Gunnar Lindemann

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Gunnar Norbert Lindemann (born August 25, 1970 in Wuppertal ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and a member of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Life

Lindemann is a trained banker and security officer and worked as a personnel operations planner for a private railway company.

In September 2016, he won the constituency of Marzahn-Hellersdorf 1 as a direct candidate of the AfD in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives with 30.6% .

Positions

Lindemann claims an “ Islamization ” of Germany and turns against what he calls “ asylum madness” and against what he sees as the “lawless Merkel administration”. In the election campaign, he called for “living space for Berliners” in relation to the planning of refugee accommodation. Lindemann wants to finance local projects “for the own population ” such as better benches, video technology in the S-Bahn stations and the preservation of a youth traffic school by canceling funds for initiatives against right-wing extremism and by deporting rejected asylum seekers .

The Tagesspiegel reported on xenophobic statements by Lindemann in social networks and his membership in groups in which nationalist and anti-Semitic content was shared. The taz According to Lindemann has proven links to right-wing extremist spectrum .

Controversy

Statements on the civil war in Syria

Lindemann described the recapture of Aleppo by Syrian and Russian troops as a “liberation” and expressed the opinion that Syrian refugees could now return and help rebuild the city. The Berliner Zeitung interpreted this as a mockery of the Syrian civil war victims . Lindemann later deleted the tweet and stated that his statements were thoughtless and that he took back the "spontaneous assessment" with regret.

Comments on the homicide of a 14-year-old in Berlin

In March 2018, a 14-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a classmate in his apartment in Berlin . After the police announced that the arrested suspect was a 15-year-old German, Lindemann asked the police to give the name of the perpetrator, which was initially omitted due to the press code. Later the name Edgar H. was communicated.

Comments on air raids on cities in the Third Reich

Once in July 2019 train passengers the announcement of a German railway employee ( "Dear passengers. Our train was due defusing a bomb that the Western Allies on the innocent population of Frankfurt have dropped, at the time 45 minutes late.") On Facebook Posted had and then became the victim of a shit storm including threats of violence, Lindemann also took part and declared that the " Allied bombing terror against the German civilian population ... was a historical fact". He also insinuated that the woman was aiming for media attention.

Trip with son to Russia and Ukraine 2019

In autumn 2019, Lindemann traveled with his 16-year-old son and the Siegerland AfD politician Henning Zoz to Russia and the Donbass areas around Donetsk and Luhansk . Among other things, they visited the base of the " Night Wolves ", a Russian nationalist motorcycle club. Photos published by the son on Instagram , later deleted, show Lindemann, his son and two other people in front of an entrance sign to this base. Another photo shows Lindemann's son saluting in front of a field, the photo is signed with the text “5km in front of the front line”. Another picture shows the son with an assault rifle (model of the Kalashnikov-AK47 series ) and the comment “Forbidden in Germany, but I'm in Donetsk ”. Numerous photos of relics from the time of National Socialism , taken from the Central Museum of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow , were also uploaded . According to Lindemann, the trip was marked by "humanitarian aid". On this trip he received an "Order for International Cooperation" from the "Foreign Ministry" of the internationally unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and agreed with the "Foreign Ministry" to open a representative office for the "Donetsk People's Republic" in Berlin. Shortly after the trip, the son was told by his classmates via messenger that they wanted to "stab him". The school management then turned on the police, the state security took over the investigation. According to a chat history available to the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel , however, there were threats from Lindemann's son, who had threatened his classmates with the "night wolves", among other things.

Incitement against CSD in Marzahn

During Christopher Street Day, Lindemann defamed the parade as "anti-Russian racism", "propaganda", "re-education" and "riot".

Comments on the "gender gaga" about the word "end of the lane"

Lindemann causes laughter when he used the word "end of the lane" as a gender-neutral term for "lane".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kristof Botka: AfD in Berlin-Marzahn: Where Berlin is already blue. In: taz.de . October 26, 2016, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  2. ^ Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives
  3. ↑ a b Berlin election, These five AfD politicians move directly into the House of Representatives ( Memento from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), September 19, 2016, Berliner Zeitung
  4. ^ Elections to the district council meetings 2016 / Marzahn-Hellersdorf
  5. ^ Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung: AfD gains political power , September 19, 2016, Märkische Allgemeine
  6. ^ After the Berlin election: Too right for the AfD. In: tagesspiegel.de . September 22, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Election results of the AfD in Berlin: Right-wing extremist takes direct mandate taz from September 18, 2016
  8. ^ Gunnar Lindemann: Berlin AfD politician mocks Aleppo victims. In: berliner-zeitung.de. May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Death of 14-year-old Keira stirs up Berlin , on n-tv.de, accessed on March 12, 2018.
  10. ↑ Keira G. (14) was stabbed to death by Edgar (15)! * Updates * , on berliner-woche.de, accessed on March 12, 2018.
  11. ^ DerWesten.de: Deutsche Bahn. Horror at the announcement in the ICE ; accessed on July 28, 2020
  12. ↑ a b The bizarre vacation pictures of AfD politician Gunnar Lindemann , on tagesspiegel.de
  13. ↑ German politician talks about his visit to the Donetsk People's Republic , (Memento from May 4, 2020 in the Internet Archive) May 21, 2019 on the Russian nationalist propaganda website news-front.info
  14. ↑ Son of Berlin politician receives death threats , t-online.de , November 9, 2019.
  15. ^ Child of a Berlin AfD politician threatened with death , Tagesspiegel , November 9, 2019.
  16. ↑ queer.de: AfD politician incites against CSD in Marzahn ; viewed on August 4, 2020
  17. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Gunnar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindemann, Gunnar Norbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal