Jürgen Pohl (politician)

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Jürgen Pohl (born January 7, 1964 in Magdeburg ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Jürgen Pohl attended the Polytechnische Oberschule (POS) and from 1980 to 1983 trained as an electrician with a high school diploma. He then served 18 months with the border troops of the GDR and studied law at the University of Halle from 1985 to 1989 . He has been an independent lawyer since 1992. He is married, has a daughter and lives in Mühlhausen / Thuringia .

politics

Pohl has been a member of Alternative für Deutschland in the Northern Thuringia district association since 2013. Since October 2016, he has been a member of the state board of AfD Thuringia . On Labor Day 2017 he announced the establishment of the “Alternative Employees' Association of Central Germany” (ALARM) as a union . He is also a member of the board of the AfD-affiliated Academic Erasmus Foundation .

In the 2017 Bundestag election , he was elected to the 19th German Bundestag via the Thuringia state list . As a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency Eichsfeld - Nordhausen - Kyffhäuserkreis he came in second place with 21.4% of the votes.

According to research by Zeit Online , published in March 2018, Pohl is one of 18 AfD members of the Bundestag who employ people with right-wing to right-wing extremist backgrounds for their mandate tasks and parliamentary work. Pohl's colleague at the time, Heiko L., used to work for the right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and wrote for Sleipnir, a small magazine of the lateral front that wanted to force a right-wing revolution. He is the founder and spokesman of the “Alternative Employees' Association of Central Germany” (ALARM). Together with Stephan Brandner he campaigns as "Die Volksanwälte".

After Andreas Kalbitz's AfD membership was withdrawn in May 2020, he positioned himself against Jörg Meuthen's federal executive board ; on Facebook he published under the heading "We are splitters!" a photo montage with the heads of the eight members of the board who voted to cancel membership.

Positions

Pohl at an election campaign event for the Thuringian state election 2019 in Nordhausen

According to his own statement, Pohl advocates the alignment of pensions between East and West. He is for the restriction of temporary work and the introduction of a "prosperity wage".

Spiegel Online described Pohl in September 2017 as a close “companion of right wing winger Björn Höcke ”, he heads his constituency office. In a speech, Pohl said that the opponent had "taken up the cause of the abolition of the German state people and the destruction of the pride of the German nation". He called it a "biblical challenge" to deport all "illegal aliens". At a party conference of the Thuringian AfD, he spoke of “cowardly figures” who were still “up there” and who would “one day judge the people”.

According to the Frankfurter Rundschau report, Pohl is an avowed supporter of the Islamophobic and right-wing populist Pegida .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rallies and demonstrations on Labor Day ( memento of the original from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MDR , May 1, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  2. ↑ Constituency 189 Eichsfeld - Nordhausen - Kyffhäuserkreis. Regional Returning Officer Thuringia, accessed on September 26, 2017 .
  3. ^ Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Johannes Radke, Tilman Steffen: AfD MPs deal with right-wing extremists and constitutional enemies . In: Zeit online, March 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ in the book 2005 - 2018: Germany's 13 Years Lost: Part 2: Political System - Quo vadis? , by Michael Ghanem 2018
  5. ↑ After Kalbitz expulsion: Höcke announces resistance. www.tagesschau.de, May 16, 2020
  6. ↑ Höcke announces resistance www.tagesschau.de, May 16, 2020
  7. ^ Angelo Glashagel: Bundestag election 2017. Asked about the candidates. NNZ-Online.de, September 24, 2017, accessed on September 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Christian Teevs and Severin Weiland : New Bundestag So right AFD Group. Spiegel Online , September 27, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Bundestag: The new ones of the AfD . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed October 4, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg