Klaus Baier

This article describes the politician Klaus Baier (* 1960). On the politician (* 1966) see Klaus Beier ; on German studies see Klaus Bayer ; for other people see Klaus Beyer .

Jürgen Hans Klaus Baier (born August 31, 1960 in Annaberg-Buchholz ) is a German politician of the DSU and a former member of the Freedom Party of Germany and the NPD .

Life

Baier graduated from the polytechnic high school with the 10th grade and completed training as a vehicle mechanic and paramedic . He later worked as a manager and partner in a private nursing service until it was sold.

In February 1998 he joined the NPD. In May 1999 he became district chairman of the NPD district association Annaberg-Buchholz, which he co-founded, and in October 1999 he became a member of the NPD state board of Saxony. In the federal election in 2002 , Baier ran for constituency 166 Annaberg - Aue-Schwarzenberg for the 15th German Bundestag and received 3.3% of the first votes. In September 2004 he became city councilor in Annaberg-Buchholz and chairman of the two-person NPD city council group. He was a member of the city administration committee. In the state elections on September 19, 2004 , Baier was elected to the Saxon state parliament via the NPD state list.

On January 21, 2005, Baier and the NPD parliamentary group left the meeting room of the Saxon state parliament after the President of the State Parliament Erich Iltgen (CDU) had also called for the silent memory of the victims of the Holocaust . A request previously made by the NPD provided for a reminder of the bombing raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945. This incident triggered a political scandal with nationwide resonance.

On December 21, 2005, the spokesman for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony, Alrik Bauer, told MDR 1 Radio Sachsen that Klaus Baier had left the NPD. Baier justified this step with his disappointment with the development of the NPD, which no longer represents the interests of its voters. But he wanted to continue to work in the state parliament as a non-attached member of parliament. His former colleague, Mr Mirko Schmidt had left the NPD on 17 December 2005 and the Leipzig deputy Jürgen Schön followed on December 23, 2005. In an interview described Baier the ARD - Tagesthemen on 22 December 2005, there was next to insults and given anonymous threats against him. Klaus Baier and Mirko Schmidt had asked the police for protection. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which had initially helped Schmidt go into hiding, considered this personal protection to be necessary in the Baiers case as well. The Saxon NPD parliamentary group executive declared on December 21, 2005 that Baier's exit was “no loss for the NPD parliamentary group, since he had no more than Mr Schmidt involved in political work” . On December 22, 2005, Baier defended himself against the accusation of his former parliamentary group that he “had, according to media reports, maintained a 'quite intensive cooperation' with the protection of the constitution” with the affidavit that he “never worked for the protection of the constitution or any other secret service worked " .

In January 2006 Klaus Baier - like Jürgen Schön - joined the moderate national Freedom Party of Germany , but in October 2006 he switched to the German Social Union (DSU). The DSU was the first time since the turn time again represented in a national parliament.

Before the state elections in Saxony in 2009 , Baier said "that Saxony urgently needs a serious democratic alternative to the right of the Union". In September 2009 he left the state parliament.

Klaus Baier is married and has three children.

Web links

• Biography of Klaus Baier (information library of the Saxon State Parliament); Status 2005 ( Memento from January 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Information on former NPD MPs at www.endstation-rechts.de; accessed in May 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography of Klaus Baier. Saxon State Parliament (via www.archive.org), August 2005, archived from the original on January 3, 2006 ; Retrieved May 27, 2011 . 
2. ^ Scandal in the Saxon state parliament: "That is not acceptable". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 22, 2005, accessed May 27, 2011 . 
3. ↑ quoted from: Saxony-NPD with signs of decay ( memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , heute.de, December 23, 2005 
4. ^ After criticism of the party and exit from the parliamentary group: Saxon NPD dropouts are threatened (tagesschau.de archive) , tagesschau.de, December 23, 2005 9:05 am
5. ↑ Travelers shouldn't be stopped!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Declaration by the NPD parliamentary group, Saxon State Parliament, dated December 21, 2005
6. ↑ Travelers shouldn't be stopped!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Declaration by the NPD parliamentary group, Saxon Landtag, dated December 21, 2005.
   Astrid Pawassar wrote in the magazine of the German Bundestag: “It only took a few days before two other NPD members followed. The former like-minded comrades spat poison and bile after the likenesses of the renegades were immediately retouched from the official group photo. They were 'traitors', the group leaders announced, lazy and also in debt. And when it was announced that both Mirko Schmidt and Klaus Baier had for help turned from the Erzgebirge Annaberg-Buchholz to the dropout program of the Saxon intelligence service, was made for the remaining ten members: the two were stooges of the secret. " ( Scramble under "Volksgenossen" , Parliament , January 23, 2006)
7. ↑ Declaration of resignation from Klaus Baier ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 22, 2005 (PDF)  
8. ↑ Holger Witzel : Ex-NPD MPs: Mr. Schön's search for seriousness , stern , January 25, 2006
9. ^ Michael Bartsch: Collecting basin for homeless conservatives , taz , January 30, 2007
10. ^ Parties, associations, people. In: Young Freedom. May 9, 2008, accessed May 27, 2011 .