Bundestag debate on March 13, 1975
The Bundestag debate of March 13, 1975 is a debate in the German Bundestag that ended with several scandal .
History and occasion
With the emergence of RAF terrorism , the issue of internal security came on the parliamentary agenda. The immediate cause of the debate was the kidnapping and freeing of the Berlin CDU politician Peter Lorenz by the June 2nd movement shortly before. The debate took place under strong police security precautions in Bonn's government district.
At the same time, the Sonthofen Strategy of the CSU from 1974 became public, a strategy with which Franz Josef Strauss tried to get the government through the then acute problem areas such as inflation and RAF terrorism by failing to make oppositional counterproposals for a year and a half until the 1976 federal election to render an aggravation of the crises expected of him incapable.
course
The debate began in the morning with a government statement from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt .
In the course of the all-day discussion, in the late evening u. a. The then chairman of the SPD parliamentary group Herbert Wehner also had the floor. In response to the CSU's Sonthofen strategy, Wehner cited that Strauss was "himself a spiritual terrorist" by consciously accepting the aggravation of these problems and the fact that Strauss is stirring up fear in the state by assuming that many left-liberals have sympathy for the RAF. Ultimately, Strauss tries to formulate "circles of haze" and to attribute "as many as possible to these circles of haze as belonging".
Wehner took the word "haze circles" literally from Strauss.
This sentence from Wehner and Wehner's remark that the CDU / CSU parliamentary group behaves in relation to the designation Marxist “as Goebbels operated with it, is no different. You are just as stupid on this as it was. Only he was very clever in a Jesuit way . ”- Wehner received a call to order from the President of the Bundestag Annemarie Renger - led to the fact that the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, with the exception of two members, left parliament, whereupon Wehner remarked:“ Whoever goes out has to come back in! "
Towards the end of his speech, Wehner et al. a. also referring to his own political past: “Anyone who was once a communist will be persecuted by your civil society until the end of their life, and if possible it will also let terrorists kill them. I know that, that's the way it is, and that's why I said to Kurt Schumacher at the time : They'll peel the skin off my living body. Then he said to me: And you are someone who can take it, and you have to be here. "
Immediately after Wehner's speech, Philipp Jenninger applied for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group to be suspended from 10.26 p.m. to 11.05 p.m. After the interruption was lifted, Richard Stücklen protested sharply against Wehner's speech on behalf of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. He led u. a. from: “Only a member of the mindset of a Mr. Wehner is capable of such failures, which are unworthy of a parliament. Mr. Wehner has become an unbearable burden on our democracy and this Parliament. "
Repetition on German television
Substantial parts of the debate were repeated in the 1990s by the television station Phoenix in the series "Historical Debates".