Gudrun Petzold

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Gudrun Petzold (* 1952 in Großtreben ) is a German politician ( DSU , AfD ). She has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2019 .

Life

Gudrun Petzold is the daughter of Sudeten German expellees . After attending primary school in Großtreben, she attended the extended secondary school in Torgau , where she passed her Abitur. After an apprenticeship as a skilled worker for agricultural engineering, she completed a course of study, which she completed as a graduate engineer for environmental protection (FH). After 1990 she worked for the municipal social association of Saxony and the district office of Eilenburg . They settled in Frankfurt for the healer train and later led sideline own naturopathic practice.

In 1989 she got involved in a citizens' initiative and in the New Forum . In February 1990 she joined the GDR CDU and later became a member of the all-German CDU , from which she left again in 1992.

In 2002 Petzold became a member of the right-wing conservative German Social Union . There she was involved until 2010, among other things, as district chairwoman in the then Delitzsch district , as deputy state and federal chairwoman and as chairwoman of the women in the DSU . In the 2004 European elections , in which the DSU refrained from standing on its own, Petzold ran for fourth place on the list of the German party . In June 2007 she ran unsuccessfully against Roberto Rink for the office of Federal Chairman of the DSU.

In September 2016, Petzold joined the AfD. A short time later she became a member of the AfD district committee for North Saxony . In November 2018 she was elected deputy district chairwoman. In the 2019 state election , Petzold prevailed in the constituency of North Saxony 3 as a direct candidate of the AfD with 33.3 percent of the first votes against the former Saxon state police president Bernd Merbitz (CDU) and has since been a member of the state parliament.

Political positions

Gudrun Petzold campaigns for the memory of German expellees after World War II. However, displacement and flight in the refugee crisis from 2015 onwards cannot be compared with this, as today's refugees are much better cared for. Petzold regards “home” as a human right. She calls for the police force in Saxony to be increased to 15,000, for organized crime to be introduced as a reason for expulsion and for ideologically motivated extremists to be strictly persecuted.

Petzold advocates nature conservation and environmental protection, "embedded in healthy local agriculture and forestry, as a supporting pillar of rural areas and combined with an ideology-free and scientifically sound energy policy." She calls for animal welfare-friendly slaughter, greater support for animal shelters, and regulation of wolf populations through an expanded wolf and wild animal management and waiver of further wind turbines. In terms of educational policy, she wants to work for the maintenance of the multi-tier school system, but also for joint learning up to 8th grade. Petzold calls for the end of an alleged early sexualization . She would also like to merge the Ministry of Culture and Science. Petzold also wants cross-association educational tickets. In terms of financial policy, she is calling for greater independence from the EU, which she considers to be inefficient due to high administrative costs. Petzold also wants to lower business taxes. Her socio-political positions include criticism of excessive non-wage labor costs, “excessive bureaucracy, political mismanagement, impending old-age poverty and fear of relegation among the middle class”.

Petzold received national attention when she wore a dead fox as a necklace at a memorial event for the victims of National Socialism in the state parliament in January 2020 , which was criticized in many reactions and rated as a particularly tasteless misstep.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sebastian Stöber: Back in the political ring . In: Torgauer Zeitung , August 5, 2019 (online) , accessed on September 18, 2019.
  2. ^ André Freudenberg: Freedom-conservative small parties in reunified Germany . Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-228-5 , p. 106.
  3. ^ André Freudenberg: Freedom-conservative small parties in reunified Germany . Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-228-5 , p. 108.
  4. ↑ State elections 2019 - direct and list votes in the constituency of North Saxony 3 . In: wahlen.sachsen.de. State Statistical Office of Saxony , accessed on September 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Back in the political ring - news from the region - Torgauer Zeitung. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ DerWesten- derwesten.de: AfD politician photographed at Auschwitz memorial event: Disgusting, what she wears around her neck. January 29, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ AfD politician wears fur to commemorate the Holocaust and does not understand displeasure. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Holocaust commemoration in Saxony: AfD MPs cause displeasure with their choice of clothes. In: landeszeitung.de. January 27, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ AfD politician with a dead fox around her neck in the state parliament - News. In: heute.at. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  10. ^ Benjamin Konietzny: AfD and anti-Semitism: The pro-Jewish facade is crumbling. www.n-tv.de, February 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DSU, AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Großtreben , GDR