Katharina König-Preuss

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Katharina König-Preuss (2011)

Katharina König-Preuss (born April 7, 1978 in Erfurt , née König) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) and has been a member of the Thuringian state parliament since 2009 . She was a member of the NSU investigation committees of the Thuringian state parliament and contributed to clarifying the background to the right-wing extremist terrorism of the NSU .

Life

The daughter of the pastor Lothar König attended a high school in Jena until 1997 . After a voluntary social year in Israel , she began studying Semitic Philology, Islamic Studies and Political Science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , which she dropped out in 2002. From 2004 she studied "Social Work" at the Gera University of Cooperative Education and in 2007 graduated as a social worker (BA). Until 2009 she worked for seven years as a social worker and street worker in a youth center of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Jena.

Katharina König-Preuss has been active against right-wing extremism since her youth. According to Deutschlandfunk, she is considered "an excellent expert on the right-wing scene". From 1999 she was in the Action Alliance against the Right (Jena) and in the run-up to the Iraq War from 2002 in the Jena Peace Alliance . In the Thuringian municipal elections in 2004 , she was elected to the city council for what was then the PDS and re-elected in the municipal elections in 2009 and 2014 . For the Thuringian state elections in 2009 , König-Preuss was elected to eleventh place on the state list and entered the state parliament via this list in autumn. She is the spokeswoman for her group for youth policy, internet policy and anti-fascism. She is a member of the Interior Committee and sat together with Martina Renner on the Thuringian committee of inquiry into the National Socialist Underground .

The Constitutional Protection Thuringian State Office tried in October an employee of Catherine King Preuss as 2012 V-Man to win. Interior Minister Jörg Geibert confirmed the recruitment attempt.

On the night of November 14, 2014, strangers smeared their constituency office in Saalfeld using the term "brood of dragons" used by Wolf Biermann for their party at the ceremony in the Bundestag for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Katharina König-Preuss was threatened and attacked several times by right-wing extremists. In response to a murder call by the anonymous neo-Nazi band " Firing Squad " against her and her father in 2016, the band Feine Sahne Fischfilet dedicated a song to her, which singer Jan Gorkow wrote for her, called Angst Eats Seele .

On the occasion of a punk rock concert planned for 2018 in Mühlhausen with the motto Aufmucken gegen Rechts , the chairman of the AfD in the Thuringian state parliament, Björn Höcke , accused the government of affording the “scandalous luxury” of “spending tax money on the appearance of left-wing extremist bands”. In a speech that received media attention, König-Preuss explained the role of punk rock for society. In six and a half minutes she incorporated over 39 punk band names and quoted texts from their songs.

She has been called König-Preuss since her marriage in April 2017.

Positions

GDR unjust state debate

In a speech in the Thuringian state parliament, King Preuss explained why she considers the GDR to be an injustice state . Because of this position, she was sharply attacked by three members and a sympathizer of her party from Bad Blankenburg in an open letter , and they also demanded that her mandate be returned. While some members of the party agreed to the authors of the letter, the majority of the district association and the leader of the LEFT parliamentary group, Bodo Ramelow, supported the MP, who called for a discussion on the left about the GDR past and the role of the SED .

Compulsory residence debate

In a debate in the Thuringian state parliament on the residence obligation, King Preuss accused the Thuringian police of a racist control practice. The fact that asylum seekers in Thuringia are not allowed to leave their district leads to the fact that the police check foreign-looking people with darker skin more frequently in order to detect and punish suspected violations of the residence obligation in this group of people. She added that here the system and not the individual police officer is racist. She was then heavily criticized by CDU politicians such as Wolfgang Fiedler , who left the plenary chamber in protest.

NSU reconnaissance

König-Preuss is involved in the educational work on the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground . She was chairwoman of the left in the NSU committee of the Thuringian state parliament, which ended in 2019, and is considered one of the leading educators on the NSU. She carries this work into society through lectures and publications. She is one of the committee members who questioned the opinion of the Federal Prosecutor's Office that only the core trio was responsible for the offenses. For them, the verdict in the NSU trial was only the first step in the legal process. On the day the verdict was pronounced, König-Preuss filed three criminal charges with the Erfurt public prosecutor's office against employees of security authorities who, in their opinion, "have actively contributed to making the NSU possible to go into hiding or have made funds available to support it". Together with domestic politicians from the government groups SPD and Greens in the Thuringian state parliament, she submitted an application in November 2018, "according to which independent scientists should investigate the old cases of right-wing violence in Thuringia since 1990".

Publications

  • The failure of those politically responsible (pp. 151–161). Don't worry about the right. Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - stronghold of the right in the 1990s and heart of Thuringia's homeland security (pp. 162–167). In: Bodo Ramelow (Ed.): Made in Thuringia? Nazi terror and constitution protection scandal. VSA, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89965-521-6 .
  • The search. In: Johannes Eisenberg , Lea Voigt, Manuel Vogel (eds.): Antifascism as enemy image. The trial of the pastor Lothar König. Laika , Hamburg 2014, pp. 111–117 (online) .
  • with Madeleine Henfling and Dorothea Marx : “Pioneers” of the Enlightenment? The Thuringian committees of inquiry into right-wing terrorism and the "National Socialist Underground". In: Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff , Heike Kleffner , Maximilian Pichl, Martina Renner (Eds.): Unreserved Enlightenment? NSU, ​​NSA, BND - secret services and committees of inquiry between state failure and state welfare. VSA, Hamburg 2019, pp. 209–224.

literature

Web links

Commons : Katharina König-Preuss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina König-Preuss, Education and Professional Career, at: Thuringian State Parliament
  2. ^ A b c Valerie Schönian: Katharina König-Preuss. Fear eats everything up. In: ZEIT im Osten No. 18/2019, April 25, 2019, online April 30, 2019
  3. ^ Henry Bernhard: Thuringia. Klüngel in the fight against the right. In: Deutschlandfunk, August 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Interior Committee. Thuringian State Parliament, accessed on August 16, 2011
  5. ↑ Thuringian Neo-Nazi Committee: "From tomorrow I will be President here, you can go." In: spiegel.de
  6. ↑ "It was dark, besides I was drunk". In: sueddeutsche.de
  7. ↑ Top statements in the committee of inquiry. In: haskala.de
  8. ↑ Trying to recruit the left - do you want to be our undercover agent? In: taz , October 19, 2012
  9. ↑ Party criticizes the protection of the Constitution - left-wing workers courted. In: n-tv.de , October 19, 2012
  10. ↑ The constituency office of the left-wing politician König smeared with slogans. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , November 17, 2014
  11. ^ Neo-Nazis. Band calls for the murder of a left-wing politician. In: Spiegel Online, October 29, 2016
  12. ↑ Andrea Röpke: 2018 yearbook right-wing violence. Chronik des Hasses , Knaur Taschenbuch, 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-78913-1 , p. 296
  13. ^ Government defends state program for democracy , Welt.de, September 27, 2018
  14. ↑ Speech with punk rock quotes: Thuringian state parliament members teach the AfD pogo . In: Neon (magazine) / stern.de, September 28, 2018
  15. ↑ Julius Wußmann: Thuringian state parliament speech with over 30 punk rock band names is an important sign. In: Vice , September 28, 2018
  16. ↑ Member of the Thuringian State Parliament
  17. ↑ Open letter (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  18. ↑ Thuringian Left Comrades argue about GDR ( Memento from October 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ^ Kai Mudra, Matthias Thüsing: Fiedler leaves the state parliament under protest . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , June 18, 2011
  20. ↑ Axel Hemmerling, Ludwig Kendzia: What remains after the NSU trial - a Thuringian balance sheet. In: MDR.de , July 11, 2018.
  21. ↑ Criminal charges against employees of security authorities. In: Welt.de , July 11, 2018 (dpa report); Thuringian reactions to NSU judgments. In: MDR Thuringia , July 11, 2018.
  22. ↑ Heike Kleffner , Matthias Meisner : deaths of right-wing violence. "It is denied, tricked and played down". In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME King Preuss, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt