Martin Schmidt (politician, 1966)

Martin Louis Schmidt (born August 21, 1966 in Berlin-Dahlem ) is a German journalist , publicist and politician ( AfD ). In the 1990s he was deputy editor-in-chief and department head of the new right-wing newspaper Junge Freiheit , for which he continues to write today. In 2016 he became a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate for the AfD .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1986, Schmidt did military service in the Bundeswehr in 1986/87 . He then studied history and German at the universities in Erlangen and Freiburg im Breisgau. During his studies he became a member of the Freiburg University Guild Balmung, which Dieter Stein also joined. Among other things, he was for the magazine Of course! of the Freedom Federation. In 1990 he became the spokesman for his university guild and a member of the advisory board of the Corporations Association of German Guilds (DG).

In February 1990 he wrote his first article, in May 1991 he joined the editorial team of the newspaper Junge Freiheit (JF). There he worked in the department of “ Ethnopluralism ” (from 1992 “Nationality Issues ”). Above all, he deals with Eastern Europe and the Russian Germans . He then became deputy editor-in-chief and head of the “Nationality Issues” and “Travel” departments. Due to austerity measures, he left the newspaper in 1998. He also published in the national revolutionary magazine we ourselves and in the right-wing extremist magazine Die Aula . He was also a “freelancer” (Eastern Central Europe) for the revanchist Ostpreußenblatt . In 1994 he gave a lecture at the Junge Landsmannschaft East Prussia .

Schmidt works as a freelance journalist (focus on "ethnic group and minority policy"), he still writes for the JF today. According to a study (as of 2000), he also holds 2.0 percent of the shares in Junge Freiheit Verlags GmbH & Co. He is also chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad (VDA), and deputy on the foundation's board of trustees German Culture in Eastern Europe - OKR, formerly the East German Cultural Council Foundation and deputy spokesman for the association “Expellees, Resettlers and German Minorities in the AfD”.

He has lived in Annweiler am Trifels since 2004 , is married and has two children.

politics

He is a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), in whose state program commission Rhineland-Palatinate and state committees for foreign and security policy and culture and education he u. a. sits. He is also the spokesman for the working group peoples, cultures, regionalisms. He is the first assessor on the board of the AfD district association Südliche Weinstrasse - Landau id Pfalz.

Already in the municipal elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2014 , he ran for position 6 on the list - unsuccessfully at the time - for the district council Südliche Weinstrasse; the AfD received 5.2 percent of the vote and took two seats. In the state election in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 , he entered the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate via the state list (11th place) of his party . As a direct candidate in the Südliche Weinstrasse constituency (constituency 49), he combined 12.8 percent of the first votes behind the competitors from the SPD and CDU .

He is a full member of the Committee on Science, Education and Culture and an alternate member of the Committee on European Affairs and One World.

Fonts (selection)

• with Dieter Stein : In conversation with Ernst Nolte (= interview series . No. 4). Junge Freiheit, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-929886-01-4 .
• (Ed.): Travels to the Germans in Eastern Europe. Between the Oder and Memel, the Carpathian Mountains and the Caucasus . Ares-Verlag , Graz 2006, ISBN 978-3-902475-21-3 .

See also

• List of members of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (17th electoral term)

Web links

• Biography at the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate
• Martin Louis Schmidt: Application to become an assessor (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Announcement of the State Returning Officer on the approved state and district lists for the election to the 17th State Parliament Rhineland-Palatinate on March 13, 2016 . Bad Ems 2016, p. 62 ( PDF; 163 kB ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Kellershohn : The self-appointed elite. Origin and self-image of the staff of the Junge Freiheit . In the S. (Ed.): The plagiarism. The Volkish Nationalism of Young Freedom . DISS , Duisburg 1994, ISBN 3-927388-44-0 , pp. 51-116. here: p. 94.
3. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer : Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 186.
4. ↑ cf. Martin Tamcke : Experience, idea and communication of Russian religiosity with Henry von Heiseler . In the S. (Ed.): Look to the east. Festschrift for Friedrich Heyer on the occasion of his 95th birthday (= Studies on Oriental Church History . Vol. 30). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7418-4 , pp. 109–154, here: 112.
5. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MP Ulla Jelpke and the other MPs of the PDS (printed matter 13/86), Die Junge Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen and right-wing extremism, German Bundestag, printed matter 13/155, p. 1.
6. ↑ Frank Böckelmann : Who owns the newspapers? The ownership and ownership structure of daily and weekly newspaper publishers in Germany (= AKM Studies . Vol. 44). UVK-Medien, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-89669-321-2 , p. 404.
7. ↑ VDA regional associations , vda-kultur.de, accessed on March 18, 2016.
8. ^ Organs: Foundation for German Culture in Eastern Europe , kulturportal-west-ost.eu, accessed on March 18, 2016.
9. ↑ Board of Directors - VAdM. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (German). 
10. ↑ Board of the district association ( Memento of the original from March 15, 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. , alternative-suew.de, accessed on March 18, 2016. 
11. ↑ District council elections and city council elections of the independent cities: District Südliche Weinstrasse - Final result , wahlen.rlp.de, accessed on March 19, 2016.
12. ↑ Alexander Hensel, Lars Geiges , Robert Pausch, Julika Förster: The AfD before the state elections in 2016. Programs, profiles and potentials (= OBS working paper . 20). A project by the Otto Brenner Foundation , Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 30.
13. ↑ State elections 2016: Südliche Weinstrasse, Wahlkreis - Preliminary result ( Memento of the original from March 16, 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. , Wahlen.rlp.de, accessed on March 18, 2016.