Bernd Grimmer

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Bernd Grimmer (born March 30, 1950 in Pforzheim ; † December 18, 2021 ) was a German economist and politician ( AUD , Greens , UB , Free Voters , AfD from 2013 ). He was one of three speakers for the AfD state executive in Baden-Württemberg . From 2016 until his death he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Grimmer came from Pforzheim. In 1969 he passed his Abitur at the Kepler-Gymnasium Pforzheim with a price for achievements in the field of music and in the same year began studying economics and political science in Tübingen and Karlsruhe, which he graduated in 1975 with a degree in economics. From 1975 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Housekeeping at the Federal Research Center for Nutrition. He then held a managerial position at the professional association for the construction industry in Karlsruhe until 2010 . In 1983 he received his doctorate under Rolf Funck at the University of Karlsruhe .

In December 2021, Grimmer died of complications from COVID-19 after a three-week illness . He had not had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 and repeatedly criticized the corona protection measures and the reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic . Among other things, he described the reporting on the pandemic in mid-2020 as "scaremongering". In September 2021 he declared on Facebook that the “Corona regime” could “only be described as sick”.

politics

As a member of the Action Group for Independent Germans (AUD), to which he belonged from 1968 to 1979, Grimmer was one of the founders of the Greens , which he left in 1991. In 1984 he was a co-signer of the Frankfurt Appeal against Xenophobia , which called for full equality for foreigners living in Germany and the unrestricted application of the right to asylum.

In the 1994 local elections for the Independent Citizens of Pforzheim , an initiative of members of various Pforzheimer civic associations, Grimmer was elected as one of two members of the Pforzheim City Council with a result of 5.4% of the votes for the list. In the local elections in 1999 and 2004, Grimmer defended his mandate.

In 2009 he joined the Free Voters and ran for the European elections in 2009 on the federal list place 20 of his party at the time. After he had been the state chairman of the Free Voters in Baden-Württemberg for about a year, he left this party in April 2013 and joined the AfD. Grimmer is one of the signatories of the Erfurt resolution , the position paper of the right-wing national wing of the AfD.

In the AfD, Grimmer was initially chairman of the AfD district association Pforzheim / Enzkreis . On July 25, 2015, at the extraordinary state party conference in Pforzheim, he was elected as one of three equal speakers alongside Jörg Meuthen and Lothar Maier as spokesman for the state executive board and remained in office until the new executive board election in March 2017. For the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 he was nominated by his district association as a candidate for the state constituency of Pforzheim and then won one of two first mandates in the election with 24.2% of the vote, the best result for the AfD in Baden-Württemberg . On March 16, 2016, he was elected by the AfD parliamentary group as its parliamentary manager. On July 7, 2016, he was re-elected to this office in the course of the dispute over Wolfgang Gedeon . He no longer held any office in the parliamentary group reunited in October 2016.

At the beginning of December 2017, at the AfD party congress, Grimmer supported a motion by Wolfgang Gedeon , according to which the term secondary anti-Semitism should be rejected because it is an “ideological battle term” that is used to “defame political opponents and intimidate the public”.

In the state elections in 2021 he received 15.8% of the vote, which was a loss of 8.4 percentage points, and thus lost his direct mandate to Felix Herkens from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. However , he returned to the state parliament with a second mandate . After his death, Alfred Bamberger succeeded him in the state parliament.

Fonts

  • Effects of different locations on the cost of living and procurement of goods in rural areas (dissertation), Karlsruhe 1983.
  • 100 years of the Südwestliche Bau-Berufsgenossenschaft , Karlsruhe 1985.

Web links

Commons : Bernd Grimmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Streib: Corona: AfD member Bernd Grimmer from Pforzheim dies at the age of 71. In: Baden's latest news. December 19, 2021, accessed December 20, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Moral basis necessary as a life model. Abitur graduates in Kepler-Gymnasium adopted , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of July 24, 1969, p. 10.
  3. ↑ a b c Biogram of Bernd Grimmer , accessed on May 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ “Actually, everyone is really nice?” In the FAZ of March 12, 2016.
  5. ^ Pforzheim AfD politician Bernd Grimmer died of Corona , PZ News
  6. ↑ AfD MP Bernd Grimmer dies as a result of Covid 19 disease . In: Die Zeit , December 20, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  7. ↑ AfD member of the state parliament Grimmer died of Corona . In: Spiegel Online , December 20, 2021. Accessed December 20, 2021.
  8. ↑ Bernd Grimmer died of Covid-19 . In: Die Tageszeitung , December 20, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  9. ↑ Sidney Gennies: Pforzheim - where right-wing voters live. In: tagesspiegel.de . March 8, 2016, accessed March 15, 2016 .
  10. ↑ "Pforzheim and his strangers" on May 30, 2014 at Zeit-Online.
  11. ↑ Frankfurter Appell against xenophobia , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of March 17, 1984, p. 12.
  12. ↑ Dream of the second force on pz-news.de.
  13. ^ Badische Zeitung: "Free voters in violent turbulence" from April 12, 2013.
  14. ^ AfD state party conference in Pforzheim: trio of academics elected to the top on swr.de.
  15. ↑ AfD closes staff gaps in two countries on nwzonline.de, article from July 27, 2015.
  16. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung "Jörg Meuthen elected - leave of absence to follow" , article from March 16, 2016.
  17. ^ AfD-Rest group with a new board , SWR , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  18. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: “ The AfD and anti-Semitism ” www.handelsblatt.com, November 25, 2017.
  19. ↑ Surprise: Grüner snaps AfD direct mandate in Pforzheim. In: SWR Aktuell. March 15, 2021, accessed December 20, 2021 .
  20. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/karlsruhe/afd-politiker-grimmer-an-corona-verstorben-100.html
personal data
SURNAME Grimmer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (AfD), MdL
BIRTH DATE March 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2021