Christine Buchholz

Christine Buchholz, 2013

Christine Buchholz in the German Bundestag in 2019

Christine Buchholz met in 2010 in Juba with Lise Grande , coordinator of UN OCHA , on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan .

Christine Buchholz (born April 2, 1971 in Hamburg ) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 . There she is the religious political spokeswoman for the parliamentary group , as well as a member of the Defense Committee and a deputy member of the Human Rights Committee . She is also active in the executive committee of Die Linke , with a focus on anti-fascism and anti-racism .

Life

Buchholz studied educational science and social sciences with a focus on politics and religion at the University of Hamburg from 1991 to 1998 . After the state examination , she took up a supplementary course in history . Since 1995 she has also worked as an assistant for people with disabilities in Hamburg and Berlin . From 1997 to 2001 she was works council member in a Hamburg care company. She was ötv - confidence woman and is a member of the trade union ver.di . From 2002 she worked as a freelance editor and from 2005 to 2009 as a research assistant for a group of members of the Bundestag from the left-wing parliamentary group .

Buchholz is married and has two children. She is the granddaughter of the surgeon and clinic founder Hans-Wilhelm Buchholz .

Political commitment

She has been active in the anti-fascist scene since the early 1990s . In 1994 she became a member of the Trotskyist , Entristian organization Linksruck . From 1994 to 1999 she was a member of the SPD . She was active in the anti-globalization movement early on and became a member of Attac . She was one of the organizers for the European Social Forum , the Social Forum in Germany and the protests against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm (2007). She participated in the organization and implementation of the Blockupy protests against "banking power and the austerity dictate of the EU Troika ". In the Bundestag she spoke against the austerity policy, the European Stability Mechanism and the European Fiscal Compact .

Through her membership in Linksruck (dissolved in 2007) she came to the WASG , of which she was a member of the expanded federal executive committee from spring 2005. In March 2007 she was elected to the executive WASG federal executive committee, and since the unification congress on June 16, 2007 she has been a member of the executive executive committee of the Left. There she is u. a. responsible for the issues of peace, disarmament, international affairs and anti-racism.

Buchholz is (as of 2008) a supporter of the Trotskyist organization Marx21 within Die Linke and was an author for the magazine of the same name. She belongs to the Socialist Left of the Left Party .

Buchholz is considered a protagonist of the left wing of the party within Die Linke.

In 2016 she was one of the initiators of the alliance Stand Up Against Racism and has worked there for the Left Party ever since.

Member of Parliament

For the federal election in 2009 she ran for third place on the state list of Hesse and was a direct candidate of the left for the federal constituency of Offenbach . Via the state list, she moved into the Bundestag, where she sat on the Defense Committee and (deputy) on the Foreign Affairs Committee . Christine Buchholz was also a member of the committee of inquiry into the air attack near Kunduz . Together with her parliamentary group colleague Jan van Aken , Christine Buchholz traveled to Kunduz in January 2010 to meet with relatives of the victims of the air strike. She drew attention to the civilian victims of the bombing through her Bundestag speech on February 26, 2010, a photo exhibition, a memorial service and other public events.

In the 17th Bundestag she was the peace policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, and in the 18th Bundestag defense policy spokeswoman. Since the 18th Bundestag she has been the religious-political spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group.

In the 18th and 19th Bundestag , Buchholz is again a full member of the Defense Committee, as well as of the 1st sub-committee of the Defense Committee. In the 19th Bundestag she is a deputy member of the committee for human rights and humanitarian aid.

Positions and Criticism

Military operations

Buchholz refuses all assignments abroad. In 2011 she criticized the attempt by reformers like Stefan Liebich to change the party's foreign policy foundations.

With a view to the federal election in 2013 (and apparently on the topic of a red-red-green coalition ), she said that there was no substantive basis for participation in government because of the support for foreign missions of the Bundeswehr and the approval of Angela Merkel's EU austerity policy.

Arab Spring / Syria

Buchholz welcomed the democracy movements of the Arab Spring. It positions itself against the Assad regime and its allies, the security cooperation between the German government and the Turkish government, and arms exports to the Near and Middle East.

During the battle for Kobanê , in which the United States supported the Kurdish resistance fighters with air strikes against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), Buchholz published a picture of herself with a poster on which she demanded: “Solidarity with the resistance in Kobane! Stop the US bombing! "

Middle East conflict

Buchholz advocates a human rights-based policy in the Middle East conflict. She criticizes the German government's armaments and military cooperation with Israel and advocates a comprehensive ban on arms exports to the Near and Middle East.

Buchholz speaks out against the defamation of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign as anti-Semitic. At a conference of the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll , she said that equating legitimate criticism of Israeli government policy with anti-Semitism would lead to "shrinking spaces". This prevents an open human rights discourse on the situation in Israel and Palestine.

Disagreement on parliamentary group decision against anti-Semitism

After the Bremen State Association of the Left had supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in 2011 and numerous party members nationwide, including u. a. Katja Kipping and Bodo Ramelow , a statement signed contrast, in the campaign explicitly as " anti-Semitism " was called, "the of the Nazi slogan, Do not buy from Jews remembered, '" came the unanimous decision of the Left faction , in which the Support for calls for boycotts, a one-state solution or another Gaza flotilla was given a clear rejection, only because Buchholz and 14 other parliamentary group members stayed away from the vote or left the meeting room beforehand.

Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism 2010

On the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism in 2010, Israeli President Shimon Peres spoke as a guest in the German Bundestag. After his speech, Christine Buchholz and the MPs Nicole Gohlke , Sahra Wagenknecht and Sevim Dağdelen were the only people in the plenary not to rise from their seat. This was partly sharply criticized in public, also within the party by the Berlin state head of the Left Party, Klaus Lederer , and his fellow parliamentary group von Buchholz, Michael Leutert . Buchholz said that she stood up at the memorial service to honor the victims, but not at the end of Peres' speech, which she saw as "ideological armament for a new round of wars in the Middle East".

Hamas and Hezbollah

In the weekly Time Christine Buchholz was established in November 2008 by Christoph rope "open sympathizing" with the Hamas and the Hezbollah accused. Buchholz himself repeatedly rejected this accusation.

Religious freedom

Circumcision of male minors

In the debate about the circumcision of underage boys, Christine Buchholz supported the right of the Jewish and Muslim communities to perform ritual circumcision. She justified this with the right to religious freedom in a society that is still characterized by anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism .

Headscarf debate

Buchholz defends the right to individual religious freedom and thus the right to wear a headscarf. She justifies this with the fact that state neutrality is guaranteed by the separation of state and religion and the woman's right to self-determination whether or not to wear the headscarf. In a society shaped by anti-Muslim racism, a ban on headscarves in state institutions leads to discrimination and professional bans.

Fonts

• Our world is not a commodity. Handbook for critics of globalization. with Anne Karrass and Oliver Nachtwey . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2002, ISBN 3-462-03164-3
• The power of the "no" . In: Arguments , Issue 8, November 2005, Edition Aurora
• G8: summit of injustice. How eight governments determine over six billion people with Katja Kipping . VSA-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89965-200-2
• Black book. Critical manual on armament and deployment orientation of the Bundeswehr with Rainer Rilling, Frank Renken, Maria Oshana, Thomas Mickan, et al., Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Christine Buchholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christine Buchholz at die-linke.de
• christinebuchholz.de
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Mirror conversation
• Christine Buchholz on abgeordnetenwatch.de (MPs profile)
• For the right to wear a headscarf, always and everywhere - In conversation with Christine Buchholz , Die Freiheitsliebe, July 24, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ christinebuchholz.de
2. ^ Federal Constitutional Protection Report 2007 (PDF) p. 163f.
3. ↑ marx21 coordination group
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: content . In: marx21 - Magazine for International Socialism , No. 6, June 2008
5. ↑ Start. Retrieved on March 23, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ We want to build a counterpoint to the AfD - conversation with Christine Buchholz. In: The love of freedom. March 18, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Christine Buchholz: Keyword: Kunduz investigative committee - Merkel expresses understanding for the compensation claims of the Kunduz victims . christinebuchholz.de, press release, February 11, 2011
8. ↑ Jan van Aken , Christine Buchholz: Afghanistan: more soldiers - more problems . ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. linksfraktion.de, press release, February 3, 2010 
9. ↑ You decide today between life and death . christinebuchholz.de; German Bundestag, February 26, 2010
10. ↑ Members of the Defense Committee ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bundestag.de, accessed on September 18, 2014  
11. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved April 15, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Interview with Christine Buchholz and Stefan Liebich. In: taz
13. ^ Syria: Solidarity with the Revolution - No to Western Intervention - Christine Buchholz. Accessed April 14, 2020 (German). 
14. ↑ German Bundestag - media library. Retrieved April 14, 2020 . 
15. ↑ spiegel.de
16. ^ Israel-Palestine: Continuing the Human Rights Discourse - Christine Buchholz. Retrieved June 5, 2020 (German). 
17. ↑ Leandros Fischer: Between internationalism and reasons of state: The dispute over the Middle East conflict in the DIE LINKE party. Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-13353-5 , pp. 249 and 294
18. ↑ Bruno Engelin: Left Party: Unanimously with dissenters - parliamentary group disputes anti-Semitism resolution , Jüdische Allgemeine dated June 16, 2011
19. ↑ Left Party struggles over Israel . In: taz , February 2, 2010
20. ↑ Markus Wehner : The time of lies is over . FAZ.net , January 30, 2010
21. ↑ Christine Buchholz: I do not clap for ideological war preparations . christinebuchholz.de, press release, February 2, 2010
22. ↑ Christoph Seils: Gysi, the Left and Anti-Semitism . In: Zeit online , November 4, 2008.
23. ↑ Gaza: End the Blockade - for a Just Peace in the Middle East - Christine Buchholz. Retrieved June 5, 2020 (German). 
24. ↑ Left attacked as anti-Semites. January 7, 2011, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
25. ↑ Pros and cons in the circumcision debate . ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. linksfraktion.de, Interview from November 28, 2012 with Christine Buchholz and Raju Sharma  
26. ^ Christine Buchholz: For a tolerant, multicultural and multireligious society . ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. linksfraktion.de, speech of November 22, 2012 
27. ↑ Headscarf - Against all coercion. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .