Katrin Ebner-Steiner

Katrin Ebner-Steiner (2018)

Katrin Ebner-Steiner (born August 26, 1978 in Deggendorf ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and the chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament .

Life

Ebner-Steiner is married for the second time, mother of four children (two from the first and two from the second marriage) and worked as an accountant in the law firm of her husband Christian Ebner.

politics

Ebner-Steiner is the first deputy chairwoman of the Bavarian AfD . In the 2017 federal election , she had the best result of an AfD direct candidate in West Germany with 19.2 percent. In the Bavarian state elections in 2018 , she ran as a constituency member in the Deggendorf district and as the top candidate of the AfD in Lower Bavaria . On October 19, she was elected together with Markus Plenk as one of two equal parliamentary group leaders in their parliamentary group. Ebner-Steiner is also a member of the State Budget and Financial Affairs Committee and a member of the Bavarian State Parliament's children’s commission.

Positions / controversies

Ebner-Steiner is assigned to the völkisch-nationalist wing in the AfD. It is also controversial in one's own party.

Ebner-Steiner sparked criticism with her speech in the state parliament on the government declaration by Prime Minister Söder . Ebner-Steiner's speech and her accusation that Bavaria will be transformed into a “multi- ethnic settlement zone ” is what the FDP parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen described as a “crude mélange of right-wing conspiracy theories ” that the Bavarian state parliament has never experienced.

In May 2019, the city administration of Munich pronounced a ban on Ebner-Steiner and other AfD speakers as part of a planned YES event . However, this was repealed by the Munich Administrative Court. Ebner-Steiner had already been confronted with a house ban in a Munich restaurant in 2018.

Ebner-Steiner has been criticized within the party since the beginning of 2019 because of its ethnic-national course. Several AfD members of the state parliament had exchanged an e-mail in 2019 about a possible new election of the parliamentary group executive. These e-mails were intercepted and made available to Ebner-Steiner; she published it in an internal AfD Facebook group. Several MPs then filed two complaints: one against unknown persons because of the fear of spying on their private e-mails and another against Ebner-Steiner because she is said to have made the e-mails public.

At the end of February 2020, Ebner-Steiner advised the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder “and his lackeys” to “voluntarily report”, as Söder had said that Franz Josef Strauss had “fought the AfD to the blood, and we do that too”. Ebner-Steiner announced that "whoever of our party friends should be harmed" would know "which hands have blood on them". She also criticized the federal government's climate policy and, referring to the CO ₂ debate, speculated that beer would soon also be threatened in Bavaria and that “foam on beer” would be banned, as carbonic acid pearls were also rising in drinks. “What is good for beer can only be good for Bavaria,” she said.

A photo published on the Internet showing Ebner-Steiner standing in her hometown of Deggendorf with a smile at the end of May 2020 next to a man who wore a clearly visible “ Jewish star ” with the inscription “I am an anti-vaccine ” on his T- Wearing shirt caused strong criticism. She was accused of relativizing the Holocaust , because the man compared the situation of vaccine opponents with the persecution and murder of Jews under National Socialism and thus made the victims of the Holocaust contemptuous. Ebner-Steiner herself explained that she “deleted the photo very quickly” in order to “avoid irritation”. It was said to have arisen as part of a "protest by responsible citizens against the corona measures of the state government"; what “as a form of protest is worn as clothing by mature citizens”, she has “not to evaluate in detail”.

Web links

• Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.
• Website from Katrin Ebner-Steiner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katrin Ebner-Steiner - Alternative for Germany. Retrieved October 17, 2018 . 
2. ↑ FOCUS Online: Protested in burqa, looking for proximity to Höcke: Ebner-Steiner is AfD face for Bayern election . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
3. ↑ Ebner-Steiner and Plenk lead AfD parliamentary group as dual leadership - WELT. Retrieved October 19, 2018 . 
4. ^ Zeit.de: Who is the agent provocateur?
5. ↑ Lisa Schnell: A visit to the right-wing national friends. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 5, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Lisa Schnell: Ebner-Steiner withdraws from the AfD state board. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 14, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Lisa Schnell: The AfD and its loose handling of money. In: sueddeutsche.de . June 2, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Refugees, the climate, families: these are Söder's big goals. www.nordbayern.de, December 11, 2018
9. ^ AfD: City of Munich issues Höcke and Ebner-Steiner a house ban. In: br.de. May 3, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Höcke in Munich: House ban lifted - decision against AfD "unlawful". In: merkur.de. May 4, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 . 
11. ↑ AfD politician Ebner-Steiner flies from bar in Munich - that's why it was NOT a discrimination. In: tz.de. November 16, 2018, accessed July 1, 2019 . 
12. ^ Passauer Neue Presse: dispute in AfD faction escalates: MPs report Ebner-Steiner. Retrieved July 9, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Confirmed: Bavarian AfD MPs file criminal charges against their own boss. July 9, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Markus Rohrmoser: The AfD takes a beer bath on Ash Wednesday in self-pity. www.derstandard.de, February 26, 2020
15. ↑ AfD attacks governments on political Ash Wednesday. www.welt.de, February 26, 2020
16. ↑ Frederik Schindler: AfD parliamentary group leader poses next to anti-vaccination opponents with “Jewish star” T-shirt www.welt.de, June 5, 2020