Henry Nitzsche

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Henry Nitzsche in December 2008 in Cologne

Henry Nitzsche (born April 4, 1959 in Kamenz ) is a German politician ( Member of the Bundestag from 2002 to 2009) who was a member of the CDU until 2006 and then active in various right-wing populist parties. So he founded the 2008 electoral association alliance work-family-fatherland list Henry Nitzsche .

Life and work

After high school in 1977 at the Extended Secondary School "Lessingschule" in Kamenz made Nitzsche his military service in the National People's Army and began in 1979 to study dentistry at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he broke off the 1981st Instead he worked from 1981 to 1983 as a forest worker in the state forest of Kamenz and also acquired the qualification as a skilled forest worker. In 1983 Nitzsche began a retraining as a potter in Puschwitz , which he completed in 1986. He initially worked in Kleinmachnow and from 1987 in his own pottery in Oßling until 1991 as a potter. Nitzsche finished his subsequent visit to the Administration and Business Academy in Dresden in 1994 as an administration and business economist (VWA) .

Nitzsche is an Evangelical Lutheran denomination, married and has four children.

Political party

At the time of the change in the GDR , Nitzsche initially joined the Democratic Awakening (DA) in 1989 , but became a member of the German Social Union (DSU) in 1990 . In 1993 he moved to the CDU, from which he left on December 15, 2006. From 2005 to 2006 he was chairman of the CDU district association Kamenz- Hoyerswerda . In 2008 he founded the electoral association Alliance Work-Family-Fatherland List Henry Nitzsche (AFV). In February 2011 he founded the citizens' association Pro Sachsen in Kamenz as an amalgamation of various groups, but left a short time later because he saw the association "increasingly being infiltrated by the NPD ". The AFV disbanded as an association in the summer of 2012.

MP

Nitzsche has been a member of the local council of his place of residence Oßling and the district council of the district of Kamenz and the district of Kamenz since 1990 . On June 8, 2008, he was elected to the list of “Work, Family, Fatherland” in the district council of the new Bautzen district.

From 1994 to 2002 Nitzsche was also a member of the Saxon state parliament . From 1994 to 1999 he was deputy chairman of the Committee for Housing, Building and Transport and from 1999 to 2002 he was the housing and transport policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group.

From 2002 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was a reporter for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for urban redevelopment east and old debt aid until 2006 . After leaving the CDU on December 15, 2006, Nitzsche also resigned from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and was a non-attached member of the Bundestag until the end of the 16th electoral term .

Nitzsche moved both times as a directly elected representative of the constituency Kamenz - Hoyerswerda - Großenhain in the Bundestag one. In the 2005 Bundestag election , he received 34.5% of the first votes in his constituency.

In the local elections in May 2019 , he was re-elected on the AfD's list in the Bautzen district assembly and chaired by the district assembly.

Public offices

From 1991 to 1994 Nitzsche was mayor of the community of Oßling .

social commitment

As chairman of the evangelical school sponsoring association in Oßling, Nitzsche is committed to an evangelical private school , the Evangelische Oberschule Oßling , which opened on September 3, 2007. He is also chairman of the unemployed self-help district of Kamenz e. V. Nitzsche speaks out in favor of the planned European Yiddish Center Anatoli Kaplan of a Christian sponsoring association in Oberlichtenau.

Accusation of right-wing populism and exit from the CDU

Nitzsche repeatedly aroused public criticism through statements that were often classified as right-wing populist, including from the ranks of the CDU. It first hit the headlines in 2003 in the wake of the Hohmann affair . His assertion, made in an interview, "A Muslim 's hand is more likely to rot than to put his cross on the ballot paper at the Christian Democratic Union", for which he later apologized, was not only made by the CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel sharply criticized.

On a poster for the 2005 Bundestag elections, Nitzsche used the slogan “Work, Family, Fatherland”, which was the motto of the French Vichy regime under Marshal Pétain during the German occupation in World War II as “Travail, Famille, Patrie” , and an alternative to represent the values ​​"Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" (French " Freedom, Equality, Fraternity ") of the French Revolution . In 2002, the presidential candidate of the right-wing extremist Front National , Jean-Marie Le Pen , took up the slogan in the French presidential election campaign, and it was subsequently used in Germany in 2004 by the right-wing extremist party NPD . Nevertheless, the former Prime Minister of Saxony and CDU General Secretary Kurt Biedenkopf supported Nitzsche's campaign motto. The historian Michael Wolffsohn also defended the motto: “When it rains and the NPD also finds out, rain does not turn into sunshine. Or do we want to give old and new Nazis the monopoly on work, family and fatherland? "

Nitzsche drew renewed criticism with a greeting to a CDU event on the subject of patriotism in Lieske in June 2006 , the contents of which became known in November 2006. According to ear witnesses, Nitzsche is said to have justified the need for patriotism by stating that it was needed “to finally get away from the guilt cult ” and that “Germany would never again be ruled by multicultural queens in Berlin”.

The chairman of the CDU city association Wittichenau accused Nitzsche of "first-class NPD statements". Michael Kretschmer , the general secretary of the Saxon CDU , described Nitzsche's statements as "completely unacceptable". Saxony's commissioner for foreigners, Friederike de Haas (CDU) , said the same thing . “In any case, expressions like 'multi-cultural fagots' have nothing to do with the Christian view of mankind of the CDU.” The Central Council of Jews in Germany also criticized Nitzsche's statements and the way the CDU dealt with them. Nitzsche is a "repeated repeat and convincing perpetrator", in which one wonders what has to happen before a party is expelled.

On December 7, 2006 Nitzsche resigned from his office as chairman of the CDU district association Kamenz / Hoyerswerda. On December 15, 2006, he also resigned from the CDU and its parliamentary group in the German Bundestag , but retained his mandate in the Bundestag.

Banner of the association “Work, Family, Fatherland”, with which Nitzsche took part in an event of the “ Pro Cologne Citizens Movement” in December 2008 .

In November 2006, the NPD called on Nitzsche to join their party. According to press reports, Nitzsche refused to join the NPD; he negotiated with the DSU regional association to re-join his former party.

At the beginning of April 2008 Nitzsche announced that he wanted to take part as a speaker at the so-called “anti-Islamization congress” of the extreme right-wing Pro Köln civil association. He was detained by blocking actions at Cologne-Bonn Airport . Nitzsche has also agreed to participate in other Pro Köln campaigns .

For the Saxon state election in 2009 , Nitzsche ran as a direct candidate in constituency 55 (Hoyerswerda) . The NPD waived a direct candidacy in the same constituency and spoke out openly in favor of Henry Nitzsche. It reached 19.6% and was thus subject to the CDU candidate Frank Hirche , who was able to unite the relative majority with 32.6%.

In September 2017, Nitzsche appeared at an event organized by the new right-wing Institute for State Policy led by Götz Kubitschek in Schnellroda . Several right-wing extremists such as Thor von Waldstein and activists from the Identitarian Movement observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution were also present at the event . The MDR reported that the attendees and speakers taped their license plates to go undetected.

Politics in the Bautzen District Assembly

Since February 18, 2008, Nitzsche has been chairman of the voters' association he founded, Alliance Work, Family, Fatherland - List Henry Nitzsche , which ran for the first time in the Saxon municipal elections on June 8, 2008 . Nitzsche himself ran for the office of district administrator in the new district of Bautzen and received 13.2% of the votes cast.

Subsequently, Nitzsche applied for the election of the foreigners commissioner of the Bautzen district council. In a press release, he set himself the goal of "helping the foreigners living here to organize their journey home instead of helping them build a permanent existence in Germany." The district councilor Maik S. Förster from the AFV alliance then stepped up with the reason , Nitzsche's “absolute solo effort” violated the “principles of the alliance” from this.

Web links

Commons : Henry Nitzsche  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Saft: CDU dropout Nitzsche founds voters' association . Saxon newspaper from February 20, 2008
  2. ↑ "Arbeit-Familie-Vaterland dissolved" ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at www.lauterbautzner.blog.de, accessed on September 14, 2012.
  3. ^ Sächsische Zeitung: AfD elects the head of the district parliamentary group. July 7, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ Henry Nitzsche's website : I support ( Memento of October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) As of December 31, 2008
  5. ↑ Planning of the European Yiddish Center Anatoli Kaplan Oberlichtenau ( Memento from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Website of the European Yiddish Center Anatoli Kaplan ( Memento from January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (as of December 31, 2006)
  7. ↑ Nitzsche apologizes for comments about Muslims . On: handelsblatt .com on November 7, 2003
  8. ↑ Merkel calls Nitzsche statements about Muslims "stupid and wrong" . On: ksta .de on November 8, 2003
  9. ↑ sueddeutsche.de of November 7, 2003: CDU member insults Muslims
  10. ↑ Christiane Chombeau: Les campagnes de Le Pen . Le Monde of November 24, 2006 (French)
  11. ^ Olaf Meyer: CDU provincial election campaign from the right wing . Telepolis, August 25, 2005
  12. ↑ "Deformation of Thought" . Leipziger Volkszeitung from August 20, 2005
  13. ↑ Netzzeitung : Wolffsohn criticizes debate about CDU slogan ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Spiegel Online : CDU parliamentarian Nitzsche resigned from district chairmanship
  15. ↑ "Multicultural Fagots" . The daily mirror of November 30, 2006
  16. ^ Again right statements by the CDU MP Nitzsche . Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of November 30, 2006
  17. ↑ a b Central Council of Jews criticizes CDU . SPIEGEL ONLINE, December 3, 2006
  18. ^ CDU parliamentarian Nitzsche resigned from district chairmanship . SPIEGEL ONLINE, December 8, 2006
  19. ↑ http://de.today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-12-15T103010Z_01_HUM537799_RTRDEOC_0_DEUTSCHLAND-SACHSEN-NITZSCHE.xml (link not available)
  20. ↑ Biography at the German Bundestag ( Memento from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ CDU MP under pressure . Focus Online, November 30, 2006
  22. ↑ DSU offers Nitzsche a new political home . Saxon newspaper of December 18, 2006
  23. ↑ Flyer from the organizer ( Memento from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). (PDF, approx. 1 MB)
  24. ↑ Lukas Böckmann: There they come again . On: jungle-world .com on May 7, 2009
  25. ↑ Press release of the NPD regional association of Saxony from June 25, 2009
  26. ↑ Official final result of the Saxon state election on August 30, 2009 in constituency 55 Hoyerswerda on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony
  27. ^ Mdr.de: "Institute for State Policy": Protest against New Rights in Schnellroda -. In: mdr.de. September 18, 2017, archived from the original on September 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  28. ↑ CDU dropout Nitzsche plans party . Saxon newspaper from February 20, 2008
  29. ^ Website of the Alliance for Work, Family, Fatherland - List Henry Nitzsche
  30. ^ Official final result of the district election of June 8, 2008 in the Bautzen district on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony
  31. ↑ According to Maik S. Förster
  32. ↑ Maik S. Förster: Background on the departure of Maik S. Förster from the Nitzsche alliance . Open letter to Henry Nitzsche, published on the author's website on December 27, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Nitzsche, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU, electoral association Work-Family-Fatherland), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamenz