Kathrin Oertel

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Kathrin Oertel (2015)

Kathrin Oertel (née Spevacek ; born January 23, 1978 in Coswig - Sörnewitz , Dresden district ) is a German political activist . At the beginning of 2015 she was press spokesperson and treasurer of the association Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (Pegida) for six weeks .

Life

Kathrin Oertel attended Leonhard-Frank - middle school and a commercial high school in Coswig . She studied industrial engineering for "a while" and in 2014 trained as a real estate appraiser. She stated that she was a freelance business consultant and real estate expert , which she later qualified to the effect that she had not yet worked in this profession after completing her training. She is the mother of three children, divorced and lives in her parents' house in Coswig. She was married to Frank Oertel, who works at the State Criminal Police Office in Saxony in the special department for extremist Islamism.

Pegida

Kathrin Oertel has been friends with initiator Lutz Bachmann since childhood. After the media reported on Bachmann's previous convictions at the beginning of January 2015, he withdrew and Oertel became the main speaker at the Pegida demonstrations in Dresden . At a rally she referred to the MDR as the " GDR medium". On January 18, 2015, she appeared on the talk show Günther Jauch . On January 19, 2015, Oertel and Bachmann gave a press conference for the first time in the premises of the Saxon State Center for Civic Education on the occasion of the ban on assembly in Dresden, after the Pegida organization had previously refused to talk to most of the media. On January 27, 2015, Oertel resigned from her posts after internal disputes in the management team at Pegida.

After Pegida

Together with the other Pegida board members who had resigned, Oertel founded the Direct Democracy for Europe association , which, according to its own statements, positions itself politically “to the right of the CDU”. The alliance wanted to be close to the people and conservative . The main concerns of the association are direct democracy and greater citizen participation . The association held the first demonstration on February 8, 2015 at the Neumarkt in Dresden with around 500 participants, with up to 5,000 registered. About 100 people gathered for the second demonstration on February 19, 2015. On March 9, 2015, Oertel and Rene Jahn announced their withdrawal from the DDfE. In April 2015, Oertel demonstrated for the committed democrats against the Americanization of Europe (endgame) in Chemnitz. Their protests are directed against the TTIP free trade agreement with the USA , against genetically modified food, for Germany's exit from NATO , for peace with Russia , for Palestine and direct democracy in Germany. Your engagement was not well received. In April 2015, Oertel founded the 193 Peace Doves Initiative . She also stated on her Facebook page that she felt “partially responsible for the whole smear campaign that was started here” , and apologized “to all Muslims (...) who live peacefully here in our country, integrated , and who respect our laws and our culture " and added: " I would like to take the opportunity to apologize to all migrants and especially to the Muslims among them. " Die Zeit described Oertel in 2017 as a" conspiracy theorist ", including writing in their Facebook posts of the occupation of Germany that continues to this day and of the "targeted extermination" of the German civilian population in World War II and calls for "fight". In June 2018 Oertel took part in a right-wing rock concert by the NPD in Themar , Thuringia . At a right-wing extremist march on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden in February 2020, Oertel marched with a poster that read "Allied Liberation = Holocaust of the German People". The police confirmed the initial suspicion of a crime and referred the case to the public prosecutor.

Web links

Commons : Kathrin Oertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of associations of the AG Dresden , VR 7750 (PEGIDA e.V.)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schütze: Pegida-Frau Kathrin Oertel: First appearance in the "Lügenpresse". In: OTZ . January 19, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Pegida and her opponents: The people behind the protest. In: Süddeutsche.de. January 25, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Pegida. Breast, beer and Islamism in: Zeitmagazin N ° 15/2015 - April 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Oertel's former husband works at the State Criminal Police Office in Saxony in the special department for extremist Islamism
  6. ↑ Our guests: Das Erste - Günther Jauch - Current broadcast. (No longer available online.) In: daserste.ndr.de. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Christina Hebel and Ferdinand Otto: Protests in Dresden: Pegidas front woman. In: Spiegel Online . January 6, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Pegida spokeswoman Kathrin Oertel: Helpless, but not harmless. In: stern.de . January 19, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Linda Wurster: Thin eyebrows - what else? The fact and sympathy check for "Lady Pegida". In: Focus Online . January 19, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  10. ^ Dresden: Pegida gives a press conference on lies. In: Spiegel Online . January 19, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Gabriel calls the Pegida crisis "Redemption for Dresden". In: Süddeutsche.de . January 28, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Oerthel founds an association "right next to the CDU". In: Süddeutsche.de . February 2, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  13. Jump up ↑ Pegida apostates found “Alliance on the right of the CDU”. In: Zeit Online . Retrieved February 2, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Only a few Pegida renegades 500 instead of 5000: Hardly anyone comes to the Oertel movement. In: Focus Online . Retrieved February 8, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Only 100 people come to the Pegida apostate rally. In: Berliner Zeitung . Retrieved February 20, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Pegida spin-off: Oertel and Jahn are already leaving ( memento of the original from March 16, 2015 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.mdr.de
  17. ↑ Ex-Pegida front woman: Kathrin Oertel stammered an apology in Stern from April 30, 2015
  18. ↑ Ex-Pegida boss: Kathrin Oertel apologizes to Muslims. In: Spiegel Online . April 30, 2015, accessed May 1, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Pegida co-founder apologizes to Muslims. FAZ from May 1, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2015
  20. ^ FAZ: Demagogie, second act , May 1, 2015, accessed on May 3, 2015
  21. ↑ Valerie Schönian: Pegida founder: The last fight for meaning. www.zeit.de, November 19, 2017
  22. ↑ 2,200 neo-Nazis celebrate almost undisturbed in Themar . In: ZEIT online from June 10, 2018.
  23. ↑ Ex-Pegida front woman in the sights of the investigators . In: Sächsische Zeitung of February 17, 2020. Accessed on February 18, 2020.
  24. ↑ Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office checks Holocaust shield . MDR of February 17, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Oertel, Kathrin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spevacek, Kathrin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig - Sörnewitz , Dresden district