Jörg Urban

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Jörg Urban (2019)

Jörg Urban (born August 4, 1964 in Meißen ) is a German politician ( AfD ). Until the summer of 2014 he was managing director of the Green League Saxony . Since February 2018 he has been chairman of the AfD Saxony . He was a member of the Dresden City Council until September 2019 . He has been a member of the Saxon state parliament since 2014 , where he is chairman of the parliamentary group and, since 2019, also as leader of the opposition . Urban represents right-wing extremist positions and supports the wing within the party .

Life

After graduating from high school in Meißen in 1983, Jörg Urban did three years of voluntary military service with the NVA and studied hydraulic engineering at the TU Dresden from 1986 . From 1995 to 1997 he completed a postgraduate course in environmental protection and spatial planning . Urban joined the AfD in 2013. Before that he was briefly a member of the Pirate Party and until 2014 long-time state manager of the Green League of Saxony. Urban became famous in Dresden when he campaigned for the Green League against the construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke as part of the Dresden World Heritage Movement. Until November 2014 he was chairman of the AfD district association in Dresden and was a member of the state board of AfD Saxony until February 2016. He moved into the Saxon state parliament in 2014 via the AfD's state list . In 2015 he ran unsuccessfully for his party for the mayor's office in Bautzen .

On February 4, 2018, he was elected chairman of the Saxon AfD. In 2019 he was nominated by his party as the top candidate for the state election . On February 29, 2020, he was re-elected as party leader.

Jörg Urban has lived in Dresden since 1986, is married, has three children and is non-denominational.

Positions

Urban advocates strengthening direct democracy and improving the funding of cities and municipalities. He rejects the expansion of wind power and the cultivation of energy crops . As a city councilor in Dresden, the hiring of policewomen and the demand for more “police presence” were urgent for him . In the mayoral election campaign in Bautzen in 2015, he primarily dealt with asylum issues . He demanded that the country should allocate more money to the city for supplies, that at least 70% of asylum seekers should be deported and that 200 people should not be housed together in a single accommodation. In this, Urban claims, there is drug trafficking and blackmail. He commented on conflicts between refugees and locals: "Messer Moroccans are neither culture enrichers nor urgently needed specialists". According to the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , Urban is mostly bourgeois-conservative, but always stands out with radical statements.

When he was elected state chairman, he announced that he would be cooperating with Pegida in the election campaign, whose representatives he also welcomed as guests at the party congress. In the same year he took part with other AfD politicians in the demonstration organized jointly with Pegida in Chemnitz and defended the demonstrators against allegations of being right-wing extremist or violent. Urban said to known right-wing extremists or those identified by symbols at the event that he did not want them in the party, but that they did not want to prevent their participation in the demonstration. He is counted to the right wing of his party and the grouping Der Flügel around Björn Höcke , partly also as a leading representative, and takes part in their meetings, but does not want to be assigned to any current and emphasizes that all currents are important for the party. In his greeting message at the Kyffhäuser meeting of the AfD wing in 2019, he described those present as "like-minded people".

Urban is quoted several times in the report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on anti-constitutional tendencies in the AfD. In statements such as “A people can only preserve its own unity and freedom if it remains largely homogeneous” or “We will also bring the current regime to collapse with the help of sensible people!” The constitutional protectors recognized signs of a “ folk-nationalist [s] image of society ”,“ xenophobic and anti-minority positions ”and a rejection of the principle of democracy. In addition, the report notes that Urban showed solidarity with the temporarily imprisoned British hooligan and leader of the " English Defense League " Tommy Robinson .

Martin Dulig (l.), Michael Kretschmer (m.) And Jörg Urban (r.) At the election evening for the state elections in Saxony 2019

For the state elections in 2019, Urban set the goal of becoming the strongest party. He rejects a coalition with the CDU and “its current staff”, but hopes for a change of staff after the election and cooperation with the CDU and SPD. He sees his party's main focus on internal security and migration policy, which calls for more detention pending deportation and only benefits in kind for asylum seekers in order to make Saxony unattractive, but also school policy. The shortage of teachers is to be combated; Urban rejects political education in schools, which he calls “convictions”, as this “has no added value for the vocational training of the students”. In rural areas, the infrastructure should be improved and so emigration should be slowed down. Since the resignation of Frauke Petry and Bernd Lucke, he has seen himself and his party “in the wake of Donald Trump”, against globalization and with the motto “Germany first”. The world economy is only of interest "if it is beneficial for the people in our country". For pension provision, he demands a minimum tax-financed security. Significantly more should also be spent on care, financed from higher contributions and tax revenues. The energy revolution and construction of wind turbines rejects Urban because they destroy jobs. Germany has no influence on the climate anyway and a warmer climate is not harmful, as history shows: “The vegetation was lush and there was more to eat. And it didn't have to be heated ”.

In spring 2019 Andreas Vorrath, formerly a member of the Greens, u. a. Jörg Urban referred to as a neo-Nazi on Twitter. Jörg Urban complained against it. In April, however, a Dresden court ruled that such a designation was admissible because it was covered by freedom of expression.

Urban visited a Pegida demonstration in 2019, at which its chairman Lutz Bachmann political opponents a. a. by the left , the Greens and the trade unions as "pests of the people" and called for them to be murdered and thrown into a ditch. Urban took part in the demonstration and did not express any objection.

In February 2020, Urban commented positively at an event in Olbernhau on a suggestion by speaker Markus Krall that recipients of transfer payments (e.g. social assistance or BAföG ) should be deprived of their right to vote . Urban commented on the proposal with the words: “What is still challenging for me, where we as a party also have to work on it, the right to vote only for the service providers and not for the transfer recipients. It won't be easy, especially here in the East. It's easy to say, but that's a long story, but I'm ready to think further. ”A spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group said when asked later that Urban’s statements were meant ironically.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  22. ^ Matthias Meisner: AfD before the state election: ultra-rightists challenge Saxony's CDU head of government. In: Tagesspiegel.de. February 7, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019 .
  23. ^ Successor to Frauke Petry: Urban new AfD chairman in Saxony. In: Handelsblatt . February 4, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 .
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  25. ↑ AfD boss: No coalition with CDU under current leadership. In: Welt Online datum = 2019-06-27l. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  26. ^ Mdr.de: Party conference in Markneukirchen: AfD party leader Urban is the top candidate for the state election. In: MDR.de . February 9, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019 .
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  28. ↑ Schools in Saxony are getting new curricula. In: mdr.de. June 26, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019 .
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  33. ↑ State security investigates Lutz Bachmann and the Nazi martial arts event in Ostritz remains prohibited. October 10, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Juliane Morgenroth: "Right to vote only for top performers": AfD boss Urban disturbed with anti-democratic statements. In: tag24.de. February 29, 2020. Accessed July 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen