Arne Gericke

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Arne Gericke (born November 19, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a freelance speaker and politician from Ticino near Rostock . He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019 . From 2006 to 2010 and again from November 20, 2016 until he left the party, which was publicly announced on May 9, 2017, he was federal chairman of the German Family Party . After he temporarily the outdoors voters had heard, he is now a member of the alliance C . At the European level he is a member of the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM). In the European Parliament he was a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.

Life

Gericke was born in Hamburg, but grew up in Papua New Guinea . In 1979 he returned to Germany and completed vocational training as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk . In the early 1990s he built up a beverage trading company in the Czech Republic . In 1994 he became home manager of a senior center in Gnoien .

Gericke is married and has four children of her own and three foster children. In order to take better care of the children, he gave up his job as a home manager in 2004 and started his own business as a funeral orator and pastor . In 2012 he received from the bakery company Mestemacher the Mestemacher price spike Father of the Year .

politics

From 2005 to 2014

Arne Gericke joined Germany's Family Party in 2005 . In 2006 a state association of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was founded , of which Gericke was chairman until 2014. In the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in September 2006 , Arne Gericke was the top candidate for the family party. In November 2006 he was elected to succeed Franz-Josef Breyer as its federal chairman and was confirmed in this office in 2008. In the European elections in 2009 he was number 1 on the nationwide list. At the federal convention of the Family Party on November 13, 2010, he no longer ran for party leadership. Erhard Lahni became his successor . In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 he was again the top candidate of his party and failed with his candidacy in the state constituency of Rostock I with 3.8% of the first votes. At the federal party conference on November 23 and 24, 2013, he was elected by the members as the first deputy federal chairman.

2014-2019: MEP

In the 2014 European elections in Germany , Arne Gericke was again the top candidate of the Family Party in Germany and was elected a member of the European Parliament via the party's federal list. There he was a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs , the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (since July 14, 2014), the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (since January 19, 2017, previously he was deputy) and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (since February 14, 2017). He was also an alternate member of the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (since November 19, 2014). From January 19, 2017 to February 13, 2017 inclusive, he was a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (previously he was Deputy), and from September 15 to November 18, 2014 of the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN). In his parliamentary group, he also held the offices of social and medium-sized business expert, municipal expert and dialogue partner for churches and church associations. Since then, Gericke has also brought some initiatives along the way, such as B. “Breastfeeding Star”, which is intended to show breastfeeding mothers and their babies across Europe the way to “breastfeeding-friendly places”. Gericke is president of the working group Demography, Family and Intergenerational Dialogue as well as founder and chairman of the inter-institutional network "European Friends of Family".

In March 2016, Gericke applied to the board of directors of the EKR faction, to which he belonged, to expel the two AfD MPs, Marcus Pretzell and Beatrix von Storch , which then took place in April. At the federal party conference in November 2016, Arne Gericke was elected as the new federal chairman and took over the office from Roland Körner , who was no longer running.

On May 9, 2017, Arne Gericke publicly announced that he would be leaving the German Family Party and joining the Free Voters party with immediate effect . He announced that he was leaving the party by telephone the weekend before.

He has been a member of Bündnis C since autumn 2018 . With this party, he ran as the top candidate for the 2019 European elections , but with 0.2% of the vote he missed re-entry into parliament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Arne GERICKE . In: europarl.europa.eu . European Parliament , accessed and received on May 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b European elections 2014 - elected 'G' , European elections 2014 - Germany and European elections 2014 - results . All in: bundeswahlleiter.de . Federal Returning Officer , accessed and received on May 15, 2017 ( old, memento-compatible representation of the distribution of seats ( memento of October 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  3. ↑ a b c Gericke changes to Free Voters ( Memento from May 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ostsee-Zeitung .de . Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack , May 9, 2017, called up and received on May 15, 2017. Thomas Volgmann: Top father leaves family party . In: svz.de . Newspaper publisher Schwerin, May 10, 2017, accessed and received on May 15, 2017. Federal chairman of the family party changes to Free Voters In: eu-info.de . Euro-Informations (GbR), May 9, 2017, accessed and received on May 15, 2017. Gericke from the family party switches to Free Voters In: focus.de - FOCUS Online . FOCUS Online Group, May 9, 2017, accessed and received on May 15, 2017. Change of MEP Arne Gericke from family party to FREE VOTERS ( Memento from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: freiewaehler.eu . FREIE VÄHLER , May 9, 2017, accessed and received on May 15, 2017. Arne Gericke: MEP Arne Gericke changes to the FREE VOTERS . In: arne-gericke.eu . Arne Gericke, May 9, 2017, accessed and received on May 15, 2017.




  4. ↑ RESTART FOR DEUTSCHLAND WAGEN as well as About us . Both in: Familien-partei-deutschlands.de , accessed and received on May 15, 2017.
    The Federal Executive ( Memento from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Familienpartei.net , accessed and received on May 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Arne Gericke ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2015 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. and Our Members of European Parliament . In: ecpm.info . ECPM - European Christian Political Movement , accessed and received on May 15, 2017 (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ecpm.info
  6. ↑ Our top candidate Arne Gerick. ( Memento from June 12, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Top fathers selected in 2012: They can do that. In: T-Online . March 8, 2012.
  8. ^ Family Party of Germany (FAMILY) - European elections 2009. ( Memento from August 30, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ Federal Returning Officer - Party Program of the Family Party ( Memento from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  10. ↑ Germany- wide list. In: Familien-partei-deutschlands.de.
  11. ↑ 11 questions to Arne Gericke (family party) . ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: rostockerjournal.de. September 3, 2011.
  12. ↑ I choose the future (family party) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ichwaehlezukunft.de
  13. ↑ Arne Gericke: Influential position: Rostock MEP new to the Environment Committee ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: arne-gericke.eu . Arne Gericke, May 9, 2017, accessed and received on May 15, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arne-gericke.eu
  14. ↑ Official website of the "Stillender Stern"
  15. ↑ Thomas Volgmann: Is he bringing down the AfD in Brussels? . In: svz.de . Newspaper publisher Schwerin, March 10, 2016, accessed and received on May 15, 2017.
  16. ^ Family party - Michel new to the federal board . In: wolfsburger-nachrichten .de . BZV Medienhaus, November 20, 2016, accessed and received on May 15, 2017.
    NEW START FOR DEUTSCHLAND WAGEN . In: Familien-partei-deutschlands.de , accessed and received on May 15, 2017.
  17. ↑ Results Germany European Election 2019 - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gericke, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FAMILY, FW, Alliance C), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg