Bremen has to live

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Bremen must live (short name: Conservatives ) is a regional association of the German Conservatives Association, founded in January 2007 and based in Hamburg . The journalist Joachim Siegerist is the executive chairman of the association . Bremen must live participated as an electoral association on May 13, 2007 with a total of 26 candidates in the election for Bremen citizenship . In addition, Bremen must live in various parts of the city of Bremen for the advisory council elections as well as the election of the city ​​council in Bremerhaven .

founding

The opening event of Bremen must live took place on October 6, 2006 in the Bremen Hilton Hotel . The originally planned venue, the Hotel ÜberFluss, had canceled the premises rented for this evening at short notice after details about the political orientation of the German Conservatives and their chairman Joachim Siegerist became known to the public before the election. The initiator and chairman of Bremen must live is Siegerist, who was a member of the CDU until 1987 .

On March 3rd and 4th, 2007, Bremen must live put up its lists of candidates for the elective areas Bremen and Bremerhaven in the Hotel IBIS . In the Bremen electoral area, 19 applicants for a seat in the citizenry competed for the electoral association . According to information from Bremen must live , 8 of the candidates used to belong to other parties, while the remaining 11 applicants are said to have never been active in party politics. The top candidate in the Bremen election area was Joachim Siegerist.

In the Bremerhaven electoral area, Bremen muss Leben had drawn up joint lists of candidates with the German Party (DP). 6 of the total of 7 candidates from Bremen must live for the citizenship and the Bremerhaven city council were members of the German party. This emerges from a message from the state chairman of the German party, Claus Cira. Ronald glasses , journalist and top candidate from Bremen must live in the constituency of Bremerhaven, confirmed the cooperation with the German party.

Contacts with other parties

In addition to the joint list in Bremerhaven, there are other contacts between Bremen muss Leben and the German party. The former federal chairman of the German party, Heiner Kappel , supported Bremen must live actively in the election campaign and was also a panel speaker at the opening event of the electoral association in October 2006. The German conservatives had publicly supported the German party in the Bremen state elections in 2003 and the European elections in 2004. The DP was mentioned by the Bremen State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2004 : "In its programmatic orientation, it has clear references to right-wing extremist positions."

The then governor (Prime Minister) of the Austrian state of Carinthia , Jörg Haider ( BZÖ ), supported Bremen must live in the election campaign. The German Conservatives had been in close contact with Jörg Haider and his party FPÖ (later BZÖ) for years . On April 27, 2007, Haider was a guest speaker at an election campaign event in an inn on the outskirts of Bremen. According to the will of Bremen must live , the Bremen town hall was supposed to be the venue for this event, but this was rejected by Mayor Jens Böhrnsen as the host . The attempt by the voters' association to force the use of these premises in court failed before the Bremen Higher Administrative Court .

At the beginning of December 2006, Roger Kusch , chairman of the voters' association Recht Mitte HeimatHamburg , announced that he would appear in the Bremen election campaign for Bremen must live . After meeting Jörg Haider and Joachim Siegerist in Klagenfurt at the beginning of February, Kusch surprisingly withdrew his acceptance and kept his distance from Haider and Bremen must live . Kush literally:

“Then I realized that there is much more that separates than there is in common. […] Haider and Siegerist consider themselves missionaries on a return to a conservative order. HeimatHamburg only takes care of Hamburg issues. "

elections

In the 2007 general election in Bremen , the list reached 1.6% of the votes cast. She missed her entry into the citizenry, but achieved a total of 6 seats in the simultaneous elections to the advisory boards . She was not admitted to the state elections in Bremen in 2011 and only stood in the elections for a few advisory boards.

Self-image and criticism

Bremen muss Leben describes itself as a conservative association and is locally patriotic in Bremen . In the local media, Bremen muss Leben is classified as far to the right and partly also as right-wing radical or right-wing extremist, while political scientist Florian Hartleb , for example, speaks of a right-wing populist association. This assessment is owed not least to the political past of the top candidate Joachim Siegerist, who had a previous conviction for inciting hatred and insults , to whom the red-green federal government certified in March 2001 that he “appeared primarily through ultra-national and right-wing extremist statements”. Joachim Siegerist is also accused of making anti-Semitic and racist statements that prompted the Israeli government to impose an entry ban on Siegerist at the end of the 1990s. Joachim Siegerist resigned from the Hamburg CDU in September 1987 after the party executive had initiated an expulsion procedure against Siegerist for right-wing extremist activities a few weeks earlier.

Before the election, Joachim Siegerist pointed out in an article for the association's newspaper “Konservative Deutsche Zeitung” that the German Conservatives, as the umbrella organization for Bremen must live, were no longer mentioned in the Federal Republic of Germany's report on the protection of the constitution after 1995. Also referred Bremen has to live out that two candidates of non-German origin as well as the German-Jewish journalist on the lists of voters association Ivan Denes were represented, the full-time editor of the conservative German newspaper is. During the election campaign, Bremen muss Leben tried to clearly distinguish between the NPD and the DVU . In this context, Joachim Siegerist said that he refused to work with the “brown swamp”.

The list connection between Bremen and the German party in the Bremerhaven electoral area as well as the cooperation with the former DP chairman Heiner Kappel contradicts Joachim Siegerist's statement that no candidate from his electoral association previously belonged to a politically radical organization. In addition, Bernd Rabehl , who was sixth on the list in the Bremen election area, was a candidate who was repeatedly present at events organized by the right-wing extremist NPD. In addition, Rabehl gave interviews to both the NPD party newspaper, German Voice, and the national newspaper, published by DVU chairman Gerhard Frey .

Roland Glasses, the top candidate from Bremen must live in the Bremerhaven election area , is not only "Chief Reporter" of the German Conservative Newspaper of the German Conservatives, but also a regular employee of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Junge Freiheit, March 23, 2007, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung, March 24, 2007.
  3. ↑ Weser-Kurier, October 8, 2006, p. 9.
  4. ↑ AULA, 02/2003, p. 13.
  5. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2004 of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, p. 26.
  6. ↑ Weser-Kurier, April 28, 2007, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung, April 26, 2007, p. 13.
  8. ↑ Die Welt, February 12, 2007.
  9. ↑ taz Nord, October 9, 2006, p. 25.
  10. ↑ Christine Kröger : Brown peasant catcher . In: Weser courier . January 13, 2007, p. 16 .
  11. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung, January 24, 2007.
  12. ↑ Florian Hartleb : Populism - a central characteristic of party politics in turbulent times? In: Friso Wielenga , Florian Hartleb: From populism in modern democracy. The Netherlands and Germany in comparison. Waxmann, Münster 2011. ISBN 3-8309-2444-5 , p. 119.
  13. ^ German Bundestag, 14th electoral term, printed matter 14/5635 of March 22, 2001, p. 11.
  14. ↑ Ojars J. Rozitis in: haGalil Online, November 12, 1998.
  15. ^ Hamburger Morgenpost, September 29, 1987.
  16. ^ Conservative Deutsche Zeitung, edition 32/2007, p. 3.

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