Martin Hohmann

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Martin Hohmann (born February 4, 1948 in Fulda ) is a German lawyer and politician (1980-2004 CDU , since 2016 AfD ). He was a member of the German Bundestag for the first time from 1998 to 2005 . Until 2003 he was a member of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , after which he was a non-attached MP after being expelled . His speech on the Day of German Unity on October 3, 2003, rated as anti-Semitic , triggered the Hohmann affair , which led to his expulsion from the party in July 2004 . In 2016 he was elected to the district council of Fulda as a non-party member via the AfD's list and then joined the party. After the 2017 federal election , he moved back to the Bundestag as an AfD member.

Life

job

Hohmann graduated from the Fulda High School in 1966. In 1967/68 he signed up as a temporary soldier in the German Armed Forces and trained as a reserve officer in the army ( paratroopers ). He has the rank of Major in the Reserve. From 1969 to 1976 he studied law in Frankfurt am Main . After the first state examination and his internship, he passed the second state examination in 1979. From 1980 to 1984 he was at the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden , most recently as chief criminal in the terrorism department .

Political career

CDU

Hohmann joined the CDU in 1980 and was a member of the board of the CDU district association in Fulda from 1990. From 1984 to 1998 he was full-time mayor of Neuhof .

In 1998, Hohmann was elected to the German Bundestag after he had prevailed against another candidate in the constituency assembly. This had been proposed by the previous MP Alfred Dregger after Dregger was unable to enforce his own new nomination . In the federal election of 2002 , he won the direct mandate of constituency 176 (Fulda) with 54% of the first votes .

On May 5, 1999, Hohmann and other members of the Bundestag submitted an application to reject the erection of a Holocaust memorial . On June 25, Hohmann justified this request in a speech. In his eyes, the Holocaust memorial is an indication that the Germans cannot forgive themselves for their past:

“Ladies and gentlemen, many people urge us as Germans to slowly take the courage to tell our friends: More than two generations after this huge crime we feel, so to speak, re-socialized. Why? No country in its history has come to terms with and repented of crimes, made reparations and reparations like us. According to Christian standards, sin, repentance, and reparation are followed by forgiveness. Of course, one cannot force forgiveness. But you can expect it from friends. Almost three generations of penance to this day. It shouldn't be six or seven. In this respect, the memorial would also be a monumental expression of the inability to forgive ourselves. "

Hohmann was named politician of the year 2001 by the evangelical " idea editorial team ". He was honored for having turned against "false tolerance thinking and Christian-Muslim fraternization" after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 .

In 2002 he rejected an adoption right for gay and lesbian couples as in Great Britain and spoke of "[un] indefatigable activities of the gay lobby to expand their rights" and a "denaturation of the model of the family".

Hohmann affair, parliamentary group and party exclusion

A speech by Hohmann on the Day of German Unity on October 3, 2003, which was criticized as anti-Semitic , triggered the so-called Hohmann affair . As a result, he was expelled from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on November 14, 2003 (as the second deputy after Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack ) and from his party , the CDU Hessen , on July 16, 2004 .

As a result, he was a non-attached MP until 2005 . In the 2005 Bundestag election , Hohmann ran as a non-party direct candidate in his constituency of Fulda, but lost 21.5% of the first votes (39,545 votes) against the CDU candidate Michael Brand , who achieved 39.1%. Thereupon Hohmann declared on the evening of the election that he wanted to end his political career.

Further political activity as a non-party

After his electoral defeat in 2005, he no longer stood as a candidate, but increasingly saw himself as a warning of Christian conservatism. The anti-discrimination law "waved through with a Union majority" had "severely shaken" his ties to the CDU. According to a report by the new right Junge Freiheit , Hohmann set up a special account for donations to finance a constitutional complaint against his exclusion from the CDU before the Federal Constitutional Court .

In 2004, Hohmann made himself available to the Austrian right-wing extremist magazine Die Aula as an interview partner and stated that he could "imagine very well" that "a clearly conservative, patriotic, Christian party to the right of the Union" could "be advantageous" for Germany . He also lectured at the New Club in Salzburg, which is close to the FPÖ, and at the school association founded by the right-wing extremist publisher Dietmar Munier to promote Russian Germans in East Prussia . In 2005, Hohmann signed the appeal initiated by circles of the right-wing Institute for State Policy May 8, 1945 - against forgetting . In 2011 he gave the speech to kick off the “National Pilgrimage ” of the Pius Brotherhood in Fulda.

Rainer Rahn , Mariana Harder-Kühnel , Beatrix von Storch and Martin Hohmann in Neuhof (2018)

In 2012, in an interview with the journalist Eva Herman , Hohmann spread the thesis that “a certain degree of control from the interested party” was behind the criticism of him and his speech. Although he has no evidence for this control, it is obvious that "influential Jews prefer to leave dark chapters of Jewish history in the dark." When the Kulturbüro Sachsen, which is active in the prevention of right-wing extremism, repeated the common interpretation that it had called the Jews “perpetrators”, Hohmann warned the Kulturbüro and tried to impose legal fees on him. After the cultural office had given the desired cease and desist declaration, Hohmann failed with a lawsuit for reimbursement of the extrajudicial legal fees before the Dresden District Court.

AfD

In the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Hohmann moved into the Fulda district council as a non-party on list number 1 of the alternative for Germany , where he received the most votes from all 81 elected representatives. In spring 2016 he became a member of the AfD, although his speech, which was criticized as anti-Semitic, did not influence the accession process. In the 2017 Bundestag election , he ran for 6th place on the Hessian state list and thus moved back into the Bundestag. In the 2017 federal election campaign, he advertised the AfD on Facebook with the banner “My neighbors are not the young men from Africa”. Instead, Hohmann referred to “pensioners”, “low-wage workers” and “families” as his “neighbors”. For this he was criticized by the diocese of Fulda . Vicar General Gerhard Stanke explained literally: "Anyone who does not consider people to be next because of their skin color or nationality is in contradiction to the Holy Scriptures ." Wolfgang Hamberger , former CDU Mayor of Fulda, also expressed sharp criticism. On April 19, 2018, Hohmann denied migrants the right to demonstrate publicly in connection with protests against a police operation. At the beginning of 2019, Hohmann became chairman of the AfD in the Fulda district association. In 2019, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution pointed out Martin Hohmann's explicit sympathy for the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement .

In June 2019, Hohmann took the view that the CDU was complicit in the right-wing extremist murder of Walter Lübcke . If the “mass influx of migrants” for which Chancellor Angela Merkel is responsible had not occurred , he explains, “ Walter Lübcke would still be alive”. The "mass influx [...] with its many murders and rapes" is a "necessary link in a chain of causes that led to the death of Walter Lübcke". Christian Stöcker then named Hohmann in Spiegel magazine , referring to his speech about the “perpetrator people” on October 3, 2003 (see above), as one “of the AfD's leading experts on perpetrator-victim conversion”. According to Hohmann's logic, "other fascinating causal chains" are also possible, such as the fact that Konrad Adenauer , who signed the recruitment agreement with Turkey in 1961 due to a local labor shortage , was to blame for the NSU murders . The CDU politician Michael Brand , who comes from the same district as Hohmann, criticized the fact that Hohmann did not have the piety and decency to spare the Lübckes family, at least during the mourning phase, with his "completely insane justification for the murder [...]" and rejected him and the former CDU general secretary Peter Tauber von Hohmann offered a dispute because he wanted to offer Hohmann and the also invited AfD-close ex-CDU politician Erika Steinbach "no platform for agitation under the pretext of dialogue". After the anti-Semitic attack on the synagogue in Halle / Saale on Yom Kippur 2019, Hohmann wrote on October 10, 2019 on Facebook , “Attacks and attempted attacks against Jews” he regards “like attacks against ourselves,” which the Queer.de portal noted , Hohmann would "at the same time exclude Jews as not-us []". A day later, after increasing public criticism of the AfD after the attack, he said that anyone who “regularly wields Nazi clubs” was “following the path of totalitarianism ” and “converting the rule of law into a state of convictions”.

MP

In the 19th German Bundestag , Hohmann is a full member of the Budget Committee , the Petitions Committee and the Audit Committee . He is also a deputy member of the Defense Committee .

family

Hohmann is married and has three children.

Web links

Commons : Martin Hohmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Martin Hohmann  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Hohmann, AfD www.bundestag.de
  2. ↑ a b Norbert Blech: Martin Hohmann warns of “perverse” and “anti-Christian” gender “ideology”. www.queer.de, October 17, 2019
  3. ^ Hohmann's exclusion from the party is legally binding ( Memento of December 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b "I will not give up" - Martin Hohmann before BVerfG because of CDU exclusion osthessen-news.de, January 7, 2007
  5. ↑ Anton Maegerle : From Obersalzberg to NSU : The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic 1988-2013. Edition Critic, Berlin 2013, p. 199 f.
  6. ↑ See http://www.osthessen-news.de/beitrag_J.php?id=1202790
  7. ↑ a b Judgment of the Dresden District Court 103 C 7656/15 of June 2nd, 2016 , docplayer.org
  8. ↑ CDU loses "absolute majority" - AfD man Hohmann gets the most votes. osthessen-News from March 9, 2016; Retrieved September 26, 2016
  9. ↑ AfD chooses further list places: Hohmann in sixth place. Focus from May 14, 2016
  10. ^ Federal Returning Officer: Hesse, elected on state lists of the parties, AfD: 6. Hohmann, Martin
  11. ↑ "Food for thought" or "unchristian" ?: Diocese criticizes advertising banners by Martin Hohmann (AfD) , last seen on September 29, 2017
  12. ↑ Hessen 2018: Right-wing rock, new-right networks and right-wing extremism in the police. In: Belltower.News. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Martin Hohmann (70) is the new district chairman of AfD Fulda (accessed on January 7, 2019)
  14. ↑ netzpolitik.org: Verfassungsschutz report on the AfD. January 28, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Johannes Giewald: After the Lübcke murder: AfD politicians react disrespectfully to a clear Schäuble speech - scandal in the Bavarian state parliament. www.derwesten.de, June 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ Georg Ismar: A fight for Walter Lübcke: "I despise your remarks about this terrible crime." Www.tagesspiegel.de, July 8, 2019.
  17. ↑ Torsten Krauel: This wall is right. www.welt.de, June 26, 2019.
  18. ↑ Christian Stöcker: Lübcke murder case and the AfD: Who is to blame for the NSU? Konrad Adenauer! www.spiegel.de, June 30, 2019.
  19. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hohmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (AfD, formerly CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda