Markus Frohnmaier

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Markus Cornel Frohnmaier (born February 25, 1991 in Craiova , Romania ) is a German politician ( AfD ), press spokesman and Member of the Bundestag .

Since May 22, 2017 he has been spokesman for Alice Weidels , who appeared as the top candidate for the AfD in the 2017 federal election . In the same year he won a mandate for the 19th German Bundestag via the state list of the AfD Baden-Württemberg . Since then he has been the spokesman for the young group in the AfD parliamentary group . Until February 2018 he was federal chairman of the Junge Alternative für Deutschland (JA) and until 2017 a member of the state board of AfD Baden-Württemberg. He also acted as press spokesman for the then AfD federal chairwoman Frauke Petry until the end of 2016 . From 2017 Frohnmaier was Alice Weidel's press spokesman. Frohnmaier employs several people from the right-wing extremist spectrum in his parliamentary office .

Life

Frohnmaier was born in 1991 in Craiova , Romania , where his biological Romanian parents gave him the name Cornel . By his own account, he never met her.

Because of his weak constitution, he was not originally intended for adoption. However, a German couple eventually adopted him and his twin sister from a children's home. He then grew up with his adoptive parents in Weil der Stadt-Schafhausen . He first attended the primary school, then completed his high school and studied since then at the University of Tuebingen Jura .

Frohnmaier is married to the Russian journalist Daria Frohnmaier (née Zoj, Russian Дарья Цой ) and has a son with her. She comes from the Korean minority in Russia and most recently worked for the daily Izvestia .

politics

Career

Frohnmaier initially got involved with the Junge Union .

From an AfD university group he founded, the Baden-Württemberg State Association of Young Alternative emerged in the summer of 2014 . Later, Frohnmaier joined the AfD and became a member of the Baden-Württemberg state board.

In January 2015 he was defeated in Bottrop in the candidacy for the federal chairmanship of the Junge Alternative. In another attempt, the Federal Young Alternative Congress elected him together with Sven Tritschler as federal chairman in May 2015 in Okarben . Frohnmaier, like his colleague on the board, was an opponent of the party chairman at the time, Bernd Lucke (until July 2015). In March 2015, he was one of the first signatories of the Erfurt resolution , which contributed significantly to the split in the party in the same year. He then acted as press spokesman for the then AfD federal chairwoman Frauke Petry until the end of 2016 .

In April 2016, he told the broadcaster Welt that he made his living as a “political analyst” while studying law. When asked, Frohnmaier did not say who paid for his services.

Frohnmaier ran unsuccessfully for a state parliament mandate in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 . For the 2017 federal election , Frohnmaier ran unsuccessfully for the direct mandate in the Böblingen constituency. For this he won a seat in the Bundestag on the Baden-Württemberg state list of the AfD, where he was ranked fourth. As a member of the Bundestag, he has been a member of the Economic Development Committee since then . He is an alternate member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.

In July 2016, the Badische Zeitung (BZ) reported on a possible earlier connection between Frohnmaier and the right-wing extremist group “ German Defense League ” (GDL), which is close to the violent hooligan scene . As a result, a Cornel Craiovești was named as a contact person on the GDL website in February 2011. Cornel is the middle name of Frohnmaier, who comes from Craiova , a few days later the name was changed to Cornel Frohnmaier. A laurel wreath as a tattoo on Frohnmaier's chest, which is said to have been visible on a Facebook photo, shows, according to the BZ, “conspicuous matches” with a GDL logo. Compared to the Schwäbische Zeitung , the former chairman of the AfD, Bernd Lucke, confirmed Frohnmaier's membership in the GDL, which is under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. After repeated heckling “Show your tattoos!” At a speech by Frohnmaier in the Bundestag, the latter told Bild that the laurel was his only tattoo and merely “a symbol of victory and peace”.

According to research by Zeit Online , Frohnmaier and eighteen other members of his parliamentary group employed employees from the right-wing extremist milieu in his parliamentary office : According to her own statements, his colleague Narine S. had recently worked as an editorial assistant at the right-wing traditional publishing house Reading & Schenken GmbH , which publishes publications such as the German military magazine or the magazine first! issues.

From September 2018 to January 2019, Manuel Ochsenreiter was editor-in-chief of the right-wing extremist magazine First! , employed as a speaker in the parliament's office. The employment relationship was terminated after the Berlin public prosecutor's office initiated an investigation against Ochsenreiter on suspicion of inciting serious arson.

In the 2019 municipal council election in Weil der Stadt , he received the lowest number of votes from three AfD candidates and failed to make it into this body.

Positions

Frohnmaier is referred to by the Patriotic Platform as a "PP comrade".

In October 2015 Frohnmaier threatened in a speech in Erfurt: “I tell these left-wing terrorists, this party felt very clearly: When we come, then it will be cleaned up, then it will be cleared out, then politics will be made for the people and only for the people - because we are the people , dear friends! ”In December 2015 Frohnmaier called the SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel “ traitor ”on Facebook. He later deleted the post.

After a series of sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne and other cities in 2015/16 , Frohnmaier posted a picture of the Vice President of the German Bundestag Claudia Roth ( Bündnis90 / Die Grünen ) on his Facebook page in connection with the slogan “Oh, I would have only gone to Cologne for the New Year ... ". Among other things, the picture was interpreted in such a way that Frohnmaier wished the politician that she had become a victim of the attacks. According to his own statements, with his montage of pictures he wanted to call on Roth to “finally show solidarity with the tortured women of Cologne, and not just constantly with so-called refugees”. Also in connection with the sexual assault on New Year's Eve, Frohnmaier said in January 2016 in the ARD magazine “Kontraste” that “people like Claudia Roth [have] indirectly co-raped here, not in the legal sense, but in a figurative sense”. An injunction by Roth against Frohnmaier based on this quote was rejected by the Cologne Higher Regional Court in the last instance. In addition to Claudia Roth, Frohnmaier also attacked Volker Beck (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) by calling Beck a “gay lobbyist” and wishing him “a vacation in Moscow”.

He welcomed the annexation of Crimea by Russia: "I congratulate the citizens of Crimea on gaining independence from Ukraine."

By means of an injunction against the website Ulm-News.de in 2016, Markus Frohnmaier enforced that an alleged quote from him could no longer be disseminated. After the Ulm journalist Ralf Grimminger removed the quote but did not accept an injunction against its dissemination, the Cologne Regional Court dismissed Frohnmaier's lawsuit against Grimminger, as the journalist had not violated his duty of care.

In the face of a radical Islamist-motivated terrorist attack in Nice , Frohnmaier called for a general entry ban for people of Muslim faith in the European Union in July 2016 . He justified this with the fact that "Muslims coming to Europe (...) are a potential security risk".

After Frohnmaier had distanced himself from the völkisch Identitarian Movement to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in July 2016 , he met the spokesman for the Identitarian Movement Austria, Martin Sellner , in April 2017 . A video of the meeting was published by both of them. The Tagesspiegel rated this as a calculated provocation that the AfD should move further and further to the right.

In December 2017, Frohnmaier spoke out in favor of economically liberal “people's capitalism”. Accordingly, social benefits for foreigners should be restricted. Only when foreigners have "paid social security contributions for ten years", Frohnmaier's will, they should receive German social benefits. He also demanded that Unemployment Benefit II should in some cases only be granted in the form of a credit : If the amount of income that is not specified in more detail is exceeded , people who have found a job again should have to pay back the unemployment benefit they received at the time of their unemployment to the state. He also advocated replacing the daily maximum working time with a weekly maximum. In terms of content, he also attracted attention with his concept for a “national pension based on the Swiss model”.

Frohnmaier sees China as a role model in development policy . According to him, Germany should specifically provide development aid in a way that best serves its own geopolitical and economic interests - for example by promoting sales markets for German industry.

After the fatal knife attack on a 35-year-old on the fringes of a city festival in Chemnitz (see riots in Chemnitz 2018 ), Frohnmaier said on Twitter : “If the state can no longer protect its citizens, people take to the streets and protect themselves. Very easily! Today it is a civic duty that todbringendendie ( sic ) to stop knife migration '. " The world interpreted this comment as an indirect call for vigilante justice .

Frohnmaier has written articles for the right-wing internet blog Journalistenwatch .

Controversy

Controversial contacts and activities

In 2015 Frohnmaier met the neo-Eurasier Alexander Dugin in Saint Petersburg .

In October 2016, the ZDF magazine frontal21 reported on Frohnmaier's trip to pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk during the Ukraine crisis and a meeting in Moscow with Nikolaj Schljamin, chairman of the Putin- affiliated youth organization United Young Front (OMF). A joint trip between Frohnmaier and EU MP Marcus Pretzell, financed by a Russian foundation, to the Crimea annexed by Russia led to an official protest from the Ukrainian government.

He founded together with the publicist Manuel Ochsenreiter , the editor-in-chief of the historical revisionist and right-wing radical magazine First! , and a Pole who was accused of being an agent for Russian and Chinese intelligence services by the Polish public prosecutor's office and who was therefore taken into custody for several years, the "German Center for Eurasian Studies", with the aim of organizing election observation missions in regions close to Russia such as eastern Ukraine. It was disbanded in November 2018. 2018 have been raised against Ochsenreiter allegations that he was in the terrorist attack of two Polish right-wing extremists against a Hungarian cultural center in Ukraine Uzhhorod involved, the result of the up-lubricated swastika Ukrainian as a stop neo-Nazis should look against the Hungarian minority in the country. In the indictment of the Kraków Public Prosecutor's Office, Ochsenreiter was described as an “idea generator and financier”. In Ochsenreiter's magazine first! the attack was also presented as evidence of increasing tensions between the Hungarian minority and the majority of the population of Ukraine. After the allegations became known, Frohnmaier kept his distance. In January 2019, he separated from Ochsenreiter, whom he had been working as a research assistant in his Bundestag office since September 2018.

In March 2019 Frohnmaier became a member of an FSB- controlled organizing committee of the Yalta International Economic Forum (YIEF), an economic forum in Crimea funded by the Russian government .

Research on influence from and contacts to Moscow

In April 2019, Spiegel , ZDF and BBC reported on joint research results on attempts by Russian influence to influence the 2017 federal election . Thereafter, in the circulated Russian presidential administration before the federal election in 2017 a strategy paper on the influence and control over the interests of the Russian Republic agreeable Bundestag member : "So Glad Maier become a fluid under absolute control Member of the Bundestag to be."

In another paper, which a secret service employee of an EU state handed over to the BBC, according to the research, concrete proposals for election campaign support are named Frohnmaier - with the prospect of something in return: In addition to denouncing the EU's interference in Russia's domestic affairs, the MP, " after a successful election to the Bundestag, immediately get involved in international politics ”- and will“ accompany delegations to Crimea and Donbass, among other things ”. In addition, he is always available to the Russian media for “frequent appearances”. Upon request, Frohnmaier himself let it be known that he could “do nothing” with the documents and that he did not know who the author was. He had neither asked nor received any “financial or media support from Russian political, economic or civil circles”. He described the coverage of himself as nothing more than a campaign.

reception

Media reports repeatedly refer to Frohnmaier as the “young star” of his party. The sociologist Anna-Lena Herkenhoff clearly assigns him to “the national line” around Björn Höcke . Also Andreas Kemper sees 2016 Glad Maier alongside Björn Höcke and Hans-Thomas Tillschneider as representatives of the "fundamentalist New Right" within the AFD. The RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) locates him in an article close to Alice Weidel in the party's economic wing.

The political scientist Oscar W. Gabriel from the University of Stuttgart observed the announcements of the Junge Alternative (JA) in 2015. The official statements by Frohnmaier are moderate; the everyday comments, such as on Facebook, are radical.

In his role as chairman of the Junge Alternative, Frohnmaier established contacts with other racist, national-conservative and EU-critical youth organizations. In relation to these contacts, the political scientist Samuel Salzborn analyzed the long-term ideological intersections of the organizations in such a way that it is by no means just about rejecting the EU:

“You shouldn't be under the illusion that this is only about short-term populist campaigns; on the contrary, there is an ideologically solid nationalistic attitude towards one's own and also towards other nations, which intends cultural homogeneity. Current issues such as refugee policy are used as an opportunity to articulate this worldview. "

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In its 2019 report on the AfD, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution came to the conclusion that Frohnmaier legitimized “attacks on the state monopoly on the use of force”, that he had “connections to right-wing extremist publishers / publicists” and the “Islamophobic German Defense League ”. Frohnmaier defamed refugees across the board, for example as “lumpen proletariat”, and advocates massive unequal treatment and categorical pre-suspicion of refugees, for example with the demand for a general “curfew” for all refugees under 50 years of age and for religious discrimination against Muslims. Frohnmaier also calls for the Federal Constitutional Court to be replaced by party-loyal judges in the event of the AfD assuming power . The Office for the Protection of the Constitution certifies that Frohnmaier's demands "violate the guarantee of human dignity in Art. 1 GG " and are therefore unconstitutional. The report led to the classification of the entire AfD as a test case and to the classification of the JA, whose chairman Frohnmaier was for a long time, as a suspected case .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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