Karin Strenz

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Karin Strenz (2009)

Karin Strenz (* 14. October 1967 in Lübz as Karin Hellwig ) is a German politician of the CDU and since 2009 a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

After attending the polytechnic high school " Willi Bredel " in Lübz from 1984 to 1987, Karin Strenz initially studied to become a lower level teacher for art education at the Rostock Institute for Teacher Training . She then studied until 1989 at the Pedagogical University of Magdeburg , the Department of special education from and graduated with a diploma. She then worked as a teacher at the special school in Wanzleben until 1990 . From 1990 to 1992 she completed an additional course of study for teaching for special schools at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After that, she did not return to school, but worked until 2002 as an employee in an import and wholesale company based in Frankfurt am Main . Since 2009 she has been an independent management consultant in the field of trade, logistics and cargo and brokers real estate.

Karin Strenz lives in the Goldberg district of Sehlsdorf and has been married since 1995.

Political career

Karin Strenz (2016)

From 1999 Strenz represented her party in the Parchimer district council . In 2001 she was elected chairman of the CDU district association Parchim and has since headed the CDU district parliamentary group. From 1999 to 2005 she was a member of the CDU state executive committee for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . From 2001 to 2005 she was the deputy chairwoman of the regional association. In 2002 Strenz was elected to the state parliament for the first time . As a direct candidate, she lost in her constituency Parchim II with 30.0% of the first votes against the SPD candidate Harald Ringstorff with 48.5% of the first votes, but moved into the state parliament with her fourth place on the list. In the 2006 state elections, Strenz lost the direct election again against the SPD candidate. Due to the lower 10th place on the list this time, Strenz initially missed entry into the state parliament. On November 5, 2007, she replaced the resigned MP Kerstin Fiedler-Wilhelm . Strenz was labor market policy spokeswoman for the CDU parliamentary group.

In the 2009 Bundestag election , Strenz moved into the German Bundestag via the direct mandate in constituency 12 and resigned from her Landtag mandate in November 2009. Her successor was André Specht . In the Bundestag she sits as a full member of the Defense Committee and the Sports Committee . She is the chair of the German-South Caucasian parliamentary group.

Strenz received 43.0% of the first votes in the 2013 federal election. In the 2017 Bundestag election, 30.0% of the first votes in constituency 13 were sufficient for the direct mandate.

Allegations of corruption and fraudulent voting

Strenz stated that he had received at least 15,000 euros from the company Line M-Trade (managed by the former CSU politician and lawyer Eduard Lintner ) in 2014 and 2015 , without giving a reason for these payments. The company is considered a financier of Azerbaijani lobbying.

In 2015, she was the only German MEP to vote in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe against a demand for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. After the publication of these accusations by Süddeutsche Zeitung and Report Mainz , the SPD member of the Bundestag Frank Schwabe accused them of corruption. He also accused her of having falsely stated that she had no conflicts of interest when she certified that the Azerbaijani government had a democratic parliamentary election as part of an election observation mission. Strenz responded to Schwabe's allegations through her lawyer with a warning . Schwabe stuck to his accusations and announced that he would also want to defend them in court. Strenz's claim that he did not know that Line M-Trade worked for the Azerbaijani government was contradicted by its former managing director Eduard Lintner.

According to the rules of the Bundestag, Strenz should have reported M-Trade's income as ancillary income within three months. It was only at the end of February 2016, more than a year after receipt, that she reported the amount to the Bundestag administration. In response to a request from the NDR, Strenz said that she had wanted to wait for her tax return and the tax assessment to be given to the Bundestag. The association LobbyControl accused Strenz of cheating. The belated publication of her part-time earnings obscured the fact that she had business interests in Azerbaijan. If she had published the income in accordance with the rules, she would not have been allowed to serve as an election observer for the Council of Europe in Azerbaijan in June 2015.

She added her position as deputy chairman of the interest organization 'German-Kazakh Society' belatedly in her Bundestag profile.

The CDU / CSU parliamentary group no longer appointed Strenz to the new parliamentary delegation at the Council of Europe in 2017.

According to a report by a commission of inquiry published on April 22, 2018, numerous active and former members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe are suspected of corruption , including Strenz.

In 2019, the Bundestag complained to Strenz that she had only reported subsidies that had to be published and received from a German company in Azerbaijan after the notification period had expired. The Presidium of the Bundestag imposed a fine of around 20,000 euros. In doing so, Parliament made it clear that it was a deliberate and serious violation of the rules applicable to members of parliament.

On January 30, 2020, the German Bundestag lifted Karin Strenz's immunity at the request of the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office . As a result, her parliamentary office and her private home were searched. The background is investigations into suspected bribery, bribery of elected officials and money laundering against Strenz as well as the former CSU member of the Bundestag Eduard Lintner , in the course of which a total of 16 objects were searched.

Web links

Commons : Karin Strenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Defense Committee ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag , online, accessed on September 18, 2014
  2. ^ Members of the Sports Committee - 18th Bundestag ( Memento from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag online, accessed on September 20, 2014
  3. ↑ Baku-Connection: Suspicion of corruption by CDU politician. In: LobbyControl . September 20, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ The Azerbaijan Connection of a CDU MP. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 19, 2017, accessed on September 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Girlfriend of the dictator - A CDU member of the Bundestag benefited from money from Azerbaijan. ARD (SWR), Report Mainz , September 19, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Azerbaijan Connection - New allegations in the Strenz case. ARD (SWR), Report Mainz, October 17, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  7. ^ Hannes Munzinger, Bastian Obermayer, Pia Ratzesberger: The Azerbaijan Connection of a CDU MP . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 19, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  8. ^ A CDU member of the Bundestag benefited from money from Azerbaijan. Report Mainz, September 19, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
  9. ^ A b Frank Schwabe: Legal dispute with Karin Strenz. October 20, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  10. ^ A b Stefan Ludmann: Allegations against Strenz soon to be a case for the judiciary , North German Broadcasting. October 23, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017. 
  11. ^ Hannes Munzinger, Bastian Obermayer, Pia Ratzesberger: Money from Azerbaijan - Strenz 'alleged ignorance raises doubts , Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 8, 2017. 
  12. ↑ Voter deception: LobbyControl calls for Karin Strenz to resign. In: LobbyControl . November 9, 2017, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  13. ^ NDR: Strenz gets entangled in contradictions. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  14. ↑ parliamentwatch.de | How we proved the lie of a member of the Bundestag. parliamentwatch.de , February 1, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
  15. ^ Karl-Otto Sattler: A step towards normality in Das Parlament , No. 4–5, p. 8.
  16. ↑ manager magazine
  17. ↑ see also FAZ.net April 23, 2018 / Reinhard Veser : Kaviardiplomatie mit Azerbaijan
  18. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: lobbying affair: Amthor had another questionable part-time job - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Bundestag reprimands CDU MP Strenz for the Azerbaijan affair , Spiegel Online, January 18, 2019
  20. ^ Information from the Presidium of the German Bundestag from January 18, 2019, BT-Drs. 19/7160 .
  21. ↑ welt.de March 14, 2019
  22. ^ Matthias Gebauer, Christoph Schult: Bundestag imposes a heavy fine on CDU MP Strenz. In: spiegel.de. March 14, 2019, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Karin Strenz and Alexander Gauland's immunity lifted. In: bundestag.de. January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Jonas Mueller-Töwe: Investigators accuse Union politicians of bribery and corruption. T-Online, January 30, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Transparency Germany welcomes investigations against Karin Strenz and Eduard Lintner for corruption. Transparency Germany, January 30, 2020, accessed on February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Strenz, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellwig, Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebz