Hans-Jürgen Irmer

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Hans-Jürgen Irmer (2016)

Hans-Jürgen Irmer (born February 20, 1952 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the 19th German Bundestag .

education and profession

After graduating from the Goetheschule in Wetzlar in 1971 , Irmer completed a teaching degree in English , geography and social studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1977 until his departure in 2000 he belonged to the Gießen Wingolf student association . After his legal clerkship, he worked as a teacher at the Philippinum Weilburg grammar school from 1980 to 1987 . After a year as press spokesman for the Hessian Minister of Education , he returned to school in 1988. Until 1990 and from 1991 to 1993 he taught at the Philippinum in Weilburg and from 1995 to 1998 at the Eichendorff School and the Goetheschool in Wetzlar .

Irmer is publisher of the biannual business magazine Mutmacher , the quarterly health compass and the monthly newspaper Wetzlar Kurier . He is married and has two children.

Political party

From 1977 to 1978 Irmer was district manager of the CDU Lahn and from 1992 to 2002 regional chairman of the Working Group of Christian Democratic Teachers (ACDL) in Hesse . Irmer has been chairman of the CDU district association Lahn-Dill since 1998 . He was also the education policy spokesman and deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group until January 31, 2015.

MP

From 1977 to 1990 Irmer was a member of the city council of his hometown Wetzlar. From 1982 to 1989 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group . Since 1979 he has also been a member of the district assembly of the Lahn-Dill district and has been chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there since 1989.

On November 20, 1990, Irmer moved up to the Hessian state parliament , but resigned again after the state elections that followed shortly thereafter on April 4, 1991 . Once again, Irmer was a member of the state parliament from July 5, 1993 to April 4, 1995.

From October 26, 1998, Irmer was again a member of the Landtag until he moved into the Bundestag . Since April 2003 he has been the parliamentary group spokesman for school policy and since September 2003 also deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group until he resigned from both offices on January 31, 2015. In the 2003 state elections , he won the direct mandate in the Lahn-Dill II constituency with 52.0 percent of the vote. After losing his direct mandate to his SPD competitor Elke Künholz in the state elections in 2008 , he again won the direct mandate in the Lahn-Dill II constituency in the early state elections in 2009 with 42.4% of the first votes.

On September 24, 2017, Irmer was able to move into the Bundestag for the CDU. Frank Steinraths took over his state parliament mandate .

In the 19th German Bundestag , Irmer is a full member of the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs . He is also a deputy member of the Defense Committee and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment .

Political positions & actions

Political self-assessment

Irmer sees himself as "a conservative who loves his fatherland ".

Islam and Islamism

In April 2010 he accused the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff , of making a “wrong decision” in connection with the appointment of Aygül Özkan as Minister of Social Affairs. Because of their negative attitude towards crucifixes in state schools, he said that Özkan was obviously unable to “represent German interests”. The sentence “Islam is fixated on conquering world domination. We don't need more Muslims, but fewer. ”Shortly afterwards, Irmer apologized for this statement.

In September 2012, Irmer resigned from his position as spokesman for education policy in the CDU state parliamentary group because he “ cannot represent the content of the decisions on the possible introduction of Islamic religious instruction and a state school office”.

Turkey joins the EU

Irmer rejects Turkey joining the EU . In 2004, the Wetzlar Kurier , published by Irmer, wrote that EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen must be “basically charged with high treason against Germany” because he had advocated Turkey's admission to the EU.

homosexuality

In October 2014, in connection with an agreement between the black-green coalition , according to which the difference in sexual orientation should be taught in school , Irmer stated that homosexuality was “not normal. If it were, the Lord God would have regulated procreation differently. "

Protest against the music group Feine Sahne Fischfilet

Irmer took part in a small protest action (approx. 70 participants) against a concert by the political punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet (approx. 4000 concert-goers) in Wetzlar . The protest action was initiated by the CDU Wetzlar and the Pro Police association.

Memberships

Hans-Jürgen Irmer is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

criticism

In 1996 Irmer gave a lecture at the fraternity of Dresdensia-Rugia zu Gießen and in 2004 at another association of the German fraternity, the Gießen fraternity Germania . Due to the initiative of the local SPD member of the state parliament, this case was the subject of a current hour in the Hessian state parliament, at which Irmer said in a personal statement: "I have zero command to do with any form of brown spook." The former Hessian Interior Minister Gerhard Bökel (SPD ) on the other hand calls him "a seldom consistent right-wing radical".

He demanded that criminal and violent asylum seekers be shackled and gagged and deported to their country of origin. In connection with the intensification of anti-discrimination and reversal of the burden of proof, he said “nonsense” has a name in Germany - that of Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD).

Irmer was accused by the education and science union (GEW) of using " National Socialist jargon " (for example "popular anger" and "humaneism").

In January 2010, the Hessian state parliament held a current hour. The trigger was an article by Irmer in the Wetzlar Kurier , in which he welcomed the successful referendum in Switzerland on a construction ban on minarets . The parliamentary groups of the SPD, the Left and the Greens strongly attacked Irmer, referred to similar statements in the past and called on the government groups to distance themselves from Irmer.

In his book Die Panikmacher 2011, the journalist Patrick Bahners criticized an allegedly run campaign against Islam by Irmer .

The state student council of Hessen announced in February 2014 that it would refuse to work with Irmer, who was again elected spokesman for school policy for the CDU parliamentary group, because of his political views. On February 11, 2014, they asked the CDU parliamentary group to provide a new interlocutor.

Irmer has received cross-party criticism for his views on homosexuality. In a statement published on November 3rd, Irmer regretted that "in the past he had chosen formulations for difficult and sensitive topics" which were sometimes misleading and interpreted in such a way that people could rightly feel hurt. For him, homosexuality is “naturally part of normality”, and every person has “the right to freely develop their sexual orientation”. Michael Boddenberg , chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament, called Irmer's declaration "absolutely necessary"; The group leader of the Greens Mathias Wagner announced that the clarification was "overdue", but Irmer could "only prove the credibility of his words through his future behavior".

In the January 25, 2015 edition of the Wetzlarer Kurier , Irmer published an opinion piece on the subject of “Islamist terror and persecution of Christians”. In the same issue there was also an advertisement by the association The German Conservatives , in which a brochure was advertised that is supposed to prove the dangerousness of Islam. Since this association was classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 1995 , the advertisement triggered harsh criticism within the Hessian CDU. As a result, on January 31, Irmer resigned from his posts as vice chairman of the parliamentary group and education policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Jürgen Irmer  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who formulated the people's anger , taz, November 6, 2000
  2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Irmer on bundestag.de
  3. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Tim Homuth: A brave man with an edge. In: blu-News. May 19, 2015, archived from the original on February 3, 2015 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Schmidt Lunau: Muslim Minister of Social Affairs: Özkan's appointment brings Hesse's CDU into a rage . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 29, 2010
  6. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Irmer: School spokesman for the CDU throws down in the dispute. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 18, 2012, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Patrick Bahners : The alarmists. The German fear of Islam. A polemic. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61645-7 , p. 53.
  8. ↑ Georg Haupt: Pressure on the federal party of Hesse's Greens are looking for a trial of strength ( memento from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . 19th October 2014
  9. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlag GmbH & Co KG: Vigil against "Feine Sahne" brings critics and fans together - Central Hesse. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet plays in Wetzlar - CDU and NPD jointly resist. November 30, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .
  11. ^ Hans-Jürgen Irmer website of the Europa-Union Deutschland. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  12. ↑ Oliver Gehrs : Tied up and gagged . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2001, p. 95 ( online ).
  13. ^ Benjamin Ortmeyer : On the "propaganda tricks" of the Wetzlar courier and its editor HJ. Irmer. (PDF) In: Brochure of the Education and Science Union . P. 5 , archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on February 6, 2015 .
  14. ↑ CDU politician Hans-Jürgen Irmer a hate preacher? In: MiGAZIN . February 1, 2010, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Patrick Bahners : The alarmists. The German fear of Islam. A polemic. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61645-7 , pp. 47, 49-51, 58-69, 87, 89.
  16. ↑ Hesse's state student council boycotted Irmer. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 11, 2014, archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; accessed on February 6, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Hanning Voigts: Homophobia: Sharp criticism of Irmer. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 20, 2014, accessed February 6, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Irmer: Statement by the district chairman of the CDU Lahn-Dill, Hans-Jürgen Irmer, Member of the State Parliament, on the recent debate on his statements in relation to homosexuality. (No longer available online.) In: CDU Lahn-Dill website. November 3, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 6, 2015 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cdu-lahn-dill.de  
  19. ↑ Hanning Voigts: Irmer on homosexuality: Irmer rows back. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 3, 2014, accessed February 6, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Timo Frasch: CDU politician backs down: "Homosexuality is part of reality". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 3, 2014, accessed February 6, 2015 .
  21. ^ Controversy over the report: CDU education politician Irmer resigns. In: hr-online.de . Archived from the original on February 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 6, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Irmer, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn