Kevin Kühnert

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Kevin Kühnert (2019)

Kevin Kühnert (born July 1, 1989 in West Berlin ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since September 2021 and General Secretary of the SPD since December 2021 . From 2017 to 2021 he was federal chairman of the Jusos and from 2019 to 2021 one of the deputy federal chairmen of the SPD.

Origin, profession and private life

Kühnert's father is a civil servant in a Berlin district administration, his mother works in a job center . He obtained his Abitur in 2008 at the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Berlin-Lankwitz , where he was also head of the school. He then completed a voluntary social year in the children's and youth office in Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

He broke off a degree in journalism and communication studies that he had begun at the Free University of Berlin in 2009 and which he had previously sued , and then worked in a call center for three and a half years. From 2014 to 2016 he worked in the parliamentary office of Dilek Kalayci and from 2016 to 2021 in the office of Melanie Kühnemann-Grunow . A degree in political science that began in 2016 at the Distance University in Hagen has been suspended since his election as federal chairman of the Jusos.

In his youth he played handball at VfL Lichtenrade. He is a fan of the football clubs Tennis Borussia Berlin , Arminia Bielefeld and FC Bayern Munich . From June 2013 to May 2017 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Tennis Borussia Berlin. He got his first name after the English striker Kevin Keegan , whose fan his mother is.

In 2018 he made public statements about his homosexuality for the first time in an interview in the Victory Column magazine . He lives in a shared apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Political party

Kühnert joined the SPD in 2005 and was state chairman of the Jusos Berlin from 2012 to 2015. From 2015 he acted as Deputy Federal Juso Chairman and was responsible for the topics of tax policy , pension policy , structural policy , right-wing extremism and migration policy as well as for social media work. After Johanna Uekermann did not run again for the Juso election, the federal congress in Saarbrücken elected him on November 24, 2017 with 225 of 297 votes as federal chairman of the Jusos. On November 22, 2019, he was confirmed in office for two more years at the federal congress in Schwerin . He received 264 of 298 votes cast. After he had resigned prematurely because of his candidacy for the Bundestag, Jessica Rosenthal was elected as his successor on January 8, 2021 with 207 of 266 votes. Within the Jusos he belongs to the Network Left Center (NwlZ), one of the two left wings of the association.

Kühnert supported Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans in the election for the 2019 SPD chairmanship . At the federal party conference on December 6, 2019, he was elected deputy federal chairman of the SPD with 70.4 percent of the delegate's votes. Since February 2020 he has been responsible for the SPD party executive for real estate, construction and housing. On December 11, 2021, Kühnert was elected General Secretary of the SPD to succeed Lars Klingbeil . 77.87 percent of the delegates at the federal party congress voted for Kühnert.

MP

From 2016 to 2021 Kühnert was a member of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Assembly .

On December 16, 2020 he was nominated as a direct candidate in the constituency of Berlin-Tempelhof - Schöneberg in the 2021 federal election and on April 24, 2021 he was elected to third place on the Berlin state list. In the election he won the direct mandate with 27.1 percent of the first votes and entered the German Bundestag .

Political positions

Kühnert describes himself as a socialist : “What determines our lives should be in the hands of society and be democratically determined by it.” In the case of Internet companies, for example, it should be questioned whether they should be private property. He advocates polarization between the major popular parties so that right-wing populists cannot present themselves as an alleged alternative. He calls for the taxation of wealth , a higher minimum wage and the fight against temporary agency work .

Big coalition

After his election as Juso federal chairman, Kühnert spoke out against the formation of a new grand coalition ("#NoGroKo"). Among other things, he argued against a continuation that in the Merkel III cabinet the glyphosate decision had been made against a clear cabinet decision . With regard to a “cooperation coalition ” discussed in the SPD, i.e. a tolerance of a minority government , he said in an interview in December 2017: “Many people who do not want a grand coalition have a very keen sense of when an attempt is made to give them an alternative one Model for sale, […] “During the exploratory talks on the formation of a grand coalition in January 2018, he reaffirmed his position and instead spoke out in favor of a minority government.

Bold at a #NoGroKo event (2018)

After the SPD party congress on January 21, 2018 in Bonn , the Jusos intensified their #NoGroko campaign and called on supporters to join the SPD under the motto “Step in, say no” in order to prevent the grand coalition from voting . SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil criticized the Juso action: “If you now say, 'Come in: For 10 euros you stay a member for two months, vote against the grand coalition and then go out again', that does not correspond to my party -I understand work. This also reduces the value of membership. We should clearly agree that something like this won't work. ”For his part, Kühnert emphasized that the Jusos wanted to recruit new members who would join the SPD out of conviction,“ because they shared our basic values. If these members then follow our argumentation to reject the grand coalition, there is nothing disreputable about it. ”On February 1, 2018, in an interview with Jan Böhmermann in Neo Magazin Royale , he repeated his criticism of the coalition negotiations and accused the CSU of“ racist bullshit ”, which the SPD should use as an opportunity to break off the talks.

As in 2013 , the SPD had members voted on the question of whether the party should form a coalition with the CDU / CSU. The relevant ballot papers had to be sent back by March 2nd. Kühnert toured the Federal Republic of Germany beforehand in order to promote the rejection of a grand coalition in front of members and the interested public. At panel discussions he had a representative of the pro position as a counterpart. The campaign was accompanied by radio and TV interviews and participation in programs such as Markus Lanz . As a result, Kevin Kühnert gained notoriety beyond Germany.

minimum wage

Kevin Kühnert called for Labor Day on May 1, 2018 in the Rheinische Post for a significant increase in the minimum wage from 8.84 euros to at least twelve euros per hour during the current electoral term: “To make the minimum wage poverty-proof, he would have to already today be twelve euros or more. "

Unemployment benefit II

Kevin Kühnert criticized the situation of recipients of ALG II on May 1, 2018 : "Existing harassment should be abolished, the sanction options in the first place."

Collectivization of property

In the discussion program Maischberger in March 2019, Kühnert questioned the concept of property and saw an inherent constant tendency towards unequal distribution. “With what right does someone have more than twenty apartments?” On May 1st, Kühnert spoke in an interview with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit of his personal utopia and said in this context: “Without collectivization , overcoming capitalism is inconceivable.” He explained that Collectivization using the example of the automobile manufacturer BMW brought into play by the interviewers . In addition, Kühnert demanded that "everyone [may] own a maximum of the living space in which they live themselves". His ideas sparked a broad social debate:

Representatives of the CDU / CSU, FDP and AfD strongly criticized Kühnert's theses. Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) saw Kühnert's positions as the “eccentric retro worldview of a stray fantasist”. There were also negative expressions from the Greens and parts of their own party. SPD General Secretary Klingbeil said that Kühnert's statement was “not a requirement of the SPD”. Kühnert, on the other hand, received encouragement from the left SPD wing and the left. Katja Kipping (left) sees through his statements "The common good (...) again more in the center". Kühnert himself said that the violent criticism of his position shows "how narrow the limits of what is imaginable have become".

In September 2021, Kühnert announced that he would vote in the Berlin referendum “ Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co. ” against the proposal to expropriate large real estate companies. The number of 3000 apartments above which should be expropriated is "very arbitrary"; the concrete practices of the owners are much more important.

Economic democracy

Kühnert speaks out in favor of a democratic organization of the economy. In particular, employees of commercial enterprises who Kühnert trusts to make more sustainable decisions than management that is only employed on a temporary basis should receive shares in the company.

Relationship of the left to Islamism

In October 2020, on the occasion of the murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty , Kühnert demanded in a guest article for Der Spiegel that the political left should no longer leave the fight against Islamism to racists. It is their proclaimed values, which are trampled underfoot, stabbed with knives and blown up with explosives in every terrorist attack without exception. The left must make it clear that in its idea of ​​a just society, belief is a matter between the individual and his God. However, it can never accept belief as a thing that restricts freedom between individuals. Especially if they believed in the alleged mandate of a god or some ideology of whatever kind that they could pronounce and execute justice.

Awards

  • 2018: Next Generation Leader of Time magazine
  • 2018: Signs Award of the Weimer Media Group in the category Commitment in Communication

reception

Starting in 2018, Kühnert was accompanied by journalists Katharina Schiele and Lucas Stratmann for three years for the NDR documentary series Kevin Kühnert and the SPD . It was agreed only after the 2021 federal election in the ARD broadcast. He named the book Die Schulz-Story , for which journalist Markus Feldenkirchen accompanied the SPD candidate for Chancellor Martin Schulz , as a model. The six parts were all broadcast on the night of October 6, 2021 on NDR in order to be able to publish all parts at the same time in the media library.

No. Original title summary First broadcast
1 On the ground Losses in the state elections in Hesse in 2018 October 6, 2021
2 European elections Losses in the 2019 European elections October 6, 2021
3 Summiteer Resignation of Andrea Nahles on June 2, 2019, application phase for SPD party chairmanship, speculation about an application from Kühnert October 6, 2021
4th outsider Kühnert's support for Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken in the election for the SPD chairmanship on December 6, 2019 October 6, 2021
5 Power lessons Election of Kühnert as one of the deputy party leaders on December 6, 2019, COVID-19 pandemic in Germany October 6, 2021
6th Bundestag election Federal election 2021 October 6, 2021

Web links

Commons : Kevin Kühnert  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juso boss Kevin Kühnert: Mr. NoGroko and the air pumps ( memento from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: morgenpost.de from September 16, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  2. ↑ a b c Kevin Kühnert (SPD), chairman of Jusos jungundnaiv.de, June 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ Tilo Jung: Kevin Kühnert (SPD), Juso Chairman - Jung & Naiv: Episode 366. From 9:30 p.m. onwards. In: YouTube.de. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Citizens' office Kühnemann opened in the John-Locke-Kiez! lichtenrade-berlin.de, April 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Did he even study ?! taz.de, September 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ “They were happy when someone young came” tagesspiegel.de, March 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ The Juso boss and his three clubs spiegel.de, July 10, 2020.
  8. ^ TeBe completed the general assembly with elections tebe.de, June 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Faults in purple-white tagesspiegel.de, January 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ Why Juso boss Kevin Kühnert visits old stadiums 11freunde.de, March 4, 2018.
  11. ↑ Christian Arnold: SPD at the crossroads: Juso boss Kevin Kühnert in an interview. In: Victory Column . Special Media SDL , March 5, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  12. ↑ rct with dpa: Kevin Kühnert speaks for the first time about his homosexuality. In: welt.de. March 6, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Carolin Wollschied: Reactions to Coming-Out: "So that Erika Steinbach can get angry". In: FAZ.net. March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Kevin Kühnert: "The Jusos are the publicly perceptible part of the left wing in the SPD" vorwaerts.de, November 22, 2019.
  15. ↑ Jusos Berlin nominate Kevin Kühnert from Berlin for the Juso federal chairmanship. In: jusosberlin.de. October 9, 2017, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  16. ↑ We are a bulwark against “GroKo”. In: tagesspiegel.de. November 24, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Kühnert etches against Kramp-Karrenbauer. In: spiegel.de. November 22, 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Jessica Rosenthal confirmed as the new Juso boss. In: spiegel.de. January 8, 2021, accessed January 8, 2021 .
  19. ↑ Tomorrow's Minister? In: politik-kommunikation.de. March 19, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Kühnert favors duo Walter-Borjans / Esken for the top of the SPD. In: n-tv.de. September 2, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Kühnert was happy when Scholz lost to Walter-Borjans and Esken. In: welt.de. October 4, 2021, accessed October 4, 2021 .
  22. ↑ Kevin Kühnert gets more votes than Hubertus Heil. In: spiegel.de. December 6, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Kevin Kühnert is responsible for real estate on the SPD executive committee. In: immobilien-zeitung.de. February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Kevin Kühnert elected General Secretary of the SPD . In: The mirror . December 11, 2021, ISSN  2195-1349 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 11, 2021]).
  25. ↑ District councilor Kevin Kühnert becomes Juso chairman. In: berliner-woche.de. November 30, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  26. ↑ SPD Vice Kevin Kühnert starts in Tempelhof-Schoeneberg. In: morgenpost.de. December 16, 2020, accessed December 16, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Giffey enforces the middle - the Greens and the Left withdraw. In: tagesspiegel.de. April 25, 2021, accessed April 25, 2021 .
  28. ↑ These are the winners of the Berlin direct mandates for the Bundestag. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 27, 2021, accessed September 27, 2021 .
  29. ↑ a b What does socialism mean to you, Kevin Kühnert? , Die Zeit, May 1, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2019.
  30. ↑ Kevin Kühnert: "The SPD will not join a grand coalition". In: Zeit Online . Zeit Online GmbH, November 30, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2017 (source: Zeit Online, dpa, AFP, Reuters, fin): “'I expect the party chairman to point out the current resolution of the SPD. And that means: The SPD will not join a grand coalition, 'he told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung . "
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  32. ^ Nico Fried: Coalition - Cooperation - Krabbelgruppe. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 13, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  33. ↑ Paul Starzmann: Jusos and SPD-Linke woo Groko opponents: "Step in, say no!" In: tagesspiegel.de. January 22, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Angela Ulrich: SPD General Secretary attacks Juso campaign. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , January 24, 2018, accessed on January 24, 2018 .
  35. ↑ Jan Drebes: Juso boss: Kühnert rejects short-term SPD memberships against Groko. In: rp-online.de. RP Online , January 24, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  36. ^ Gereon Asmuth: Kevin Kühnert at Jan Böhmermann: "Racist bullshit of the CSU". In: taz.de . February 1, 2018, accessed February 19, 2018.
  37. ↑ Yannik Buhl: Juso boss Kevin Kühnert in "Neo Magazin Royale". The beginning of Angela Merkel's end? In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 2, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  38. ↑ a b mik / dpa: Juso boss Kühnert calls for a minimum wage of twelve euros - at least. In: spiegel.de. May 1, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018.
  39. ↑ Kühnert in "Maischberger" "What right does someone have more than twenty apartments?" , Berliner Zeitung, March 7, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2019.
  40. ^ "State automobile company" - Kühnert's ideas for the future of BMW , on welt.de , May 1, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2019.
  41. ↑ Patrick Bahners: Young Socialist Kevin Kühnert: Failed in Hamburg . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 5, 2019]).
  42. ↑ Kevin Kühnert wants to restrict ownership of real estate.
  43. ↑ Strong criticism of socialism theses by Juso boss Kühnert Die Zeit , May 2, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019.
  44. ↑ Left boss Kipping: Understanding of the collectivization idea of ​​large companies SWR , May 2, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019.
  45. ↑ Collectivization: Kühnert sees “narrow limits of the conceivable” in SPD Der Standard , May 3, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019.
  46. ↑ Kühnert on the referendum: “I am not convinced of what is on the vote” , BZ , September 22, 2021, accessed on September 28, 2021.
  47. ↑ Philipp Amthor vs. Kevin Kühnert: Is there no alternative to capitalism? (Video on YouTube ) In: “Diskuthek” on the YouTube channel “stern”. Stern , June 28, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2019 (from minute 6:09).
  48. ↑ Kevin Kühnert: The political left should end their silence. In: The mirror . October 21, 2020, accessed October 21, 2020 .
  49. ↑ Simon Shuster: Life of the Party. In: time.com. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
  50. ↑ Time magazine puts “Milchgesicht” Kühnert on the list of “Next Generation Leader”. In: focus.de. May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  51. ↑ SignsAward 2018. Setting standards in communication. In: signs-award.de, accessed on July 25, 2018.
  52. ↑ DWDL de GmbH: We are experiencing a certain 'House of Cardization' in politics. Retrieved October 12, 2021 .
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personal data
SURNAME Bold, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and federal chairman of the Jusos
BIRTH DATE July 1, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin