Dirk Spaniel

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Dirk Spaniel (born November 3, 1971 in Marburg ) is a German politician ( AfD ). Until he was voted out on February 15, 2020, he was co-state spokesman for the AfD Baden-Württemberg alongside Bernd Gögel . In the 2017 federal election , he entered the 19th German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list . From 2017 to November 2018 he was chairman of the regional group.

Life

After graduating from the Lahntalschule in Biedenkopf in 1991 , he studied chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal and the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, and from 1995 to 1996 mechanical engineering at Michigan State University in the USA. From 1997 to 1999 he wrote his doctoral thesis on fuel cell vehicles at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and at DaimlerChrysler . From 2000 to 2004 he was a test and development engineer for vehicle dynamics at DaimlerChrysler. Since 2004 he has been working in various management positions in passenger car development at Daimler AG .

In 1997 he came to Stuttgart; he lives with his wife and daughter on the Killesberg .

politics

Dirk Spaniel was a member of the district board of the Junge Union Hessen at the end of the 1980s .

With the onset of the refugee crisis , he joined the Alternative für Deutschland in 2015 and became active in the party in October 2016. At the first state list party congress in November 2016, Spaniel was unable to prevail in the top nine places, but was later elected as a direct candidate for the AfD in the Stuttgart I constituency, and in January 2017 at number 10 on the state list. At the state party conference on February 23, 2019, he was elected spokesman for the state association alongside the parliamentary group leader Bernd Gögel . He prevailed against Martin Hess with 371 to 341 votes . Spaniel is part of the völkisch-nationalist "wing" , a rallying movement within the AfD, which the constitution protection classifies as a suspected case of right-wing extremist activities.

In 2019, audio recordings became public in which Spaniel tried to prevent Jörg Meuthen from becoming a possible federal chairman of the AfD as part of intrigues within the party . Meuthen then described the Spaniel as "highly toxic", he subordinated "everything completely to his power fantasies".

Spaniel wrote on his Facebook page that they would “ repeat and repeat this mantra [...] To hell with e-mobility , the CO2 gibberish and the ideological do-good-nonsense! First of all, our jobs come! "

Web links

Commons : Dirk Spaniel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Bundestag - Dr. Dirk Spaniel. In: Bundestag.de. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Willi Reiners: Party conference in Heidenheim: Gögel and Spaniel will lead the state AfD in the future. Stuttgarter Zeitung, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ AfD regional group: Dirk Spaniel elected chairman. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de. September 26, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dirk Spaniel: Energy-saving measures in the methanol fuel cell vehicle. 2003, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ To the person on the website of Dirk Spaniel
  6. ^ A b Andrea Jenewein: Bundestag election in Stuttgart - With numbers against fear. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. August 28, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Country list / list candidates. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  8. ^ A b Matthias Kamann: AfD: Uncompromising right in the back room of the AfD . August 13, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed November 16, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Martin Himmelträger: Sänze wants to become the state chairman of the AfD. www.nrwz.de, February 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Spaniel, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg