Dirk Gaw

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Dirk Gaw, 2019

Dirk Gaw (born March 5, 1972 in Essen ) is a German politician ( AfD ). He has been a member of the Hessian state parliament since 2019 .

Life

Gaw worked as a police officer from 1993 to 2019, most recently as police superintendent in the prison service at the Federal Police Directorate in Koblenz .

He has been a member of the AfD since May 2014. From 2016 to December 2018 he was a member of the district council of the Main-Taunus-Kreis .

In the 2018 state election , Gaw moved into the Hessian state parliament over 11th place on the AfD's state list . He is a member of the Interior Committee and since January 2019 deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group and spokesman for the parliamentary group for the penal system and sport.

After the failure of the AfD candidates Bernd Vohl in the constituent meeting in January 2019 and Karl Hermann Bolldorf in April 2019, the AfD parliamentary group nominated him on January 21, 2020 as their third candidate for the office of Vice President of the State Parliament. However, in the vote in the state parliament on January 30, 2020, Gaw was not elected; he received only 28 of the 129 votes cast.

Web links

Commons : Dirk Gaw  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. State elections 2018. State list 6. Alternative for Germany - AfD -. State Returning Officer for Hesse, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  2. a b Ewald Hetrodt: Third AfD candidate fails to be elected vice-chairman . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  3. AfD parliamentary group proposes Dirk Gaw as vice-chairman. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 21, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  4. Christopher Plass: Now the AfD is trying a police officer. In: hessenschau.de. January 21, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .