Christoph Neumann (politician)

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Christoph Neumann (born November 7, 1964 in Leipzig ) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and member of the German Bundestag (MdB).

Life

From 1981 to 1983 Neumann completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Leipzig's theater workshops and then studied mechanical engineering from 1985 to 1989. From 1989 he was an officer in the border troops of the GDR , for whom he served at the Berlin Wall , and in 1990 he was taken over as a police officer in the Federal Border Guard , where he served until 1992. After that, he was an administrative officer in the senior service in the state capital of Munich until 1994. In 1994/95 he became a PR consultant through postgraduate studies . He lived in Moscow from 1997 to 2000 and in Kiev from 2003 to 2011, where he worked as a PR consultant. Since 2011 he has been running a relocation agency in Leipzig that, among other things, helps people immigrate to Germany.

In January 2014 he joined the AfD. From October 2014 he set up the AfD program commission of Saxony and heads it to this day. He has been a member of the AfD's federal program commission since 2015.

Neumann was a direct candidate in the Leipzig I constituency in the 2017 federal election , where he came second with 20.5% of the vote. However, he moved into the Bundestag as a member of the AfD via the Saxon state list . There he is chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the tourism committee, a member of the defense committee and the joint committee (Article 53a of the Basic Law). He is the deputy head of the German-Belarusian parliamentary group and a member of the German-Russian and German-Ukrainian parliamentary group.

After an unsuccessful candidacy in the 2014 local elections , Neumann was elected to the Leipzig City Council in the subsequent 2019 election. He was his party's candidate for the mayoral election in Leipzig on February 2, 2020, in which he achieved 8.7% in the first ballot and did not stand for the second ballot.

He is Roman Catholic, married, has two children and lives in Leipzig.

Political positions

Neumann speaks out in favor of restricting Bundeswehr missions to UN missions or, in general, against missions abroad, but not in favor of leaving NATO. This is how the missions in Afghanistan and in the Mediterranean should end. Nevertheless, more money is to be spent on the Bundeswehr and compulsory military service reintroduced. The goal is military spending of at least 2% of the gross domestic product.

Neumann is against the admission of EU foreigners to the Bundeswehr, because “foreigners would shoot Germans without discussion”. He denies Muslims being able to integrate and contribute to society. They represented a danger and countries like Hungary and Bulgaria would turn away Muslim refugees because of the bad experience of previous Muslim rule. Many refugees are also “of military age and experienced in combat”, so he fears “if they raid all the Bundeswehr barracks in one night, we will be prisoners in our own country.” Commenting on the G20 summit in 2017, he said that “there would be violent clashes all in one huge extent ”in Germany. In general, immigration should be limited and only those “who are useful” should come. Freedom of movement within the European Union needs better protected external borders. Immigrants had to “respect our laws and cultural values”, especially the equality of women.

In terms of educational policy, Neumann did not speak out against the Bologna process completely, contrary to the program of his party, but in favor of a coexistence of master's and bachelor's degrees and diploma degrees, the latter in technical subjects. He also wants to campaign for all-day schools and a uniform school system throughout Germany. In addition, the national consciousness of German youth should be strengthened, not, as Neumann now thinks, "driven out". Neumann believes cultures such as “European, African and Asian” were created by nature. You shouldn't mix them.

The Basic Law does not see Neumann as a "real constitution" and wants to replace it with a new constitution.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candidate Christoph Neumann in portrait: "I want to give Leipzig back its soul". In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c AfD Leipzig nominated Siegbert Droese and Christoph Neumann. Leipziger Volkszeitung, October 31, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Neumann on the Bundestag website
  4. ↑ a b c d Kai Biermann, Astrid Geisler, Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski and Tilman Steffen: Right to extreme in the Bundestag. Die Zeit, September 21, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ These are Leipzig's new city councils - with photos of all members of the parliament. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ election result. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Three applicants in the second round of the mayoral election in 2020. Accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Andreas Tappert: Christoph Neumann (AfD): "The Bundeswehr is practically lacking in everything" in the LVZ of September 7, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017
  9. ^ Luise Tasler: AfD direct candidate Christoph Neumann. mephisto 97.6, August 14, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2018 .
  10. ↑ # BTW17 The candidates introduce themselves: Christoph Neumann (AfD). Leipziger Internet Zeitung, March 27, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig