Jörn König

Jörn König (born October 29, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German engineer and politician . He has been a member of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) member of the Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

In the GDR , König was a competitive athlete and was runner-up in swimming in the GDR in 1984 . From 1989 to 1994 he studied engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau with a degree in engineering. He also holds an MBA. From 1994 to 2009 he worked as a sales engineer for telephone systems.

He is married and has one child.

politics

König has been a member of the AfD since March 2013. From March 2015 to January 2018, König was deputy state chairman of the AfD Lower Saxony . On January 19, 2018, the entire, divided state board was removed from office by the federal board and after a ruling by the AfD Federal Arbitration Court, because it "seriously violated the principles or the order of the party". The AfD Federal Arbitration Court mainly referred to the then deputy chairmen Jörn König and Wilhelm von Gottberg, who had called a state party conference without a board decision and misusing the AfD membership distribution list. “It remains to be stated that the invitation of the two deputy chairmen (König and Gottberg) is to be seen as an irresponsible solo effort to the detriment of the party. The constructive and well-intentioned attempt by the state chairman (Armin-Paul Hampel) by convening an express party congress to save the party convention convened in Hanover-Misburg on January 13/14, 2018 also failed. ”He has been a member of the board since April 2018 State board of the AfD Lower Saxony. He is the chairman of the northern regional group of the AfD parliamentary group .

König locates himself in the AfD as "relatively central, with a slight twist to the right, right-wing liberal". After his election to the Bundestag, he became chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the sports committee and sports policy spokesman. He is still a deputy member of the Finance Committee , the Joint Committee and the Digital Agenda Committee .

Web links

• Jörn König on bundestag.de
• Jörn König - the climber from the AfD. Panoramic view of Lower Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rundblick Niedersachsen: Jörn König - the climber from the AfD
2. ^ German Bundestag - Jörn König . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed June 19, 2018]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} dpa, Anne-Beatrice Clasmann: The new ones in parliament: With the AfD in the Bundestag: “Like at the party congress - only civilized” | shz.de . In: shz . ( shz.de [accessed on January 16, 2018]).
4. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved August 9, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Source of the grounds for the judgment of the AfD Federal Arbitration Court of February 7, 2018 (file number 01_18_EA_Hampel-ua_BuVo_BSG)