Georg Pazderski

Georg Pazderski (2017)

Georg Pazderski (born October 6, 1951 in Pirmasens ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and former officer ( Colonel a. D. ). After retiring from active service, he joined the AfD. In 2013 he was managing director of AfD Berlin , from 2013 to 2015 federal managing director . From January 2016 to November 2017 he acted (without legitimation through valid election) as one of two state chairmen of the AfD Berlin; thereafter he was sole state chairman until January 2020. Since September 2016 he is a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and chairman of his faction . From 2017 to November 2019 he was also one of three deputy federal spokesmen for the AfD, and from 2015 to 2017 he was already an assessor on the federal board.

biography

Pazderski was born to a Polish father and a German mother in Pirmasens, Palatinate . His father was deported to the German Reich as a forced laborer during the Nazi regime and interned in a labor camp.

Georg Pazderski completed vocational training as a wholesale merchant . He then became a soldier in the Bundeswehr . He completed his officer training with the Bundeswehr , where he studied business administration . From 1987 to 1989 he completed the 30th general staff course (H) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

From 1990 to 1998 he was involved in building up the Bundeswehr in the new federal states. In 1992/93 he was in the rank of lieutenant colonel in command of the 391 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Bad Salzungen . In the mid-1990s he was stationed in Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of an assignment abroad . In 2000/01 he was security and defense policy advisor to the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union , Wilhelm Schönfelder , in Brussels / Belgium . In Münster he was Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Operations of the 1st German-Dutch Corps .

Georg Pazderski (right)

As one of three heads of an international planning group ("Combined Planning Group"), which was formed from approx. 30 staff officers from the partner countries of Operation Enduring Freedom , he served from 2005 to 2010 under several commanders, including US General David Petraeus , at the headquarters of the United States Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa , Florida / USA. Most recently, he spent two years as head of logistics in Allied Joint Force Command Lisbon of NATO in Oeiras near Lisbon in Portugal operates. After a total of 41 years as a professional soldier , he retired from service at the end of 2012 with the rank of colonel in the general staff service.

He is the vice chairman of the non-profit organization Perspective Africa.

Since 2010 he and his wife have had their main residence in Berlin .

politics

In 2013, Pazderski joined the Alternative for Germany (AfD). He was managing director of AfD Berlin from May 15 to September 30, 2013 and federal managing director from October 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015. Since the party congress in Essen in July 2015, he has been the sixth of six elected assessors (55.9 percent of the votes against the philosopher Marc Jongen , who received 41.2 percent) on the federal executive committee. In January 2016, Pazderski was elected the second state chairman of the AfD Berlin by the Berlin state party conference with around 56 percent of the vote. After allegations of fraud due to double voting, notarial recounting and the finding of two party courts that Pazderski was illegally in office, the board of directors was re-elected in November 2017. The court's request to inform party members about the invalid election was not followed by Pazderski by September 2017. At the state party conference on November 4, 2017, he was elected sole chairman of the AfD Berlin with 78.8% of the vote.

A state election meeting in April 2016 elected him as the top candidate of his party for the Berlin House of Representatives election 2016 . He moved through the state list - his party received 14.2 percent of the second vote - in the House of Representatives , whose council of elders he has been a member since then. He also became chairman of his group . Pazderski was a member of the 16th Federal Assembly , which met in February 2017 to elect the German Federal President .

In November 2016, the AfD published a press release by Pazderski entitled “ Federal government sponsors Clinton election campaign”. In it, Pazderski alleged that the Federal Environment Ministry had invested "several million" tax dollars in the election campaign of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . The Berlin district court held this claim down as untrue, spoke of "serious allegations" and obliged the AfD to rectify the situation.

In the 2017 federal election , Pazderski ran as a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency of Berlin-Pankow , but failed to make it into the Bundestag with 12.1 percent of the first votes.

At the federal party congress in Hanover on 2/3 December 2017, Pazderski ran as co-chairman in the federal board of the AfD. In two ballots he ran against the surprisingly candidate Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein , but received only 47 and 49 percent of the vote and thus remained, like his opponent, below the 50 percent required for an election. Thereupon both withdrew their candidacy, and Alexander Gauland was elected in a new ballot . Then Pazderski was elected Deputy Federal Chairman with 51.2 percent of the vote.

Right-wing provocations: No participation in Holocaust remembrance

On the sidelines of the commemoration of the pogrom night in 1938, a conflict broke out in 2018 between AfD top politician Georg Pazderski and those responsible for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews Foundation. Following a memorial hour in the Berlin House of Representatives, politicians from all parties marched to the memorial in a silent march. The names of the 57,000 Berlin Jews murdered by the Germans are currently being read out there to commemorate. According to Pazderski, the chairmen of all parliamentary groups in the House of Representatives read out names. However, he was prevented from doing so by the initiator of the memorial, Lea Rosh. She asked if he was from the AfD and then said: “You are not reading here.” The director of the foundation, Uwe Neumärker, referred to his house rules. A party friend of Pazderski's, the AfD politician Andreas Wild, provoked the silent march with a blue cornflower that he wore on his lapel. In Austria in the 1930s, the cornflower was regarded as the identification mark of the then banned National Socialists.

Political positions

Berlin course

Pazderski presented the Berlin course as a strategy of the AfD Berlin . The aim of this strategy is to convince voters and possible future coalition partners with a “moderate, liberal and objective policy”. For 2021, Pazderski believes that a minority government can be tolerated .

As a party that represents almost a fifth of the electorate, the AfD must “establish its ability to govern as soon as possible and make its willingness to govern” clear. If the CDU and FDP refused to cooperate with the AfD, this would increase the likelihood that red-red-green would remain permanently in the Senate . There is only a bourgeois majority with the AfD, said Pazderski.

Poverty Immigration

In his opening speech at the state party conference on May 4, 2019, Pazderski attributed problems such as the lack of housing, a lack of kindergarten places and neglect to a failed immigration policy . Increasingly, the “migrants with no perspective from the third world” were responsible for the population growth in Berlin. “They come from the poorhouses and the retarded societies in the Near and Middle East and Africa . They demand from us care and accommodation without being able to offer much and contribute to our prosperity. ”He repeatedly called for a stop to the“ uncontrolled immigration of poverty from the third world ”. In his capacity as state chairman, Pazderski declared: “Berlin must remain Berlin. We have to unmask the myth about the growing city. "The red-red-green state government sings" undaunted praises of the growing city ". In fact, many of the new Berliners come from “poor areas”. German babies are "still in short supply," he explained and warned: "We don't want to feel like strangers in our Berlin."

“Discrimination” of white men

At the end of 2018, the Berlin AfD published an advent calendar on Twitter under the hashtag # JaZuWeißenMännern , on which only men of white skin could be seen, who “had a decisive influence on our civilization and the development of the world” and, as Pazderski emphasized, not necessarily the right one Spectrum would have to come from. According to Pazderski, white men have become "a dirty word for some in the course of a gender campaign that has long since fallen apart". Because of “ rampant discrimination among the Greens and the Left ”, white men are nowadays disadvantaged when it comes to career opportunities or public appearances. Matthias Kamann described this action in the world as "absurd" and "as simple-minded as anachronistic".

Appeal of the 100 "For a united and strong AfD"

After Björn Höcke's speech at the Kyffhäusertreffen, an appeal was published on July 10, 2019, in which around one hundred AfD officials accused the leader of the wing , Björn Höcke, of tendencies towards division and “personality cult” and rejected the claim to power associated with Höcke's declaration of war to replace the federal executive . Co-signer Pazderski also emphasized the importance of the grand piano. “The wing can play a very, very important role in the AfD,” he said, “sealing the party to the right”. At the same time, Pazderski made it clear: “We are not calling for exclusion from the party.” He expected Höcke “to draw a very clear line to the right”.

Bourgeois-conservative

After the AfD only just managed to get back into the Hamburg citizenship , Pazderski appealed: "The AfD must sharpen its bourgeois-conservative image and draw an even clearer line to the far right." The AfD honorary chairman Alexander Gauland said, however, that he did not want to exclude party members.

COVID-19 pandemic

In March 2020, Pazderski named young people and especially the climate protectors of Fridays for Future as responsible for the spread of the coronavirus . He also shared a video in which young people one after the other put a lollipop in their mouths. However, this video did not come from Germany and was already five months old at the time. In addition, Fridays for Future had long since canceled all demonstrations.

reception

Alexander Häusler u. a. In a study from 2016 commissioned by the party-affiliated foundation of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, the Heinrich Böll Foundation , Pazderski located in the national-conservative party wing.

According to Maria Fiedler from Tagesspiegel , Pazderski is "comparatively moderate and one of the last country leaders who are actually serious about delimiting the AfD from the far right." He wanted to make the AfD "capable of forming a coalition". Justus Bender and Markus Wehner also wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Pazderski is considered “liberal-conservative” and is betting on a “pragmatic course, a medium-term assumption of government responsibility and a clear demarcation against the far right”.

Web links

Commons : Georg Pazderski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives for the 18th electoral term
• Profile of Georg Pazderski at the RBB

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Frederik Bombosch: AfD politician Georg Pazderski: "My candidacy is up". In: berliner-zeitung.de. November 30, 2017, accessed January 15, 2018 . 
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