The Republicans Berlin

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The Republicans Berlin
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Chairman Reinhard Haese
Treasurer Marieluise Jeschke
Website www.rep-berlin.de

REP Berlin is the state association of the right-wing political party Die Republikaner in Berlin . From 1989 to 1991 they were represented in parliamentary groups in the local House of Representatives. The work during this time was mainly characterized by internal quarrels. From 1993 to 1997 she was listed as right-wing extremist in the reports for the protection of the constitution in Berlin.

history

Election results
in percent
8th%
6%
4%
2%
0%
'89
'90
'95
'99
'01
'06

founding

In the fall of 1987, the Berlin regional association of the party The Republicans was founded. The party, which has around 100 members, elected FH professor Klaus Weinschenk , a former SPD member , as its founding chairman . Klaus Weinschenk left the party in 1988 after an intra-party conflict and Bernhard Andres was elected as the new state chairman.

Against the will of the federal executive, which wanted to concentrate on the state elections in Bavaria, the regional association decided to run for the Berlin House of Representatives in 1989 under the motto One can vote again .

The attention the young party received was disproportionate to its small size. The election campaign event of the Republicans in the International Congress Center (ICC) with Franz Schönhuber as the main speaker received a lot of attention : around 700 people attended the event. However, attention attracted the approximately 10,000 counter-demonstrators from the autonomous scene, who tried to prevent the event by force and had to be prevented from doing so by the police.

The Republican television commercial also received widespread media coverage. The themes of crime and immigration policy were accompanied by the melody from Spiel mir das Lied von Tod . After the first broadcast of the commercial on January 2, 1989, the commissioner for foreigners, Barbara John (CDU), filed a criminal complaint and the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) refused to broadcast the commercial again. The Berlin Administrative Court obliged the SFB to broadcast the commercial.

Member of the Berlin House of Representatives

In the election on January 29, 1989 , the REP won 7.5 percent of the vote and eleven members of the parliament in Berlin (West). In the next, first all-Berlin election at the end of 1990 , the REP failed with 3.1% (3.7% West; 1.9% East) at the five percent hurdle . In the meantime (around the end of 1989) three of the MPs had left the REP. The deputies in order of the electoral list:

Parliamentary activity

The time in the House of Representatives was shaped internally by power struggles between the state chairman Andres and Carsten Pagel. Andres had offered Pagel to take over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group, but Pagel refused. In the election of the state chairman in mid-1989, the incumbent narrowly prevailed against Pagel. After his election, he initiated a process of elimination against the faction treasurer Kendzia, for which he found little support in the party and faction. After it became known that the public prosecutor was investigating Andres and Kendzia again publicly accused him of financial irregularities, he was dismissed on September 10, 1989 by the then Federal Chairman Schönhuber . Shortly thereafter, Andres resigned from the party and parliamentary group and founded The German Democrats . MPs Göllner and Rieger also left the parliamentary group during the legislative period .

Deputy chairwoman under Andres was the then 19-year-old former presenter, journalist and advertising actress Alexandra Kliche. The fact that she left the party immediately after the Republicans won the election in Berlin in 1989 met with great media coverage. In the mirror and in her book, nothing like gone! Why I left the 'Republicans' , she described her experiences. The book was sold out within a very short time. Alexandra Kliche joined the CDU in May 1989. She was silent about rumors that she had been bought by the CDU.

The new state chairman was Carsten Pagel, who, however, lost his office after less than a year.

After leaving parliament

The election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 1990 was influenced by German reunification. The Republicans achieved 3.7% of the vote in West Berlin and just 1.9% in East Berlin (both halves of the city were considered separately for the five percent hurdle) and were not represented in the House of Representatives again. Hans Werner Müller became the new state chairman . Müller remained state chairman from 1991 to 1999.

In the 1995 parliamentary elections , the REP achieved a total of 2.7 percent, losing one percentage point in the western districts, but gained one percentage point in the eastern districts and thus for the first time more strongly in the east (2.9%) than in the west (2, 6%). After they were able to maintain their result of 1995 in the 1999 election , they continuously lost in the following elections, reaching 1.3% in 2001 and 0.9% in 2006 . They did not run for the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011 .

Party crisis in 2006

The election for the Berlin House of Representatives on September 17, 2006 turned into a fiasco for the party. With 11,922 votes (0.9%) it was even beaten far behind the NPD, which had won more than three times as many votes, including in the right-wing extremist camp.

As a result, the Berlin state chairman, Peter Warnst, resigned from the party and accused the party leadership around Rolf Schlierer of trampling under-party democracy. According to the intelligence agency, the party had around 200 party members in Berlin at that time.

Dispute about the party's hostility to the constitution

In December 1992, the heads of the federal and state authorities for the protection of the constitution decided through the state offices for the protection of the constitution to obtain and evaluate specific information about the party and to decide on the use of intelligence resources by the respective authority depending on the individual case. In December 1992 the Berlin Senator for the Interior decided to have the Republicans observed in Berlin. Until 1998, intelligence resources were also used here.

From 1993 to 1997 the regional association was listed in the reports of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution under the heading "Right-wing extremism". The party's action against inclusion in the 1997 report was successful.

literature

  • Hans-Gerd Jaschke: The "Republicans". 2nd Edition. 1993, ISBN 3-8012-0156-2 , pp. 92-93.
  • Alexandra Kliche: Let's go! - Why I left the "Republicans". 1989, ISBN 3-442-32528-5 .
  • “They don't shy away from violence” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1989 ( online - about Alexandra Kliche's departure from the party).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Pagel: Between euphoria and horror . In: Junge Freiheit , 05/99, January 29, 1999
  2. ↑ Alexandra Kliche: Let's get away! Why I left the "Republicans" . 1st edition. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-32528-5 , p. 12 .
  3. ↑ "They do not shy away from violence" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1989 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Alexandra Kliche: Let's get away! Why I left the "Republicans" . 1st edition. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-442-32528-5 , p. 156 .
  5. ↑ Berlin state chairman leaves Republicans . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 22, 2006
  6. ↑ Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg , judgment of April 6, 2006 (OVG 3 B 3.99), berlin.de/sen/justiz