Markus Wagner (politician)

Markus Wagner (born June 12, 1964 in Unkel ) is a German entrepreneur and politician ( AfD ). In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , he was elected to fourth place in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

job

After Wagner graduated from a university of applied sciences in 1986 , he began studying social pedagogy at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . From 1986 to 1992 he worked as a freelance worker for a finance and insurance broker . Since 1993 he has been the managing partner of an integration assistance facility for mentally ill people.

politics

From 1982 to 1996 Wagner was a member of the CDU . He founded the city association of the Junge Union and the city association of the Schüler Union in Bad Oeynhausen and was their deputy chairman. In 2001 he joined the Rule of Law Offensive party and was its deputy federal chairman from 2003 to 2004. From March 2004 Wagner acted as national chairman after Mario Mettbach had resigned from this post.

Shortly after his election as chairman, he congratulated Jörg Haider and his FPÖ on their election victory and announced that he would give his party a liberal-conservative profile. Wagner especially advocated cooperation with other small conservative parties such as the German Social Union . In December 2006 he resigned from the federal presidency and shortly after resigned from the rule of law offensive party.

Wagner then became a member of the Rechts Mitte HeimatHamburg party , which existed from 2006 to 2008. In the Hamburg state election, 2008 he was a candidate in the constituency Eppendorf Winterhude and on the national list. The party received 0.5 percent of the vote and disbanded on April 7, 2008.

In March 2013, Wagner joined the alternative for Germany and in 2014 became a member of the AfD district council in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Minden-Lübbecke . In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , he ran as a direct candidate in the state constituency of Herford I - Minden-Lübbecke III and fourth on the state list through which he was elected to the state parliament. He became the third member of his constituency alongside Stefan Schwartze ( SPD ) and Stephen Paul ( FDP ).

On October 6, 2017, the AfD parliamentary group elected Wagner to succeed the resigned Marcus Pretzell as group chairman .

Private

Wagner is married and has an adopted son of Haitian descent. He coached the soccer team of VfL Frotheim 1925 from 1995 to 1997 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final result of the 2008 state election ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5 kB) Hamburg State Electoral Office
2. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Distribution of seats ( memento from June 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 15, 2017.
3. ↑ Wagner elected as the new AfD parliamentary group leader in NRW. Retrieved October 6, 2017 . 
4. ^ Christian Althoff: Wagner: "Abortion is not a human right" . In: Westfalen-Blatt . ( westfalen-blatt.de [accessed on July 15, 2018]).
5. ↑ What is Markus Wagner actually doing? on vfl-frotheim.de

Web link

• Deputy Markus Wagner