Cem Ozdemir

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Cem Özdemir (2020)

Cem Özdemir [ ˌʤɛm œzdɛmir ] (* 21st December 1965 in Urach ) is a German politician of the party Alliance 90 / The Greens .

From November 2008 to January 2018 he was federal chairman of his party and, together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the green top candidate for the 2017 federal election . In 2019, Özdemir and Kirsten Kappert-Gonther ran unsuccessfully for the office of chairman of the Green parliamentary group .

In 1994 he and the Social Democrat Leyla Onur were among the first members of the Bundestag with Turkish parents .

Life

education and profession

Özdemir's father comes from the small town of Pazar in the Turkish province of Tokat and is a member of the Circassian minority . In 1961 he emigrated to Germany as a guest worker and worked in a textile factory in the Black Forest ; later with a manufacturer of fire extinguishers. The mother, who came to Germany as a young teacher in 1964, ran her own tailoring shop.

Özdemir grew up as an only child and, after completing secondary school at the secondary school in Urach, trained as an educator in Reutlingen until 1987 . He then acquired the technical college entrance qualification at the technical college in Nürtingen and completed a degree in social pedagogy at the state-recognized Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Reutlingen (today Evangelical University of Ludwigsburg ). He completed his studies in 1994 with a degree in social education (FH). In addition to his studies, Özdemir worked from 1987 as an educator in a youth center in Reutlingen and as a freelance journalist for the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger and a local radio station .

Party career

Cem Özdemir (2010)
The party leaders Cem Özdemir and Claudia Roth (2012)

In 1981 Özdemir became a member of the Greens . He has his political home in the Green District Association of Ludwigsburg . In the same year he applied for German citizenship , which he after reaching the age of majority was aged 18 years. From 1989 to 1994 he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg State Green Board . He found his main political topic in his own biography: Migrants in Germany. In 1992 he was one of the co-founders of Immi-Grün - Alliance of New Inlanders . Annette Treibel points out that Cem Özdemir distanced himself from the multiculturalists who insisted particularly strongly on national and ethnic categories, and quotes in this context from Özdemir's biography Ich bin Inländer :

“I am a German citizen of Turkish origin. Swabian is even closer to me than German, and it's not that easy with Turkish origins either. Even 'immigrants' […] does not get to the heart of the matter. I'm good on my feet, but I never immigrated, I was born here. "

- Cem Özdemir, 1997

On June 2, 2008, Özdemir announced his candidacy for the national chairmanship of his party to succeed Reinhard Bütikofer . Özdemir's opponent for the November election was Volker Ratzmann , leader of the Greens in the Berlin House of Representatives , who said he gave up his candidacy on September 4, 2008 for private reasons.

Before the election as federal chairman, Özdemir applied at the state party convention of the Baden-Württemberg Greens for a safe place on the list for the 2009 federal election , but failed in two campaign candidates against internal party opponents and missed entry into the Bundestag ( see section below ). Despite the defeat in the allocation of the list places for the federal election, Özdemir stuck to his candidacy for the party chairmanship. On November 15, 2008 Özdemir was elected with 79.2 percent of the delegate votes as one of two federal chairmen of the party (co-chairwoman Claudia Roth ). In 2010 Özdemir was confirmed in this office with 88.5 percent, in 2012 with 83.29 percent and in 2013 with 71.4 percent.

At the beginning of January 2018, Özdemir announced that he would not run again for the party chairmanship and also not for the chairmanship of the Bundestag parliamentary group .

Member of Parliament

Bundestag (1994 to 2002)

Cem Özdemir at the press conference in Wiesbaden , autumn 2018
Cem Özdemir, 2019 in the German Bundestag

In the Bundestag election in 1994 and again in the Bundestag election in 1998 , Özdemir was elected to the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list . As a member of the German Bundestag , from 1998 he was the domestic policy spokesman for the Bundestag faction Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. He resigned from this position on July 26, 2002 after the acceptance of a personal loan of 80,000 DM from PR consultant Moritz Hunzinger and the private use of bonus miles earned on business became known. Özdemir publicly regretted the acceptance of the loan and announced that he would repay the amount immediately. If the then interest rate of 5.5 percent was below the usual market conditions, he will donate the difference to a center for torture victims. Özdemir subsequently resigned as domestic policy spokesman for his parliamentary group.

He could not withdraw his candidacy for the 2002 Bundestag election because he had already given his approval, but after his re-election he did not accept the Bundestag mandate.

European Parliament (2004 to 2009)

In the 2004 European elections , Özdemir was elected to the European Parliament . As a Member of Parliament he belonged to the group The Greens / EFA in. He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and foreign policy spokesman for his group. He was also deputy chairman of the temporary committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (CIA committee) as well as a member of the high-level contact group North Cyprus , the inter-parliamentary delegation EU-Turkey and the anti-racism and diversity Intergroup . As a MEP, he campaigned, among other things, for Turkey's entry into the EU .

As a MEP, Özdemir took over the patronage of the Christopher Street Day Stuttgart in 2007 .

For the 2009 European elections Özdemir did not occur again.

Unsuccessful candidacy for the Bundestag (2009)

For the 2009 federal election , Özdemir applied for a secure place on the list at the state party conference of the Greens in Baden-Württemberg . However, he was defeated by his internal party opponents in two combat candidates. Without a secure place on the list, he did not succeed in entering the 17th German Bundestag : When he applied for a direct mandate in the constituency of Stuttgart I , he won 29.9% of the first votes and lost to the opposing candidate Stefan Kaufmann ( CDU ), who achieved 34.4% . Despite the defeat in the allocation of the list places for the federal election, Özdemir held on to his candidacy for the party chairmanship, which he had declared at the same time ( see section above ).

Bundestag (since 2013) and leading candidate (2017)

Cem Özdemir on Schlossplatz in Stuttgart during the election campaign highlight for the 2017 federal election

At the state delegate conference of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen on December 1, 2012, Cem Özdemir was elected to second place on the Baden-Württemberg state list for the 2013 federal election. Özdemir also ran for the second time in the Stuttgart I constituency for election for the direct mandate; he entered parliament via the state list.

In 2017 Özdemir was elected by the green party base together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt as the top candidate duo for the 2017 federal election. As in the last federal election, he ran again in the Stuttgart I constituency . On the state list of the Greens Baden-Württemberg , he was in 2nd place. He entered the 19th German Bundestag via the state list .

After the failure of the negotiations to form a Jamaica coalition , in which Özdemir was treated as a potential foreign minister , Özdemir withdrew from the front ranks of top politics at the end of 2017. In 2018 he took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure .

Unsuccessful candidacy for parliamentary group chairmanship (2019)

In autumn 2019, Özdemir announced that he would run for the office of chairman of the Green parliamentary group together with the Bremen parliamentarian Kirsten Kappert-Gonther in the new election of the parliamentary group executive and thus wanted to replace the previous chairmen Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter . Özdemir, together with Kappert-Gonther, justified the candidacy for a fight that he was convinced that fair competition for the parliamentary group, both internally and externally, would be good and necessary to position the Greens as a parliamentary group with renewed vigor as a credible antithesis to the government until the next federal election . According to their own statements, however, the duo did not aim for a top candidate for the next election campaign in the federal government. In the election on September 24, 2019, Özdemir was defeated by the previous parliamentary group chairman Hofreiter, who was confirmed in his office with 58.21 percent of the votes by the Green MPs. Even his colleague Kappert-Gonther was unable to prevail against the incumbent Göring-Eckardt, who was also confirmed in office with 61.2 percent.

Other engagement

In 2001 Özdemir completed the so-called Young Leader program of the American Council on Germany, which is affiliated with the German-American network Atlantik-Brücke .

In 2002 he worked on the theater production Töt Möllemann! of the director Christoph Schlingensief in the Duisburg theater . In it Schlingensief alluded to the anti-Semitic statements made by the FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann . Schlingensief shouted the phrase "Kill Jürgen Möllemann!" Several times during production. Özdemir only had the task of asking the audience questions in a fictional "political quiz". Möllemann accused Özdemir of having accepted Schlingensief's derailments “completely without any democratic and human conscience”. He compared him to the Islamist and self-proclaimed "Caliph of Cologne", Metin Kaplan . Özdemir distanced himself in a statement from Schlingensief's statements during the evening. In a debate in the Bundestag he apologized, but reiterated that he would not allow Möllemann to take on the role of victim.

After resigning as the domestic political spokesman for his parliamentary group and retiring as a member of the Bundestag, Özdemir withdrew from the German public for a time. In 2003 he started a stay abroad in the USA as a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States . During this time he gave brownbag readings at the University of Wisconsin on the role of Turkey in Europe, among other lectures .

Özdemir was briefly a member of the Atlantik-Brücke , but resigned because of the chairman Friedrich Merz and spoke in the context of "CDU-related machinations"; he is a member of the advisory board of the Atlantic Initiative . In 2007 he helped found the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank .

He is an official supporter of the alliance Freedom Instead of Fear for data protection and against state surveillance. He is also the founding curator of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation . In addition, Özdemir is an honorary member of the jury for " Top 100 ", an award for the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.

Özdemir has been a member of the advisory board of FC PlayFair since September 2018 ! , a club that works across clubs for fan and club interests in football.

Private

In 2008, Özdemir described himself as a “ secular Muslim ” in an interview conducted in English . The politician is married to the Argentinian journalist Pia Maria Castro, and the couple have two children. Özdemir has been a vegetarian since his youth . In March 2020, he was infected with SARS-CoV-2 . He is a fan of VfB Stuttgart and a member of the VfB fan club founded in 2015 for members of the Bundestag.

Political positions

Internal security

In view of the alleged involvement of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and the subordinate state authorities in the series of right-wing terrorist murders of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), Özdemir commented critically on the structures of the constitution protection authorities in April 2013:

“In the end we need a new security architecture, because with this protection of the constitution the constitution cannot be protected. The officials there are at best overwhelmed; at worst, they themselves have views that make it impossible to effectively combat right-wing radicalism . In principle, we need a new institutional establishment with new staff. "

Educational policy

As part of the discussions about improvements in education policy, Özdemir proposed in 2010 that, in addition to learning the German language , Turkish lessons should also be introduced in German schools, justifying this by stating that children with a migration background "should develop their multilingualism", but emphasized that the German language for children who live and grow up in Germany, "must always be the most important language". Since the 2000s he has been using the word " Biodeutsche ", which was coined by the Turkish cabaret artist Muhsin Omurca , as a joke designation for German nationals without a migration background and thus contributed significantly to the spread of the word.

Finance and tax policy

In 2011, Cem Özdemir spoke out in favor of increasing the top tax rate to 49 percent. He thought this was reasonable. He is also a supporter of Eurobonds .

Economic and social policy

Özdemir sees the task of social policy primarily in reintegrating job seekers into the labor market through support ( active labor market policy ). To this end, more money should be invested in institutions such as daycare centers , schools or job centers ; However, payments in the form of transfer payments are to be limited.

Infrastructure policy

He spoke out against the Stuttgart 21 transport project with the following words: "It makes no sense for the railways and the federal government to simply muddle on according to the ostrich principle ". He previously attacked the then Prime Minister Stefan Mappus publicly with: "Mappus wanted to see blood".

Foreign policy

Russia

In July 2011, Özdemir resigned from the Quadriga Prize Award Committee to protest against the planned and subsequently suspended awarding of the prize to Vladimir Putin .

In September 2004, Cem Özdemir was among the signatories of an open letter to the heads of state and government of NATO and the EU against the policies of the Russian president, published by the neo-conservative American think tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

In connection with the civil war in Syria and the Russian military operation there, he called for the EU sanctions against Russia to be tightened and accused Vladimir Putin of unscrupulousness.

Turkey, Alevis and Armenians

In the past, Özdemir campaigned for Turkish conscientious objectors and the Alevi minority in Turkey. For this he was sharply attacked by the Turkish daily Hürriyet . The newspaper wrote u. a .: "Özdemir is only one of us in name".

Özdemir demands recognition of the Armenian genocide . He argues that this is also in the Turkish interest and suggested that the topic be included in curricula and school books in Germany. A falsification of history that has lasted almost 100 years should end. The question is also important for Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union. Özdemir's demand was supported by the Central Council of Armenians in Germany in 2011 by publishing his theses.

In 2007 Özdemir called together with other Turkish origin German politicians, the Government of the Republic of Turkey in a petition to the Article 301 , should be deleted, which penalizes insulting the Turkish state and the institutions and bodies of the state under penalty of the Turkish Penal Code.

In June 2013, together with Claudia Roth , Memet Kılıç and other Green politicians , he criticized the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's actions against the protests in Turkey on Taksim Square in an open letter . He called on Erdoğan to stop the violent crackdowns by the police immediately and to allow the right to demonstrate and freedom of expression in Turkey. On the Bosphorus he then made his own picture of the situation. With Hans-Christian Ströbele he then demonstrated against Erdoğan's policy in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

In a speech in Cologne in May 2014, Erdoğan described him as an "alleged Turk" and stated that he no longer wanted to see him in "his country". The Turkish ambassador to Berlin was then appointed to the Foreign Office.

Defense policy

Özdemir is in favor of building a pan-European army and an EU military complex.

In an interview with Spiegel Online in October 2016, he criticized Germany's abstention from the international military operation in Libya in 2011 and called on the West to intervene in the Syrian conflict.

June 2019 Cem Özdemir and took Tobias Lindner at the service Lichen event information for civilian leaders of the Armed Forces on Training Center Munster and contributed for a week to rank First Lieutenant .

Drug policy

In August 2014 Özdemir published a video on YouTube for the Ice Bucket Challenge in which a hemp plant can be seen next to him on a balcony . Özdemir contradicted the assumption that the plant had inadvertently got into the picture, it was rather a "gentle, political statement". At the same time, Özdemir reiterated his party's demand to legalize cannabis . At the beginning of February 2015, the Berlin public prosecutor closed the investigation because of minor guilt .

Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • I am a native. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-24109-8 . (recorded by Hans Engels; updated new edition 1999)
  • Currywurst and doner kebab. Integration in Germany. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-7857-0946-3 . (in collaboration with Bernd Knopf and Jürgen Gottschlich )
  • To be German or not? Integration in the Federal Republic of Germany. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2000, ISBN 3-404-60482-2 .
  • Turkey - politics, religion, culture. Beltz, Weinheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-407-75343-4 .

Editorships

Contributions to edited volumes

  • The army belongs in the barracks. About the relationship between the military and politics in Turkey. In: Lydia Haustein, Joachim Sartorius, Christoph Bertrams (eds.): Model Turkey? A country caught between religion, military and democracy. Wallstein Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0067-5 , pp. 73 ff.
  • Greece and Turkey. Can falcons become pigeons? In: Apostolos Katsikaris (ed.): Turkey - Europe. Magnus-Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-88400-506-5 , p. 58 ff.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cem Özdemir  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Cem Özdemir: "I was a guest worker child". In: Der Spiegel , June 28, 2010.
  4. ^ Mark Spörrle: Stopover of a high flyer. In: Die Zeit , October 11, 2007
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  44. ↑ Prominent newcomers to FC PlayFair! Cem Özdemir, Markus Hörwick and Urs Meier as advisors on board. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
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  76. ↑ The University of Tunceli awarded Cem Özdemir an honorary doctorate. ( Memento of February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Cem Özdemir. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  77. ↑ David Ohrndorf: Order against the animal seriousness: "Alaaf, de Öcher Cem" ( Memento from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). WDR website, January 27, 2013.
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personal data
SURNAME Özdemir, Cem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Urach