Markus Plenk

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Markus Plenk (born May 5, 1969 in Traunstein ) is a German politician ( AfD until April 2019 , previously Bavaria party , now non-party ). Until April 2019 he was one of the two chairmen of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament .

Life

The Ruhpolding Markus Plenk is married and has two children. He studied business administration with a focus on banking and finance ( University of Passau , London School of Economics , University of Stirling ), completed a bank training and did his basic military service with the mountain hunters in Bad Reichenhall . Together with his wife, Plenk runs an organic farm in Chiemgau .

politics

In 2005 he joined the Bavarian Party and was unsuccessful in 2014 on their district council list in the Traunstein district . In 2015 he made contact with the then AfD state chairman Petr Bystron and switched to the AfD at the beginning of 2017.

In the Bavarian state elections in 2018 , he ran for the AfD in the constituency of Traunstein and in the constituency of Upper Bavaria . On October 19, he was elected together with Katrin Ebner-Steiner as one of two equal chairmen of his parliamentary group. Plenk is currently a member of the state sports advisory board there. In addition, Plenk was the deputy chairman of the AfD district association in Traunstein.

On April 5, 2019, he announced that he would leave the parliamentary group and the AfD. Plenk gave the Spiegel as a reason that he was "tired of being the bourgeois facade of an essentially xenophobic and extremist party". Plenk announced that he would apply for membership in the CSU . He was then strongly attacked and threatened from the right-wing extremist environment of the AfD and was under police protection . Regarding admission to the CSU, there was a rejection from its ranks by the regional former member of the state parliament Markus Fröschl , who threatened to leave. To this day, Plenk is not a member of the CSU and in the 2020 local elections again stood for the Bavarian party on the district council list in Traunstein, where he was not in 4th place in the district council in Traunstein with 5,953 valid votes - 2,128 votes behind 3rd place was chosen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 24 questions to Markus Plenk (AfD). October 1, 2018, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Member of Parliament Plenk, Markus | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 24 questions to Markus Plenk (AfD). October 1, 2018, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  4. ^ Markus Plenk. In: markus-plenk-afd.de. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Imprint. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lisa Schnell: Politics in Bavaria: Who is Markus Plenk? In: sueddeutsche.de . December 10, 2018
  7. ↑ Angelika Kahl: The inconspicuous . In: Bayerische Staatszeitung . January 11, 2019.
  8. ^ Johann Osel: Election - dual leadership for the AfD . In: sueddeutsche.de . 19th October 2018.
  9. ↑ Klaus Wagner: Traunstein. In: AfD Bavaria. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Bavarian AfD parliamentary group leader Markus Plenk wants to switch to the CSU. In: Focus . April 5, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  11. ^ Johann Osel, Ingrid Fuchs & Wolfgang Wittl: Landtag - Chaos in the AfD . In: sueddeutsche.de . 5th April 2019.
  12. ↑ Anna Clauss: It's enough for him. In: Der Spiegel . No. 15, April 6, 2019, p. 28.
  13. ↑ Marc Dimitriu: AfD parliamentary group leader Plenk leaves party and wants to change - CSU skeptical. In: Münchner Merkur . April 5, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Ex-AfD man Plenk is now under police protection. In: The world . April 8, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Plenk can probably become a CSU trial member. In: SZ. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Our candidates for the district council list on March 15, 2020. In: Homepage Bayernpartei Kreisverband Traunstein. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Markus Plenk for the Bavarian Party in the Traunstein District Assembly. In: pnp. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Plenk and CSU argue for membership. In: SZ. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Preliminary result of the election of the district council on March 17th, 2020. In: TRST. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Plenk, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 5th May 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein