Martin Kohlmann

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Martin Kohlmann

Karl Martin Kohlmann (born July 18, 1977 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , today Chemnitz) is a German politician ( Pro Chemnitz , DSU , formerly Republican ) and lawyer . He is being observed by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony , to which he is known as “a long-time scene activist from right-wing extremist backgrounds ”. Kohlmann had relationships with the former NSC .

job

After serving in the army from 1996 to 1998, Kohlmann studied law in Leipzig and Basel . He completed part of his legal clerkship in Krasnoyarsk .

Kohlmann works as an independent lawyer. In 2010 he represented his brother in the Arminia student fraternity in Leipzig , Bernd-Rüdiger Kern , professor at the University of Leipzig , in court. It was about an argument in a law lecture at a freshman information event with Kern in the corporation house of the Arminia fraternity. One of Kohlmann's mandates was the Holocaust denier Günter Deckert , a former chairman of the NPD . In mid-October 2017, he was named as the third criminal defense attorney at the side of the two public defenders in the ongoing trial against the supporter of the Reich Citizenship Movement Adrian Cause .

As a defender of the right-wing extremist group Freital , he disrupted the verdict. The Bar Association of Saxony has initiated proceedings against Kohlmann, after informing the court about this and checks his behavior to this effect in professional law. The Association of Defense Lawyers Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt has excluded him from the association.

One of Kohlmann's legal focuses is the representation of rejected asylum seekers, especially from the former Soviet Union . The Georgian chairman of the Tolstoy Cultural Association V. , because of his knowledge of Russian, put Kohlmann on to numerous asylum seekers as clients. The television magazine Report Mainz described it as a “contradiction” that Kohlmann, as the Chemnitz city councilor, was demanding the immediate deportation of legally rejected asylum seekers, but also advocating their right to stay in court.

Social engagement and private matters

In 2014 Kohlmann was co-founder and initially secretary of the Kulturverein Tolstoi e. V. , whose "aim is to promote international understanding and to provide social and cultural support for refugees, repatriates, ethnic German repatriates and national minorities." The offers also include "legal [...] advice for migrants". Until 2016, the association listed him as head of the legal department in the association magazine in which Kohlmann placed advertisements.

Kohlmann is a member of the Arminia fraternity in Leipzig . He lives in Chemnitz , is married and has three children.

politics

The Republicans

Kohlmann was first elected to the city ​​council of Chemnitz in 1999. In 2000 he accused the then Lord Mayor of Chemnitz, Peter Seifert ( SPD ), in a city council meeting of having "trivialized" an air attack on Chemnitz during World War II . Seifert then insulted Kohlmann, for which Seifert was later sentenced to pay Kohlmann compensation for pain and suffering. Kohlmann ran in the European elections in 2004 on the list position 3 of the Republicans . At the beginning of 2004 he organized a concert with the right-wing extremist musician Frank Rennicke in Chemnitz. After the resignation of state chairman Kerstin Lorenz , Kohlmann was elected state chairman of the republicans in Saxony on July 24, 2004 . In this capacity, he rejected any collaboration between the Republicans and the NPD . In 2006, the current state chairman, Mario Heinz , resigned from the party and city councilor Peter Grüning resigned from the Chemnitz parliamentary group and the party. Mario Heinz accused the parliamentary group leader Kohlmann of being a “right-wing political clown”.

German Social Union

In March 2006 Kohlmann switched to the German Social Union (DSU) and wanted to run for it in the mayoral election. However, the candidacy was not accepted because Kohlmann did not want to provide the necessary supporter signatures. The non-admission of the nomination was ultimately confirmed by the Saxon Higher Administrative Court . The legal action taken by Kohlmann against the mayor election in Chemnitz in 2006 meant that the elected mayor's inauguration was delayed by a year, but she held office as administrator during this time . In 2008 he ran as a DSU applicant for the office of district administrator in the Erzgebirgskreis and received 1.2% of the votes.

Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz

In 2009, Kohlmann founded the Pro Chemnitz citizens 'movement together with Reinhold Breede, ex- CDU member and former President of the City of Chemnitz, which ran for the 2009 local elections under the name Pro Chemnitz.DSU citizens' movement. The electoral association achieved a result of 4.57 percent of the vote and thus provides three city councilors, including Kohlmann himself.

"In the person of Kohlmann, PRO CHEMNITZ has good connections to the NPD in Saxony", according to a "situation analysis of the 'right-wing scene' in Chemnitz" on behalf of the DGB Region Südwestsachsen. For example, Kohlmann did not hold a competing rally in 2010 in favor of the NPD. In addition, in 2009, together with representatives of the neo-Nazi action alliance Erzgebirge, he carried a banner at a demonstration that he had registered.

At the end of April 2009, during a city council meeting, Kohlmann described Mayor Berthold Brehm ( CDU ), who had a wall painting in a school removed, as “cultural Taliban ” and “ iconoclast ” and replied to the parliamentary group leader of the Left , Hubert Gintschel, with the words “The Nazi you are! ”after Gintschel Kohlmann had previously brought himself close to National Socialism. As a result, Kohlmann was finally expelled from the hall by Mayor Barbara Ludwig ( SPD ). Kohlmann refused to go and was carried out of the hall by the police. As a result, he was sentenced by the Chemnitz District Court to a fine of 2275 euros for trespassing , but acquitted of the allegations of insulting Brehm and Gintschel.

Kohlmann is chairman of the pro-Chemnitz faction in the Chemnitz city council. He is also a member of various committees of the Chemnitz city council: the planning, building and environmental committee and the administrative and finance committee as a member and the petitions committee, the social committee and the school committee as a deputy member. In addition, he is a deputy member of the association council of the Sparkasse Zweckverband , the sponsor of Sparkasse Chemnitz .

Martin Kohlmann was a candidate for the mayoral election in Chemnitz in 2013. In the election on June 16, he achieved a result of 5.6% of the vote. Since none of the applicants achieved an absolute majority in this election , a new election took place on June 30, 2013, in which Martin Kohlmann also ran again and received 5.5% of the votes. Martin Kohlmann had previously proposed to all of the incumbent's challengers to agree on a new, non-partisan candidate for the new election and to forego a re-election in his favor, but could not prevail. On May 25, 2014 Kohlmann was re-elected to the city council.

On August 27, 2018, Kohlmann acted as the organizer of a demonstration in connection with the fatal knife attack on a German-Cuban in Chemnitz , from which he did not exclude the right-wing extremist NPD . But he asked that party flags be dropped. In his speech at the demonstration, he turned against the elites in Germany as well as against the integration of immigrants . He justified the dissemination of an illegally photographed arrest warrant of one of the alleged perpetrators to the ARD: Although it was "naturally problematic" to pass it on to us, the publication on Pro Chemnitz's Facebook page was covered by press law . The daily commented that Kohlmann "obviously has no qualms about using a crime for his political goals."

In connection with the knife attack in Chemnitz, Kohlmann spoke out in favor of Saxony's autonomy and rapprochement with Poland , Hungary and the Czech Republic . Saxony has more in common with these states than with the western Federal Republic.

Web links

Commons : Martin Kohlmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof from timecode 3:02 ff. “The organizer of the Chemnitz demos and the Nazis” - Report Mainz, recording of the contribution on YouTube
  2. ↑ a b Profile of Martin Kohlmann in the Citizen Information System of the City of Chemnitz , accessed on April 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Who is behind “Pro Chemnitz”? Spiegel Online, August 29, 2018, online
  4. ↑ Press release of the Student Council of the University of Leipzig from October 21, 2009. Accessed on October 27, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Patrick Limbach: "Kern vs. Külow: German foolishness in the lecture hall or defamation in the daily press? ” In the Leipziger Internet-Zeitung of January 11, 2010, accessed on August 4, 2010; Ders .: "Of communist pigs, immunities and legal consequences: Prof. Dr. Bernd-Rüdiger Kern in an interview Part 1 and Part 2 in the Leipziger Internet-Zeitung on January 12 and 13, 2010, accessed on November 28, 2013
  6. ↑ Anna Müller: Ex-NPD boss Deckert invites you to a private discussion about "Allied bomb terror" ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Terminus on the right , February 9, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.endstation-rechts.de
  7. ↑ Steffen Könau: Trial against Adrian Cause: War on the defender's bench .
  8. ↑ sz-online: Long prison sentences in the trial against "Gruppe Freital". (No longer available online.) In: sz-online.de. March 7, 2018, archived from the original on March 14, 2018 ; accessed on March 13, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  9. ↑ LTO: Bar Association checks Pro-Chemintz boss .
  10. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: close defense attorney . Accessed August 21, 2020.
  11. ↑ a b What role does the mastermind of the Chemnitz demos play? Report Mainz, broadcast on September 4, 2018 (accessed on September 5, 2018).
  12. ↑ Search .
  13. ^ Law firm Brauhausstrasse. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Public prosecutor investigates: Death threats against the Lord Mayor of Chemnitz , spiegel.de , April 27, 2000.
  15. ↑ OB must pay ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sz-online.de, September 19, 2003. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  16. ↑ Verfassungsschutzbericht Freistaat Thüringen 2003 , Thüringer Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz , Erfurt 2004, p. 46 ( PDF; 714 kB ( Memento of the original of December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original - and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thueringen.de
  17. ↑ a b Verfassungsschutzbericht 2004 , Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen , p. 51 ( PDF; 1.9 MB ( Memento of the original from 19 July 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.sachsen.de
  18. ↑ Numbers and facts ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sz-online.de, August 27, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  19. ↑ The news portal for Saxony .
  20. ↑ Saxon Higher Administrative Court : Martin Kohlmann is not allowed to vote in Chemnitz ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sachsen.de, June 1, 2006. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.justiz.sachsen.de
  21. ↑ Finally: Barbara Ludwig is the real mayor , sz-online.de, June 9, 2007.
  22. ^ District election 2008 - results page, sachsen.de, accessed on April 17, 2013.
  23. ^ The City Council: Fraktionen / Stadträte , chemnitz.de, accessed on April 17, 2013.
  24. ↑ DGB Region Südwestsachsen (2011): “Right” are the others !? An examination of inhuman attitudes and an up-to-date overview of the neo-Nazi scene and the "new rights" in Chemnitz, p. 54 ( PDF , 1.4 MB)
  25. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of Saxony 2012, preliminary version, p. 15
  26. ↑ DGB Region Südwestsachsen (2011): “Right” are the others !? An examination of inhuman attitudes and an up-to-date overview of the neo-Nazi scene and the "New Rights" in Chemnitz, p. 55 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  27. ^ Marc Felix Serrao: Dispute about wall paintings: Chemnitzer Views , Süddeutsche.de , April 16, 2009.
  28. ↑ a b Michael Müller: After a scandal in the city council: Court condemns Pro-Chemnitz boss ( memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), freiepresse.de , August 18, 2011.
  29. ↑ PRO CHEMNITZ council group , pro-chemnitz.de, accessed on April 19, 2013.
  30. ↑ Approved nominations for the mayor election in Chemnitz on June 16, 2013 ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , chemnitz.de, May 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chemnitz.de
  31. ↑ Swen Uhlig: Mayor election: Seven candidates line up in Chemnitz , Freie Presse (freiepresse.de), May 22, 2013.
  32. ↑ Seven applicants for the mayor's office in Chemnitz ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sächsische Zeitung (sz-online.de), May 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  33. ^ City of Chemnitz: City Hall - City of Chemnitz .
  34. ↑ Four applicants for election as city boss of Chemnitz confirmed - Freie Presse - Chemnitz .
  35. ↑ Mayor election in Chemnitz: Clear election victory for Barbara Ludwig - Free Press - Chemnitz .
  36. ↑ Swen Uhlig: “Result was to be expected” , in: Freie Presse from June 18, 2013, p. 9.
  37. ^ Final result of the city council election in Chemnitz. Retrieved August 1, 2014
  38. ^ Martin Kaul and Volker Ağar: Battle for Chemnitz. In: taz of August 31, 2018, p. 4 f.
  39. ↑ Konrad Schuller : More in common with Hungary than with “these Wessis”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 30, 2018 (accessed on September 5, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Kohlmann, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlmann, Karl Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Rep, DSU) and right-wing extremist scene activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City