Bijan Djir-Sarai

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Bijan Djir-Sarai in the Bundestag, 2019

Bijan Djir-Sarai (born June 6, 1976 in Tehran , Iran ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

origin

His parents, who lived in Iran, gave him in 1987, at the age of eleven, with no knowledge of the German language, into the care of his uncle in Grevenbroich in order to give him a better perspective in life. His father had studied in Germany. His uncle, a veterinarian, allowed him to go to high school despite having little knowledge of German. Djir-Sarai repeatedly described the early experiences in a totalitarian regime as having shaped his political commitment, especially his advocacy of civil and human rights .

education

After graduating from the Pascal-Gymnasium in Grevenbroich, Djir-Sarai studied business administration at the University of Cologne and graduated with a degree in business administration . The Friedrich Naumann Foundation , which is close to the FDP , supported Djir-Sarai with a scholarship for gifted students during his student days .

Party career

In 2004 Djir-Sarai took over the chairmanship of the FDP district parliamentary group in the Rhine district of Neuss . In 2005 he became FDP district chairman. Djir-Sarai has been a member of the state board of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia since 2006 . In March 2014 Djir-Sarai took over the chairmanship of the FDP district association in Düsseldorf from member of the state parliament, Robert Orth . In April 2017 he was elected as a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP at the 68th ordinary federal party conference. He was confirmed in this office in 2019.

Public offices

In 2005 Djir-Sarai ran for the first time for the German Bundestag, but initially received no mandate as a candidate in constituency 109 ( Neuss , Grevenbroich, Dormagen , Rommerskirchen ).

In the 2009 Bundestag election , Djir-Sarai was able to enter the German Bundestag. He immediately became a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Petitions Committee . He also became chairman of the German-Iranian parliamentary group and headed the foreign policy working group of the FDP parliamentary group.

From 2009 to 2014 Djir-Sarai was deputy district administrator in the Rhine district of Neuss.

During his time as a member of the Bundestag, Djir-Sarai continued to exercise his local political offices and emphasized his roots in local community work.

In the 2013 federal election , the FDP failed because of the five percent clause and Djir-Sarai was no longer represented in the Bundestag.

After the FDP left the Bundestag in 2013, Djir-Sarai worked for a municipal IT service provider until April 2016. There he was responsible for the areas of business development and intermunicipal cooperation. In May 2016, he became a full-time head of department for information and information technology, land registry and regulatory authorities, building management and controlling in the district administration of the Rhine district of Neuss.

At the state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP in Neuss in November 2016, Djir-Sarai was elected to  6th place in the state list for the 2017 federal election and he again ran as an FDP candidate in the Neuss I constituency . Finally, he made it into the 19th German Bundestag via the state list .

Djir-Sarai has been a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag again since the 2017 Bundestag election, in which he acts as chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. He is also an alternate member of the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization subcommittee. For the FDP parliamentary group he works as a specialist political spokesman for foreign policy. He is also again chairman of the German-Iranian parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. In addition, within the parliamentary group, he heads the 20-member state group NRW of the FDP parliamentary group.

Withdrawal of the doctorate

Djir-Sarai received his doctorate in 2008 from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the ecological modernization of the PVC industry in Germany . In 2011, the Internet platform VroniPlag Wiki raised the charge that the work contained numerous inadequate sources. Djir-Sarai denied the charge. The University of Cologne revoked his doctorate on March 5, 2012 , because scientific citation requirements had not been sufficiently observed.

Political positions

Foreign policy

As a member of parliament to Djir-Sarai is to improve the human rights situation in the Near and Middle East one.

In an article about the work of the German Bundestag, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung names Djir-Sarai 2019 as one of the young parliamentarians who are jointly responsible for the parliament's more active role in foreign policy.

Djir-Sarai toured Iran and met with government officials and opposition groups there. In the 17th electoral term, as a member of the Bundestag, he campaigned for the sanctions against Iran to be relaxed, as these primarily affected the general public. In the 19th electoral term, however, Djir-Sarai advocates concluding additional agreements to the JCPoA ( Iran Nuclear Agreement ) with Iran , which include the Iranian missile program and Iran's role in the region.

Djir-Sarai visited the military units stationed in Afghanistan and supported their deployment to prevent the Taliban from returning to power. He advocated openly communicating the dangers of the Afghanistan mission for the German soldiers to the German public. In 2019, Djir-Sarai brought the demand for a withdrawal plan by the federal government from the Afghanistan mission into the discussion.

He sponsored a Syrian and a Belarusian political prisoner.

Djir-Sarai considers it a "serious security policy mistake" that the German government does not exclude technology companies that submit to foreign state discipline from setting up the 5G network in Germany. Like the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Norbert Röttgen, he campaigns for a tightening of the security catalog and for a mandatory political security review for equipment suppliers.

Integration policy

In his nomination speech for the German Bundestag at the FDP state party conference on November 9, 2008 in Düsseldorf, Djir-Sarai declared integration policy to be one of his political priorities.

He campaigned for the immigration discussion to focus on the skills and potential of migrants. Immigration could be an enrichment for Germany if the immigrants were guided by the numerous well-integrated migrants as role models.

In this context, he criticized Captain Carola Rackete as the foreign policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group and justified her arrest: On June 12, 2019, as the captain of Sea-Watch 3, she had rescued a total of 53 refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean from distress coming from Libya After waiting for a permit, it called at the port of Lampedusa on the night of June 29, despite a ban by Italian authorities . He argued that the rule of law was "extremely jeopardized" "when laws are broken on the basis of ethical motives".

Digital infrastructure policy

As a head of department in the Neuss district administration, Djir-Sarai advocated a publicly funded expansion of the digital infrastructure and described the network expansion as a task of municipal services of general interest, comparable to energy, water and health care. He also referred to the expansion of digital networks as an instrument for economic development and job creation. In this context, Djir-Sarai called for the digital services offered by public administrations to be adapted to the already high degree of digitization of citizens and businesses. The costs of the upcoming digitization process in the administrations could be kept low by neighboring cities and municipalities through shared, standardized IT solutions. In 2016, he presented the first digitization and e-government concept for the Rhein-Kreis Neuss .

Memberships

Bijan Djir-Sarai was a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

Web links

Commons : Bijan Djir-Sarai  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludger Baten: Bijan Djir-Sarai - a German politician. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. June 1, 2013, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Jan Rübel: Rheinischer Jong: Bijan Djir Sarai. In: The Parliament. 2010, accessed on November 22, 2016 (No. 39).
  3. ↑ NGZ-Talk on the blue sofa. Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, August 1, 2011, accessed on November 22, 2016 .
  4. ^ Bijan Djir-Sarai, FDP. In: Biographies of Members of the 17th electoral term (2009-2013). German Bundestag, accessed on November 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ludger Baten: Interview with Bijan Djir-Sarai: "We cannot do without anyone in the FDP". Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, April 26, 2014, accessed on November 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 68th Ordinary Federal Party Congress, Berlin, 28.-30. April 2017 (PDF)
  7. ↑ 70th Ordinary Federal Party Congress April 26-28, 2019 Berlin (PDF)
  8. ↑ "Politics lives from participation" Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung , September 15, 2009, accessed on June 10, 2011 .
  9. ↑ a b Djir-Sarai takes on the sponsorship of captured Syrians. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. August 22, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  10. ^ "District council elected three deputies for District Administrator Petrauschke". (No longer available online.) Rhein-Kreis Neuss , November 19, 2009, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 14, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Ludger Baten: Djir-Sarai: "The district policy grounds me". In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. August 4, 2010, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Ludger Baten: FDP boss Bijan Djir-Sarai wants to become a department head in the district building. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. February 25, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  13. ↑ New technical department: Djir-Sarai began his service. (No longer available online.) Rhein-Kreis Neuss, May 2, 2016, archived from the original on November 22, 2016 ; accessed on November 22, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Bundestag election: Top list position for Bijan Djir-Sarai. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. November 21, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  15. ^ Foreign Committee of the German Bundestag
  16. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  17. ^ Specialist political spokesman for the FDP
  18. ↑ Parliamentary groups of the German Bundestag
  19. ↑ Big rush at the NGZ talk with Bijan Djir-Sarai . Article from March 31, 2018 in the Rheinische Post
  20. ↑ Ecological modernization of the PVC industry in Germany . Dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library .
  21. ↑ A critical examination of the dissertation by Dr. Bijan Djir-Sarai: Ecological modernization of the PVC industry in Germany . In: VroniPlag Wiki . Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  22. ↑ Ludger Baten and Daniela Buschkamp: Sarai's doctoral thesis under suspicion. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. May 31, 2011, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  23. ^ University of Cologne: Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences withdraws Bijan Djir-Sarai's doctoral degree ( memento of March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), March 5, 2012
  24. ↑ Plagiarism affair - FDP MP loses doctorate , SPIEGEL Online, report of March 5, 2012, queried on March 6, 2012
  25. ↑ A parliament is emancipating itself . Article by Johannes Leithäuser from December 25, 2019 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  26. ↑ Majid Sattar: The Trials of Bijan Djir-Sarai. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. June 15, 2011, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  27. ^ Rudolf Geissler: Interview with Bijan Djir-Sarai on the topic: "Before the inauguration of President Ruhani on Saturday". Südwestrundfunk, August 2, 2013, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Germany is looking for a position on the nuclear deal with Iran . Article by Kay-Alexander Scholz from January 9, 2020 on dw.com
  29. ^ Frank Kirschstein: Djir-Sarai in Afghanistan. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. April 14, 2010, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  30. ↑ FDP external expert calls for withdrawal plan for the Bundeswehr . Article by Severin Weiland from January 28, 2019 in Spiegel
  31. ↑ Moritz Koch: Establishing the 5G network: Huawei opponents in the Union are not giving up. In: Handelsblatt . February 12, 2020, accessed February 13, 2020 .
  32. ^ Federal election: Good chances for Djir-Sarai. Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung , November 9, 2008, accessed on June 10, 2011 .
  33. ↑ Djir-Sarai: Immigration is an asset and an enrichment. In: migration business - magazine for migrant economy. September 12, 2013, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  34. ↑ Ansgar Graw, Virginia Kirst: What was the captain allowed to do. In: Welt.de . July 1, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  35. ↑ Ludger Baten: digitization concept for the district. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. July 22, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  36. ↑ Andreas Buchbauer: Digitization needs cohesion. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. November 8, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  37. ↑ Ludger Baten: Head of department is promoting an IT offensive in the Rhine district. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. October 27, 2016, accessed November 22, 2015 .
  38. ↑ Andreas Buchbauer: Rhein-Kreis Neuss: Digitization needs cohesion. In: Rheinische Post. November 8, 2016, accessed February 13, 2020 .
  39. ^ Bijan Djir-Sarai website of the Europa-Union Deutschland. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Djir-Sarai, Bijan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran