Martin Hess (politician)

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Martin Alexander Hess (born January 11, 1971 in Hechingen ) is a German politician ( AfD ). As a member of the AfD parliamentary group in the 19th Bundestag , he acts as its deputy domestic policy spokesman.

Career

Hess grew up in Hechingen in the Zollernalb district .

After graduating from high school in 1990, he completed an apprenticeship with the Baden-Württemberg State Police . From 1993 to 2010 he worked for them in various positions in the operational area. At the same time, he graduated from 2001 to 2004 with a degree in administrative management (FH) police. From 2010 he worked as a lecturer in the training and further education of police officers, most recently from 2014 at the Böblingen Institute for Further Education at the Baden-Württemberg Police College . He was decommissioned here in 2017 in order to fulfill his mandate in the Bundestag.

Political career

Political party

Martin Hess joined the alternative for Germany in April 2013. In an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung , he gave the reason for this that he had refused to allow European states to deal with the countries in distress due to the euro crisis and instead preferred to comply with the no-bailout clause .

In the party, Hess initially held various offices at local and district level. From March 2017 to February 2019 he was deputy spokesman for AfD Baden-Württemberg . In addition to other AfD members of the Bundestag and federal board members, Hess belongs to an AfD working group that was formed in September 2018 to develop strategies to avert observation of the party or individual members and groups by the constitutional protection offices.

Hess ran for election as state chairman of the AfD Baden-Württemberg in February 2019, but was defeated by his opponent Dirk Spaniel with 341 to 371 votes. Shortly before the election convention, an anonymous e-mail sent to the party's internal membership distribution list was speculated about whether Hess had been "smuggled" into the party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Hess told the dpa that these "untrue and reputational allegations" contributed significantly to his defeat and prompted him to take legal action against the author. The AfD state executive also announced a criminal complaint.

Bundestag mandate

In November 2016, Hess was elected to 7th place on the list by the AfD Baden-Württemberg for the 2017 federal election and ran as a direct candidate in the Ludwigsburg constituency . Hess could have run in the Neckar-Zaber constituency ; since this, according to Hess, was occupied by Marc Jongen , he moved to the constituency of Ludwigsburg. In the election, Hess was the only AfD candidate in Baden-Württemberg who received more first votes than second votes in his constituency.

In the Bundestag, Hess is a full member of the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs ; he is also a deputy member of the Defense Committee .

Positions

Within the AfD, Hess is considered qualified for issues of internal security.

border controls

Hess regards the border policy in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 as the main cause of the deterioration in the security situation. In 2017, he was satisfied that the federal government was now handling refugee policy more restrictively than in 2015. Nevertheless, in 2018, Hess spoke out in favor of further tightening: He demanded that the border crossings be permanently checked again and that people without entry authorization be refused. In addition, Hess advocates replacing cash benefits for asylum seekers with benefits in kind. Furthermore, in 2017 he criticized the suspension of the third country regulation in the wake of the refugee crisis.

Dangerous custody

Hess repeatedly called for Islamist “ threats ” to be deported more quickly and to be held in custody until deportation. According to Hess, there is no other way of guaranteeing the safety of the population because the security authorities say they are not able to completely monitor endangered persons.

Left-wing extremism

Hess repeatedly advocates a “basic anti-extremist consensus in politics and society”, which rejects extremist tendencies in all directions and does not tolerate any left-wing extremist activities. Hess applied to the Bundestag to ban the left-wing Internet portal Indymedia . In addition, he spoke out in favor of a ban on the interventionist left , which he made responsible for the riots at the G20 summit in Hamburg and for attacks on police officers during the protests in the Hambach Forest . Hess also took the violent clashes between left-wing autonomists and the police in Connewitz on New Year's Day 2020 as an opportunity to warn against trivializing left-wing extremism.

weapon law

Hess spoke out in the Bundestag against setting up knife ban zones and tightening gun law . He described such measures to combat the misuse of weapons as "political actionism" because he feared that potential perpetrators would not comply with the relevant laws anyway.

Private

Hess lives in Bietigheim-Bissingen , is non-denominational, single and has one child.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Member profile of Martin Hess. German Bundestag, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b parliamentwatch.de | Profile of Martin Hess, AfD - Bundestag. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Verena Mayer: Election 2017: Martin Hess (AfD): A safe country for the beloved son. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ MPs from the southwest: These AfD politicians are moving to Berlin stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, on September 26, 2017, on September 26, 2017
  5. ^ AfD: Three more candidacies for the state executive. In: SWR Aktuell. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Severin Weiland: Possible observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: AfD prefers to check itself . In: Spiegel Online . September 13, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 23, 2019]).
  7. ^ Party convention in Heidenheim: Südwest-AfD remains deeply divided with a new head. In: swp.de. February 24, 2019, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  8. ^ Badische Zeitung: Intrigue against member of the Bundestag Hess shakes Südwest-AfD - Südwest - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  9. ↑ dpa: Campaign against Martin Hess: intrigue against members of the Bundestag shakes Southwest AfD . In: The time . April 5, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on July 23, 2019]).
  10. ↑ BW-AfD wants to report to Hess after the mail attack. In: SWR.de. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Results Baden-Württemberg - Federal Parliament Election 2017. Retrieved on March 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b Ricarda Breyton: Bundestag: AFD brings a request against left-wing extremism . January 18, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed March 7, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Uwe Mollenkopf: Report on the state party conference of the AfD in February 2019. In: Bietigheimer Zeitung. February 16, 2019, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Matthias Kamann: Border controls: CDU MPs abstain from the AfD application . March 16, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed March 7, 2019]).
  15. ↑ WORLD: Islamist threats: number in Germany does not decrease despite deportations . March 6, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed March 7, 2019]).
  16. ^ Sandra Schmid: German Bundestag - AfD wants "basic anti-extremist consensus". In: Text archive of the German Bundestag. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Police officer in Leipzig attacked and seriously injured. In: Mercury. January 1, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Katharina Hamberger: More control and surveillance - Bundestag tightened gun law. In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved January 29, 2020 (German).
  19. ↑ Carsten Hoffmann: Verification and obligation to report: More control and surveillance: Gun law is tightened. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Martin Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman, politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hechingen