Karsten Hilse

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Karsten Hilse (2019)

Karsten Hilse (born December 12, 1964 in Hoyerswerda ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and police officer. He was elected to the German Bundestag as a direct candidate for the Bautzen I constituency on September 24, 2017 .

Life and work

Hilse grew up in the residential complex II in Hoyerswerda and learned the trade of an electrician. He later joined the People's Police and had been working as a traffic policeman since 1986. Hilse has been a police officer on patrol duty in Hoyerswerda since the fall of the Wall. In 1991, during the riots in Hoyerswerda , he was on duty protecting the dormitories on Albert-Schweitzer-Straße. He also worked part-time as a journalist for local television, as an extra and worked as a model , where he was once elected Mister Brandenburg.

Hilse has been married for the second time since 2017 and has three children. He lives in Lohsa .

Political activity

Hilse became politically active in 2015 because of dissatisfaction with the CDU's policy and has been a member of the AfD since January 2016. In March 2016 he was one of the founders of the AfD local group Hoyerswerda. In an interview that same year, he rejected all political violence and said that his region had other concerns than Islam. He distanced himself from the racist statements made by his party colleagues Alexander Gauland and Jens Maier and extremists. He had changed the party because of the euro rescue policy , the refugee policy, the energy transition and the suspension of compulsory military service. He was co-opted into the AfD district board of Bautzen in July 2016 and elected to its board in November. He has been chairman of the Bautzen district association since 2017.

At the end of 2016, Hilse was elected as a direct candidate for the AfD in the Bautzen I constituency. In the 2017 federal election , Hilse won the direct mandate with 33.2% of the first votes, while the runner-up, CDU applicant Roland Ermer, lost with 30.6% of the votes.

At the beginning of 2018, Hilse's district association hosted the Saxon AfD party congress, for which Hilse called for "overthrowing the old party cartel". When asked about his activities in the Bundestag, he highlighted his speech against climate policy. Hilse also distanced himself from a much criticized, racist tweet from his parliamentary colleague Jens Maier , who he believes that one of his employees wrote the tweet and not Maier himself.

Hilse ran three times in 2020 for the office of Deputy President of the Bundestag without success . On January 16, 2020, only 154 members of the Bundestag voted for Hilse, with 473 votes against and 30 abstentions. In the second election on March 5, Hilse received even fewer yes votes (120), with 509 no votes and 15 abstentions. In the third ballot on May 7, he was able to unite only slightly more votes than in the second ballot with 129 votes, 501 votes against and 26 abstentions.

Political positions

In the 2017 federal election campaign, he named the introduction of referendums at the federal level as his most important goal. He also wants to get more money for education and for diesel vehicle manufacturing companies and their suppliers to secure jobs.

He rejects measures to reduce air pollution , he does not consider nitrogen oxide and fine dust limit values ​​to be scientifically but “ideologically”, which is why, in his opinion, they should be abolished. He also denies man-made climate change (according to Hilse, “a doomsday scenario sweated out of sick brains”) and rejects the energy transition as too expensive and unworkable. In 2018 he said in the Bundestag that the AfD said "here and now the heresy of man-made climate change to fight", for which there is no evidence, and then called for "the withdrawal from all relevant national and international treaties and bodies". In his parliamentary office he employs, among others, Michael Limburg , the vice-president of the organization EIKE , which organizes the climate denial scene in Germany. In a speech in September 2019, Hilse appealed to the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization , Petteri Taalas , who - according to Hilse - had warned of a climate hysteria as "one of the greatest climate alarmists in the past". According to the Tagesschau, Taalas is not a key witness for a move away from the goal of a significant reduction in CO 2 emissions: Although he warned a Finnish newspaper about radicalization, at the climate summit in New York - also in September 2019 - a radical one A reduction in the emission of climate-damaging greenhouse gases is required.

In the 19th German Bundestag , Hilse is chairman of the committee for the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs .

The police and the judiciary are to be strengthened and the German borders are to be continuously controlled. In order to reduce flight and immigration to Germany, Hilse calls for protection zones near war zones and an economic policy that protects the African economy. An immigration law is supposed to regulate migration. After the election, Hilse promised to work for more security, especially in border areas, for the distribution of wealth downwards, for an exit from the euro area and the establishment of a committee of inquiry into the 2015 refugee crisis . He also criticized Frauke Petry's decision not to belong to the AfD parliamentary group and to leave the party.

At the beginning of 2018, Hilse criticized the settlement of wolves in Lusatia , against which stronger action had to be taken, and advocated the thesis, which experts described as nonsensical, that these are not real wolves, but hybrids .

Hilse also appeared several times as a speaker or organizer at demonstrations and protests against Corona restrictions . Among other things, he repeatedly claims there: “The corona deaths drowned and made lies. Anyone who allegedly died because of it would have died soon anyway. ”A few days later he declared in the Bundestag that it was the“ assessment of the AfD parliamentary group that an epidemic emergency does not exist ”. Therefore, the AfD will not adhere to protective measures against the COVID-19 pandemic in the Bundestag , in particular the reduction in the number of members of parliament.

Web links

Commons : Karsten Hilse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Tilman Steffen: Hoyerswerda: Fear as a drive. In: The time . September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Kositz: "I'm not a nationalist" . SZ-Online , September 11, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d direct candidates from Saxony - Karsten Hilse. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, August 30, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Karsten Hilse: Application for the state list of Saxony for the 2017 federal election. (PDF; 168 kB) AfD Saxony , January 9, 2017, p. 2 , archived from the original on September 25, 2017 ; Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Locke: These are the direct mandate winners of the AfD. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 25, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  6. ^ AfD district association Bautzen - board of directors. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ AfD wins on the Neisse. In: saechsische.de. September 25, 2017, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  8. ^ Statistical report. German Bundestag. Final results 2017. (PDF; 1.2 MB) B VII 1-2 - 4j / 17. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , October 2017, p. 18 , accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ bundeswahlleiter.de (with numerous other links)
  10. ↑ AfD is combative at the party conference in Hoyerswerda. In: The world. February 3, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ AfD is combative at the party conference in Hoyerswerda. In: Free Press. February 3, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Karsten Hilse: AfD fails again with election as Bundestag Vice-President. In: ZEIT ONLINE. March 5, 2020, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  13. ↑ AfD in the Bundestag: The fifth candidate Karsten Hilse also fails in the election for the Bundestag Presidium. Retrieved on May 7, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ a b AfD calls climate change “heresy” and wants to end the energy transition. In: Handelsblatt . March 23, 2018, accessed March 24, 2018 .
  15. ^ AfD election rally with Gauland. www.saechsische.de, August 15, 2019
  16. ↑ Climate deniers at the climate conference. Karsten Hilse doesn't believe a word . In: taz , December 14, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ Konstantin Kumpfmüller: AfD politicians in the Bundestag: Wrong and twisted things about the climate. www.tagesschau.de, September 27, 2019
  18. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  19. ↑ "We represent the positions that the CDU took 15 years ago". Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, September 26, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Sebastian Kositz: Do you only have one topic, Mr. Hilse? In: Saxon newspaper. January 18, 2018, accessed March 20, 2018 .
  21. ↑ AfD uses Corona protest in Bautzen . In: Sächsische Zeitung , May 10, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  22. Jump up ↑ AfD scandal: party opposes corona restrictions - "emergency situation does not exist" . In: Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , May 14, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hilse, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoyerswerda