Jorg Meuthen

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Jörg Meuthen (2019)

Jörg Hubert Meuthen (born  June 29, 1961 in Essen ) is a German politician ( independent , formerly AfD ) and economist .

From July 2015 until he left the party on January 28, 2022, he was one of two federal spokespersons ( party chairman ) for the AfD. Meuthen has been a member of the European Parliament since the end of 2017, where he is deputy chairman of the Identity and Democracy parliamentary group . He was the AfD's top candidate for the 2019 European elections .

Life

Jörg Meuthen is Roman Catholic and grew up with his younger brother in a working -class district in Essen . His father was a businessman and arranged company pension schemes for a company in Mülheim . Jörg Meuthen went to church until his first communion ; According to his own statements, he found his way back to the church through the theological writings of the later Pope Joseph Ratzinger ; he refers to this as his religious socialization. He did his Abitur at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Bad Ems in Rhineland-Palatinate , where his family had moved. He did community service from 1981 to 1982 . In 1983 he began studying in Münster . From 1984 to 1989 Meuthen studied economics in Mainz and graduated in 1989 with a degree in economics .

From 1989 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the seminar for finance at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on church tax . re. pole. PhD . After completing his doctorate , he worked from 1993 to 1996 as a consultant in the Hessian Ministry of Finance . From 1997 he was a professor of economics at the University of Public Administration in Kehl , and in 2001 he became Dean of Faculty II (economics, information and social sciences). Meuthen also worked as a lecturer at the Administrative and Business Academy in Baden. He has been on leave since his election to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg in April 2016.

Meuthen has three children from his first marriage and two from his second. In January 2017 he announced his separation from his second wife. In June 2018 he married Natalia Zvekic (* 1982), who also has five children from a previous marriage.

Political career

At the age of 16, Meuthen was briefly a member of the Junge Union (JU) and founded a local JU branch in the Palatinate .

By his own admission, Meuthen was interested in the FDP when he was in his late 20s , but saw their position in the long- term care insurance debate as too statist . He made the decision to join the AfD on the evening of the 2013 federal election . The "arrogance of power" made him angry when Bernd Lucke was mocked by Wolfgang Schäuble in the Günther Jauch show .

From November 2013, Meuthen was an assessor on the board of AfD Baden-Württemberg . In January 2015 he was elected deputy state spokesman and in July 2015 one of the three state spokesman. Since October 2014 he has been head of the Federal Technical Committee 3 "Performance and Justice". He also founded the state technical committee 5 "Work and Social Affairs", which he headed until March 2015. He ran for 10th place on the list in the 2014 European elections , but was initially unable to win a mandate.

In a contested vote for the party leadership at the AfD member federal party conference in Essen in July 2015, Meuthen was elected one of the two spokespersons for the federal party with 62 percent of the votes after Bernd Lucke lost to Frauke Petry .

At the state party conference in Horb am Neckar in October 2015, Meuthen was elected his party's top candidate for the 2016 state elections in Baden-Württemberg . He won a parliamentary seat as a second mandate in the Backnang constituency and was elected unopposed as leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Stuttgart state parliament on March 16 . After Meuthen was unable to get his way with his demand for the expulsion of Wolfgang Gedeon , who was accused of anti-Semitism , from the parliamentary group, he and twelve other MPs resigned and founded the Alternative for Baden-Württemberg parliamentary group . In October 2016, both factions reunited and Meuthen once again became chairman of the AfD faction.

When Beatrix von Storch resigned from the European Parliament after the 2017 general election, Meuthen replaced her. He immediately resigned as chairman of the state parliamentary group and resigned his seat in the state parliament at the end of 2017. Markus Widenmeyer succeeded him in the state parliament.

On December 2, 2017, the federal party conference re-elected him as federal spokesman with 72 percent of the votes . On November 16, 2018, Meuthen was elected to the European Parliament with over 90 percent as their top candidate for the 2019 European elections and in first place on the nationwide list of the AfD .

On July 14, 2019, Meuthen was not elected one of eight delegates for the federal party conference in November at a general meeting of his district association in the Baden town of Ortenau with (according to Welt ) 25 yes and 27 no votes with 8 abstentions. In his function as federal chairman, he had the right to speak there, but was not allowed to vote for the federal executive board. This result in a routine election in his own district association was seen as a setback for Meuthen in the internal power struggle with Björn Höcke , precisely because in the same vote, two politicians, Stefan Räpple and Thomas Seitz , were elected as delegates who had attracted attention with their right-wing extremist positions. His wife Natalia Meuthen was also not sent as a delegate by the district association. In January 2020, Meuthen had his membership transferred from the AfD district association in Ortenau to the AfD district association in Baden-Baden/Rastatt.

In November 2019, Meuthen was confirmed as the first federal chairman at the federal party conference, winning the vote with 69.18% ahead of Nicole Höchst (24.83%) and Wolfgang Gedeon (3.7%).

On October 11, 2021, Meuthen announced in a circular to AfD members that, after six years, he did not want to run again for party chairmanship at the upcoming party conference in December 2021. Previously, at the AfD press conference on September 27, 2021, significant differences in the assessment of the outcome of the federal elections, especially between Meuthen and co-lead candidate Alice Weidel, had become clear. As a result, however, he also explained that this decision should not be understood as a political withdrawal and that he wanted to continue to influence the fate of the party.

In January 2022, Meuthen announced his immediate withdrawal from the AfD and also resigned his party leadership with immediate effect. He justified his withdrawal by saying that he had lost the power struggle with the formally dissolved right-wing extremist wing over the direction of the party. Meuthen criticized the party when he left. This has developed very far to the right and in large parts is no longer on the ground of the free democratic basic order . He sees totalitarian echoes that have developed something sectarian , especially in corona politics . At best, he sees a future for the AfD as an East German regional party. In the course of his resignation, Meuthen announced that he wanted to retain the mandate he had won through the party as a member of the European Parliament in the right-wing populist group “Identity and Democracy”. He also wants to be politically active in the future.

political positions

Meuthen was considered to be part of the more economically liberal wing of the Alternative for Germany, which was close to Lucke at the time and was initially perceived by some observers as moderate. He describes himself as economically liberal and socio-politically as "pretty conservative". In 2015 he said he wanted to counterbalance the right- wing conservatives in the new party executive.

However, Meuthen never clearly differentiated itself from the right-wing nationalist part of the AfD and supported its positions. On the one hand, at the beginning of 2016, in contrast to the then program of the AfD Baden-Württemberg , he did not hold the opinion that the German media were largely “conformed” ; on the other hand, after Björn Höcke’s “ Dresdner Speech ” at the beginning of 2017, he opposed the then Co-party leader Frauke Petry behind him.

After Meuthen's participation in a meeting of the Patriotic Platform in the summer of 2016, it was discussed whether his classification as an economic liberal "with socio-political, national -conservative ideas" had been a misjudgment. In the dispute over Wolfgang Gedeon and in the negotiations to merge the two AfD factions, Meuthen approached "extreme, if not right-wing extremist positions" and played off refugees against Germans.

At the federal party conference of the AfD in April 2016 in Stuttgart , Jörg Meuthen received standing applause for his comment on the program of the AfD: "We want to get away from a left-red-green contaminated 1968 Germany that we are fed up with". He then varied to “slightly filthy 1968 Germany”. As a result, "Left Green filthy" developed into a political catchphrase.

In 2016, Meuthen said - based on the right term of a conservative revolution - that they really wanted a different Germany; he was “not a revolutionary”, but he was striving for a “conservative reformation”.

In May 2017, Ricarda Breyton criticized in Die Welt that Meuthen, at a press conference at which he had attacked, among other things, the critical statements made by Margot Käßmann about the AfD's family policy guidelines, when he quoted passages from the AfD basic program on family and population policy Formulation of a “moderate immigration based on qualitative criteria” built in, which is not in the program at all at this point. According to Breyton, Meuthen presented his party's position as less radical than formulated in the basic program.

In July 2017, Monitor moderator Georg Restle accused Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer of wanting to approach the “xenophobic AfD voters ” in Schorndorf with a hasty and exaggerated depiction of sexist violence among “very young asylum seekers” : “Deep you were digging in the deep brown swamp.” Meuthen then spoke of “left-green agitation” and recommended to the WDR to “remove” the “partisan agitation from all functions”. Restle saw this as an attack on freedom of the press and replied that Meuthen was “openly supporting anti-democrats like Mr. Erdoğan ”.

The Zeit journalist Lenz Jacobsen counted Meuthen in November 2017 to the radical wing of the AfD. Meuthen's success is based on the fact that "parts of the public and probably also the party misinterpreted his professor's title and his bearish grin as an indication of a somehow moderate attitude". However, Meuthen had "refuted this a long time ago". Like Gauland, Meuthen "enabled and operated the constant radicalization of the party in terms of content and rhetoric".

After the riots in Chemnitz in 2018 following a rally on the occasion of the violent death of a 35-year-old German, Meuthen rejected his party's complicity in the riots. There is "a dark mood in the country that is only too justified". There was “an audible and only too comprehensible displeasure about the circumstances that prevailed”. He was "even proud of many of these people in Saxony [...] who have something like courage, pride and the drive to defend themselves and their own country." " Racist insults and Hitler salutes " are "disgusting", but he I would like to know, says Meuthen, “how many of those who do this are smuggled provocateurs ”.

In 2018, Meuthen referred to the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era after being rejected as a customer by a fitness studio and wrote on his Facebook page: "Where, I ask, is the fundamental difference between this exclusion from society at the time and how also business life and today?”

Meuthen describes a parallel exit from coal and nuclear energy as a "wrong path". Meuthen considers the discussion about the consequences of climate change to be “ climate hysteria ”. Nobody denies that there are climatic changes, but according to Meuthen there is "no agreement" that humans are responsible for them . Meuthen considers the student demos for climate protection to be “political child abuse ”.

Justus Bender wrote in the FAZ in 2019 that Meuthen's "demonstrative harmlessness could not only count as a conscious marketing strategy [...] but also as the reason why his party elected him to office in the first place". Hardly anyone can "wave down obvious violations of political culture like Meuthen", it is "his greatest talent". The political scientist Hajo Funke certified Meuthen 2020 to be a "quick-change artist". Depending on the occasion, he can appear soft or brutal. Meuthen's concept was always "to represent the DNA of the party".

After the attack in Hanau , Meuthen put the events into perspective and denied a right-wing extremist background, although there were already relevant indications and Attorney General Peter Frank had taken over the investigation.

After Meuthen had previously distanced himself from the " lateral thinking " movement, he said at the federal party conference in Kalkar in November 2020 that "quite a few contemporaries" in this movement suspected "that tragically they still Not even thinking straight ahead works properly, but put this statement into perspective with the assessment that “many reasonable people” also expressed their “justified criticism” of “lateral thinking”.

At the 2021 AfD party conference in Dresden , Meuthen, in his role as a member of the EU Parliament, again spoke out against Germany's exit from the European Union, contrary to the voices of some party colleagues.

Immediately after the attack in Würzburg in 2021 , Meuthen said on Twitter: "The next Islamist knife murders in the middle of Germany."

Europe and Monetary Union

Meuthen said in 2015 that he was not a "Europe hater"; the "right idea of European unity " is being " perverted by an incorrectly constructed currency union ". In an Ash Wednesday speech in early March 2019, Meuthen criticized the European People's Party , which he says has long been making "left politics", for their critical treatment of the controversial Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and emphasized: "I would roll out the red carpet for him."

Immigration Policy and Islam

Referring to the high number of refugees and asylum seekers , Meuthen explained at the federal party conference in Stuttgart in April 2016: "We are opposed to allowing immigration in such large numbers with open eyes that we will no longer recognize our own country in just a few years .” The leading culture in Germany is not Islam, but the Christian - Western culture. The call of the muezzin cannot claim to be as self-evident as the Christian ringing of church bells.

According to Alan Posener , Meuthen has an ethnically based understanding of citizenship. At the federal party conference of the AfD in Cologne in 2017, he said that he saw “only a few Germans left” in his hometown, but this was “our country! The land of our grandparents and parents! We have to recapture it!” In reactions to this statement by Meuthen, it was pointed out, among other things, that in Karlsruhe, where Meuthen lived, 17% of the residents had a foreign passport, and the question was asked how he could recognize the nationality of people on the street wool. Meuthen presumes to "distinguish between supposedly real Germans and those others who allegedly cannot even be made German by a German passport". In doing so, he argues in terms of the New Right concept of ethnopluralism , which propagates the homogeneity of cultures and peoples. In September 2019, Jörg Meuthen told the moderator Dunja Hayali in a program on ZDF that he rejected the integration of refugees, who were only allowed to stay temporarily, into the labor market because it "wouldn't make any sense here".

During an appearance in Nagold in May 2017 , he accused Chancellor Merkel of having made Germany a “refugee import world champion” and was therefore responsible for the “ population exchange ”. At the end of 2020 he repeated this accusation to Merkel.

In March 2020, against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , Meuthen called for "consistent enforcement of the entry ban for asylum seekers as well" and claimed on Facebook that "non-EU foreigners are still allowed to travel around unhindered", "whereby they may would even spread the coronavirus ". However, when asked by a television magazine, a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior made it clear that asylum seekers were not exempt from the entry ban.

Meuthen's efforts to maintain a more moderate image were seen by some observers as a tactical maneuver in 2017, as his support for radical AfD members such as Björn Höcke is clearly recognizable. The political scientist Hajo Funke said in 2020 that Meuthen “sees immigration as dangerous” and that he “usually sees it as alien to the culture”. He could "then reach a lot".

differentiation from right-wing extremism

In 2017 Meuthen said on the stage of the third Kyffhäuser meeting:

"The wing is an integral part of our party and will always be so in the future. [...] And I also say clearly: Anyone who sees it differently, who falls into exclusionitis here, who does not recognize that the grand piano is an important part of the soul of our party, would also be out of place in the position of federal spokesman.”

On February 23, 2019, in a speech at the party conference of the Baden-Württemberg AfD , he sharply distanced himself from the wing and other far-right groups and people in the party:

“These members do not shy away from anti-Semitic or racist positions, even to the point of questioning the Holocaust ! […] To anyone who wants to live out their group-related enmity here , we say in no uncertain terms: Find another field for your neuroses! You will never hijack this party!”

In doing so, he triggered both enthusiasm and indignation among his audience. The background to this clear demarcation, which Meuthen had not shown until then, included the upcoming European elections in Germany in 2019 and the fact that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had (illegally publicly) declared the AfD to be a "test case".

At the end of December 2019, the SZ told Meuthen that the AfD was “pro-Jewish through and through” and was making “pro-Jewish motions in the Bundestag – such as […] the demand for a ban on Hezbollah ”. Also with reference to Michel Friedman , who had stated that he wanted to leave the country in the event of an AfD government participation, Meuthen found that it was "a mystery to him what a woman Knobloch and a Mr. Schuster could rhyme together". He will “not be seen defending every sentence that someone in the AfD has said”. Meuthen justified the election of Stephan Brandner , who had supported a tweet after the attack in Halle , which said that politicians were hanging around in front of synagogues , as one of the deputy party chairmen with the sentence that Brandner was "not elected for this tweet". but because of his "convincing speech" at the party congress.

In March 2020, after the federal executive had called on the party group Der Flügel , classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as right-wing extremist , to disband by the end of April 2020, Meuthen said in an interview with the new right-wing Junge Freiheit that the AfD was based on the free-democratic basic order and " that there are one or the other person in the wing […] some of whom represent positions that are not based on this foundation”. The observation of the "wing" by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was predominantly not justified, on the other hand "it may be so in individual cases".

At the beginning of April 2020, Meuthen suggested on his Facebook page that a "strategic discussion without bans on thinking and senseless taboos" be held as to whether it would be better to split the party into a "liberal-conservative" and a "social-patriotic" wing in order to attract "considerable additional groups of voters". to make accessible. In the Tichys Insight magazine , he said that everyone knows “that the wing and its key exponents cost us massive votes in the bourgeois camp, and I also think that the ordoliberal views of the bourgeois-conservative part of the AfD paternalistically shaped even better results in the state prevent the electoral milieu of the wing". After strong criticism within the AfD, for example from Alexander Gauland , Tino Chrupallas , Alice Weidels and Björn Höckes , Meuthen in Junge Freiheit called his move a mistake. It was a question of a strategic approach, not a specific call for a split in the party. Weidel and Chrupalla had also proposed to the federal executive board, together with the "wing" close AfD Vice Stephan Brandner , to adopt a proposal that said Meuthen had "severely damaged" the AfD, according to Spiegel , a possible preparation for an exclusion process. In a conference call by the federal executive board, Meuthen stated that he did not want to continue the debate about a split. The federal executive unanimously welcomed the clarification and spoke out against any attempt to question the unity of the party.

In May 2020, Meuthen obtained the annulment of Andreas Kalbitz 's party membership by the Federal Executive "because of the concealment of membership" in the Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend (HDJ) and the "non-declaration" of his membership in the Republicans in 1993 and 1994, both of which were on the incompatibility list the AfD stand. In this, Matthias Kamann saw Die Welt as evidence of a “majority for party leader Jörg Meuthen, who has recently succeeded in throwing out Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein , Stefan Räpple and Wolfgang Gedeon , some of the most horrid […] problem cases [ ...] throw out. Meuthen, no doubt, is not as weak as some claim. And he is also not cowardly when taking action against certain tough extremists.” A month later – after the decision of the Berlin Regional Court – Kamann criticized in Die Welt that Meuthen wanted to “get rid of” Kalbitz, “but no political debate about xenophobia and Contempt for democracy by the Brandenburg state chairman”. Kalbitz' exclusion was "due to statute formalities". The political scientist Marcel Lewandowsky saw Meuthen "not on the offensive within the party". He had to "defend himself against the attacks of the former wing" and Björn Höcke could "act as the one who wants the unity of the party". That would put Meuthen, who “is there as the splitter, so to speak”, on the defensive. Meuthen's approach was "about not deterring bourgeois voters," with Lewandowsky calling it questionable "whether these bourgeois voters still exist" because studies had shown "that the electorate of the AfD is ideologically closed [e]" and "more homogeneous".

The annulment by the board was declared inadmissible by the district court of Berlin, and a decision by the party's federal arbitration court had to be awaited. Shortly thereafter, an AfD federal convention supported Meuthen and rejected by a majority (according to party circles with 27 votes to 23) a motion that accused him of “irresponsible attempts at division”. The AfD honorary chairman and parliamentary group leader Alexander Gauland said that he was “observing with concern real tendencies towards disintegration in the party” since Meuthen took action against Kalbitz. Björn Höcke , in turn, wrote on Facebook, alluding to Meuthen's predecessors Bernd Lucke and Frauke Petry : "For the third time in our very young party history, one of our federal spokespersons wants to silence parts of the party or even push them out of the party."

After the ARD summer interview in July 2020, Meuthen complained on social networks that almost two-thirds of the broadcasting time had been used to bring the AfD, the “citizens’ party, closer to right-wing extremism”. It is a scandal that the term should be "anchored" in the mind of "less informed television viewers". According to Meuthen in the interview, the AfD has no problem with right-wing extremism, with the exception of a "single-digit range" that should be marked as right-wing extremism.

After the Federal Arbitration Court of the AfD had confirmed the withdrawal of Kalbitz's membership on July 25, 2020, Alfred Schmit took the view on tagesschau.de that the "leading heads of this party - including Meuthen - are still not clear about hard right-wing extremists in their ranks”. This is shown "above all by the fact that Kalbitz's exclusion from the party was not about whether he currently represents right-wing extremist positions, but whether he did so earlier and kept it secret." This "point victory" allows Meuthen to "give the impression [of ] to want to push back right-wing extremist forces in the party", but "[always] with the subtitle: In this way a complete observation of the AfD by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution could be avoided."

At the AfD party conference in Kalkar at the end of November 2020, Meuthen sharply criticized "provocateurs" in his own ranks and warned against aggressive behavior and uninhibited language, which would "not lead to more success". He was "against any form of division" and needed "unity in discipline". Gauland then declared that in Meuthen's speech there had been "too much bowing to the protection of the constitution". A motion by some members around the delegate Dubravko Mandic that the party congress disapproved of "the divisive behavior" of Meuthen and his partisans was not put to the vote. 53 percent voted "not to deal" with the application, 47 percent for a referral. However, Matthias Kamann did not see a decrease in Meuthen's influence in the world afterwards, after shortly afterwards in the elections for the Lower Saxony AfD list positions, candidates on which Meuthen's supporters had agreed were consistently chosen.

On October 31, 2021, Meuthen called for the entire AfD party leadership to be replaced. The previous federal spokesman and deputy should make room "for completely new people" and the AfD needs a "programmatic renewal". The AfD top politicians Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, who were addressed, rejected this in public replies.

Criticism of the self-portrayal as a political moderate

In a comment in the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" from October 13, 2021, Meuthen's relationship to right-wing extremist tendencies was critically examined. Meuthen has been trying for some time to portray himself as the last remaining moderate in the AfD, after whose departure only the right-wing extremists remained. In principle, however, it applies that someone with an AfD party book cannot be a moderate in 2021. In truth, Meuthen is not a moderator, but an ultra-economic liberal who, for example, calls for the abolition of the previous state pension system and a switch to a purely private pension scheme. Meuthen envisages a kind of "national FDP". Opposite him would be the East German AfD state associations, which did not want to be a tax-cutting party, but a caring party (though only for “ethnic Germans”), a kind of “national SPD”. Only when Meuthen realized that he was losing ground with his libertarian ideas in the inner-party power struggle did he name the right-wing extremist tendencies in the AfD as a problem and attacked them. When he realized that there was no future for his course of strategic moderation in the AfD, he announced his resignation from the party executive, also to forestall his likely deselection at the federal party conference in December 2021.

donation affair

The Swiss advertising agency Goal AG supported Meuthen in the 2016 state election campaign with self-created and financed advertisements in various regional newspapers. According to the party law, German politicians are not allowed to accept money or donations in kind from non-EU countries. Meuthen stated that he had nothing to do with the advertising campaign and had not commissioned it. In fact, the advertising order for the Brettener Woche ( Kraichgau ) was accompanied by a declaration personally signed by Meuthen, in which he assumed liability for the content of the advertisement. From this, observers concluded that Meuthen at least knowingly approved of the activities of Goal AG.

The association for the preservation of the rule of law and civil liberties has been financially supporting Meuthen's public appearance since the beginning of 2016 by knowingly creating a homepage for him - according to the AfD annual report, however, as a friendship aid for the CEO of GOAL AG for the equivalent of less than 1000 euros and looked after. There was also further financial campaign support in the millions during the state election campaign in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 . In July 2017, Jörg Meuthen, in his capacity as spokesman for the AfD federal board, had to justify a cease and desist declaration from the AfD to this association and the Swiss PR company Goal AG through the AfD parliamentary group. Violations of the AfD against the party law are checked by the Bundestag administration. Meuthen explained in an interview in July 2017 that there had been no contact with the club.

In August 2018, the AfD transferred around 5,350 euros to the federal treasury for safekeeping until the case was resolved. This amount is said to have been used by Goal AG to design Meuthen's website and for his state election campaign. Along with a similar case involving Guido Reil , the AfD was sentenced to a fine of 402,900 euros.

Fonts (selection)

monographs

  • The church tax as a source of income for religious communities. A financial analysis. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-46619-6 .

Articles in journals/anthologies

  • with Klaus Mackscheidt : The home ownership market in the light of the planned consumer protection directives of the European Community. In: Klaus Mackscheidt (ed.): Developments in housing policy. Festgabe for Hans Hämmerlein on his 70th birthday. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3343-X , pp. 179–196.
  • with Rudolf Kriszeleit : credit limit and budget implementation. In: The public administration . Vol. 48 (1995), H. 11, pp. 461-466.
  • with Klaus Mackscheidt: Churches as parafiscal organizations. Some Reflections on the Classification of Churches as Parafiski. In: Klaus Tiepelmann (ed.): Politics of the Parafiski. Intermediaries in the balancing act between being close to the state and the citizen. S + W Steuer- und Wirtschaftsverlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-89161-891-3 , pp. 137-161

web links

Commons : Jörg Meuthen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

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ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meuthen, Jörg Hubert (full name)
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BIRTH DATE June 29, 1961
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