Emil Sänze

Emil Sänze (born September 27, 1950 in Beuren ) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD). He has been a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg since May 2016 .

Professional Activities

According to his profile page on the website of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Sänze first completed an apprenticeship as an industrial and commercial clerk and studied business administration in Constance . He worked, among other things, as sales manager and authorized signatory for Deutsche Bank and in the fleet leasing area for BMW Bank GmbH . Until 2014, Emil Sänze worked as a business economist at BMW Bank . Sänze works as an independent management consultant in Sulz am Neckar .

He rejected the allegation of the Neue Rottweiler Zeitung that he had made false statements in the state parliament manual about his activities as managing director or managing partner. Sänze had u. a. stated to be managing director of CarVita Holding GmbH, and had tried to prove this - according to a doubting media report - by publishing a notarized purchase contract for shares in the holding, which provided him as managing director. This contract was confirmed by CarVita Holding, but according to the company, the purchase contract provided for a payment by Sänzes, which Sänzes did not make for unknown reasons, making the agreement null and void. Because of this, Sänze did not become managing director of the holding company. Sänze complained about a loss of customers and "qualified initiations", which was due to the publication and reporting on his relationship with the AfD.

politics

Sänze is a member of the AfD. He was in the state elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2016 with 16.4 percent of votes in the constituency Rottweil (Constituency 53) in the state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg selected. In the newly formed AfD parliamentary group, Sänze was elected deputy group chairman. He resigned from this position on January 9, 2019.

When Jörg Meuthen and 12 other MPs left the AfD parliamentary group in the course of the dispute over Wolfgang Gedeon in July 2016 , Sänze did not follow suit and remained in the old parliamentary group, in which he was re-elected deputy group chairman on July 7, 2016. Sänze defended Gedeon against the accusation of anti-Semitism also represented by the AfD federal board . His statement that the Jews are the “internal enemy of the Christian West” is a “thesis”, not Gedeon's “direct opinion” or his “personal opinion”. He - Sänze - had "never heard anything anti-Semitic from Mr. Gedeon".

Emil Sänze distanced himself in January 2015 from the Pegida movement, which is also active in small offshoots in southwest Germany. The movement was attended by people whom he did not want to follow, and he did not like their language either.

In December 2016, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that it had a paper from Sänzes called “Fit for Return”: In this paper, Sänze proposes that asylum seekers be treated with restrictions on their fundamental rights (in particular free development ( Art. 2 GG ), equal treatment ( Art. 3 GG ) and freedom of movement ( Art. 11 GG )) barracked in special camps in " ethnically homogeneous" groups. The aim is to prevent integration and instead prepare asylum seekers for their return. In May 2017, Sänze presented his paper to the public for the first time at an event organized by the AfD parliamentary group in Sigmaringen . Claudia Martin , who resigned in 2016 with reference to the right course, compared the ideas of the plan with the National Socialist Madagascar Plan .

At the beginning of December 2017, at the AfD federal party congress, he supported a motion by MP Wolfgang Gedeon , who was criticized for his anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist positions , according to which the term “ secondary anti-Semitism ” was an “ideological battle term” and should therefore be rejected because it served to “target political opponents defame and intimidate the public ”.

After Sänzes “blatantly racist attacks” on the President of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Muhterem Aras , the Mannheimer Morgen wrote of a “new low point”: In a written declaration, Sänze had denied Aras the right to comment on the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era because of her Turkish origin . Sänze told the FAZ that it was not Aras - who only had German citizenship - but that “we Germans” were responsible for feelings in the commemorative culture. But Aras use “the 'we' as if it were fully integrated here, but it will never be fully integrated due to its origin.” If a “German” in his sense and not Muhterem Aras had written the press release, he would have followed it own statement had nothing to complain about in terms of content.

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum called Sänzes utterances “shaped by a national understanding of the state that simply has no place in a democracy”. For the historian Miriam Gebhardt , Sänze's interpretation of the term “state people” contradicts the Basic Law . For the anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein , Sänzes statements were “downright absurd” and bordered on racism.

On the website of the AfD parliamentary group, Sänze then explained that Aras' ancestors did not contribute anything to the history of the country - in his examples, Sänze goes back to the battle on the Lechfeld in 955 - did not contribute, paid or “made any sacrifices”. Therefore, one needs "no instruction" from her about the Holocaust , which, according to Sänze, she "selects [...] like a useful raisin for her migration society narrative and for her delegitimization of the grown German state people". The Germanist and literary scholar Heinrich Detering wrote that what Sänze demands “as a prerequisite not only for assuming a political office or for participating in social debates, but also as a prerequisite for belonging to 'Germany'” “is questionable for proof of Aryan status “Resemble.

Emil Sänze belongs to the inner-party AfD group “Stuttgarter Call”, the majority of whose first signatories belong to the party's national-conservative to radical spectrum. Christina Baum , member of the AfD state parliament, is also in the group .

According to a report by Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Emil Sänze and Rainer Podeswa resigned from their position as vice chairmen of the parliamentary group in January . According to SWR, the background is the dispute over the party expulsion proceedings against Stefan Räpple and Wolfgang Gedeon, who were excluded from individual state parliament sessions. Sänze and Christina Baum announced before the AfD state party conference in February 2019 that they would run for the state executive. Competitors were AfD parliamentary group leader Bernd Gögel and Member of the Bundestag Martin Hess . Sänze said the AfD shouldn't take an adjustment course and had to keep its brand essence; he did not agree with the previous course of the regional association.

Web links

• Profile of a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament in the 16th electoral term

Individual evidence

1. ^ State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg - Sänze. Retrieved August 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung
3. ↑ Martin Himmelträger: Something is wrong , NRWZ from July 7, 2018; Martin Himmelträger: Sänze: “ Unsustainable Accusations” , NRWZ from July 13, 2018; Martin Himmelträger: Something is wrong , context: weekly newspaper from July 18, 2018
4. ↑ The NRWZ agitates against the member of the state parliament Emil Sänze ( memento of the original from July 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Rottweil-Tuttlingen district association of the AfD Baden-Württemberg from July 8, 2018 
5. ↑ Something's wrong . In: Context: weekly newspaper . ( kontextwochenzeitung.de [accessed on August 2, 2018]).
6. ↑ Something's wrong . In: Context: weekly newspaper . ( kontextwochenzeitung.de [accessed on August 2, 2018]).
7. ↑ Selected applicants , State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg , accessed on March 14, 2016.
8. ↑ SWR: Two AfD vice-parliamentary leaders resigned in Baden-Württemberg
9. ↑ Baden-Württemberg: AfD boss Meuthen leaves with twelve members of the state parliament. In: Spiegel Online . July 5, 2016, accessed February 6, 2017 . 
10. ^ AfD-Rest group with a new board , SWR , accessed on July 7, 2016.
11. ^ Rüdiger Soldt, Justus Bender: Politician hostile: Felix Klein criticizes the AfD in Baden-Württemberg . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 1, 2018]).
12. ^ Rottweil: AfD politician is for the S-Bahn to Stuttgart. In: schwarzwaelder-bote.de. January 15, 2015, accessed February 6, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Rüdiger Soldt: "Krasser than the NPD" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 16, 2016.
14. ↑ Willi Reiners: It's boiling in Sigmaringen . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 12, 2017.
15. ↑ Rüdiger Soldt, Stuttgart: MPs leaves AfD: "Krasser than the NPD" . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 1, 2018]).
16. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: “ The AfD and anti-Semitism. “ Www.handelsblatt.com, November 25, 2017
17. ↑ Peter Reinhardt: Racist attacks on macaws . In: Mannheimer Morgen . 28th July 2018.
18. ^ Racism allegations against AfD parliamentary group vice Sänze . In: Focus . 28th July 2018.
19. ^ Rüdiger Soldt, Justus Bender: Politician hostile: Felix Klein criticizes the AfD in Baden-Württemberg . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 1, 2018]).
20. ^ Rüdiger Soldt, Justus Bender: Felix Klein criticizes the AfD in Baden-Württemberg . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 1, 2018.
21. ↑ Heinrich Detering: What does “we” mean here? On the rhetoric of the parliamentary right. Reclam, Ditzingen 2019 (3rd edition), p. 37 f.
22. ^ ^{A b} Schwarzwälder Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Rottweil / Stuttgart: Emil Sänze wants to become AfD chairman - Black Forest Bote. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Tilmann Steffen: Stuttgart appeal: AfD radicals rebel against the federal leadership. www.zeit.de, October 31, 2018
24. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Baden-Württemberg: Two AfD vice-parliamentary group leaders resigned. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .