Gisela Piltz

FDP federal election campaign 2013. Gisela Piltz with Rösler, Westerwelle, Lindner, Hansen.

Gisela Piltz (born December 3, 1964 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

Life

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1983 at the municipal Luisengymnasium in Düsseldorf, Gisela Piltz did an apprenticeship at the city administration of Düsseldorf for the higher non-technical service , which she finished in 1986 with a degree in administration . She then worked as an inspector for the city of Düsseldorf and began studying law at the University of Bonn in 1987 , which she completed in 1993 with the first state examination in law. After completing her legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination in 1995 and in 1996 became head of the parliamentary office of Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig . In the same year she switched to UFA -Theater AG in Düsseldorf as a project manager and then worked from 2000 to 2002 for the project company "Kai 18" in Düsseldorf. She has been an independent lawyer since 2003 .

Party career

Piltz joined the FDP as a student in 1980 and was initially involved with the Young Liberals . In the elections for the federal chairmanship of the Young Liberals in 1989 it received the most votes in the primary election by the members, but it failed to achieve an absolute majority. She therefore had to face a runoff election by the delegates at the federal congress in July against Hermann Brem , who was second in the primary election , in which she was defeated.

Between 2004 and 2014 she was district chairman of the FDP Düsseldorf and from 2005 to 2013 deputy state chairwoman of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia. Since June 2007 she has also been a member of the FDP federal executive committee.

In 2006, together with Liane Knüppel , Hartmut Knüppel , Daniel Bahr , Hans-Joachim Otto , Joachim Stamp and Johannes Vogel, she founded the Netzwerk 80 eV association as an association of all federal board members and federal managing directors of the Young Liberals since 1980.

Member of Parliament

From 1999 to 2003 Piltz was a member of the City Council of Düsseldorf as chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

On November 11, 2002, Gisela Piltz replaced the resigned MP Ingo Wolf in the Bundestag, to which she then belonged until 2013. From 2005 to 2010 she was the spokeswoman for the FDP parliamentary group for domestic and local politics and a member of the advisory board of the federal commissioner for the records of the state security service of the former GDR . From 2005 Piltz was chairwoman of the state group of FDP members of the Bundestag from NRW. On October 26th, 2009, she was elected deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

From 2009 to 2013 Piltz was a member of the Bundestag Interior Committee and the Rules of Procedure committee . She was also the domestic policy spokesperson for the FDP parliamentary group with a focus on data protection and internal security.

In addition, since December 13, 2012, Piltz has been a member of the parliamentary control body , which controls the federal intelligence services for the Bundestag, and of the trust committee , which decides on the economic plans of the federal intelligence services . Piltz was the first woman in this position.

In the 2013 federal election , the FDP failed because of the 5 percent hurdle . Gisela Piltz thus lost her parliamentary seat.

In line with her political priorities, Piltz is particularly involved in the areas of “data protection”, “civil rights” and “internal security”. On 14 November 2007 (16th electoral period), on their initiative, the FDP parliamentary group put a major inquiry to the black-red federal government on the subject of “respect for fundamental rights”. In it, Piltz criticized the fact that the balance between freedom and security is dwindling to the detriment of the civil liberties.

“The perception of fundamental rights is changing noticeably. No longer the idea of ​​freedom, no longer the model of people endowed with inalienable rights, are the inspiration for legislation and actions of the state, but rather vague terms such as the threat to security through terrorism or crime are gaining importance as justification in parts of political and public opinion-forming. "

- Gisela Piltz

After quitting her work as a member of the Bundestag in 2013, Piltz initially considered returning to the Düsseldorf city council. However, the council group positioned itself on the side of Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann .

Political positions

Data retention

Together with the FDP parliamentary group, Gisela Piltz rejects the data retention . For Piltz, preventive security of communication for all citizens without cause would not correspond to the rule of law principle of proportionality. In addition, the presumption of innocence would be undermined and the right to informational self-determination would be violated. The data storage device would be a big step towards "transparent citizens".

Piltz participated in the lawsuit against the law passed by the grand coalition before the Federal Constitutional Court.

Reform of the registration law and address data trade

In June 2012, Piltz was, alongside Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), at the center of criticism of the reform of the Registration Act by the Bundestag. Both the content and the manner in which it was passed were the focus of public criticism. The draft law, which among other things is supposed to transfer the reporting system, which was previously regulated by the country, into the competence of the federal government, was passed by only 17 members of parliament present who belonged to the parliamentary groups of the Union and FDP. The 10 opposition MPs present from the SPD, Greens and Left voted against. Since none of the MPs or parliamentary groups present officially questioned the quorum of the Bundestag, the vote is not invalid despite the small number of MPs participating.

The criticism was triggered by the amendments to the legislative text that were to be passed just one day earlier. The federal government's bill originally required that citizens should give the registration offices express permission to pass on their data to third parties for advertising purposes and address trading. On the day before the bill was voted on, however, Piltz and Hans-Peter Uhl submitted an amendment to the Interior Committee in which he reversed the consumer-friendly consent regulation into its opposite: Citizens' registration data should therefore be allowed to be issued for advertising purposes and for address trading, unless that the citizen had expressly objected to the release in writing beforehand. And even this contradiction would have been ineffective if an address dealer only wanted to update their existing databases. This proposed amendment, which was tabled in a flick of a hand, was accepted in the interior committee of the CDU / CSU and FDP against the votes of the opposition and the amended bill was adopted by the Bundestag the next day in just 14 seconds in a third reading without debate.

On July 9, 2012, Focus Online quoted an employee of Uhl's employees as saying, “If we had made the consent solution, all mail order companies would have screamed.” The sentence had to be removed later. Below the article it read as follows: "Two quotes from an employee that were in the original version of this article were removed at the request of the Uhls office with reference to a misunderstanding."

Due to the fierce public criticism, the federal government and the CSU consumer protection minister Ilse Aigner distanced themselves from the new reporting law and announced that they hoped the SPD-led Bundesrat would stop the bill. The FDP thereupon stated that Hans-Peter Uhl had primarily advocated the change in the objection regulation and had convinced the Interior Minister of his line.

Internet blocking / access restriction law

In the context of the discussions on the blocking of pages with depictions of abuse by children ("Zensursula") in 2009 and the resulting "Access Barrier Act" of the black-red coalition, Gisela Piltz was strongly against the proposed regulations and thus against the introduction of Internet blocks. She was instrumental in the resolution of the FDP parliamentary group. As an alternative to combating depictions of abuse by children on the Internet, it calls for the principle of “ deleting instead of blocking ”, taking into account the legal options that are already available, as well as other preventive measures. For this purpose, the existing criminal proceedings should be initiated primarily with the content providers themselves and, if this is not possible, deletion by the host providers (i.e. the storage space providers) by the federal states. This is the only way to effectively counter the dissemination of child abuse on the Internet. The blocking of Internet sites with such content does not solve the problem, since the material is still available - if the blocking is bypassed. In addition, with the proposal of the Liberals, the problem of "over-blocking" (ie the inadvertent blocking of actually legal sites) would not even arise. This would also stop the further regulation of the Internet's content. In the course of the debates, some politicians had already considered blocking other sites in the future, for example sites from certain computer games or gambling sites.

The proposed “Zensursula” law by the Union and the SPD would also raise considerable constitutional and operational questions of responsibility between the federal and state governments, complain Piltz and the FDP parliamentary group in the motion - because the states are actually responsible for preventing threats and regulating media content. Thus, neither the federal legislature for the content of the regulation nor the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) for the compilation of a blacklist and the related orders of network blocks would be constitutionally responsible. Expanding the powers of the BKA to include hazard prevention would therefore run counter to the constitution. The FDP proposal, on the other hand, stipulates that the federal government, together with the federal states, should campaign for the effective prosecution of content providers who depict child abuse on the Internet. In addition, the IT skills and IT equipment of the security authorities are to be improved so that they can effectively guarantee criminal prosecution.

Since the problem has international dimensions, the responsible authorities should also act worldwide and in this context the Federal Government should also work internationally for a better fight and a strict worldwide outlawing of child abuse and the dissemination of child abuse. The motion for a resolution also focuses on the prevention of child abuse, for example how in the Charité Berlin projects “Don't become a perpetrator” and children are strengthened, supported and protected, if possible before they become victims of a crime.

In the course of participating in the government after the 2009 Bundestag election, Piltz and the FDP were able to prevail over the Union and thus prevent internet censorship. The principle of “ deleting instead of blocking ” is now applied in order not to allow depictions of abuse by children on the Internet either. The statistics of the BKA, for example, show that this is a tried and tested means of combating child abuse on the Internet for content on both domestic and foreign sites. The FDP parliamentary group with Gisela Piltz has also written a key issues paper on this topic.

ELENA

According to the ELENA concept (electronic remuneration verification procedure), which was still approved under red-green, companies should transmit a huge amount of personal and highly sensitive data of their employees to a central storage location every month. Sports clubs should also report the details of their trainers if they receive more than 175 euros in compensation. This threatened the complete documentation of the everyday life of all working people. For small and medium-sized companies in particular, this obligation to transmit data meant a disproportionate effort and high costs. Mainly for reasons of data protection, Piltz and the FDP parliamentary group rejected the procedure and, in the coalition with the Union (17th electoral term), ensured that ELENA was abolished and all data that had already been collected were deleted without leaving any residue.

Data protection foundation

As agreed in the coalition agreement (17th electoral period) between the Union and the FDP, an application for the implementation of the Data Protection Foundation 2012 was passed, in which Gisela Piltz was significantly involved. The idea behind this is that in times of increasing use of the Internet and global networking, data protection cannot be guaranteed by the state alone, but also requires informed and self-determined consumers on the one hand and data protection-friendly offers on the other. The Stiftung Datenschutz is now to find a broad and cooperative approach together with representatives of the consumer center, Stiftung Warentest, business representatives and others in order to develop a seal of approval that gives consumers guidance on the data protection friendliness of products and services. In addition, the Foundation for Data Protection also has the task of improving people's sensitivity to protecting their own data and strengthening self-data protection through education.

Video surveillance and mobile location

Gisela Piltz spoke out against the expansion of video surveillance in public places several times. Most recently in the debate in December 2012, after the attempted attack on Bonn train station, when various parties called for stronger video surveillance in the public area. Piltz said that more video surveillance would not automatically bring more security, but that it would curtail people's civil rights more and more. Instead, more police forces should be deployed who can intervene directly in dangerous situations - not like a camera that cannot prevent acts and often only suppresses crime. Piltz also spoke out strongly against plans by the cell phone company Telefónica in October 2012 to market O2 customers' usage data anonymously without being asked. With such data use, sufficient anonymization is not guaranteed and could lead to movement profiles being created by the users.

BKA law / security architecture

Piltz last criticized the use of the so-called “Federal Trojan”, i.e. the online search of Germany , in October 2012. Here, the strict requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court must be adhered to; the privacy of citizens must not be handled in a bumbling manner just because the BKA has the technical competence do not own. Piltz and the entire FDP parliamentary group voted unanimously in the 16th electoral period against the amendment to the BKA law by the Union and the SPD. Gisela Piltz criticized the fact that the Union and the SPD wanted to transform the BKA into a 'German FBI' - a central police authority with quasi-secret service powers. This, however, circumvents the federal principle, according to which the states are responsible for police security.

On the subject of the security architecture, the FDP federal executive board last agreed with Piltz in January 2012 on a paper entitled “With Security for Freedom - For a Modern Security Architecture in Germany”. In addition, Gisela Piltz introduced the position paper “Strengthening the balance between freedom and security with a transparent and federal security architecture”, which the FDP parliamentary group decided in November 2012.

Other engagement

Piltz has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom since 2014 .

