Csanád Szegedi

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Csanád Szegedi (2009)

Csanád Szegedi (born September 22, 1982 in Miskolc ) is a former Hungarian politician , he was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014 . From 2003 to 2012, Szegedi was a member of the right-wing extremist Jobbik party . He left the party after being confronted with his previously unknown Jewish roots; until the end of the legislative period he was a non-party member of parliament.

Outside Hungary he became known in 2007 as a co-founder of the ultra nationalist paramilitary Hungarian Guard and, before leaving Hungary , was considered one of the most extreme agitators against Jews and Roma in his party.

Life

Szegedi was born in Miskolc. His father Miklós is an artisan, his mother Katalin a software technician.

He studied law for four years without a degree at the University of Miskolc and then in Budapest at the Evangelical Károli Gáspár University of History.

Political activity

Szegedi was shaped politically primarily by his father and his history teacher, both nationalists and supporters of a Greater Hungary . While studying history, he joined right-wing students.

Because the nationalism of the Fidesz party did not seem radical enough to him , he participated in the founding of the right-wing extremist Jobbik in 2003, joined this party in 2005 and became deputy chairman in 2006. Until his Jewish roots were revealed, Szegedi was known for his inflammatory speeches against Jews and Roma.

In 2007 he was a founding member of the ultra-nationalist Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary organization that emerged from Jobbik, whose black uniforms and striped flags are reminiscent of the fascist Arrow Cross Party that ruled during the Second World War . The guard was banned by a court in 2009.

When Szegedi was elected to the European Parliament in 2009, nothing seemed to stop his political rise.

Confrontation with Jewish roots and withdrawal from the party

In 2010, Szegedi was informed about his mother's Jewish roots by his party colleague Zoltan Ambrus, a convicted arms dealer. Ambrus recorded the conversation and later wanted to blackmail him politically. Szegedi reacted with surprise and tried to buy Ambrus' silence with EU money and the prospect of working for the European Union .

At the end of June 2012, Szegedi resigned from the Jobbik party, but retained his mandate as a member of the European Union. He apologized to the Budapest Chabad rabbi Slomó Köves for his anti-Semitic remarks and is now a member of an Orthodox Jewish community.

His grandmother is one of the few survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . Since 1956 she had kept her Judaism secret from her family for fear of reprisals.

literature

Anne Applebaum : Anti-Semite and Jew. The Double Life of a Hungarian Politician. In The New Yorker, November 11, 2013, pp. 28-35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Csanád Szegedi in the European Parliament 's database of representatives , accessed on October 22, 2013
  2. ^ A b Hungarian right-wing extremists: How a Jobbik cadre found its Jewish roots. In: Der Spiegel . August 16, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Hungarian right-wing extremist discovers Jewish roots. In: The world . August 16, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Why a Jew hater converts to Judaism. In: The world. October 20, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Boris Kálnoky: Not entirely kosher. In: The world. October 13, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b Politikusok. Szegedi Csanád. In: lmbtszovetseg.hu . Retrieved October 22, 2013 (Hungarian, biography of Csanád Szegedi on the occasion of the 2009 European Parliament elections).
  7. ↑ a b c d e Jan Puhl: The Metamorphosis. on spiegel.de , March 31. 2014, accessed August 17, 2014.
  8. ↑ Ayala Goldmann: The miraculous change of Csanád Szegedi. In: juedische-allgemeine.de . February 20, 2014, accessed August 18, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Jan Puhl: The Metamorphosis. In: Der Spiegel . March 31, 2014, accessed March 31, 2016 .
  10. ↑ a b c d e Silviu Mihai: Purebred Blackmail. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . August 23, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Silviu Mihai: Purebred Blackmail. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . August 23, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 (Szegedi originally incorrectly stated 2012).
  12. ↑ Rabbinál vizitált a volt jobbikos. In: Népszava . August 7, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 (Hungarian).
  13. ↑ Anti-Semite discovers its Jewish roots. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 15, 2012, accessed October 22, 2013 .
  14. ^ Anne Applebaum : Anti-Semite and Jew. The double life of a Hungarian politician. In The New Yorker , November 11, 2013, pp. 28-35, accessed October 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Szegedi, Csanád
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd September 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc