely unknown to him up to now.

The journalist and author Andreas Speit said in April 2017 that Hampel belongs to the “far right-wing clientele of the AfD”. Hampel wrote about this on his Facebook account “already interesting; after having elected CDU or FDP for over thirty years, there is not a single quote from me that can be attributed to a “far right-wing AfD clientele”, it is a daring journalistic interpretation to classify me like that ”.

Hampel was state chairman of the AfD Lower Saxony from November 2013 to January 2018 . On January 19, 2018, the disputed state executive was completely removed from office by the federal executive and following a ruling by the AfD federal arbitration court.

Armin-Paul Hampel has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Preliminary investigation

Hampel was accused of financial inconsistencies within his national association. The then state treasurer Bodo Suhren claimed that there was no evidence of Hampel's expenses for camera equipment. For the 2013 federal election and the 2014 European election, Hampel had made two video portraits of the party leader at the time, Bernd Lucke , on behalf of the AfD Lower Saxony . Hampel was accused of asking and receiving double money for this activity. In the spring of 2017, a former AfD member filed a criminal complaint against Hampel with the Lüneburg public prosecutor's office on suspicion of infidelity and tax evasion . All allegations against Hampel were dropped after an investigation (see below) by the Lüneburg public prosecutor's office. The video portrait about Bernd Lucke, which was produced at cost, was followed by a modified version for the European elections, which Hampel produced for free.

In September 2017, Bodo Suhren, AfD federal board member and deputy AfD federal treasurer, reported Hampel for insult , defamation , defamation as well as defamation and defamation against persons of political life. On August 19, 2017, Hampel accused Suhren of having created a financial structure that would not have kept the Lower Saxony AfD state association viable, and ascribed Suhren's intention to harm said state association. Suhren described Hampel's statements as "cheeky lies". The case is closed.

On October 9, 2017, Hampel's house and an office of the AfD Lower Saxony were searched by the Lüneburg public prosecutor's office because of the above-mentioned suspicion of fraud harming his party . The investigation was closed a few days later. The investigation had been discontinued "because the search had led to the discovery of exculpatory evidence," said a statement by the public prosecutor. She continued: "As far as there was an initial suspicion against Armin Paulus Hampel, this was not confirmed by the investigation, which was carried out under all legal aspects and was concluded as quickly as possible." Hampel assessed this result as a first class acquittal, which had impressively refuted all allegations, but he saw the house search itself as a political campaign. He suspected that the then Justice Minister of Lower Saxony Antje Niewisch-Lennartz ( The Greens ) and / or Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) tried to eliminate unpopular party competition by "misusing the judiciary". The public prosecutor's office had the opportunity to summon him for an interview instead, enabling him to present the required documents. He considered the timing between the house search and the state elections on October 15, 2017 , which took place a few days later, to be conspicuous.

In April 2018 there was a vote between Hampel and Dana Guth at a party conference of the AfD Lower Saxony . Hampel received 205 of the 521 votes cast (39.3%) and Guth received 280 votes. After this defeat, Hampel did not run for the post of vice-chairman.

Family and miscellaneous

Hampel's parents were displaced from their homes . The mother came from Königsberg , the father from Breslau (grew up in Bonn and Detmold ). At school he was described by teachers as a " backpack German ". He is the father of four children.

Documentaries (selection)

  • Types, tenders and torpedoes , SDR (1987)
  • Commission Bosnia , MDR (1994)
  • Gandhi's grandson - 50 years of independence in India , ARD (1997)
  • The Checkbook Maharajahs: From South Asia's New Rich , ARD (1997)
  • Where the Spice Girls Get Pepper , ARD (1997)
  • The Return of the Saris , ARD (1998)
  • Faces of Asia - The Beloved Enemy (2004)
  • The Indian Journey to Hell , WDR (2005)
  • If the gods could talk Mysterious rites in the Himalayas, ARD (April 29, 2006)
  • Treasures, Ships, Maharajas , ARD (2006)
  • Drugs, Terror, Taliban - Lost Victories in the Hindu Kush , ARD (2007)
  • Zuban Hindi - Hindi as Lingua Franca in the subcontinent , Goethe-Institut (2010)

Web links

Commons : Armin-Paul Hampel  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ List of candidates for the European elections 2014. In: bundeswahlleiter.de . (PDF)
  2. ↑ Pickle: Winner. In: saure-gurke.info.
  3. ↑ The Indian journey to hell . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2006, p. 77 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Junge Freiheit: “That shook me” , March 21, 2014
  5. ^ AfD head of Lower Saxony. Hampel's concern for home. In: haz.de . January 6, 2015, accessed February 1, 2015.
  6. ^ AfD Lower Saxony: Hampel voted in 9th place ( memento from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), February 1, 2014.
  7. ^ Klaus Wieschemeyer: Hampel is AfD top candidate in Lower Saxony. In: noz.de . February 4, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Dirk Müller: "Risk potential as in any other party" . In: Deutschlandfunk.de . September 25, 2017 (interview).
  9. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Justus Bender, Reinhard Bingener: Defeat for AfD national board . In: FAZ.NET . November 28, 2015.
  11. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier: Less gays, more happy families: The AfD wish program for ARD and ZDF. In: uebermedien.de. April 29, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2018 .
  12. ↑ On course for top position: replacement for Petry - Björn Höcke wants to become AfD party executive. In: Focus Online. October 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ How "right" is Lower Saxony's AfD boss Hampel? In: ndr.de . 2nd April 2017.
  14. ^ Dispute in AfD Lower Saxony: "He is increasingly behaving as the chief intriguer of the AfD". In: Welt Online . April 23, 2017.
  15. ↑ Document: Investigation results of the public prosecutor's office Lüneburg after inspection of the invoice
  16. ↑ Matthias Kamann: Criminal complaint against AfD federal executive Hampel from their own ranks. In: Welt Online. 2nd September 2017.
  17. ^ Matthias Kamann, Uwe Müller: House search at AfD federal board Hampel. In: Welt Online. October 9, 2017.
  18. ↑ Public prosecutor's office closes preliminary proceedings against Hampel. In: Welt Online. October 13, 2017.
  19. ↑ a b Public prosecutor's office closes investigations against Paul Hampel . In: Spiegel Online . October 13, 2017.
  20. ↑ AfD country chief evaluates house search as a political campaign. In: Welt Online. October 10, 2017.
  21. ↑ AfD politician Hampel loses senior positions. In: Spiegel Online . April 7, 2018.
  22. ↑ Andreas Waputta: Ex-journalist at the AfD: The homeless. In: taz.de . October 24, 2015.
  23. ↑ Klaus Wallbaum: State Chairman Armin Paul: The man who wants to save the AfD. In: haz.de. May 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hampel, Armin-Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampel, Armin-Paulus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, film author and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld