David Bendels

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David Bendels

David Bendels (born April 9, 1985 in Duisburg ) has been chairman of the Association for the Preservation of the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties since September 2016 and editor-in-chief of the political weekly newspaper Deutschland-Kurier published by the association since July 2017 .

Career

During his studies, Bendels joined the CDU and JU in December 2009 . From January to May 2011 he was JU spokesman in Duisburg and there until May 2011 also deputy JU chairman. After completing his master's degree at the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen , he began his doctorate and works as an independent PR consultant.

As a member of the CSU in Nuremberg in June 2014, he was one of the founders of the Conservative Awakening , which as a grassroots movement within the CSU wanted to achieve a return to “real CSU politics” as it did before the alleged “adaptation to the red-green zeitgeist”. Bendels was also a spokesman for the conservative awakening. Bendels resigned from the CSU in June 2016 after the party had banned him from appearing at an AfD event.

Bendels lives in Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia .

Commitment to AfD

On September 21, 2016, the Association for the Preservation of the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties was founded. V. with headquarters in the Stuttgart district of Degerloch von Bendels and six other members. As the successor organization of the Association for the Preservation of the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties , he continued its work, the publication and distribution of the election campaign newspaper Extrablatt .

In an interview with the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit on May 12, 2017, Bendels stated that he considered the AfD to be the only party that could be elected, but was not a party member himself. As in 2016 in Sindelfingen , Bendels appeared as a speaker eight times together with leading party officials of the AfD (e.g. Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland) in the months before the NRW election.

When asked about doubts about his responsibility, Bendels told WOZ Die Wochenzeitung that he himself determines the content of the extra papers and that he meets regularly with Alexander Segert and his employees as well as with politicians from SVP and FPÖ in order to network the “conservative-bourgeois forces”.

As editor-in-chief of the AfD-affiliated Deutschland-Kurier , which has been appearing since July 12, 2017 , Bendels told the online industry service Meedia that the newspaper and its sponsoring association, of which he is chairman, would both work with the advertising agency Goal , but not financed with money from Switzerland . According to Erika Steinbach , Bendels financed newspaper advertisements in which Steinbach called in 2017 to vote for the AfD.

In July 2018, as chairman of the Association for the Preservation of the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties eV, Bendels received a warning from the AfD federal board via the Cologne law firm Höcker , with the request to no longer use the party logo for election recommendations and election advertising, with the reason : "The advertisement you have produced and published is suitable (...) to lead to the erroneous assumption that it is advertising from our client." A lawsuit against the association was also announced. The CDU Bundestag member Philipp Amthor raised the charge that "the AfD had deliberately entered a legal gray area of party financing ". The now prescribed distancing is "more than flimsy and not very credible".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ingo Blazejewski: Quarrels on the board of the Junge Union in Duisburg . In: DerWesten.de . May 31, 2011 ( derwesten.de [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  2. ^ Lichtenfelser heads conservative association - support for the AfD in the election campaign . In: inFranken.de . ( infranken.de [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Thomas Schmoll: Cake battle for the AfD. In: FAZ.net . August 11, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Peter Groscurth: David Bendels leaves the CSU . In: inFranken.de . June 2, 2016 ( infranken.de [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Peter Groscurth: Lichtenfelser heads conservative association - support for the AfD in the election campaign . In: inFranken.de . January 23, 2017 ( infranken.de [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  6. ^ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: Stuttgarter Verein wants thought leadership role: The new conservatives . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed on August 19, 2017]).
  7. ↑ a b AfD: Shadow donors . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on December 4, 2018]).
  8. ↑ jungefreiheit.de: "The AfD is the only party that can be elected" . In: YOUNG FREEDOM . ( jungefreiheit.de [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  9. ↑ export Nationalism: The international use of the SVP advertiser . May 17, 2017 ( woz.ch [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Press release - Deutschland-KURIER . In: Deutschland-KURIER . ( deutschland-kurier.org [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  11. ↑ "No connection to the AfD": Germany courier boss David Bendels contradicts critics. MEEDIA, July 14, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017
  12. ↑ Erika Steinbach, the Foundation and the Millions . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Sebastian Pittelkow, Katja Riedel, Charlotte Theile Zurich: AfD takes action against their campaign workers . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 10, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on August 11, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bendels, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor-in-chief of the Deutschland-Kurier
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg