Detlev Spangenberg

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Spangenberg during a plenary session of the Bundestag, 2019

Detlev Spangenberg (born April 10, 1944 in Chemnitz ) is a German politician ( AfD ). He was a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 2014 to 2017 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Detlev Spangenberg was born in Chemnitz and grew up in Weimar . At twelve he was an orphan ; his father died in 1948 in captivity , his mother of cancer . He completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter , then worked for the printing machine manufacturer Planeta and graduated from high school in Meissen . In 1969 he and friends tried to flee through Hungary and Yugoslavia . He was caught by border soldiers on Yugoslav territory and imprisoned in the GDR for "attempting to illegally cross the border " for over a year , including several months in custody at the State Security in Dresden . After his release, he worked as a waiter .

On September 6, 1980, Spangenberg made a second attempt to escape. Under mattresses hidden, he arrived in a furniture van in the Federal Republic . From 1982 to 1987 he studied business administration in Osnabrück and Koblenz and graduated with a degree in business administration . From 1987 to 1992 he worked in the district administration of the Westerwaldkreis in Montabaur and for the Märkischer Kreis in Lüdenscheid in the office for economic development and public relations.

After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution , he returned to Saxony and was authorized signatory and managing director of the municipal Dresden Werbung und Tourismus GmbH until 1998 . From January to June 1999 he was managing director of the municipal marketing and tourism company in Osnabrück. From 1999 to 2002 he worked as managing director of the local Altenberger Tourismus und Veranstaltungs GmbH. He then worked in tax consulting until 2008 .

Detlev Spangenberg is married and has a daughter. He lives in Radebeul .

Work for the Stasi

At the beginning of January 2016 it became known through a report in the Free Press that Spangenberg had worked as an unofficial employee for the Stasi during his military service between 1964 and 1967 under the code name "Bruno" .

Spangenberg completed his military service with the air security of the National People's Army (NVA), which is classified as a highly sensitive security area . Here he delivered several reports of other NVA soldiers to the DDR - secret police . After initially praised cooperation, this was ended when Spangenberg left the NVA, as the hopes of the IM executive officer were disappointed. This emerges from the documents of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi documents , which - if available - are transmitted to the Saxon state parliament via all members after each election . Spangenberg is also a member of the Landtag evaluation committee responsible for evaluating the documents sent.

Spangenberg told the Sächsische Zeitung that he did not know the documents and had not harmed anyone. At the same time, he criticized the fact that the information became known; the evaluation committee was obliged to maintain secrecy. Compared to the picture , Spangenberg said that "after all, it was all 50 years ago".

On January 6, 2016, the parliamentary group of the AfD Saxony confirmed Spangenberg's Stasi involvement and also criticized the fact that the information became known. According to the constitution of the Free State of Saxony , a Stasi activity can lead to the loss of the mandate. In addition, elected officials of the AfD had to assure that they had not worked for the Stasi. Die Zeit pointed out that Spangenberg's Stasi work had no political consequences - “an exclusion from the parliamentary group would have cost the AfD seats in committees”.

Political engagement, memberships and positions

Detlev Spangenberg was a member of the CDU in the local associations Hagen and Radebeul from 1987 to 2006 . From 1997 to 2007 he was an honorary judge at the State Labor Court in Chemnitz.

In 2008, Spangenberg took part in the district elections in Saxony for the right-wing voter association “ Arbeit-Familie-Vaterland ” founded by former CDU member of the Bundestag Henry Nitzsche , which advertised with the Islamophobic slogan “Sachsenmut stops Muslim flood” and demanded “breaking party rule”. In 2010 he was co-founder of the “Alliance for Freedom and Democracy”, which on its website spoke out against a multicultural society, among other things, and profoundly rejected Germany's integration into the EU.

Spangenberg has been a member of the Alternative for Germany party since 2013 . He's since March 2015 Chairman of the District Association Meissen and was 2014 in the council of the district Meissen selected. Spangenberg was a direct candidate in the state election for constituency 39 (Meißen 3) and received 11.8% of the first votes. He moved into the state parliament via the state list .

As the oldest member of parliament, Spangenberg was scheduled to serve as age president for the opening of the 6th Saxon state parliament. After media reports on engagements for right-wing or right-wing extremist organizations, the AfD Saxony stated that it had no knowledge of these previous connections. Spangenberg did not take office, so the 6th state parliament was opened by the CDU MP Svend-Gunnar Kirmes . In retrospect, some media reports were corrected because it was found that Spangenberg was not a member of some of the organizations in question.

He successfully ran for a seat in the 19th Bundestag on the state list of the AfD Saxony. He resigned his state parliament mandate in December 2017.

During the election campaign, he spoke out in favor of stopping immigration and border security as well as lowering the age of criminal responsibility, he wanted to fight against tax waste and poverty in old age, for better equipment of the security forces and for the expulsion of “criminal foreigners”. In education, he speaks out against the Bologna Process and integration and in favor of a 12-year Abitur. German research should be promoted more strongly, but academic freedom should be interfered with in order to abolish “gender chairs”. In terms of economic policy, he wants to strengthen small businesses, craftsmen and rural areas, public transport and road construction.

At the beginning of 2018, Spangenberg campaigned for the AfD to work more closely with the xenophobic Pegida and for the party to accept former members of right-wing extremist parties and organizations monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which has so far forbidden an incompatibility decision. He withdrew an application for this after the regional association had taken up his initiative and demonstrated proximity to Pegida.

Detlev Spangenberg is in his spare time sports shooter and member of the Saxon Rifle Association eV Volunteering he serves as executive vice president and first Schützenmeister in the first Moritzburger shooting club 1991 eV and as auditors and rifles Kreis 5 and around Dresden eV

Web links

Commons : Detlev Spangenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dieter Hanke: Der Rastlose , in: Sächsische Zeitung , August 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ Anne Hähnig, Martin Machowecz and Stefan Schirmer: state election in Saxony: Frauke and the 13 dwarfs. In: Zeit Online. September 4, 2014, accessed September 7, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c Tino Moritz: Stasi allegations against AfD members of the state parliament , in: Freie Presse , January 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Saure: Saxon Landtag member Detlev Spangenberg (71): AfD man spied for the STASI. In: Bild , regional edition Dresden, January 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Karin Schlottmann: AfD is silent for the time being on Stasi allegations , in: Sächsische Zeitung , January 6, 2016.
  6. ^ A b M. Deutschmann: Confusion about Saxon state parliament members: Did this AfD politician spy on the Stasi? In: picture online , January 6, 2016.
  7. ^ AfD parliamentary group confirms Stasi suspicion against MPs , in: Die Welt , January 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b c Kai Biermann, Astrid Geisler, Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski: AfD parliamentary group: Right to extreme in the Bundestag . In: The time . September 26, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 3, 2017]).
  9. ↑ https://www.landtag.sachsen.de/de/abbetre-fraktionen/abbetre/abiminaler/1062
  10. ↑ Sabine am Orde, Konrad Litschko: AfD returns first office , in: taz , September 3, 2014.
  11. ^ Gunnar Saft: CDU and SPD start coalition talks , in: Sächsische Zeitung , September 24, 2014.
  12. ↑ 6th Saxon State Parliament has been constituted - Dr. Matthias Rößler confirmed as President of the State Parliament , press release 79/2014 of the Saxon State Parliament of September 29, 2014.
  13. ↑ https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/afd-2015-bernd-im-glueck/11145104-all.html
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyl6Ntphe7k
  15. ↑ Bundestag election direct candidate Detlev Spangenberg (AfD). In: mdr.de. MDR Sachsen, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Melanie Amann: Right-wing populists are considering becoming even more right-wing. In: Spiegel Online. January 27, 2018, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Sophie Aschenbrenner and Theresa Held: AfD Saxony demonstrates solidarity with Pegida - Urban becomes head of the state. Leipziger Volkszeitung, February 4, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Board of Directors: 1. Moritzburger Schützenverein 1991 eV Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  19. ↑ SSK 5: Sportschützenkreis 5 Dresden und Umgebung eV Accessed on January 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Spangenberg, Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz