Jürgen Braun (politician)

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Jürgen Braun (born August 25, 1961 in Bergneustadt ) is a German communications consultant and politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since September 2017 .

Life

After studying law in Berlin, Braun passed the state examination in law. Afterwards he was head of various public and private television editorial offices in Berlin, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart. For several years he has been working as a freelance communications consultant for medium-sized and large companies and as a lecturer at universities in the field of journalism. He also works as an honorary judge at the Stuttgart Administrative Court .

Political career

Braun was a member of the CDU for several years in his youth . In 2013 he joined the AfD. In November 2016 he was elected to sixth place on the Baden-Württemberg state list of his party. In April 2017, he also took over the office of chairman in the AfD district association Rems-Murr. In the 2017 federal election , he entered the 19th German Bundestag and received 12.4 percent of the first votes in his constituency of Waiblingen .

On September 27, 2017, Braun was elected second parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group with 73 votes . On September 24, 2019, he was voted out of office as Parliamentary Managing Director. For his parliamentary group he is a member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and a deputy member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Health of the German Bundestag.

Political positions

Braun is an avowed opponent of possible diesel driving bans: "The internal combustion engine will remain our future for the foreseeable future." In September 2017, he filed a complaint against the youth broadcaster Dasding because it had played a music track indexed by the federal testing agency for media harmful to minors for glorifying violence. After Beatrix von Storch addressed an Arabic-language tweet from the Cologne police on New Year's Eve 2017/18 with reference to the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 , Braun sharply criticized the authorities for filing a criminal complaint against von Storch: “I wonder if it actually have nothing better to do. (...) For me, the police are showing their subservience to the rule of law ”.

In an interview with the Waiblinger Kreiszeitung , Braun said in relation to the Thuringian AfD state chairman Björn Höcke , who was also controversial within the party , that he was tired of constantly having to pay for what “this gentleman from Thuringia” had just separated again. The weekly newspaper Die Zeit classified Braun after his election in the Bundestag as “ national conservative ”.

In the vote on a proposal by the CDU / CSU, SPD, Greens and FDP to end the financial and logistical support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, whose argumentation and methods are described as anti-Semitic in this proposal , said Braun, who like his parliamentary group had rejected the application and instead called for a BDS ban: "Today anti-Semitism comes from the left, and it comes from Islam". Thereupon the foreign policy spokesman for the Greens, Omid Nouripour , spoke of a “transparent attempt” by the AfD to disguise its position on the “darkest chapters” of German history.

When the Bundestag condemned the Rohingya genocide in a motion in 2018 , Braun complained about “left-green hypermorality” and a one-sided view of Myanmar: The military there had only reacted to mass murders by Islamic terrorists. It is unclear who is the perpetrator and victim in Myanmar: For years, the Muslim Rohingya terrorized the Buddhist population. The AfD was the only parliamentary group to vote against the request. In fact, the International Court of Justice has now also condemned Myanmar for genocide.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Braun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal . In: Jürgen Braun . August 6, 2017 ( juergen-braun.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: Third-largest regional group in the Bundestag: These AfD politicians represent the state in Berlin . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  3. ^ A b Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Bundestag candidate Jürgen Braun (AfD): About Jürgen Braun . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  4. ^ AfD state party conference in Kehl: Weidel becomes the top candidate of AfD BW | Baden-Württemberg | SWR news . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Jürgen Braun succeeds Ralf Özkara. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Federal Parliament election 2017 - State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ DIE WELT: AfD speakers fail . In: THE WORLD . September 27, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed September 27, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Der Spiegel: Weidel helps the Gauland bonus. In: spiegel.de September 19, 2019
  9. ^ German Bundestag - Jürgen Braun . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on February 5, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Bundestag candidate Jürgen Braun (AfD): No friend of "false harmony" . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Badische Zeitung: SWR youth radio played indexed song - Computer & Medien - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: After an anti-Islam tweet: Police received numerous criminal charges against von Storch . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed on February 5, 2018]).
  13. ^ Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen, Germany: Bundestag election 2017: Candidate portrait Jürgen Braun, AfD - Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen . ( zvw.de [accessed on September 25, 2017]).
  14. ^ Kai Biermann, Astrid Geisler, Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski: AfD parliamentary group: right to extreme in the Bundestag . In: The time . September 26, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed September 30, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Martin Niewendick: Why the Left does not see anti-Semitism in Israel boycotters. www.welt.de, May 17, 2019
  16. ^ Daniel Brössler: Bundestag condemns anti-Israel BDS movement. www.sueddeutsche.de, May 17, 2019
  17. ↑ Bundestag campaigns for Rohingya Deutsche Welle, June 7, 2018
  18. ↑ Bundestag: Government should do more for Rohingyas April 22, 2018
  19. ↑ Myanmar must protect Rohingya from genocide. In: Spiegel Online . January 23, 2020 .;
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergneustadt