Martin Renner

Martin Erwin Renner (born May 5, 1954 in Reutlingen ) is a German business economist and politician ( alternative for Germany ). From 2015 to 2017 he was the spokesman for the AfD regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia , was its top candidate for the 2017 federal election and was elected as a member of the 19th German Bundestag .

Life

Renner grew up in Reutlingen and attended the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium up to the technical college entrance qualification . He then studied business administration at the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences . He later became marketing director of a Frankfurt pharmaceutical and cosmetics company and moved to Haan . In Haan, he ran a marketing and communication agency that developed communication strategies for international pharmaceutical and cosmetics groups. He was a member of the parish council of the Catholic parish of St. Chrysanthus and Daria in Haan.

Renner is married and has two grown children. He lives in Haan.

politics

Renner was a member of the CDU from 1998 to 2005 . Due to the of Chancellor Merkel as alternative shown bailout policy of the EU for Greece , he joined in 2012 the Electoral Alternative 2013 by Bernd Lucke at whose NRW state representative, he was in November 2012 and their spokespersons he belonged. At the beginning of 2013 he was one of the 15 founding initiators as well as a member of the founding board of the Alternative für Deutschland party, where he also developed the party name and the logo on behalf of the initiators. Renner organized the founding party congress of the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of the AfD and was elected deputy state spokesman there.

He ran unsuccessfully for the direct mandate in the Bundestag constituency of Essen III in the 2013 Bundestag election . From 2015 to October 2017 he was co-spokesman for the AfD regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia; After Marcus Pretzell left the party in October 2017 until the election to the board in December 2017, in which he no longer ran, he held office alone. At the end of February 2017 he was elected by the state election assembly in Essen in a runoff election with 179 to 167 votes as the top candidate of the AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia for the 2017 federal election. He was widely seen as a rival candidate for Marcus Pretzell. He entered the German Bundestag as a member of the Bundestag via the state list .

In December 2017, the Bundestag lifted Renner's immunity as part of ongoing criminal proceedings . The background to this is, according to WDR, the participation in an unauthorized demonstration in 2015. Renner had previously applied for the waiver of immunity in order to appeal after a first-instance conviction.

Martin Renner has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Positions

Renner regularly writes opinion articles on the legal blog “ Politically Incorrect ”; he distances himself from Björn Höcke's tone of voice and is still assigned to the right wing of the AfD. With regard to the culture of history, Renner said that the “ guilt cult hypermoralization” must end. For the AfD, he demanded that it had to be “a right-wing party in terms of system genetics”. After a speech by Björn Höcke that was classified as anti-Semitic and right-wing extremist by the general public, Renner stood behind his statements. Renner said in February 2017 that he himself had been lamenting the guilt cult for years, only the form of Höcke's lecture was a mistake.

In a speech on the federal budget, Renner claimed that their own culture was being disregarded, that the “foreign” was glorified and that “crematorium ashes” lay above the cultural budget and that Germany was being abolished. Katja Thorwarth then asked in the Frankfurter Rundschau how “the ' crematorium sasche' should be understood, which apparently provides a culture that Germany intends to abolish”. There is not much room for interpretation here.

Web links

• Martin Renner on bundestag.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Who is the AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia? In: www1.wdr.de. October 8, 1981. Retrieved February 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} About me | Martin E. Renner. Retrieved February 25, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Schwäbisches Tagblatt: AfD founding member Martin Renner criticized heavily at the New Year's reception .
4. ↑ Julia Rathcke: NRW-AfD elects Martin Renner as the top candidate. In: Rheinische Post rp-online.de. February 25, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Julia Rathcke: Martin Renner is the top candidate: The AfD is moving even further to the right. Retrieved November 8, 2017 . 
6. ^ Federal Returning Officer: Elected on state lists of the parties in North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved November 1, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Bundestag lifts the immunity of AfD top candidate Renner. WDR , December 13, 2017, archived from the original on December 14, 2017 ; accessed on February 3, 2018 . 
8. ↑ lto.de: Immunity of two AfD MPs lifted , accessed on February 13, 2020
9. ^ Moritz Küpper : AfD leadership dispute: NRW top candidate Martin Renner registers ambitions , Deutschlandfunk , April 10, 2017
10. ^ General-Anzeiger Bonn : NRW co-boss Renner sees Petry Pretzell camp weakened . 25th September 2017.
11. ↑ Matthias Korfmann: AfD right wing Renner is the top candidate . ( waz.de [accessed January 25, 2018]).
12. ^ DIE WELT: NRW co-boss Renner sees Petry-Pretzell-Lager weakened . In: THE WORLD . September 25, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed January 25, 2018]).
13. ↑ Right-wing extremists, ideologues and Stasi officers: How right is the AfD? ( noz.de [accessed November 1, 2017]).
14. ↑ Matthias Korfmann: Shift to the right in the AfD: Martin Renner is the top candidate for the federal election . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on November 8, 2017]).
15. ↑ ^{a b} Sabine am Orde: They are the heads. The daily newspaper , February 26, 2017, accessed on November 8, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Katja Thorwarth: Incompatibility List: Live Open Right? The AfD just wants to be blue . www.fr.de, December 1, 2019