Jakob Maria Mierscheid

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Jakob Maria Mierscheid is a fictional character depicting a German politician . As such, Mierscheid belongs to the Social Democratic Party of Germany , has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1979 and is reflected there accordingly.

The fictional character Mierscheid

Mierscheid, born on March 1st, 1933 in Morbach im Hunsrück , is the archetype of the backbencher . It can be found in numerous person directories, but also in some official publications of the German Bundestag . He has been a member of the Bundestag since December 11, 1979. One of the pictures that Mierscheid portrays differs from Karl Ranseier's only in that it has painted glasses. Later more pictures were published. It is first mentioned in parliament in the shorthand report of the 215th session of the 8th electoral term of the German Bundestag. Mierscheid's pictures can be found on the Bundestag website.

The website of the Bundestag offered a self-description of Mierscheid for download, which said:

“I am neither an invention nor a patent, I am the solution. […] Like constitutional lawyer Friedrich Nagelmann and professional diplomat Edmund F. Dräcker , my colleagues in the judiciary and in the executive , with whom I enjoy working, I belong to the pillars of our state. "

Nagelmann and Dräcker are also fictional people. Mr. Mierscheid's colleague is also Karl Laupach ( Bremen citizenship ).

Mierscheid's vita was first officially documented in Who is Who in Germany in 1986. His birth is dated March 1st, 1933 in Morbach / Hunsrück . Mierscheid is Roman Catholic , has been married to Helene Inding since 1957 and has four children; He is a member of the SPD, the Agriculture and Forests union and the Morbach small animal breeders' association . In 1981 and 1982 he was deputy chairman of the SME committee of the German Bundestag.

In addition to general social issues and problems in vocational training , the main focus of his political work is the rearing and care of the ringed crested pigeon in Central Europe and elsewhere, as well as studies of the north-south divide in Germany . One of his most recent activities is his work On Rowing Boats , in which he critically examines the properties of the oar eights in Berlin's Jakob-Kaiser-Haus . One of Mierscheid's publications is a contribution to the 3rd Höchst Steinlaus Symposium, XII (3), Frankfurt am Main, from 1993.

signature

Mierscheid is also characterized by the fact that he is one of the few political mandate holders who can still use the Sütterlin script and - recognizable by his signature - also use it.

The fictitious MP received a warning from the SPD parliamentary group leader at the time, Franz Müntefering , after he suggested Ulla Schmidt as the bad word of the year .

There is not much clarity about Mierscheid's private life, but in a newspaper text he, meanwhile widowed, is again passed off as a father of four. His extensive political work, however, was documented in detail in 1986 by the Bonn journalist Peter Raabe in a collection that was presented to the public under the title Mierscheid Files in the Bonn Parliamentary Society.

On December 11, 2004, Mierscheid celebrated its 25th anniversary as a member of parliament.

According to information from the Tagesschau , Mierscheid surprisingly left the SPD in July 2005. He is aiming for a second career in the planned left alliance of Linkspartei.PDS and WASG . Shortly after its publication, however, Mierscheid had this report denied by the SPD parliamentary group . He made a personal statement in an interview with Spiegel Online . On April 1, 2010, Mierscheid was also falsely asserted by the Pirate Party .

In the 16th electoral term of the Bundestag Mierscheid was initially not to be found in the ranks of the MPs. Meanwhile, the successor is back on the list of the Member of the Bundestag. Mierscheid explained this in an open letter. Obviously Mierscheid, who was always careful and thoughtful, reserved the right to be listed on the Bundestag side only after the official final result had been established. That is only good for his integrity and credibility. Strangely enough, a real MP named Miersch turned up instead of Mierscheid . The question was then asked whether Mierscheid had taken his oath. Mierscheid was also represented in the 17th Bundestag. He has already turned to his new group colleagues and quoted, among other things, from the poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson .

Since July 2007, the additional income of all politicians in the Bundestag has been publicly available. Mr. Mierscheid is not included in this list. His comment: I'm not a show-off. Nevertheless, he is now active as a blogger as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

On the eve of its 80th birthday on Thursday, February 28, 2013, the Südwestrundfunk reported in the politics magazine about Rhineland-Palatinate! Reporter Ansgar Zender is sent to search for Mierscheid to congratulate him and to present him with a bouquet of flowers.

On March 1, 2013, the President of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert , congratulated Mierscheid on his 80th birthday on behalf of the whole House to great applause and laughter at the beginning of the plenary session. He emphasized that Mierscheid was a valued and occasionally desperately wanted colleague who had apologized for the current meeting for compelling reasons.

Peter Struck says: “Somebody like Mierscheid is needed ... In everyday politics we are pragmatic, it is about troubleshooting. It is necessary for someone to be there to question this. "Friedhelm Wollner said:" Many of us hid behind him a bit. Often when something political was said, one knew better, but then one did not want to disturb the peace or did not want to go against public opinion. "

On December 9, 2015, the SPD parliamentary group published the poem Von Toren , allegedly by Mierscheid, which criticized the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and his asylum policy through a satirical comparison with the German national soccer goalkeeper Manuel Neuer .

On February 22, 2017, Mierscheid's Bundestag website published a current announcement entitled It looks good , which, based on the Mierscheid Act of the SPD, predicts a good performance in the 2017 Bundestag election. The communication argues with a pseudo causality that can only be left uncommented in the case of fictional people.

After the 2017 federal election , it became known that Mierscheid would also be a member of the 19th German Bundestag .

At the beginning of the 40th meeting of the German Bundestag's health committee, committee chairman Erwin Rüddel (CDU) congratulated Mierscheid on his 86th birthday. In the 40th year of his membership in parliament, Mierscheid let him show his special ties to health and care policy. For the 20th legislative period of the German Bundestag, he is striving for full membership in the health committee.

background

Mierscheid was created in December 1979 by the two SPD members of the Bundestag, Peter Würtz and Karl Haehser . During a stay in the restaurant of Bonn's Bundeshaus they invented the fictional politician in order to honor the former SPD member and constitutional lawyer Carlo Schmid , who had died before , and to create a successor for him. In doing so, they wanted to “remind the members of parliament from time to time about real life, which can be funny at times”.

Initially, Mierscheid was portrayed as a 44-year-old tailor (so he was born in 1935). Other SPD politicians subsequently took part in the “care” of the phantom: Dietrich Sperling , then State Secretary in the Federal Building Ministry, adopted Mierscheid's date of birth, which is still valid today; Sperling also took over the correspondence on behalf of the fictional politician. This role was finally taken over by Friedhelm Wollner, the technical head of the SPD parliamentary group, who is still responsible for the external presentation and alleged statements of Mierscheid.

Namesake

The Mierscheid-Steg between Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus and Paul-Löbe-Haus
Marking of the hiking trail with glasses and a beard, the noticeable features on one of the few Mierscheid portraits

Mierscheid law

The Mierscheid law is a satirical election forecasting process that is attributed to Jakob Maria Mierscheid. It was published on July 14, 1983 in the SPD party newspaper Vorwärts . The specific Mierscheid law was generalized to the Mierscheid-Walla law in 2006 by the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office .

Jakob-Mierscheid-Steg

The building connecting bridge , which connects the Bundestag buildings Paul-Löbe-Haus and Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus across the Spree on the Spreebogen ( location ), was jokingly named after Mierscheid on April 1, 2004. MdB Dietrich Sperling (SPD) carried out the inauguration with a sign with this name as an April Fool's joke . The name was found in 2005 on a map of Berlin distributed by Falk Verlag .

Jakob-Maria-Mierscheid-Weg

On Mierscheid's 80th birthday in 2013, his home community inaugurated a hiking trail named after him in a birthday reception . The 15 km circular hike touches the Morbach districts of Heinzerath, Elzerath and Gonzerath. Aspects of Mierscheid's life and political activities are presented humorously on 14 information boards along the way, and the Graue Lei natural monument , one of Mierscheid's favorite places, is visited. The path is one of the “dream loops” of the Saar-Hunsrück-Steige .

Mierscheid (cafes)

Today's Café Pathos in Bonn was previously called “Mierscheid” and was a popular meeting place for SPD members of the Bundestag. A Café Mierscheid that temporarily existed in Berlin has since been closed.

literature

  • Peter Raabe (ed.): The Mierscheid files. Documentary traces of a phantom . Torch bearer, Hanover 1986, ISBN 3-7716-1464-3 .
  • Dietrich Sperling: Jakob Mierscheid, From the life of an MP: A political holography . Ed .: Friedhelm Wollner. Nomos, 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5484-4 .
  • Klaus-J. Holzapfel (Ed.): Kürschner's People's Handbook . German Bundestag 18th electoral term . 130th edition. Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-87576-761-2 , p. 43 .

Web links

Commons : Jakob Maria Mierscheid  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag, stenographic minutes of the 215th session of the 8th electoral term
  2. ^ German Bundestag: Jakob Maria Mierscheid, SPD , accessed on December 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Who is Who in Germany . 5th edition, Berlin 1986
  4. ↑ Active in retirement, The magazine for former civil servants and their survivors . Volume 53, March 2004, p. 32.
  5. ↑ taz berlin: "I am not a phantom" , July 18, 2005
  6. ↑ Mierscheid files, Documentary Traces of a Phantom , Hanover 1986
  7. ↑ tagesschau.de: "I belong to the pillars of the state" (tagesschau.de archive), December 12, 2004
  8. ↑ tagesschau.de: Dirty game with Mierscheid ( Memento from August 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), July 12, 2005
  9. ↑ Claus Christian Malzahn: Transfer rumors: Mierscheid does not rule out anything. In: Spiegel Online . July 2, 2005, accessed October 19, 2012 .
  10. ↑ [1] (PDF file; 600 kB) as well as longtime SPD MP Mierscheid joins pirate party ( Memento from April 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) The Mierscheid office did not comment on this. Mierscheid is not always online, but had already dealt with Internet Protocol over Avian Carriers when these young bungs were not even planned.
  11. ↑ Letter of Mierscheid October 22, 2009 ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 19 kB)
  12. ↑ Jochen Leffers: The world of phantoms, 2nd part: Twitter with Jakob Maria Mierscheid. In: Der Spiegel . April 9, 2009, accessed October 19, 2012 .
  13. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Mierscheid's profile on Facebook )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.facebook.com
  14. ^ "The Phantom of the Bundestag" - SPD MP Jakob Maria Mierscheid turns 80 from the broadcast on Friday, March 1, 2013; SWR television Rhineland-Palatinate
  15. ↑ Lammert congratulates the 80th Bundestag phantom on bundestag.de on March 1, 2013
  16. ↑ Video (time: 0:58 to 2:55) in the media library of the German Bundestag; Opening of the 226th session on March 1, 2013 by President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert
  17. ^ Michelle Müntefering: SPD: Phantom politician Mierscheid - a dubious existence. (No longer available online.) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 1, 2010, archived from the original on March 3, 2010 ; accessed on December 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  18. ↑ Stefan Maas: The fictional MP Jakob Maria Mierscheid celebrates his anniversary. In: Deutschlandfunk. December 9, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Poem "Von Toren". In: Facebook presence of the SPD parliamentary group. December 9, 2015, accessed December 9, 2015 .
  20. ↑ It looks good. In: German Bundestag - Jakob Maria Mierscheid, SPD. February 22, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Jakob Maria Mierscheid. spdfraktion.de, accessed on September 29, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Annette Zoch: The inconspicuous. Jakob Maria Mierscheid has been in the Bundestag for 35 years - although he has never been there . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 10, 2014, p. 5.
  23. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: SPD: Phantom politician Mierscheid - a dubious existence ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  24. ↑ Statistical Monthly Bulletin Baden-Württemberg 03/2006: The Mierscheid-Walla Law (PDF file; 296 kB), accessed on January 5, 2009
  25. ↑ Berlin. With city map Potsdam . 67th edition, Falk, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-88445-016-6 , additional card I, field A10.
  26. ↑ Big station for the big member of the Bundestag. ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the community of Morbach @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.morbach.de
  27. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/?dig=2005/07/18/a0224
  28. ↑ Julia Haak: Farewell to Café Mierscheid , Berliner Zeitung, July 18, 2002.