Citizens in anger

Citizens in anger
Party leader	Jan Timke
founding	March 2004
Place of foundation	Bremen
Headquarters	Torstrasse 195 10115 Berlin
Alignment	Right- wing populism Right-wing conservatism Economic liberalism
Colours)	blue red
Seats in state parliaments	1/1874
Number of members	at 100
Website	buerger-in-wut.de

Bürger in Wut (short name: BIW ) is a right-wing populist voter association based in Berlin , which was founded in 2004, but is mainly active in Bremen . BIW describes itself as bourgeois - conservative . In terms of program, their positions are similar to those of the former Rule of Law Offensive Party (Schill Party) , especially in domestic and immigration policy .

The group first ran for elections in the state of Bremen in May 2007 and has since been represented in the Bremen citizenship .

history

The federal association of the voters' association Bürger in Wut was founded in 2004. The first chairman was Jan Timke , the former Bremen state chairman of the rule of law offensive party . The electoral association has not yet stood in any nationwide election. At the state level, she only ran for citizenship elections in Bremen. In the 2007 general election she was only on the ballot papers in Bremerhaven and achieved a result of 4.99%, with a single vote missing for entry into the citizenry. After the State Court found electoral errors, the election was repeated in three constituencies. In this election, the electoral association achieved 27.6% of the vote, achieving a total result of 5.3% in Bremerhaven and receiving a seat in the citizenry. In the state elections in 2011 , she ran in both Bremen and Bremerhaven, but only achieved a result above the threshold clause in Bremerhaven. With 7.1% of the vote, she again received a seat in the citizenry.

In January 2012, two local advisory councils in Bremen-Vegesack moved from the CDU to the BIW, making the BIW the second largest group after the SPD in the local advisory council. In March 2016, FDP parliamentary group spokeswoman Brigitte Palicki joined the BIW in the Vegesack local council, making it the third largest parliamentary group.

On 28 March 2013, the Bremerhaven city councilor Rebecca Sarnow, originally on the list of stepped Left had moved to the city council, from the Alliance 21 / RRP and the BIW in. This gave the BIW four seats and received parliamentary group status in the Bremerhaven city council. On October 22, 2013 it became known that the MP Martin Korol had become a member of the BIW after his expulsion from the SPD . This gave the electoral association two seats in the citizenry and the status of a parliamentary group . After the general election in 2015 , BIW chairman Timke was initially again an individual member of the parliament. In June 2017, the LKR citizenship MPs Piet Leidreiter and Klaus Remkes declared their transfer to the citizens in anger, who thereby again received the status of a parliamentary group. Since the general election in 2019 , Jan Timke has only been a non-attached MP for BIW in the Bremen citizenship.

Election results

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In the election for Bremen citizenship on May 13, 2007 , the voter association BIW stood for election in the Bremerhaven area and received 2,336 votes (5.29%). She jumped the five percent hurdle in the Bremerhaven electoral area and moved into the Bremen citizenship with a member. According to the preliminary official final result, the BIW still had 4.99% of the votes and had failed to gain entry into the citizenship with one vote. The BIW then obtained an interim injunction from the Bremen Administrative Court to inspect the election records of the Bremerhaven election area. On July 9, 2007, the electoral association appealed against the election because of assumed procedural errors in the counting of votes. In its judgment of November 20, 2007, the Bremen Election Examination Court rejected the motion to declare the election invalid, but ordered a public recount of the votes in the Bremerhaven area and determined that the result of the election be corrected if necessary. Both sides appealed to the State Court of Bremen against the decision of the election review court . The BIW wanted to have a repeat election in the Bremerhaven electoral area, but the state returning officer contradicted the ordered recount. The State Court of Justice ordered a recount of the votes in two Bremerhaven constituencies, which was carried out on April 21, 2008. On May 22, 2008, the State Court decided that a repeat election was necessary in another voting district (132/02, Freizeittreff Eckernfeld), as there were indeed considerable irregularities in the handling of the ballot papers. It was scheduled for July 6, 2008. According to the official final result, the BIW achieved 27.6% of the valid votes cast in the affected voting district and therefore came to 5.29% in the entire Bremerhaven voting area. This gave her a seat in the state parliament of Bremen.

In the state election in Bremen 2011 , the BIW achieved 3.7 percent of the valid votes cast nationwide (2007: 0.8%). In the Bremerhaven electoral area, the BIW won 7.1 percent (2007: 5.3%) of the voters. In addition, the BIW candidates won seven advisory board mandates in the city of Bremen.

In the 2015 general election in Bremen , the BIW received 3.2% of the valid votes nationwide (City of Bremen 2.7%, Bremerhaven 6.5%). This gave them a seat in the Bremen citizenship.

In the general election in Bremen 2019 , the BIW received 2.4% of the valid votes nationwide (City of Bremen 1.6%, Bremerhaven 7.4%). This gave them a seat in the Bremen citizenship.

Election results in the state of Bremen

year	Bremerhaven city council					Bremen citizenship
	be right	%	+/-	Mandates	Gains	be right	%	+/-	Mandates	Gains
2007	2,415	5.4	-	3	-	2,336	0.8	-	1	-
2011	14,415	7.4	+2.0	3	± 0	48,530	3.7	+2.9	1	± 0
2015	11,635	7.2	−0.2	3	± 0	37,759	3.2	−0.5	1	± 0
2019	16,446	8.0	+0.8	4th	+1	35,808	2.4	−0.8	1	± 0

Bremerhaven

In the election for the Bremerhaven city council in 2007, the BIW achieved 5.4% of the vote and entered the city parliament with three members. After this election, doubts arose as to whether the BIW chairman Jan Timke and the later city councilor Annefriede Laue could even be elected. The Bremerhaven District Court issued a penalty order against Annefriede Laue for fraudulent voting , which Laue contradicted and which therefore did not become legally binding. Timke was acquitted by the local court in January 2009 after several days of trial of the charge of election fraud, after the public prosecutor had also requested an acquittal.

In 2011, the BIW improved its election results by 2 percentage points to 7.4%, but did not receive an additional seat due to the distribution key.

organization

In addition to the federal association based in Berlin, there is only one regional association in Bremen. According to its own information, the focus of the BIW is in the city states of Bremen , Hamburg and Berlin . In Hamburg there is currently a “Circle of Friends” from which a regional association is to be created.

Contents and positions

The BIW names a “socially responsible, value-conservative policy of reason” as its goal. The current problems in Bremen are unemployment and low wages, increasing national debt and crime, the decline in the birth rate, a wrong education policy, uncontrolled immigration and the resulting conflict-prone parallel societies , the capitalism unleashed by globalization and a centralized European Union that safeguards the sovereignty of the country and the freedom of Citizens restrict.

The Bremen citizenship should be reduced to fifty MPs and a so-called state president should be elected directly by the people. The police presence should be increased and a voluntary security guard formed from reliable citizens. The state-controlled dispensing of heroin or methadone should end, prisoners are only to be released early in exceptional cases. The tripartite school system should be restored, class sizes should be reduced and school uniforms should be introduced. In addition, a debt brake should be implemented and environmental zones abolished.

International contacts

Members of BIW in 2010 were at the foundation of the European party European Alliance for Freedom involved (EAF), BIW-member Torsten United was on the board of the party. In the meantime, the BIW has largely withdrawn from the EAF. According to the European Parliament, Jan Timke is still a member of the EAF (as of 2017).

Known members

• Martin Korol
• Jan Timke
• Udo Ulfkotte
• Hinrich Lührssen

reception

The citizens in anger are, according to the political scientist Florian Hartleb, a “one-topic party” that puts “the programmatic focus on the area of ​​internal security”. They represent a “mixture of right-wing conservative and right-wing populist demands, which, despite their intensification, are in line with the democratic constitutional state”.

The social scientist Alexander Häusler wrote in 2008 that the citizens in anger had "come out with racist demands, for example with the demand for a 'return to the principle of descent, according to which a German can only be someone who is an avid German citizen'". Hartleb, on the other hand, rejects classifications of citizens in anger as racist and believes that the party has "quite credibly distanced itself from xenophobia and racism as well as any extremism " and from groups such as Bremen must live .

According to a situation, actor and resource analysis by political scientist Wolf Krämer, the BIW cannot be described as a right-wing extremist party in the narrower sense. You clearly differentiate yourself from right-wing extremism. BIW, however, has a clear affinity for xenophobic and authoritarian content. Their culturally justified xenophobia shows itself in the demand for "consistent integration of the foreigners living with us permanently with the aim of assimilation ".

literature

• Florian Hartleb : Citizens in anger. In: Frank Decker , Viola Neu (Ed.): Handbook of German political parties. 2nd edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00962-5 , pp. 189–193.

Web links

• BIW website
• Citizens in anger in dossier: political parties in Germany. Oskar Niedermayer for the Federal Agency for Civic Education , June 8, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to information from the federal chairman from 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Tim Niendorf: Citizens in anger | Parties in Germany | bpb. Retrieved April 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Who we are. In: buerger-in-wut.de
4. ↑ http://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/zwei-landtagsabteilunge-verlassen-lucke-partei-15058757.html
5. ↑ Radio Bremen: Two CDU members switch to Wutbürgern, from January 9, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2012 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.  
6. ↑ Klaus Wolschner: Left retirees. In: the daily newspaper . November 13, 2012, accessed March 28, 2013 . 
7. ^ MP Korol now "Citizens in Anger". (No longer available online.) In: Radio Bremen . October 22, 2013, archived from the original on October 24, 2013 ; Retrieved October 22, 2013 . 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.  
8. ↑ Citizens in anger in future with three members
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer: press release. (PDF; 34 kB) July 10, 2007, accessed April 18, 2011 . 
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer: press release. (PDF; 29 kB) May 25, 2007, accessed on November 6, 2007 . 
11. ^ Administrative court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: press release. (PDF; 37 kB) (No longer available online.) July 5, 2007, archived from the original on January 31, 2012 ; Retrieved November 6, 2007 . 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.  
12. ↑ Electoral Examination Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: Decision. (PDF; 46 kB) (No longer available online.) November 20, 2007, archived from the original on January 31, 2012 ; Retrieved November 6, 2007 . 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.  
13. ^ State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: Press release. (PDF; 13 kB) April 11, 2008, accessed November 6, 2007 . 
14. ^ State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: Press release. (PDF; 52 kB) Retrieved November 6, 2007 . 
15. ↑ The Senator for the Interior and Sport: Redial in Bremerhaven on July 6, 2008. May 27, 2008, accessed on November 6, 2007 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b} Wilko Zicht: Bremerhaven: citizens elected in anger in the state parliament. In: Suffrage. July 6, 2008, accessed November 6, 2007 . 
17. ^ BIW: BIW create a return to the state parliament. ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2011 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. May 27, 2011. 
18. ^ Allegation of election fraud: MP Timke acquitted. In: The world . January 28, 2009, accessed April 6, 2009 . 
19. ↑ Interview with the chairman of the “Citizens in Rage” ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2012 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. In: blu-news.org, February 13, 2012.  
20. ↑ Dieter Wolf: BIW citizens in anger - party profile ( Memento from June 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Agency for Civic Education, April 27, 2011
21. ↑ Standard.at Mölzer participates in the new EU right wing party
22. ↑ https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/3950/response/12541/attach/html/5/MPs%20MRPs%20in%20European%20Parties%20Financial%20Exercise%202017.pdf.html
23. ^ Bremen: Dr. Udo Ulfkotte joins Bürger in anger. (No longer available online.) In: Press release from BIW. June 20, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 25, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
24. ^ ^{A b} Florian Hartleb: Citizens in anger. In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (Ed.): Handbook of German political parties. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2013, p. 192.
25. ↑ Alexander Häusler: Right-wing populism as a stylistic device to modernize the extreme right, in: ders. (Ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement”. Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies , Springer, 2008, pp. 37–54, here p. 39
26. ↑ Florian Hartleb: Citizens in Rage (BIW), in: Frank Decker, Viola Neu: Handbook of German political parties , Springer, 2017, pp. 229–234, here p. 232
27. ^ Wolf Krämer: Right-wing extremism and xenophobia in Bremen. Problems and perspectives . Ed .: University of Bremen , Department 8, Work Area Election, Party and Participation Research. Bremen December 2010, p. 13 ( PDF 690KB, 32 pp. [Accessed on May 26, 2011] Funded as part of the federal program Diversity is good for you ).