Karlheinz Klement

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Karlheinz Klement (born May 8, 1963 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian politician ( BZÖ , formerly FPÖ ) and was a member of the National Council from 2006 to 2008 . He is currently Secretary General at the BZÖ Carinthia.

Life and work

Karlheinz Klement studied Montanistik from 1981 to 1990 at the Montanuniversität Leoben and initially worked as a Montanist and technician. From 2002 to 2003 he then completed a post-graduate course in Generic Management and became a business economist in an insurance company.

Klement is married and has three children. He is also choirmaster for a Carinthian male choir and a private pilot .

politics

Klement was chairman of the Ring of Freedom Young People in the early 1990s . When Andreas Mölzer and Gernot Rumpold ridiculed the long-time Carinthian MP and Kriemhild Trattnig, known as a liberal veteran, on stage in a cabaret at the federal party conference of the FPÖ in 1993 , Klement took a massive opposition , which led to Jörg Haider's expulsion from the party .

Before the National Council election in 2002, Klement returned to politics and ran as a Carinthian candidate with a successful preferential vote campaign. He moved into the National Council. In 2004 Klement fell out again with Jörg Haider and was expelled from the party again.

After the split in the FPÖ and the associated founding of the BZÖ by Jörg Haider, Klement appeared alongside Mölzer, Trattnig, Alois Huber and Otto Scrinzis as the spokesman for the “Platform Carinthian Freedom for the Unity of the FPÖ” . It was also the group that announced the takeover of the remaining FPÖ a little later.

Klement then became FPÖ state party chairman in Carinthia and general secretary of the federal FPÖ. In the 2006 National Council elections , he ran as the top candidate in Carinthia.

In the National Council election campaign, Klement caused a stir with a proposal that every Carinthian mother who gives up her newborn child for adoption should receive a bonus of 15,000 euros. He wanted to discourage young mothers from having their children aborted.

After Klement had just been elected as Carinthia's top candidate for the National Council election in Austria in 2008 , the FPÖ federal party executive revised the decision and placed Klement back in fourth place. After Klement criticized this decision, he was expelled from the FPÖ for the third time on July 31, 2008. In addition, his statements about “gender madness” and his designation of homosexuality as the “culture of death” were highly controversial.

For the National Council elections in Austria in 2008 , Klement entered with List 6 DI Karlheinz Klement. The list was unsuccessful.

In October 2017, he announced that Martin Rutter , who had been excluded from the Stronach Carinthia team in September 2017 , wanted to found his own party and stand in the next state election. He is general secretary at BZÖ Carinthia. With the former Jörg Haider party, he wanted to compete in the National Council election in Austria in 2019 at federal level, but due to a lack of declarations of support, it was only available in Carinthia.

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Haider's death

Just a few days after Jörg Haider's death, the first conspiracy theories were voiced. Klement presented in this regard on its website the question of whether the Israeli secret service Mossad a assassination might have committed. The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) then brought charges to the Klagenfurt public prosecutor's office on suspicion of incitement to Klement.

However, Klement was charged with an anti-Semitic article on his website. According to the indictment, he had published an anti-Semitic article that was not written by himself, but that he consciously selected. The original quote according to the prosecutor:

  • The Jewish people have learned nothing from the Holocaust and need a second lesson. There would be little sorrow if all Jews were to leave the world at the same time.

On September 23, 2009, Klement was sentenced to a suspended sentence of five months for hate speech . On April 9, 2010, the Graz Higher Regional Court confirmed the guilty verdict and changed the sentence to a conditional prison sentence of four months and a fine of 1,800 euros.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fabian Schmid: The BZÖ wants to resurrect for the National Council election. June 12, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  2. Kleine Zeitung , August 15, 2006, p. 14
  3. FPÖ presented top candidate for NR election. ORF Carinthia, accessed on August 6, 2008 .
  4. Speech on gender madness from June 6, 2008. youtube.de, accessed on July 16, 2009 .
  5. Klement excluded from FPÖ. ORF.at, accessed on July 31, 2008 .
  6. List 6 DI Karlheinz Klement: The nomination ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khklement.at
  7. ^ Kurier: Political rebels found AfD counterpart . Article dated October 11, 2017, accessed October 11, 2017.
  8. ^ Fabian Schmid: The BZÖ wants to resurrect for the National Council election. June 12, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  9. To whom does Haider's death benefit? ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khklement.at
  10. Incitement from Klement?
  11. a b Klement convicted of hate speech , online offer of the ORF from 23 September 2009
  12. ORF : Incitement: OLG confirms Klement judgment , April 9, 2010