Boris Palmer

Boris Palmer (2020)

Boris Erasmus Palmer (born May 28, 1972 in Waiblingen ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). He has been Lord Mayor of the city of Tübingen since 2007 .

Origin, studies and private life

Palmer grew up in Geradstetten and is a son of the fruit farmer Helmut Palmer , who, as a non-party candidate in more than 250 mayoral elections in Baden-Württemberg, gained national fame as the “ Remstal rebel”. As a child, Palmer often accompanied his father in his election campaigns. He is a cousin of the CDU politician Christoph Palmer , who was formerly a member of the state parliament, minister of state , confidante of Prime Minister Erwin Teufel and district chairman of the Stuttgart CDU.

Palmer was classified as gifted and passed his Abitur at the Free Waldorf School in Engelberg in June 1992 with an overall grade of 1.0. Then Palmer completed his community service with the DRK . He then studied history and mathematics from 1993 to 2000 for teaching at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and in Sydney . He completed this course with the first state examination.

He then worked as a research assistant for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.

Palmer was in a relationship with the green member of the Bundestag and MEP Franziska Brantner . As one of the first mayors in Germany after the birth of their daughter (* 2010), he took out parental allowance for two months from the end of August to the beginning of November 2010 , during which time he left his office. In October 2013, Palmer announced that he and Brantner had split up. In August 2015, Palmer had a son. His life partner Magdalena Ruoffner is a grammar school teacher and is involved in local politics with the SPD. In May 2020 they became parents of another son.

Political activity

During his studies, Palmer was active as a student representative. From 1995 to 2000 he was AStA advisor for environment and traffic at the university . During this time he developed a concept for the introduction of night buses in the Tübingen area, which was implemented from April 1996, and contributed to the introduction of the semester ticket . Palmer spoke out in favor of subsequent tuition fees in Baden-Württemberg.

Palmer has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1996. From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the board of the Tübingen district association of his party. In November 2012, he took last place in the election to the party council of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and has not been a member of the 16-member body since then.

Palmer received the Ordre national du Mérite in 2017 for his commitment to deepening Franco-German relations.

Member of the State Parliament (2001 to 2007)

Palmer was first elected to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg in 2001, where he represented the constituency of Tübingen with a second mandate . He was a member of the Committee on Environment and Transport and environmental and transport policy spokesman for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group. In this function he was one of the critics of the transport and urban development project Stuttgart 21 .

In the 2006 state elections , Palmer was re-elected as a member of parliament. In his constituency he achieved a share of the vote of 22.1%, making the Greens here for the first time the second strongest party before the SPD . Palmer was elected one of three deputy parliamentary group leaders, but gave up this position when he took office as Lord Mayor of Tübingen. On May 25, 2007 he resigned his state parliament mandate according to an announcement made before the mayoral election. Ilka Neuenhaus moved up for him .

Mayor election in Stuttgart (2004)

In the fall of 2004, Palmer applied as a Green candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of Stuttgart . In the first ballot on October 10, 2004 he achieved a share of the vote of 21.5% and was thus 2.8 percent above the result of the Greens in the municipal council election on June 13, 2004. Behind incumbent Wolfgang Schuster (CDU) and Ute Kumpf ( SPD), both of which missed the required absolute majority of votes, Palmer was in third place and withdrew his candidacy in view of the clear deficit on second-placed Ute Kumpf. He held talks with both competitors about possible content-related concessions. In contrast to Kumpf, Schuster signaled a concession on six points, which Palmer then explained in a public statement. Among other things, Schuster stated that a referendum on the controversial large-scale project Stuttgart 21 would be possible with considerable cost increases for the city. Palmer's statements were interpreted as an indirect election recommendation in favor of Schuster for the second ballot on October 24th and provoked violent and controversial reactions. Many observers saw a reaction to the behavior of the Stuttgart SPD in the mayoral elections in Stuttgart in 1996, when the SPD applicant Rainer Brechtken , who was third in the first ballot, was not prepared to withdraw his candidacy and thus possibly prevented a victory for the Green Rezzo Schlauch . After the Stuttgart Greens became the strongest party in the municipal council elections in June 2009, Palmer initially expressed his interest in running again for the Stuttgart mayoral election in 2012, but declared in March 2010 that he would refrain from such a candidacy.

Lord Mayor of Tübingen (since 2007)

Boris Palmer with chain of office (left) with Helmut Schmidt and Hans Küng (May 2007)

Boris Palmer on the evening of his re-election as Lord Mayor of Tübingen (October 19, 2014)

On October 22, 2006, Palmer was elected Lord Mayor of Tübingen. As a challenger to the incumbent Brigitte Russ-Scherer (SPD), who has been in office for eight years , he already achieved the required absolute majority in the first ballot with a share of 50.4% of the votes. Russ-Scherer received 30.2%, other candidates received a total of 19.4%. The turnout was 51.6%. Four and a half months after taking office on January 11, 2007, Palmer resigned his state parliament mandate, pointing out that in politics it was always preferable to actively shape the opposition. For him, Ilka Neuenhaus moved up in the state parliament.

In the election on October 19, 2014, Palmer was re-elected with 61.7% of the votes in the first ballot, his non-party opponent Beatrice Soltys came with 33.2%. The turnout was 55 percent.

Local climate protection initiative

Palmer's political goals include in particular the implementation and support of global climate protection goals through local measures. The climate protection campaign Tübingen macht blau , initiated by him, made it possible to reduce CO ₂ emissions by 32% per capita from 2007. In the same period, CO ₂ emissions in Germany only decreased by 8%. The campaign was awarded prizes by the Federal Environment Ministry, among others. In 2014, the Tübingen climate protection initiative received the European Energy Award in silver. In the energy policy work program, the Tübingen municipal council decided on the goal of reducing CO ₂ emissions per capita by 45% by 2022 compared to 2006. In 2018, Tübingen received the European Energy Award quality certificate in "Gold" with the highest point value of all German cities in size. Boris Palmer was temporarily appointed Energy Ambassador for the State of Lower Austria .

Childcare places

Palmer advocated the expansion of childcare places at an early stage . In Tübingen, around 90% of all small children were given a day care center in 2014.

Citizen participation

Boris Palmer endeavors to involve citizens at an early stage in central construction projects and to disclose the objectives of the administration. After the building at Mühlstrasse 3 (on a central traffic axis of the city) had been demolished in 2009, the city had only belatedly presented the various options for redesigning this site to the citizens in detail, when the project had already been finally decided by the municipal council. In other cases, the population should be involved at an early stage, e. B. from 2011 with the redesign of the "southern city center" with the central bus station and from September 2018 with the inner city route of the planned regional light rail .

Transport policy

Under Boris Palmer, numerous streets were renewed and in some cases upgraded and widened for pedestrians and cyclists. B. in Mühlstrasse , an important bottleneck in the city. However, incorrect planning led to cost increases and interim obstructions to bus traffic, for which Palmer subsequently assumed political responsibility.

The traffic flows have been rearranged at individual neuralgic points such as the interest triangle . City traffic in Tübingen was strengthened and the number of passengers continued to rise. Since 2011, Stadtwerke has been operating its own buses through TüBus GmbH for the first time, while previously exclusively private bus companies operated city transport. In order to speed up local public transport, bus pre-authorization has been introduced for 77 traffic lights. The university town's already dense network of cycle paths has been expanded and better signposted. The parking space management was extended to other urban areas.

The speed limit of 30 km / h on the thoroughfares in the city center, introduced in 2012, caused an uproar , which some citizens saw as the green mayor's profile in terms of traffic policy. In fact, the CDU politician had Hermann Strampfer led Government Bureau arranged the restriction; Boris Palmer himself advocates Tempo 30 in Tübingen, but bowed to the will of a small public survey.

Housing policy

In Tübingen, the rent rose by an average of 27 percent to an average of EUR 12.40 per square meter in the five years from 2016 to 2021 alone. During Palmer's tenure, several unused houses were occupied in order to draw attention to the “precarious housing conditions” in the city and “to confront the vacancy in a very concrete way,” as the squatters announced. In 2019, Palmer wanted to oblige property owners to build with a fine of 50,000 euros by ordinance. The initiative was not implemented.

Urban budget

Palmer decided to maintain and modernize urban facilities such as schools, kindergartens and sports facilities, thereby reducing “hidden debt” by 25 million euros. The city's annual trade tax income, which before Palmer took office, was 15-20 million euros annually, rose in 2013 to 48 million euros.

Economic policy

Since Boris Palmer took office in 2007, the number of jobs in Tübingen had grown to over 40,000 in 2012. Palmer sees the expansion of new production and research buildings as the most important task of the city in economic development. However, these are not created in new commercial areas, but rather through densification of existing buildings. Among other things, Palmer had the Steinlachwasen development plan revised in such a way that two of the largest Tübingen companies could erect much larger and taller operational buildings. Since the new building of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the heart of the "Cyber Valley", a research association that aims to secure a leading position in the development of artificial intelligence for Baden-Württemberg, has emerged in Tübingen. Part of Cyber Valley is Amazon, which wants to build a research center for 200 employees in Tübingen. Palmer defended the settlement against criticism and achieved a majority in the local council for the land assignment to Amazon.

Company car

In a departure from the usual practices in Baden-Württemberg municipalities, Palmer declared at the beginning of 2007 that he wanted to use an environmentally friendly hybrid vehicle from a Japanese manufacturer as a company car in the future . He justified this with the low CO ₂ emissions of the vehicle and at the same time announced that he would immediately switch to a product from a local company as soon as a model with a sufficiently low energy balance was on the market. Palmer implemented this in 2008 by switching to the Smart Fortwo "Micro Hybrid Drive" ("MHD" for short) model. The small car does not have a hybrid drive, but is equipped with a start-stop system . Palmer later canceled the lease without replacement, citing the fact that fuel consumption was still too high and too little use. In response to the accusation of the then Prime Minister Günther Oettinger of having committed “treason” by choosing a company car, Palmer replied: “I don't need a company car with 180 hp , I'm not on the run”.

In 2014 Boris Palmer replaced his company car according to his own statements "with an electric bike " and also rarely uses a city company vehicle.

Position on animal experiments in Tübingen

In the controversy surrounding experiments on rhesus monkeys at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen from 2014 onwards, Palmer endorsed the experiments and complained that the experiments were subsequently discontinued as a setback for research.

Boehringer project

According to the local media, an important topic in the mayoral election campaign was a project by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim , which first became known in September 2006 , which envisaged the establishment of a location for animal vaccine research and the construction of an additional laboratory animal house with its own animal carcass incinerator. In the face of resolute resident protests, Palmer promised to have a referendum carried out on this construction project. However, even before Palmer took office, the company declared, referring to the reactions in the public and media coverage, that it would no longer pursue its settlement plans due to a lack of planning security and that it would look for another location.

School renovation

Following one of Palmer's first initiatives after taking office, the Tübingen municipal council decided in 2007 to bring forward the energetic renovation of the Wildermuth grammar school , which was originally planned for a later date . Calculations had previously shown that the amount saved by reducing heating costs by 57% is higher than the cost of the construction work.

Controversy over Felicia Langer

Palmer supported the award of the Tübingen-based journalist Felicia Langer with the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, on July 16, 2009 , which led to a public controversy because of her position on Israeli politics. The publicist Henryk M. Broder particularly sharply criticized Palmer.

Citizen app with cyber voting

The Tübingen City Council and Mayor Palmer are planning residents' surveys with the help of a citizen app for mobile devices, or cybervoting for short. This was programmed by the Leonberg company aaronprojects GmbH. The first survey with the BürgerApp took place in March 2019 on the construction of a new indoor swimming pool, a concert hall and three other questions. Participation in the non-binding survey was 16%. The app for voting via smartphone works like this, the SWR reported : “Everyone who is registered in Tübingen and is 16 years old receives a QR code sent to them. If the app is installed and a survey is pending, a message pops up on the mobile phone. The citizen receives information and can vote in the new app. "

The Chaos Computer Club Stuttgart (CCCS) had criticized in advance in an open letter to Boris Palmer that the source code and test report of the software were not public and that end devices and providers were not trustworthy. The system can thus be manipulated and is "no longer possible for those who vote [...] to understand the entire process". As much as one generally supports efforts to increase public participation, this is the wrong way to go: “Computers have simplified our lives in many areas [...], but not every problem can be solved with digitization. Stop this dangerous experiment before you really start it. " A spokesman for the CCCS: "There is no way to check the result, it cannot be counted again."

Political positions

Palmer is assigned to the realpolitischen wing of his party and speaks regularly on topics of the federal politics.

Domestic politics

In 2011, Palmer declared that for a “responsible domestic policy”, in addition to prevention and dialogue, “sometimes repression is the order of the day”. In 2013, he spoke out in favor of changing the Baden-Württemberg police law in order to be able to issue residence bans against conspicuous alcohol drinkers.

Tax policy

In 2012, Palmer called for high wealth taxation.

Palmer criticized the Greens' tax policy demands in the 2013 federal election campaign as the main reason for his party's poor performance and demanded that the Greens would have to be “the guarantor of economic sanity” in a possible red-red-green coalition in 2017.

In contrast to the election manifesto of his party, he advocated raising the top tax rate less sharply (from 45 to 47 instead of 49%) in the federal election campaign. He also feared that jobs would be lost if industry rebates on energy taxes were reduced too much.

Stuttgart 21

As an opponent of the Stuttgart 21 project in its current form, Palmer assumed the leading role of the project opponents in the arbitration talks on this topic, although the municipal council of the city of Tübingen expressly spoke out in favor of this project. The first two arbitration dates fell during Palmer's parental leave, which ended on November 2, 2010, which earned him criticism. He took vacation days on all subsequent arbitration appointments in which Palmer participated.

During an arbitration meeting on November 27, 2010, the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn AG, Volker Kefer, offered him to work as a planner for the Deutsche Bahn. Before the referendum on Stuttgart 21 on November 27, 2011, Palmer was involved in the voting campaign and was confident that it could be possible to stop the project. After his position had not found a majority in the referendum, he declared that for him "the chapter was definitely closed" and that "one ... can also lose". In the summer of 2012 he declared Stuttgart 21 “a mistake that we have to make now”. In 2013, he again demanded an immediate exit from the project in a TV program on SWR, as the costs would be well above the € 6.8 billion specified at the time, and he spoke out in favor of the alternative project terminus station 21 .

Brunsbüttel coal-fired power station

At the beginning of 2010, Palmer supported the participation of Stadtwerke Tübingen , of which he is chairman of the supervisory board, in a planned hard coal-fired power station in Brunsbüttel . As part of a consortium through SüdWestStrom, the municipal utilities have a 0.4% stake in the project. In July 2012, the SWS abandoned the project.

refugee policy

Palmer takes a minority position with the Greens on refugee policy. At the beginning of August 2015 he demanded “realism in the refugee debate” from his party. Due to the large number of refugees and “overloaded reception capacities”, it is necessary to support the deportation of rejected asylum seekers and to redefine safe countries of origin. One has to ask “whether people who come to us for economic reasons, who come to us out of sheer need, whether they have the same reason to find shelter with us as people who flee from war. And I think the answer is no. ”During the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , Palmer also stated that Germany“ does not have room for everyone ”and that if necessary, apartments must be confiscated to accommodate refugees. In addition, it is a mistake to pay cash benefits instead of benefits in kind in initial reception centers , because this has led to increasing numbers of refugees from the Balkans. The admission of war refugees is more important. Palmer advocated discussing refugee policy “more honestly” instead of “perseverance”, since otherwise a “highly dangerous” social situation would be created. His demand from October 2015 to close the EU's external borders, armed if necessary, met with criticism from his party, which led him to apologize for the choice of words. In February 2016, Palmer reiterated that European borders should be secured with fences and European border guards.

In interviews, Palmer said: “The people who came to us during the refugee crisis have different attitudes towards women's rights, religious tolerance and environmental protection. When a million people come in such a short time, you suddenly have to grapple with ideas that you believed to have been overcome. That can set a society back. "

In the debate about the age estimate of unaccompanied refugee minors, Palmer called for a reversal of the burden of proof “in view of the considerable costs and obvious dangers posed by this group of young men” . Without proof of minority, every person should be "treated as an adult".

In August 2017, his book We Can't Help All was published , in which he deals, among other things, with possible resilience limits in relation to educational and job opportunities, living space and security. The Green Party leadership criticized Palmer for drawing a distorted image of green refugee policy that had nothing to do with reality for a long time. Nobody in the party is still advocating taking in all refugees.

In November 2018, Palmer criticized the UN migration pact because it does not always make a clear distinction between immigration and asylum. He had encountered many problems in the document and said it was a mistake to publicly ignore the issue for a year.

Tübingen "List of suspicious" from January 2019

Together with his Schwäbisch Gmünder colleague Richard Arnold , Palmer publicly demanded several times in the course of 2018 that “suspicious” refugees from accommodation operated by municipalities be placed in “safe state facilities” in remote areas and placed under police surveillance.

Among the “suspicious” affected by his demands, Palmer not only counted people who had previously been convicted of a criminal offense by a court, but also explicitly referred to “disruptors” and “bad-doers” in public spaces who did not appear to be criminal. In view of a "dangerous situation" he described, the inadequate criminal handling of the state and the deficit situation of the responsible constitutional institutions, Palmer repeatedly demanded that measures restricting freedom such as placement in guarded state camps also solely at the request of the respective local government, i. H. should be done purely by administrative means and bypassing the judge's reservation.

At the beginning of January 2019, the CDU-led Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior announced that there was no legal basis for these measures required by Palmer.

At the end of January 2019, Palmer announced that the city of Tübingen would now itself record so-called “suspicious” refugees on a central list across all authorities. In future, people on this list should be concentrated in a guarded refugee shelter in Tübingen and their freedom of movement should be restricted.

Critical questions about the legal and integration-political aspects of this approach by the city administration, including by local church congregations, social associations and other civil society actors in refugee and integration work, initially assessed Palmer as "political propaganda", later he referred to acts of violence by asylum seekers in other cities in a post on Facebook and that it was therefore his duty as the highest employer to protect its employees. The Schwäbisches Tagblatt reported: “The mayor did not answer the questions asked.” On September 30, 2020, the state commissioner for data protection prohibited the continuation of the list and ordered the deletion of existing data. Palmer wanted to comply with the order, but expressed his incomprehension. He now wants to keep a different list that does not include any information from the public prosecutor's office.

Internal party criticism of Palmer's positions on refugee and immigration policy

In February 2016, the then Green leadership distanced itself from Palmer. The former co-chairman Simone Peter said: "Anyone who demands fences and walls to limit the immigration of refugees is primarily playing into the hands of right-wing agitators."

At the session of the German Bundestag on January 17, 2019, MdB Manuel Sarrazin distanced himself in a brief intervention on behalf of the entire Bundestag faction of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen from the statements by MdB Alexander Radwan ( CSU ) on the refugee policy.

Handling of citizen inquiries according to the Freedom of Information Act

At the end of November 2020, Palmer commented on an inquiry regarding the “list of suspicious persons ” in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (IFG) via the FragDenStaat platform with the words “Do you have any other hobbies?” And the note that one should “confidently contact the state data protection officer [sic] ". A month later, the city administration duly answered the renewed request with the same question.

At the beginning of 2021, Palmer refused to answer an IFG request via FragDenStaat because it was allegedly "anonymous" and incomprehensible. The applicant contradicted this.

Corona measures

In April 2020, the Green politicians expressed Sat.1 breakfast television to Corona pandemic . He called for the corona requirements to be relaxed and explained: "I'll tell you very brutally: We may save people in Germany who would be dead in six months anyway - due to their age and previous illnesses." Poverty shock caused by the so-called shutdown , which, according to UN calculations, could cost the lives of 100 million children. According to the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , the general secretary of the state CDU, Manuel Hagel, said the Green politician was inciting generations against one another; his statements bristled with contempt for the elderly in society. Sascha Binder , General Secretary of the state SPD, and Binder's party colleague Martin Rosemann criticized Palmer's statements as “inhuman” . Green party colleagues also said: Fritz Kuhn described Palmer's position on Twitter as “social Darwinist”. Sandra Detzer and Oliver Hildenbrand from the state party leadership distanced themselves by stating that Palmer was participating in a polarization and brutalization of the public debate with his calculated slip-ups and staged taboos.

The Green District Association of Tübingen also distanced itself from Boris Palmer's statements about protecting older people in the Corona crisis and urged him to "urgently reconsider his stance". Human dignity is inviolable. This applies to people of all ages. The statements sparked a wave of outrage (including on Twitter under the hashtag #Palmer). In the evening, Palmer put his choice of words into perspective. "I would never deny older or sick people the right to live," he told the dpa . If he “expressed himself ambiguously or briskly”, he is sorry. In a subsequent interview he justified his statement because, in his opinion, the death of millions of children in underdeveloped countries would be accepted in return for deliberately running into a global economic crisis. In an open letter, many Greens called for him to be expelled from the party. They wrote: "With his statements he divides society, simplifies social problems and repeatedly carries out propaganda against the weaker"; he is "unteachable". Finally, on May 4, 2020, Annalena Baerbock, the chairwoman of the Greens, announced consequences for Palmer's behavior. Palmer will no longer be supported by the party if he runs again. Christoph Joachim, head of the Green Group in the local council, distanced himself from Palmer and spoke out against Palmer's candidacy for the next mayoral election. Palmer defended his statements in a live interview with the picture again and said that he was "not aware of any guilt".

On May 8, 2020, the state association of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg called on Palmer to quit the party. One also reserves the right to initiate party order proceedings against him. In no case will he be supported if he should run again in the next election as Mayor of Tübingen in 2022. Through his behavior he acts systematically against the Greens by opposing political values and political principles of the Greens with his statements. Thereupon Palmer criticized false allegations of the "arena of indignation". The commentator for Südwestfunk, Sandra Müller, called for a sober look at the facts. Here a single “sentence from a long interview” was picked and interpreted in a way that was not audibly intended. In December 2020, Robert Habeck reiterated that there was still no political support for Palmer, but that he thought it was right that there was no party expulsion process. Palmer has also learned and shown that he means what he said differently. The bottom line is that he gave Palmer a good report card as mayor.

In an interview with Bild am Sonntag , the Baden-Württemberg state head of the FDP , Michael Theurer , was open to Palmer's party membership: “Boris Palmer is very welcome here in the FDP Baden-Württemberg”. This refused the offer: As an ecologist , it is impossible to become a member of the FDP, as he put it to the dpa .

In the first wave of pandemics in spring 2020, Palmer pleaded for elderly people to be completely isolated in the home for three months, while the younger ones should go back to work. He wanted to create herd immunity among the younger generation and thus slowly enable the elderly to return to public life. In autumn 2020, Palmer spoke out in favor of the economy and public life being restricted as little as possible by protective measures. Instead, he relied on special protection for the elderly. The measures included testing the staff in the nursing homes from September, from October offering free quick tests for residents and visitors to the homes, FFP2 masks for people over 65 and a subsidized taxi service for people over 60. This concept attracted attention and there were reports and interviews in various media about it. There was also criticism, among others. by the regional seniors' council and the mayor of Freiburg, Martin Horn .

At the beginning of December 2020, Palmer claimed to the Berliner Tagesspiegel that there had recently been no more Covid-19 diseases in Tübingen in people over 75 years of age who lived in care facilities or old people's homes. However, this statement turned out to be incorrect. Palmer later explained this with data transmission problems and apologized for the false information.

At the beginning of January 2021, Palmer repeatedly criticized the corona measures in a picture talk show and called for a move away from the 7-day incidence value of 50 new coronavirus infections. "It's enough. We have to live! ”Says Palmer in picture . From the beginning of February we have to talk about easing. Palmer's statement met with criticism from SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach , who urged caution and demanded a 7-day target incidence value of 25. A means of containing the pandemic Corona saw Palmer at nighttime curfews . "I would have nothing to say against it: From 8 p.m. it's really quiet," he said on March 28, 2021.

When the Tübingen model he had supported had to be terminated in April 2021 due to the change in the Infection Protection Act , he said: "We could have got through the crisis much better with digitization, with vaccinations, with tests and with the protection of risk groups."

Appeal for free debate rooms

In the fall of 2020, Palmer was one of the first to sign the appeal for free debate rooms .

Relationship with other parties

Black-green coalitions

Palmer is a proponent of black-green coalitions . Before the Baden-Württemberg state elections in 2006, he put this stance into concrete terms by formulating substantive criteria against which such an alliance would have to be measured. However , in view of his socio-political positions, Palmer was hostile to the former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Stefan Mappus (CDU).

Relationship to the Pirate Party and Liquid Democracy (LD)

In an opinion piece for Die Zeit in 2012, Palmer wrote : “Piracy does not renew our democracy, it threatens its very foundations. [...] The threat to our democracy comes from the core of the pirate party itself: Liquid democracy is a danger because it is simply unsuitable for the control of a community by its citizens. ”He justified this with the non-binding nature of the decisions, as these are made by LD could be changed again at any time and because LD overwhelmed the individual voter.

Relationship to the SPD

Palmer has repeatedly spoken out against too close ties between the Greens and the SPD and usually combined this with the demand for the Greens to be open to the CDU in order to avoid grand coalitions Mr. Altmaier has to negotiate it with Jürgen Trittin instead of Sigmar Gabriel from the SPD, who defends the coal-fired power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia or Brandenburg. ”). After the federal election in 2013 , he warned that as a result of the targeted occupation of green issues by the SPD in the grand coalition, the Greens would emerge as a “permanent, single-digit small party from the time of the GroKo”.

Bad word in 2018

The jury of the language-critical action Unwort des Jahres criticized Palmer's term “human rights fundamentalism” as one of the three unwords of 2018, because the expression “particularly shows that we - as the former Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse warned in 2016 at the Katholikentag in Leipzig - To have 'to learn humanity anew' and 'elementary rules of political and human decency, respect for personal honor and human dignity [...] [seem] no longer to apply to quite a few in the country' ". Defending human rights is “more than a mere conviction that could be discredited as 'fundamentalism'.” Palmer accused the jury of wrongly attributing to him that he had spoken out against sea rescue in the Mediterranean. However, the jury's publication only stated that “this cynical expression […] was used by Boris Palmer […] on the occasion of a debate about rescuing refugees from the Mediterranean”.

Public performances

Palmer is an occasional guest on television shows like Maybrit Illner and is tough but fair and often speaks up on issues of federal and state politics. Palmer is very active on the social media platform Facebook . When he photographed a probably wrongly parked car and depicted it with its license plate, this led to extensive criticism of his handling of private data: For example, the Focus reported under the heading "Facebook pillory: Green mayor telling off parkers". Palmer replied that according to the latest judgments, there was neither a violation of data protection nor an encroachment on personal rights.

In 2019, he exchanged Facebook profiles for a week with Spiegel Online journalist Hasnain Kazim . The hoped-for open dialogue across political rifts does not work on Palmer's Facebook profile, the Stuttgarter Zeitung recognized . Above all, Palmer's supporters have made life difficult for Kazim: "Insults, blanket judgments and poorly reflected statements are increasing."

criticism

Use of local police powers

Late in the evening on November 13, 2018, Boris Palmer confronted a student in Tübingen for making a derogatory remark against him. It developed a vocal confrontation, during which Palmer submitting his service card as head of the local police , the police authority took claim for themselves, the personal record of the student as well as its companion uninvolved. Palmer also took photos of the people. The student evaded identity verification , but later reported the incident to the Schwäbisches Tagblatt , giving his name . Palmer then initiated proceedings to impose a fine for " disturbing the peace at night " and refusing to provide identity . The student's companion, for her part, reported Palmer for coercion .

The legal assessment of the incident and the proportionality of Palmer's appearance was controversially discussed by lawyers. The Baden-Wuerttemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) reacted "annoyed": "I am not the guardian of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Lord Mayor." Due to a complaint from a witness against Palmer, Government President Klaus Tappeser (CDU) criticized "Palmer's student control". Regarding the photos taken, the district president wrote that “the suitability and proportionality of this measure” should be “viewed critically”. The regional council informed the complainant of this assessment and declared the matter to be closed without further action. Print media such as Die Welt , Stuttgarter Nachrichten , Südwest Presse and Focus interpreted this as a reprimand for Palmer.

Accusation of racist remarks

Palmer's criticism of the behavior of a dark-skinned man

In May 2018, Palmer linked the wrongdoing of a cyclist with his skin color and speculated that it must be an asylum seeker. The Schwäbisches Tagblatt accused him of racism . The divisive behavior is "unworthy" of a mayor of a university town, especially because blacks in Tübingen have recently been exposed to growing hostility. The Tübingen district executive and other politicians from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen distanced themselves from Palmer's statements. In a subsequent statement, Palmer again commented on the man's "lascivious clothing" and defended his suspicions about his origin. When asked why he had named the man's skin color, he replied: “Because the guy with a bare torso, headphones and incredible audacity curled up around people. That is not right for anyone and for an asylum seeker three times already. ”The Tübingen SPD municipal council group announced that it would not support him again in a future election because these statements were“ close to racist ideas ”. Palmer "contributes to the division of society".

On May 8, 2018, Palmer explained his remarks in the FAZ again: He had only openly described what he - and in his experience not he alone - thinks in such situations when several circumstances come together: "Young, male, behavior, dress code and in this specific case of black African origin. ”Palmer had previously said that his statements were“ not racism, but logic ”, which he now regrets:“ I confused statistics with politics. ”He then apologized that he had made a serious mistake and would Don't say that anymore today; He is sorry "that the very people I want to protect - namely black-skinned migrants - feel attacked and stigmatized across the board."

The Tübingen local council condemned the majority of Palmer's statements in a resolution. Meanwhile called the dramaturge Bernd Stegemann Palmer in the period as a tragic hero of our day: "The three words, black ',' rude 'and' refugee 'are the most reliable formula to a Shitstorm to kindle in which the three words' racism' , 'Xenophobic' and 'agitation' are repeated rampantly. ”It is difficult to believe that Palmer did not know that. He put his own reputation on the line "to raise public awareness of this paradoxical mechanism". Stegemann believes that he recognizes the paradoxical mechanism in the fact that specific misconduct, which is an exception, is usually not discussed publicly and its non-disclosure could lead to a general suspicion of refugees. However, Stegemann doubted whether "flirting with racist clichés" was necessary for this.

Palmer's criticism of refugees traveling by train without a ticket

In September 2018, Deutsche Bahn denied Palmer's claim that refugees who travel without a valid ticket are a growing problem: “We cannot confirm an accumulation.” In a study published in 2019, the political scientist Nikolai Huke analyzed racism and moral panics in debates about migration policy Posts by Palmer on Facebook . After a lecture in December 2018 about the results of the study in Tübingen , Palmer accused him of a “wrong description of reality” on Facebook. Huke noted on the other hand, Palmer defamed his scientific work by "false statements and allegations".

Palmer's criticism of an advertisement for Deutsche Bahn

In April 2019, Palmer commented on an advertising campaign by Deutsche Bahn (DB), in which, among other things. the daughter of Turkish immigrants Nazan Eckes and the German-Ghanaian chef Nelson Müller played in a commercial. DB also showed a photo with excerpts from this commercial on its booking platform, which was supposed to depict different situations during a train journey. Boris Palmer posted this picture on his Facebook page and asked which company the railway wanted to represent. This triggered a massive shit storm . In the taz , Palmer was accused of being "racist" and "hypocritical". According to the FAZ , Palmer's criticism of the choice of advertising media caused "outrage". Palmer's own regional association in Baden-Württemberg condemned the statements. A spokesman for Deutsche Bahn said: "Mr. Palmer has apparently again problems with an open and colorful society ... We reject such an attitude." The federal spokesman for the Greens, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock , criticized Palmer for his statements. The ex-federal chairwoman Claudia Roth told the Augsburger Allgemeine that Palmer's statements were clearly racist and that no one would stop him from looking for a place where he felt more comfortable politically. Other Greens also called for Palmer's resignation.

Palmer's use of a racist term

In May 2021, allegations of racism against Palmer were again raised when he spoke about a conflict between former German national soccer player Dennis Aogo and Jens Lehmann regarding Aogo's activity as a Sky presenter . Palmer referred to the unverified allegation that Aogo had used the word " negro tail" against a woman for sexual purposes. In a Facebook comment he wrote: "The aogo is a bad racist. Has offered women his negro cock *." (Sic!)

The federal chairwoman of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock , described Palmer's statements as "racist and repulsive". Palmer rejected the charge of racism and justified his choice of words with the use of ironic stylistic devices. Winfried Kretschmann , Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg and member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party, criticized Palmer's statements: “You simply cannot make such statements. That simply does not work. I also find it unworthy of a mayor to constantly polarize with provocations. ”Palmer is a“ professional ”who must know that irony never works in politics.

Initiation of a party order procedure after Palmer's statements

On May 8, 2021, Baerbock announced that Palmer had lost the party's support and considered a process to expel Palmer from the party . The Greens Baden-Wuerttemberg initiated on the same day on a digital Party a party planning procedures with the aim of the party against exclusion Palmer one. The state board of the Greens Baden-Württemberg will conduct the proceedings before the District Arbitration Commission of the Greens Tübingen.

Fonts

A city turns blue. Politics in climate change - the Tübingen model . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04113-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Boris Palmer: The Nazis, the refugees and me. In: FAZ.net . November 24, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2019 (guest post).
We can't help everyone: Ein Grüner on integration and the limits of resilience , Siedler, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8275-0107-3
(as audio book: John Verlag , Schwaig 2017, ISBN 978-3-942057-90- 5 )
First the facts, then the morals. Why politics has to start with reality . Siedler, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8275-0124-0 ( excerpt from the Axis of the Good , October 16, 2019).

Web links

Commons : Boris Palmer - collection of images

Wikiquote: Boris Palmer - Quotes

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Lord Mayor. In: tuebingen.de. Retrieved January 18, 2019 (website of the Mayor of Tübingen).
Peter Unfried: "Massive intervention in the market". In: The daily newspaper . November 28, 2019 (Interview with Boris Palmer).; accessed on November 28, 2019

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Diploma thesis on Palmer's mayor election campaign 2004 ( Memento from November 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
A rebel full of tenderness and devotion. With Helmut Palmer, a great friend of Nürtingen also died - an infinite love for nature and the country. In: wirtemberg.de. December 27, 2004, accessed January 18, 2019 .
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Ann-Katrin Müller, Britta Stuff: Greens: And the Palmer greets you every day . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 2016 ( online - August 13, 2016 ).
Hansjörg Müller: No heart for dissidents: Boris Palmer and other troublemakers encounter little understanding from their party colleagues. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 15, 2020 .; accessed on May 15, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME	Palmer, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Palmer, Boris Erasmus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waiblingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg

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