Hermann Binkert

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Hermann Binkert (born November 14, 1964 in Waldshut-Tiengen ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). From 2008 to November 2009 he was State Secretary in the Thuringian State Chancellery. Since 2011 he has been the managing director of the market and social research institute INSA-Consulere .

Life

After studying law , Binkert worked from 1991 to 1994 as a research assistant for Claudia Nolte (CDU), member of the Bundestag , who was appointed Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth in 1994. A year later, Binkert also moved to this ministry and was employed there until 1998.

Since 1998 Binkert worked in the Thuringian State Chancellery. He began as a personal advisor to Prime Ministers Bernhard Vogel (until 2003) and Dieter Althaus, and from 2004 was also head of the department for fundamental political issues. Since 2006, Binkert was also head of the project group on solidarity citizens' money .

Binkert is Roman Catholic, married and has four children.

State Secretary

Binkert had been a member of the CDU since 1980. From June 24, 2008 to November 4, 2009, Binkert was State Secretary in the Thuringian State Chancellery and Thuringia's representative to the federal government. In this role he headed the Thuringian state representation in Berlin . Binkert replaced the previous State Secretary Renate Meier in the State Chancellery .

Binkert left the CDU in 2014.

Companies

Hermann Binkert has headed the Institute for New Social Responses (INSA) in Erfurt since December 2009. Since August 2011 he has been the managing director of the market and social research institute INSA-CONSULERE in Erfurt.

Relationship to the "Alternative for Germany"

Binkert was said by journalists to be close to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, in particular to its Thuringian regional association around Björn Höcke . According to research by the magazine Der Spiegel, the Binkert company DO service office provided services for the AfD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament in 2014 and received up to 8,000 euros per month. Binkert had previously written “several positive-sounding articles about the AfD” in the Huffington Post .

In May 2016, research by the newspaper Thüringer Allgemeine revealed that Binkert, together with members of the state parliament and employees of the AfD Thuringia, founded an association in September 2015 under the name of the Citizens' Alliance for Thuringia . The place of foundation was the headquarters of INSA, a villa in Erfurt . The article literally says: “According to the register of associations, the citizens' alliance was founded on September 11, 2015 in a villa in Erfurt's Steigerwald, where the Insa opinion research institute is based. In addition to Insa boss Hermann Binkert and the AfD member of the state parliament Corinna Herold , the ten members also included her parliamentary colleague Olaf Kießling , who was appointed treasurer. Also there: the press spokeswoman for the parliamentary group and an assistant to the regional party and parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke, who organized the AfD demonstrations that began at that time. "

Web links

Commons : Hermann Binkert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Althaus does not let go of the idea of ​​solidarity citizens' money. August 24, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Social vision: CDU commission dreams of citizens' money for everyone - DER SPIEGEL - Economy. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ David Rollik: Althaus exchanges six ministers. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 23, 2008.
  4. ↑ Martin Debes: Althaus' last State Secretary leaves the CDU. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , September 9, 2014.
  5. ↑ Herbert Wilkens: INSA - We are the good guys. In: grundeinkommen.de , February 24, 2010.
  6. ↑ Severin Weiland: Adviser to the AfD: The strange business of Insa boss Binkert. In: Spiegel Online . December 22, 2015, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Martin Debes: In the haze of the Thuringian AfD. How the citizens' alliance for Thuringia moves between the new party [i.e. the AfD], the CDU and the Catholic Church, in: Thüringer Allgemeine from May 5, 2016, p. 10 - online via the web archive ( Memento from July 11, 2016 on the Internet Archives )
personal data
SURNAME Binkert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), State Secretary in Thuringia (2008–2009)
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut-Tiengen