Web links

• Website by Gisela Piltz
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Gisela Piltz on parliament watch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wz-newsline.de: Strack-Zimmermann elected FDP chairman , March 22, 2014
2. ↑ Network 80 - Network 80. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ German Bundestag (Ed.): Piltz, Gisela. In: German Bundestag (2009). Online ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 28, 2013. 
4. ^ Helmut Stoltenberg: Piltz elected as a new member of the control committee. In: Das Parlament 51-52 (2012): Online ( Memento of April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ rp-online.de: The fate of the FDP election losers , September 24, 2013
6. ↑ Gisela Piltz (inter alia): Respect for fundamental rights. Big request. In: German Bundestag (2007). Online January 28, 2013.
7. ↑ rp-online.de: FDP power struggle: Piltz files claim , September 29, 2013
8. ↑ rp-online.de: The consequences of the power struggle of the FDP , October 16, 2013
9. ↑ Gisela Piltz: Position of Gisela Piltz, ed. by user "We-do-not-save". In: AK stock (2010). Online , January 28, 2013.
10. ^ A coup d' état in the Bundestag: How two members of parliament pushed the registration law through parliament ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 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. . In: Parliament's watch blog, July 9, 2012. 
11. ↑ German Bundestag: Quorum ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: bundestag.de (accessed on July 10, 2012) 
12. ↑ Background: Quorum of the Bundestag  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: stern.de, July 9, 2012 (accessed July 12, 2012)  
13. ↑ New reporting law in quick action - The suspicious rush of the coalition taz.de, July 10, 2012 (accessed on July 12, 2012)
14. ↑ Quick vote during the Italy game - the pullers behind the data disaster in the Bundestag focus.de, July 9, 2012 (accessed on July 12, 2012)
15. ^ Voting by ghosts in the Bundestag: Federal Government distances itself from the Registration Act . In: Spiegel Online , July 9, 2012
16. ↑ Passing on of addresses: Supreme data protection officer intensifies criticism of the registration law . In: Spiegel Online , July 9, 2012
17. ↑ Hasty Bundestag vote on the right to report: Under the public's radar . In: sueddeutsche.de , July 9, 2012
18. ↑ Dispute over the Registration Act: Suddenly everyone is data protection . In: Spiegel Online , July 9, 2012
19. ^ Motion for a resolution on the Access Difficulty Act (PDF; 81 kB), accessed on August 3, 2013.
20. ↑ Project "Don't become a perpetrator"
21. ^ Federal Government: Repeal of the Access Difficulty Act. ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 3, 2013. 
22. ↑ Netzpolitik.org: BKA figures prove the success of deleting instead of blocking. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
23. ↑ Key points paper of the FDP parliamentary group on the fight against crime on the Internet. ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 3, 2013. 
24. ^ Message from the Federal Data Protection Officer: All ELENA data has been deleted. ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 3, 2013. 
25. ^ Coalition agreement between CDU / CSU and FDP from 2009 (PDF; 5 MB), accessed on August 3, 2013.
26. ↑ Stiftung Datenschutz - An important building block for modern data protection in Germany (PDF; 66 kB), accessed on August 3, 2013.
27. ↑ Plenary minutes of the 187th session of the German Bundestag, p. 153 (PDF; 3 MB), accessed on August 3, 2013.
28. ↑ Stern.de: Does more video surveillance really help? Retrieved August 3, 2013.
29. ↑ Tagesschau.de: Heavy headwind for the “Smart Steps” from O2. ( Memento of November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved August 3, 2013.
30. ^ FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag: Piltz criticizes BKA surveillance software.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 3, 2013.  
31. ↑ Abhabenwatch.de : Background information on the BKA law. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
32. ↑ Resolution of the FDP federal executive committee: With security for freedom - With security for freedom - For a modern security For a modern security architecture in Germany (PDF; 54 kB), accessed on August 3, 2013.
33. ↑ Position paper of the FDP parliamentary group: Strengthening the balance between freedom and security with a transparent and federal security architecture.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 3, 2013.  
34. ^ Board office / Truman House: Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, accessed on June 22, 2018 .