Kay Gottschalk

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Kay Gottschalk

Kay Gottschalk (born December 12, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( AfD ), banker and member of the German Bundestag . Until December 2019, he was one of three deputy federal spokesmen for the AfD. He is a co-founder of the AfD .

Life

Gottschalk lives in Viersen and has a degree in business administration with a double degree in business administration and law . He then worked in insurance management. Gottschalk used to be a member of the SPD . He was a member of the district assembly in Hamburg-Mitte until the beginning of 2018. He is also a member of Hamburger SV and played football in his youth.

Kay Gottschalk was on list number 4 of the AfD NRW in the 2017 federal election . AfD state chief Marcus Pretzell actually wanted to make Kay Gottschalk the top candidate in North Rhine-Westphalia, but failed with this proposal at the AfD state party conference. According to Zeit , Gottschalk had apparently not informed the Hamburg AfD regional association that he was running for another regional association.

At the eighth federal party conference of the AfD in Hanover on December 2, 2017, Gottschalk was elected second deputy federal chairman with 54 percent of the vote. His defeated opponent was Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein . On the way to the event, counter-demonstrators blocked Gottschalk's path and broke his wrist in a fight. Gottschalk has been the financial policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag since May 15, 2018. On January 25, 2019, Kay Gottschalk was elected spokesman for his home district association Viersen with 42 of 43 votes. On December 1, 2019, Gottschalk lost the election to the new federal board of state chairman Andreas Kalbitz and is therefore no longer a member of the new board. On February 13, 2020, Gottschalk was elected to a committee in accordance with Section 23c (8) of the Customs Investigation Service Act .

public perception

Kay Gottschalk, 2020 in the German Bundestag

After the 2017 federal election , the weekly newspaper Die Zeit characterized the former SPD member Gottschalk as “moderate” within the AfD.

In a speech on January 24, 2018 at the AfD's New Year's reception in Krefeld, Gottschalk said literally: "I call on all citizens of good will: Boycott the Turkish shops in Germany, because 70 percent of them are crazy about Erdoğan ". According to his own statements, it was important to him to make a statement against the attack by Turkey on the Kurdish citizens in Syria and just as Germans would be made responsible for the election of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), the Turkish ones must also be made responsible and hold citizens of Turkish origin in Germany responsible for the politics of the said head of state.

The AfD member of the Bundestag Martin Renner called on Gottschalk to resign from all offices. The state security therefore started investigations against him. However, these were discontinued in the summer of 2018 by the Krefeld public prosecutor's office because the offense of Section 130 StGB was not fulfilled.

Kay Gottschalk is one of 100 signatories of an appeal that criticized the statements of the Thuringian state chairman Björn Höcke at the Kyffhäusertreffen in 2019. He rejects pathos, as demonstrated there, and wishes for a return to the contents and values ​​of the Erfurt resolution .

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bundestag: candidate Kay Gottschalk (AfD). September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article212637729/AfD-Abendunger-gibt-Sitz-in-Bezirksammlung-ab.html
  3. ^ HSV application for the exclusion of AfD members. In: FAZ . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b "Realpolitik" according to AfD standards | Look to the right. August 14, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  5. ^ A b Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Tilman Steffen: AfD parliamentary group - right to extreme in the Bundestag. Zeit Online , October 24, 2017, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ "The extent of the destructiveness, the aggression, was new". Der Spiegel, December 23, 2017, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ https://www.afdbundestag.de/kay-gottschalk-zum-finanzpolitischen-sprecher-der-afd-fraktion-gewaehlt/
  8. ^ Analysis of KV Viersen
  9. ↑ Ann-Katrin Müller: Armies on the front line. Der Spiegel, December 1, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ AfD politician calls for a boycott of Turkish businesses , on rp-online.de, accessed on January 25, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Boycott the Turkish Shops" , on wz.de, accessed on January 25, 2018.
  12. ↑ Michael Reinsch: "HSV marched when the Nazis came to power". In: FAZ . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, accessed on July 14, 2019 : “ His aim was to do something against Turkey's illegal attack on Kurds in Syria, he said in Berlin. Just as the Germans are held responsible for the election of the National Socialists, the Turks in Germany, who more than seventy percent voted for Erdogan's constitution in the referendum, must also be made responsible for his policies. "
  13. ↑ Copy of a Nazi method "AfD vice calls for a boycott of Turkish businesses and receives opposition , stern.de , January 25, 2018
  14. ↑ Call for a boycott of the Turks: State security is now investigating AfD MP Kay Gottschalk , wz.de , January 26, 2018
  15. ↑ "Boycott the shops of the Turks in Germany" - AfD call for a "Boycott of Turks": Public prosecutor's office under criticism , wz.de , July 16, 2018
  16. ↑ 100 AfD officials rehearse an uprising against right wing winger Höcke , Merkur, July 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalk, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance representatives and politicians (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg