Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein

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Doris Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein (* 1. October 1954 as Doris Ulrich in Arolsen ) is a German politician (former AFD ). She has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament since the state elections in 2017 . She was state chairwoman of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Schleswig-Holstein . On August 28, 2019, she was excluded from the AfD by the Federal Arbitration Court in the last instance . Sayn-Wittgenstein had advertised a right-wing extremist association that is on the AfD's so-called incompatibility list; the party court saw this as “behavior that was harmful to the party”.

Life

Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein grew a daughter as postal secretary and one from Silesia home sold on mother. She has two sisters, including the actress Heike Ulrich , and a brother, the director Armin Ulrich . From 1973 to 1980 she studied law at the University of Heidelberg . She completed her legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Heidelberg with stations at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and at an American law firm .

She was admitted to the bar on February 21, 1983 and worked in family law from then until 2017 . According to the information provided by the German Lawyers' Association , she is a partner in the law firm Horstmann & v. Sayn-Wittgenstein in Dossenheim near Heidelberg, but it has not been listed on the firm's website since October 2016 at the latest.

According to her own information, she moved to Schleswig-Holstein in 2016 and lives in Schwentinental in the Plön district . She was divorced from her first husband, who is said to have been Egyptian.

Origin of name

Her official surname, Princess von Sayn-Wittgenstein, has repeatedly been the subject of media reports, as it corresponds to a branch line of the former German noble house Sayn-Wittgenstein . According to her own statement, she carried the family name of her husband during her first marriage and was called "Doris Ulrich". During her second marriage, she decided to use her " maiden name ". According to Spiegel research, however, her name was "Doris Ulrich" after her birth and her first husband also adopted this last name. These statements are not necessarily contradictory, as the “maiden name” can be legally changed under certain conditions - for example in the case of an adoption - i.e. it does not always indicate the first surname after the birth. Her former classmates stated that she had already used the name "von Sayn-Wittgenstein" at the ten-year class reunion in 1983.

Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn declared in 2017 that Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein was "not part of the family". He pointed out that in 1979 his distant relative Elisabeth Gertrud (* 1927), daughter of Prince Alexander von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1876–1947), through the brokerage of the title dealer Hans-Hermann Weyer, married a swindler who then took the name of his wife accepted and then ran away. According to the Saarbrücker Zeitung, it was a Bruno Lothar Koch. He made a business out of reselling the name through adoptions . For this reason and as a result of “chain adoptions”, i.e. through adoptions of previously adopted persons or by those who were married by adoptees or by passing them on to their children, the name in the form “Fürst / in von ” is then passed on to more than 50 namesake - to this day - been.

Even Alexander Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe (FDP), ex-husband of Marie-Louise "Lilly" Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, distanced himself and pointed in a statement pointed out that the main line of the princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein (instead zu or von and zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ) had expired and all bearers of this surname were either adopted as adults or were descended from such an adopted person. Schaumburg-Lippe called Sayn-Wittgenstein an “adoptive forklift” and drew a connection to her political positions: “The party, which tells us something every day about social parasites foreign to culture, puts a person in a responsible position who is parasitic on a culture and Tradition docks with which it has nothing to do. ”The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote in 2017 that, according to“ long-established [m] nobility ”, the“ title with the 'von' at the beginning […] has been sold by title dealers at high prices for some time . "AfD co-chairman Alexander Gauland described Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein after her party expulsion in 2019 as" the lady we call the wrong princess ".

Possible proximity to Reich citizens

Klaus Sojka , initiator of the “Die Deutschen” association, which is closely related to the “ Reich Citizens' Movement ”, won Sayn-Wittgenstein for a board post in 2009 and submitted an “application to the International Court of Justice to establish the non-existence of the FRG” for the “Association” of the Germans . Sojka died in September 2009. A press release by the association on its foundation in 2009 named Sojka and Sayn-Wittgenstein as members of the founding board. Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein said in 2017 that she did not know how her name got there. Sojka had won her for a board post in the association; But she does not remember a founding event.

Sayn-Wittgenstein denies any sympathy with the Reich Citizens' Movement, and Klaus Sojka did not belong to it either. At that time it was also about unresolved property issues for those displaced after the Second World War . Even after German reunification, Sayn-Wittgenstein regards the issue of compensation for those expelled from the former German eastern regions as open. In addition, she refers to her late mother, who was confirmed by a federal authority in the 1990s that everything has not yet been clarified regarding the property left behind during the eviction, but that a political regulation is “not opportune” at the moment.

AfD politician

Sayn-Wittgenstein joined the AfD in March 2016. According to her own statement, she had initially not been able to do much with the AfD founded by Bernd Lucke in 2013 . From April 2016 to May 2017 she was an assessor in the state board of AfD Schleswig-Holstein . She was elected to third place on the state list for the 2017 state election at the state party conference in Henstedt-Ulzburg in October 2016 . In this state election, she entered the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein via the state list . At the state party conference in July 2017, she was elected as the new state spokeswoman for AfD Schleswig-Holstein. She received 68% of the votes and thus prevailed against the previous incumbent Jörg Nobis .

In December 2017, she surprisingly ran for federal presidency at the AfD federal party conference in Hanover. Although she was not elected, she helped the right wing of the party, the wing around Björn Höcke , to prevent the Berlin AfD chairman Georg Pazderski , who is considered to be moderate, at the head of the federal government. After two votes without a clear result, both candidates withdrew; Alexander Gauland ran as a compromise candidate and was elected.

Exclusion from party

On December 4, 2018 Sayn-Wittgenstein was excluded from the AfD parliamentary group in Schleswig-Holstein. The reason for this step were Sayn-Wittgenstein's activities for the right-wing extremist association Gedächtnisstätte e. V. in Guthmannshausen , Thuringia , for which she is said to have solicited support in a letter on December 18, 2014. Whether she is or was a member of the association founded in 1992 by the Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck is controversial. He has been on the incompatibility list for AfD memberships since 2015.

At the end of 2018, Andreas Speit wrote in the taz that she had further contacts with the right-wing extremist scene: Between 2014 and 2017, she distributed event notices from various right-wing extremist groups by email. When asked by the taz , Sayn-Wittgenstein denied these contacts. She intends to keep her mandate in the state parliament.

On December 17, 2018, the AfD federal executive board decided to initiate party exclusion proceedings against Sayn-Wittgenstein and, “against the background of allegedly criminal proceedings”, to provisionally expel from exercising all party offices until the decision of the competent arbitration tribunal. The court of arbitration of the AfD Schleswig-Holstein rejected the application in the first instance in April 2019 because Sayn-Wittgenstein was not a member of the Memorial Association and a "one-time support [...] would not result in any conclusions about a right-wing extremist view of the world that continues today". In a newspaper interview and the oral hearing before the arbitral tribunal, she distanced herself from the association and its action at the time. The AfD federal board then decided to appeal to the AfD federal arbitration court.

On June 29, 2019, Sayn-Wittgenstein was re-elected as state chairman in Schleswig-Holstein. While it got 137 votes, Christian Waldheim received 100 votes as the opposing candidate of the more moderate wing and another candidate received four votes. The entire party conference took place in a tense atmosphere, the members of both camps faced each other irreconcilably. The deputy AfD federal chairman Kay Gottschalk said after her election in relation to the role of the wing, "a clear distancing of the wing tip from this woman" would have been good. But “these clear words” did not exist.

On August 28, 2019, Sayn-Wittgenstein was excluded from the party by the AfD Federal Arbitration Court for behavior that was harmful to the party. According to the AfD, she is no longer state chairman in Schleswig-Holstein. She announced that she would take legal action against it.

Justus Bender commented in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that any party that adheres to the Basic Law must exclude Sayn-Wittgenstein: “The judges at the AfD's Federal Arbitration Court have shown that their judgment is intact. The two party chairmen, several state chairmen as well as many functionaries and members have shown that there is no room for open support for right-wing extremists in their party. "The democrats in the AfD can only be congratulated on their attitude if they show it. However, he also pointed out the attitude of the majority of the Schleswig-Holstein regional association and the regional arbitration court there, which saw no reason for exclusion, and also mentioned "the countless solidarity addresses for Sayn-Wittgenstein from countless regional associations all over Germany".

Political positions

On her election posters for the state elections in 2017 she advertised with the slogan “Home instead of multi-cultural”. She cites “homogeneity” and “identification” as political convictions. In 2017, she said that she did not want to “condemn the right-wing extremist identity movement in Germany , Austria and France by the protection of the constitution ”.

At the AfD party conference on December 2, 2017 in Hanover, Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein appealed to the pride of the party: "I do not want me to have to offer coalition talks, but that the others beg for coalition talks." She also took the view there , only the nation state keeps a democracy alive, and called the Antifa "Antifanten", which according to the taz editor Sabine am Orde is "right-wing extremist jargon".

To the activities for the association Gedächtnisstätte e. V. , the AfD parliamentary group leader in the Kiel state parliament, Jörg Nobis, claimed at the end of 2018 that Sayn-Wittgenstein had not only confirmed that he had called for support of the association, but had also been a member for years. In the meantime, she has distanced herself from it, which the Frankfurter Rundschau described as "not very credible and probably owed more to the fear of losing her party position".

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein, Doris von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayn-Wittgenstein, Doris Fürstin von (full name); Ulrich, Doris (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (formerly AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen