Bernd Koelmel

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Bernd Kölmel at the founding party conference of ALFA in Baden-Württemberg in August 2015

Bernd Kölmel (born December 8, 1958 in Rastatt ) is a German ministerial advisor and local and European politician . From 2013 to 2015 he was one of two state spokesmen for the AfD Baden-Württemberg and was elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 European elections .

After leaving the AfD in 2015, he became a founding member of the ALFA party, which renamed itself Liberal-Conservative Reformer (LKR) in November 2016 , and became its deputy federal chairman. On August 23, 2015 he was elected chairman of the state association of Baden-Württemberg; from the federal party congress of September 17, 2017 until he left the party in September 2018, he was also federal chairman of the LKR.

Life

After graduating from school, Kölmel completed an apprenticeship with the police in Göppingen and spent six years in the police force in Heidelberg and Baden-Baden a . a. from 1977 to 1981 worked as a clerk in the traffic accident service.

On his second educational path , he studied administration of justice at the Schwetzingen University of Applied Sciences from 1983 to 1986 . He then worked as a judicial officer at the Baden-Baden District Court until 1989 and then until 1993 as a coordinator for information technology at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

Since 1993, Kölmel has worked in various functions at the State Audit Office in Karlsruhe . Until 2014, he was head of the department responsible for budgetary principles and cross-sectional audits in the area of ​​state budget accounting.

Kölmel is widowed and lives in Ötigheim.

Political commitment

Political party

Kölmel joined the CDU in 1982 and was initially involved in the Junge Union . He later became local CDU chairman in Ötigheim . In the 2004 local elections he was elected to the local council.

In the summer of 2012, he resigned from the party because of political differences, in particular as a result of the euro crisis , after intervening with his constituency member had failed . He joined the AfD in the spring of 2013, was responsible for building up its state association in Baden-Württemberg and was elected the first state spokesman. He was a direct candidate in the Rastatt constituency and the top candidate on the AfD's state list in the 2013 federal elections . At the state party conference in Pforzheim he was confirmed as state spokesman in November 2013. In January 2014, the federal party conference in Aschaffenburg voted him third on the list for the 2014 European elections.

In 2015 he co-founded the 2015 wake-up call for Bernd Lucke . After the shift to the right at the party congress in Essen, he left the party and co-founded the “Alliance for Progress and Awakening” (ALFA, since November 12, 2016 Liberal-Conservative Reformer - LKR). July 2015 to June 17, 2017. From September 17, 2017 until he left the LKR on September 25, 2018, Kölmel was its federal chairman.

Member of the European Parliament

He was a member of the European Parliament from July 1, 2014 until the end of the parliamentary term in 2019 . There he was chairman of the delegation for relations with Canada (D-CA). He was also a member of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG), the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) and as deputy delegation for relations with the United States (D-US).

Political demands

He supports the “Demo for All” in the context of the controversy about the 2015 education plan (Baden-Württemberg) .

literature

  • David Bebnowski: Bernd Kölmel and Ulrike Trebesius: Disappointed conservatives and a new base . In: The alternative for Germany. Rise and social representation of a right-wing populist party . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-08285-7 , p. 29.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisa Wedekind: AfD top candidate Bernd Kölmel: "I felt politically homeless". In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 27, 2013, accessed May 20, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Risch: AfD top candidate: Not just euros in view. In: Südwest Presse . June 7, 2013, accessed May 20, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Kölmel re-elected as head of the AfD in the country. In: Südwest Presse . November 25, 2013, accessed May 20, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Günther Lachmann : How the AfD wants to fill its content vacuum. In: The world . January 26, 2014, accessed May 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b Vita at bernd-koelmel.de, accessed on September 29, 2018
  6. ↑ David Bebnowski: Bernd Kölmel and Ulrike Trebesius: Disappointed conservatives and new base . In: The alternative for Germany. Rise and social representation of a right-wing populist party . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-08285-7 , p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Kölmel, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LKR)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt