Berlin Circle in the Union

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The Berlin Circle in the Union e. V. is a registered association in which federal and state politicians have come together within the CDU and CSU . The politicians involved in it want “the conservative and market-liberal roots of the Union parties to be recognizable in everyday politics and implemented in concrete politics”. The speaker is Sylvia Pantel .

history

Preparations for the establishment of the Berlin district began around 2007. Christean Wagner (former parliamentary group leader of the CDU Hessen ) was instrumental in this.

He went public for the first time in 2012. In November 2012, Wolfgang Bosbach ( Chairman of the Interior Committee in the Bundestag), Thomas Bareiß (energy policy spokesman for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag), Christean Wagner , Thomas Dörflinger (1998-2017 member of the Bundestag) and Steffen Flath (member of the Saxon State Parliament since 1994 and chairman since 2008 the CDU parliamentary group) officially presented the Berlin district to the public. At that time, the conservative network comprised 35 to 40 members of the Union, including Ute Granold and, until she left the CDU in early 2017, Erika Steinbach (Chairwoman of the Association of Expellees). The political leadership of the Union has repeatedly spoken out against a formal structure of the group. The group follows this requirement and dispenses with a formal structure. According to his own statements, Bareiß gathers conservative members of the Bundestag every Tuesday in the weeks of session; The group meets in a larger group three to four times a year.

At the end of 2011, the then chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Volker Kauder , declared in this context: "It is not possible for something like this to be institutionalized." Kauder said in the same context that ideological groups are not part of the tradition of the Union, something like that it only ever existed with the SPD. Behind the scenes, it was also suggested that anyone who wanted to keep a leading position or would strive for it in the future could not join the Berliner Kreis. After Kauder's statements, several young Union politicians broke up, among them Mike Mohring (* 1971) and Philipp Missfelder (1979-2015).

positioning

Berlin Manifesto

In 2012 Dörflinger drafted a "Berlin Manifesto" for the Berlin Circle. It emerged from this that the Berlin Circle wanted to strengthen not only conservative but also Christian and market-liberal approaches within the CDU. Opinions about the ten-page draft ranged from “substantial in content” to “the thing is so bad there is nothing to publish”. The announced public presentation of the paper was canceled in August 2012 because the participants could not agree internally on what exactly they are advocating.

In November 2012, the Kreis der Presse presented an eight-page manifest entitled “Location determination”. When asked about the goals of the group, Wolfgang Bosbach said that the party should no longer negate its conservative element, but should increasingly focus on its roots: the prominent position of marriage and family, the tripartite school system , internal security. The Union must speak out clearly in favor of quota-free supervisory boards, against the minimum wage and for a more market economy in energy policy. The German language should finally be anchored in the Basic Law, and there should be no “migration bonus” in the prosecution of criminal offenses. In addition, they are resolutely opposed to a European federal state . Bosbach also emphasized that the nuclear phase-out and the Bundeswehr reform had been decreed from above. A rigid quota for women was also rejected by the district.

During the press conference, Thomas Bareiß stated that the CDU should not only stand for Angela Merkel , should not just be a "Chancellor Association". According to media reports, the sharpness of the requests to speak went well beyond the theses distributed as text.

Declaration on climate policy

On June 3, 2017, two days after US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate protection treaty , the Berliner Kreis took a climate-skeptical position in a statement and called for a U-turn in German climate policy . In a paper that u. a. was written by Philipp Lengsfeld and Sylvia Pantel, the district denied a "solitary role of the greenhouse effect ", criticized the IPCC as a "world rescue circus" and called for the abandonment of the two-degree target that was internationally agreed at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015 . The declaration criticizes that the consequences of global warming are portrayed negatively, while "the opportunities associated with the melting of the polar sea ice (ice-free northern passage , new fishing opportunities , raw material extraction) are probably even greater than possible negative ecological effects". It is wrong to implement “aggressive political measures to reduce greenhouse gases”. The climate research would blackmail politics morally; this must come to an end. The promotion of wind energy and solar energy is particularly criticized . The Renewable Energy Sources Act cannot be reformed and should be abolished. The promotion of electromobility and energetic refurbishment are also being questioned, and these must be reviewed. Instead of preventive climate protection , adaptation to global warming should take place. The declaration was seen as a declaration of war on Chancellor Angela Merkel . The day before, she had described the Paris climate protection treaty as “irreversible” and emphasized that it was a “vital instrument for our planet, our societies and our economies”.

Members

"The Berliner Kreis is a network of conservative MPs and elected representatives in the Union." Members are former and active members of the Bundestag parliamentary group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group:

  • Veronika Bellmann (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2002, Central Saxony (constituency 161), Saxony
  • Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU), member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2017, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (constituency 100), North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Thomas Dörflinger , (CDU), member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2017, Waldshut (constituency 298), Baden-Württemberg
  • Axel E. Fischer (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 1998, Karlsruhe-Land (constituency 272), Baden-Württemberg
  • Steffen Flath , (CDU), from 1994 to 2014 member of the Saxon state parliament, since 2008 as chairman of the CDU state parliamentary group, from 1999 to 2008 member of the Saxon state government in various functions
  • Hans-Jürgen Irmer (CDU), Member of the Bundestag since 2017, Lahn-Dill (constituency 172), Hesse
  • Alexander Krauss (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2017, Erzgebirgskreis I (constituency 164), Saxony
  • Philipp Lengsfeld (CDU), member of the Bundestag from 2013 to 2017, Berlin-Mitte (constituency 75), Berlin
  • Saskia Ludwig (CDU), member of the state parliament since 2004, Potsdam-Mittelmark III / Potsdam III (constituency 19), Brandenburg
  • Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2009, Osterholz-Verden (constituency 34), Lower Saxony
  • Volker Mosblech (CDU), Member of the Bundestag from 2015 - 2017, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Sylvia Pantel (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2013, Düsseldorf-Süd (constituency 107), North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Johannes Selle (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2009, Jena, Sömmerda, Weimarer Land I (constituency 191), Thuringia
  • Patrick Sensburg (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2009, Hochsauerlandkreis (constituency 147)
  • Dietlind Tiemann (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2017, Havel, Potsdam-Mittelmark I, Havelland III, Teltow-Fläming I (constituency 60), Brandenburg
  • Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), member of the Bundestag from 1998 to 2017, Munich-West / Mitte (constituency 221), Bavaria
  • Arnold Vaatz (CDU), former Minister of State D., Member of the Bundestag since 1998, Dresden II, Bautzen II (constituency 160), Saxony
  • Christean Wagner (CDU), former Minister of State D., Member of the State Parliament from 1991 to 2013, Marburg, Biedenkopf I (constituency 12), Hesse
  • Marian Wendt (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 2013, North Saxony (constituency 151), Saxony
  • Klaus-Peter Willsch (CDU), member of the Bundestag since 1998, Rheingau-Taunus, Limburg (constituency 178), Hesse

former members

ValuesUnion

Veronika Bellmann, Axel E. Fischer, Hans-Jürgen Irmer, Alexander Krauss, Saskia Ludwig, Christean Wagner and Klaus-Peter Willsch are also members of the Values ​​Union . Sylvia Pantel is a supporter of the Values ​​Union.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotation from the district's homepage ( www.berlinerkreisinderunion.de ), accessed on June 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ban on advertising for abortions Paragraph 219a splits the grand coalition Deutschlandfunk March 13, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c The Quadrature of the Berlin Circle, Die Welt , November 3, 2012 , accessed on December 15, 2012
  4. ↑ a b zeit.de, February 7, 2012: Conspiratorial conservatives unsettle the CDU , accessed on December 15, 2012
  5. ↑ Erika Steinbach leaves the CDU and accuses Merkel of breaking the law . In: Die Welt , January 14, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b c A conservative Rebelliönchen zeit.de, November 2, 2012 , accessed on December 15, 2012
  7. ↑ a b c Conservative “Berliner Kreis” wants other CDU: “We don't want to shoot the Chancellor”, Rheinische Post, November 2, 2012 , accessed on December 15, 2012
  8. ↑ a b Party profile - The conservative rebels of the CDU procrastinate zeit.de, August 20, 2012 , accessed on December 15, 2012
  9. ^ "Berliner Kreis" - CDU conservatives say manifesto from handelsblatt.com, August 16, 2011 , accessed on December 8, 2012
  10. ↑ Brown-green voter catch of the AfD . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 11, 2017. Accessed September 11, 2017.
  11. ↑ CDU rights attack Merkel's climate policy . In: Tagesschau.de , June 3, 2017. Accessed June 3, 2017.
  12. ↑ Right wing CDU attacks Merkel's climate policy . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 3, 2017. Accessed June 3, 2017.
  13. ^ Website of the Berlin Circle on Climate and Energy Policy. Accessed on 23 August 2017
  14. ↑ Berlin Circle in the Union: About Us . Retrieved April 27, 2019
  15. ↑ This is the CDU's “ Berlin Circle ”
  16. ↑ Die Welt, yes, there are still conservatives in the CDU! , February 8, 2012
  17. ↑ Die Zeit, Banished from the Salon , November 20, 2014