Marian Offman

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Marian Offman (born February 15, 1948 in Munich ) is a German entrepreneur and local politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the Munich City Council from 2002 to 2020. From 2004 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Jewish Community for Munich and Upper Bavaria .

Life

Study and job

After high school he graduated in business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a business graduate and founded in 1983, a property management company in Munich, whose managing director he is. On Sat.1 he moderates the program “Jüdisches Leben”.

Political commitment

Offman was elected to the Munich City Council for the CSU in the local elections in Bavaria in 2002 . At times he was also the press spokesman for the Munich CSU. He explained his commitment as a Jew for a Christian party with the common values ​​of both religions and with the fact that the CSU has always credibly campaigned for the interests of the Jewish minority in Germany in questions of religious freedom (e.g. in the circumcision debate).

In his work on the city council, he set himself affordable and family-friendly housing, additional kindergartens, preservation of the social balance, respect for the elderly, preservation of Munich as a cultural metropolis and a clear no to right-wing populism and racism as goals. He was a member of the child and youth welfare, culture, planning and social committee as well as social and energy policy spokesman for his parliamentary group.

Since 2006, Offman has been involved in more transparent consumer billing for Münchner Stadtwerke and in 2010, at his own expense, put an interactive website for documenting billing errors on the Internet, making him the lawyer for the customers concerned.

Offman repeatedly took a public position against the Islamophobic agitation of the right-wing populist Michael Stürzenberger , who has left the CSU, and his small party “Die Freiheit” . He is also involved in interreligious dialogue and the integration of Muslims.

In 2012, he advocated a ban on the right-wing extremist citizens' initiative to stop foreigners from having a seat on the Munich city council .

From 2004 to 2012 he was Vice-President of the Israelite Cultural Community for Munich and Upper Bavaria (IKG) and is still a member of its board.

In the Munich conflict over stumbling blocks for Nazi victims, he positioned himself on the side of those who, like IKG President Charlotte Knobloch, criticized the project as disrespecting the victims, but at the same time made a mediation proposal that also included the laying of stumbling blocks, which was previously prohibited in Munich on public property.

In light of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onwards , he advocated the migration policy of the German government under Angela Merkel , not least because of the refugee experiences of his Jewish family of origin, and criticized the British government in relation to the Guardian for being in line with the liberal tradition of Great Britain on this issue break.

In 2017, Offman brought the CSU parliamentary group's joint motion with the SPD parliamentary group to the city council to ban the allocation of public event rooms to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement , which is viewed as anti-Semitic . The corresponding city council resolution was confirmed by the Munich Administrative Court in December 2018 .

In the summer of 2019 Offman, who in addition to his anti-fascist engagement had also earned a reputation as an accomplished cultural and social politician, switched from the CSU to the SPD. The CSU had not taken him into account in the list for the 2020 local elections. According to his presentation, his previous party no longer wanted to enable him to continue to campaign against Nazis and for refugees. The SPD put him up as a city council candidate for the 2020 local elections . However, he did not reach a city council mandate, but only a replacement position.

In February 2020, Offman was due to speak a greeting from the City of Munich on behalf of Mayor Dieter Reiter at the International Munich Peace Conference . However, he was removed from the conference in December 2019 because it was bothered by his stance on the BDS campaign. The decision of the conference was criticized as anti-Semitic by the German and international media as well as by the Bavarian anti-Semitism commissioner Ludwig Spaenle . As a result of the controversy, the organizers canceled the conference entirely. Because of his commitment to anti-Semitism and racism, Offman is also attacked from the right-wing camp: He and 18 other Jewish residents of Munich were pilloried on the anti-Semitic propaganda website “Judas Watch” and, so to speak, “released for shooting”.

Private

Offman is married and has two grown children.

Awards

  • 2014 Medal Munich shines in gold for 12 years of membership in the city council

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich District Court, Commercial Register HRB sheet 71,143th
  2. ↑ A & O Immobilien GmbH website , accessed on February 2, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c For Crucifix and Brit Mila - Marian Offman likes to fight in the Munich City Council as David against Goliath , Portrait Offman by Katrin Diehl in the Jüdischen Allgemeine from September 10, 2013, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  4. ↑ Council information system of the City of Munich , accessed on February 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ Brief portrait in the council information system of the City of Munich , accessed on February 2, 2020.
  6. ↑ Doris Näger: Stadtwerke complaints: Offman sets up a website one , Süddeutsche Zeitung of 10 May 2010, accessed on 2 February 2020th
  7. ↑ Benjamin Idriz : Hello, Lord Imam! A religion has arrived , Munich 2010, e-book without pages, end of the foreword.
  8. ↑ Dominik Hutter: City council is in favor of a BIA ban , Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 1, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  9. ^ "A landmark for Munich" , Welt am Sonntag from October 9, 2005, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  10. ↑ Large majority for Charlotte Knobloch , Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 12, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  11. ↑ Derek Scally: Munich debate over plaques for Holocaust victims continues , Irish Times, December 4, 2014, accessed February 2, 2020.
  12. ↑ Juliane Reil: Remembrance and Commemoration in Dealing with the Holocaust: Draft of a Historical Memory Theory , Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8394-4225-8 , p. 90.
  13. ↑ Luke Harding: Angela Merkel: plan to share 160,000 refugees across EU may not be enough , The Guardian of September 8, 2015, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  14. ↑ Against all anti-Semitism! - No cooperation with the anti-Semitic BDS movement , wording of the application in the council information system of the City of Munich , accessed on February 2, 2020.
  15. ↑ Stephan Handel: The city ​​does not have to provide rooms for the BDS campaign. SZ, December 19, 2018, accessed February 2, 2020.
  16. ↑ Heiner Effern: CSU politician Offman switches to the SPD , Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 15, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  17. ↑ Nina Bovensiepen: An inconvenient who does Munich good Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 15, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  18. ↑ Irene Kleber: SPD City Council List: Many young, some celebrities , evening newspaper from November 22, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  19. ↑ Thomas Böhle, Election Supervisor: Election of the City Council 2020: Applicants - Votes and Placement. In: www.wahlen-muenchen.de. March 19, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Martin Bernstein: Marian Offman unloaded as a speaker. Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 23, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  21. ^ Martin Bernstein: Peace conference does not take place. Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 16, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  22. ↑ Dominic Baur: Israel-related anti-Semitism - Jewish City Council unloaded , the daily newspaper of January 14, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  23. ↑ Martin Krauss : It's the others to blame , Die Tageszeitung from January 20, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  24. ↑ Ben Cohen: Activists 'Boycotting Not Only Israel, but Jews in Germany,' Munich City Councilor Charges in Escalating Row Over Peace Conference Disinvite , General, January 14, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  25. ↑ Toby Axelrod: Munich confab nixed after pro-Israel Jewish speaker rejected , Times of Israel from January 20, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  26. ↑ Martin Bernstein: Rechts Hetze gegen Münchner , Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 19, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.
  27. ↑ Council information system of the City of Munich , accessed on February 2, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Offman, Marian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich