Falko Liecke

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Falko Liecke (2016)

Falko Liecke (born January 30, 1973 in Berlin ) is a German local politician , since 2009 City Councilor for Citizen Services and Health or Youth and Health, and since 2011 Deputy District Mayor in the Berlin district of Neukölln . Liecke is a leading member of the CDU Berlin and has been the district chairman of the CDU Neukölln since 2015; since 2019 he has also been the party's deputy state chairman.

Life, education and work

Liecke started in 1990 at the Senate Department for the Interior in the middle non-technical administrative service. After completing an extra-occupational technical diploma, he completed a course of study for the high-level non-technical administrative service at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Berlin , which he completed as an administrator . He then worked in the press office of the Senate Department for Economics and Technology and as a personal advisor to the State Secretary for Economics.

After the Berlin elections in 2001, he was employed in the economic development department of the Senate Economic Administration to market Berlin as a location for investors. Together with Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH, he developed the Business Location Center, the Berlin Economic Atlas and a 3D city model for Berlin. He was also involved in the Berlin- wide project to set up a spatial data infrastructure for Berlin-Brandenburg. While working, he completed an apprenticeship as an administrative business administrator at the Berlin Administrative Academy .

Liecke is married and has two children.

Political party

In 1995 Liecke became a member of the CDU Berlin and in 1996 a member of the Junge Union in the Neukölln district association. From 2003 to 2005 he was state treasurer and from 2005 to 2007 state manager of the Junge Union Berlin. Since March 2011 he has been the local chairman of the CDU branch in Herrfurthplatz, and since March 2015 he has been the district chairman of the CDU district branch in Neukölln. In 1999 he was elected to the District Assembly (BVV) of Neukölln. From 2002 to 2005 he was chairman of the economic committee and from 2006 to 2009 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. Since Stefanie Vogelsang (CDU) was voted out of office by BVV in June 2009, Liecke was elected to the new city council for citizen services and health in the Neukölln district.

In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011 on September 18, 2011, he won the Neukölln constituency 5 . However, he did not accept the mandate and was elected on October 26, 2011 to the city council for youth and health as well as the deputy mayor of the Neukölln district.

After being elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 , Falko Liecke was re-elected City Councilor for Youth and Health and Deputy Mayor of Berlin-Neukölln.

In May 2019 Liecke was elected to the Presidium of the CDU Berlin as deputy state chairman.

Political positions

Integration policy

In February 2015, Liecke suggested that the Islamic Community Berlin e. V. to ban the Al-Nur Mosque in Berlin-Neukölln and to revoke its non-profit status. Previously, misogynist and anti-Semitic speeches had been given several times in the mosque. In May 2018, he also called for a ban on the mosque association of the Dar-As-Salam mosque in Berlin-Neukölln. The Berlin Administrative Court had previously determined that the mosque was rightly mentioned in the report on the protection of the constitution and that it maintains contacts with the German Muslim community . Liecke fears the radicalization of children and young people and calls for an immediate stop to all financial support from the state of Berlin. The mosque association concerned defended itself against the allegations and spoke publicly of defamation .

Liecke demanded that refugees and migrants recognize the values ​​of the Basic Law. In October 2015, he was one of the first to sign a letter from CDU politicians, which was directed against the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel .

In January 2016, Liecke publicly described how the possibility of religious marriage is being used by parts of the migrant population in order to receive state benefits, and said: "A state that accepts these developments with a shrug, even regards it as cultural folklore or enrichment, if archaic images of society counteract our hard-won achievements such as equality and tolerance, don't be surprised if this kind of tolerance is exploited more and more. "

In the nationwide discussion about a full veil ban , Liecke spoke out in favor of the fact that full veil completely excludes the women concerned from society and is thus an obstacle to integration, while at the same time he opposed the employment of a woman wearing a headscarf in the Neukölln district office. In addition, he does not see the clothing worn by Muslim women as a component of the Islamic religion, but as a cultural phenomenon, and at the same time said that the advance of such clothing in public is associated with an advance of Islam in Germany as in Turkey. The full veil is therefore not protected by the freedom of belief from Article 4 of the Basic Law . As a result, Liecke welcomed the proposal by the interior ministers of the CDU that full veiling should be banned in certain public areas. In this context, Liecke also calls for a clear commitment from immigrants to the values ​​of the majority society and an emphatic rejection of political Islam .

On the 10th anniversary of the German Islam Conference , Liecke called for extensive reforms. Among other things, he criticizes the exclusive participation of Islamic associations and the exclusion of individuals. He sees this as a strengthening of conservative and reactionary currents. At the same time he criticizes the strong dependence of the Islamic associations on foreign funding. Here he mentions the Islamic association DITIB as an example , which is therefore financially and structurally dependent on the Turkish religious authority Diyanet and is controlled from Turkey. In order to permanently eliminate this dependency, Liecke proposes financing the mosque associations from their own members. Without opening the Islam conference to liberal, secular and independent participants, Liecke sees the Islam conference as a failure.

After Volker Beck, member of the Bundestag, recommended that residents of neighborhoods with a high proportion of foreigners learn their language, Liecke described this attitude as extremely dangerous. Beck is thus promoting the segregation of entire population groups and playing with the successes of integration achieved so far. If it were up to Beck, you could give up entire districts in Berlin, said Liecke. For Liecke, the German language is the most important access to education and opportunities on the job market. Shortly after Liecke's criticism, Beck relativized his statements and stated that he had been misunderstood.

For the early intervention of children

At the beginning of 2016, he caused a sensation with the suggestion that educators who work in a Neukölln day care center should pay a bonus of 1,000 euros. The background to this is that in Neukölln, due to a lack of staff, not enough daycare places can be made available. Overall, he described the remuneration of the educator profession as too low, measured against its social importance.

During his tenure, the Neukölln Prevention Chain, an integrated municipal strategy for health promotion, was introduced. The free app Gesundes Neukölln helps families with children up to the age of six to find offers in Neukölln and to call up details. Another element of the Neukölln prevention strategy is the Neukölln welcome package , which is intended to improve access to families for professionals and support the establishment of a welcoming culture for families.

To juvenile delinquency

During his time as youth councilor, Liecke also dealt with juvenile delinquency in the Neukölln district and in Berlin. In 2015, together with Berlin's Justice Senator Thomas Heilmann (CDU), he initiated the public prosecutor's office for the town . Since then, three public prosecutors have been exclusively responsible for Neukölln and coordinate with the other relevant institutions on site, such as youth welfare offices, youth justice services, the police, schools and family judges. The aim is to achieve a better coordinated and more effective fight against juvenile delinquency.

The public prosecutor's office project for the site is supplemented by the Neukölln action plan for integrative help and interventions in families of young multiple offenders , which Liecke presented at the beginning of 2016. The aim of the concept is to better coordinate the work of the police, judiciary, school and administration. In this way, juveniles who have committed criminal offenses are to be reached earlier and the consequences for criminal offenses to be demonstrated. The action concept is in the tradition of the Neukölln model of the late youth judge Kirsten Heisig .

Health policy

As City Councilor for Health, Liecke pointed out in a letter to the editor of the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel in April 2010 that there was a shortage of specialists in his Neukölln district and the associated overload in the emergency rooms . Together with the Berlin district of Lichtenberg , he commissioned a study that proves the shortage of doctors and drawn up a catalog of political demands for better outpatient care in Berlin. The main points of this requirement are the updating of the data, some of which are decades old, on the basis of which the doctor distribution is calculated, as well as a greater influence of municipalities in the distribution of specialists. In addition, Berlin should no longer be viewed as a single planning area, but rather every district should be supplied with needs.

In this context, in April 2018 he pointed out the comparatively high infant mortality rate in Neukölln, which he attributes to the lack of paediatricians and gynecologists as well as other causes. Liecke also made public that a connection with relatives marriages in Neukölln, which is strongly influenced by migrants, is possible. This reference was criticized in the press, whereby Liecke always emphasized that he would like to investigate this possibility without prejudice and expressly does not want to make any preliminary determination or exclusion of possible reasons.

Litigation with the Amadeu Antonio Foundation

Since September 2018, the brochure ("Ene, mene, muh - and you are out!") Of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , which campaigns against anti-Semitism, racism and right-wing extremism, has been used by right-wing populists and some CDU representatives as a guide to Parental espionage ”. In November 2018, a press release by the Neukölln district office on behalf of Liecke recommended that all daycare centers in the district not use the brochure: It conveyed prejudices and was one-sidedly fixated on right-wing extremist parents. Other county officials dismissed this as bias and fake news ; the council of the district office did not adopt Liecke's statements as their own.

The foundation applied to the Berlin Administrative Court to prohibit the district office from repeating these statements as a violation of the official objectivity requirement. By order of April 11, 2019, the court rejected the foundation's application. Liecke's statements contained neither untruthful facts nor unjustifiable assessments. In view of the already broad public discussion about the brochure, they would not have any direct influence on public opinion.

Clan crime

On the initiative and with significant participation of Liecke, the CDU Berlin decided in September 2018 a state concept against criminal Arab large families ( clan crime ). In addition, the Neukölln district association, of which Liecke is chairman, applied for a clan concept for the federal level at the CDU's 31st federal party congress. The motion of the CDU Neukölln was decided on September 8th with the essential points.

Liecke's attempt to investigate child protection in criminal extended families and to define the criminal environment as a chronic child welfare risk caused a stir . As a result, the children have to be taken out of the family if the parents are unable or unwilling to avert the danger to the children, according to Liecke. The SPD state politician Tom Schreiber had publicly made a similar proposal in 2015, but has not taken any further steps in this direction since then.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Master plan for the development of the spatial data infrastructure Berlin / Brandenburg (GDI-BE / BB). Version 1.0 (PDF). Brandenburg Geoportal. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Lars Petersen: Today Falko Liecke is the new CDU leader in Neukölln. "Milieu protection endangers the boom in the neighborhood". Bild.de , March 21, 2015, accessed April 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Political curriculum vitae on the website of the Neukölln district office in Berlin, accessed on August 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Gunnar Schupelius, Peter Rossberg: Politician wants to close Al-Nur mosque . Bild.de, February 18, 2015, accessed April 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ Eva Marie Kogel: Misogynistic sex tips in Islamist mosque. Welt.de , February 3, 2015, accessed April 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ Neuköllner Moscheeverein NBS fails with lawsuit. In: rbb24.de. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Youth City Councilor fears Islamization in Dar-As-Salam mosque . In: BZ ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  9. ↑ "Training Center for Islamists"? Berlin mosque defends itself. In: Sputnik . Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Falko Liecke: To all refugees: "Our value system is not negotiable" . In: Huffington Post : The Blog , October 5, 2015, accessed June 26, 2016.
  11. ↑ Ute Barthel: Messages to Mrs. Merkel. How the CDU stands in Berlin and Brandenburg on the refugee policy of the Chancellor. In: rbb-online.de. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , October 28, 2015, archived from the original on March 30, 2016 .;
  12. ↑ Marcus Böttcher: CDU politician speaks plain text: The harem mesh of Neukölln . In: Berliner Kurier , January 11, 2016, accessed on June 26, 2016.
  13. ↑ Our rule of law is to be undermined under the guise of religious freedom . In: The Huffington Post , August 31, 2016, accessed September 2, 2016.
  14. ^ Ten years of the Islam Conference - the failed dialogue . In: The Huffington Post , September 27, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016.
  15. ↑ Is it still possible, Mr. Beck? . In: Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on July 13, 2018.
  16. ↑ First district pays 1,000 euros head premium for educators . In: BZ , accessed on March 4, 2016.
  17. ↑ Description of the prevention chain on berlin.de, accessed on April 9, 2016.
  18. ^ Website "Healthy Neukölln".
  19. ↑ Neukölln advertises home visits with baby gifts . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 17, 2014, accessed on April 9, 2016.
  20. ↑ Welcome package on berlin.de.
  21. ↑ Public prosecutors for the place are supposed to fight juvenile delinquency . Berlin.de, accessed on June 14, 2016.
  22. ↑ Child and juvenile delinquency: Neukölln concept for action for young multiple offenders presented . Press release from the Neukölln district office in Berlin, accessed on June 14, 2016.
  23. ^ Letters to the editor: Falko Liecke (CDU), District Councilor for Citizens' Services and Health, Berlin-Neukölln: Children get sick on weekends too , Der Tagesspiegel , April 11, 2010, accessed on April 5, 2018.
  24. ↑ Outpatient medical care Joint study of the Lichtenberg and Neukölln districts of Berlin on outpatient medical care, berlin.de, as of June 12, 2017, accessed on April 5, 2018.
  25. ↑ Neukölln worries about his babies , BZ Berlin , April 4, 2018, accessed on April 5, 2018.
  26. ↑ High infant mortality in Berlin-Neukölln: Myth of related marriage , Der Tagesspiegel, June 22, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018.
  27. ↑ Annika Leister: Right-wing extremism brochure: Amadeu Antonio Foundation sues against the Neukölln district office , Berliner Zeitung , January 15, 2019
  28. ↑ The dispute over a German daycare brochure comes to court , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 17, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2019.
  29. ↑ VG Berlin, decision of April 11, 2019 - 1 L 410.18, see press release of April 16 , 2019 , berlin.de, accessed on April 17, 2019.
  30. ^ CDU Berlin: Resolution: Clan concept of the CDU Berlin. CDU Berlin, September 28, 2018, accessed on March 30, 2019 .
  31. ^ Neukölln CDU calls for a nationwide clan concept. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  32. ^ CDU Germany: Other resolutions of the 31st party congress - C130. December 8, 2018, p. 27 , accessed March 30, 2019 .
  33. ↑ Julius Betschka: "We have to take the children out of the clan families". August 2, 2018, accessed March 30, 2019 .
  34. ↑ SPD politician Schreiber wants to start with the children. October 7, 2015, accessed March 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Liecke, Falko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin