Martin Speer (activist)

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Martin Speer at the ZEIT Online Festival (2016)

Martin Speer (born September 14, 1986 in Leipzig ) is a German activist, economist and political communicator.

He devotes himself to a range of social and political issues, publishes articles in newspapers and initiates political campaigns. He became known as part of the author and activist team Herr & Speer with the FreeInterrail Initiative, the open letter #EsIstZeit and the commitment to intergenerational justice . His work focuses on European integration , democracy , intergenerational and gender equality .

Political positions

Intergenerational justice

Speer advocates a more intergenerational society and greater visibility of the young generation in the political arena. He advocates a youth quota for lists in political parties, calls for a lowering of the voting age and demands from his generation greater political commitment and higher voter turnout. He rates the pension at 63 as “a step backwards in an aging society”. In the Maybrit Illner talk show for the 2013 federal election, he criticized the political denial of reality in dealing with demographic change and called Germany a “republic of future atheists”. The FAZ describes him as a "pensioner scare".

Together with a group of activists, he filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court and is contesting the 2013 federal election because no people under the age of 18 were allowed to vote. 13 million minors have been denied the right to vote. The Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court rejected the election review complaint in 2016.

equality

Speer is committed to reducing discrimination against sexual minorities. In 2013 he published the open letter Establishes what is equal and calls for the full opening of marriage to same-sex couples. The letter was co-signed by intellectuals such as Martin Walser , Günter Grass , Angelika Taschen and Roger Willemsen . Spiegel Online calls it a "remarkable writing". Right-wing conservative circles sharply criticized Speer for the text and accused him of "destroying the marriage."

In July 2015, Speer and Vincent-Immanuel Herr wrote an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel . Under the hashtag #EsIstZeit, the activists are calling for a vote to open up marriage without being forced into a faction . Top politicians from the SPD , B90 / Die Grünen , Die Linke and FDP signed the letter, as did over 100 German celebrities from art, culture, science and the media, including Nena , Udo Lindenberg , Til Schweiger , Die Ärzte , Jan-Josef Liefers and Claudius Seidl , Maren Kroymann , Thomas Hitzlsperger . Around 58,000 people joined the project on the petition platform change.org .

European Integration

Speer is committed to strengthening European cohesion with various initiatives.

He sees European civil society as the “engine of a new, citizen-oriented and democratic Europe”.

#EuropeLovesUK

In 2016, he and Vincent-Immanuel Herr addressed the British people with the open letter #EuropeLovesUK and encouraged Great Britain to remain in the European Union. 57,000 people signed the letter online. Hundreds of people took part in the action on social networks, including bestselling author JKRowling.

#FreeInterrail

Together with Vincent-Immanuel Herr, Speer developed the idea of giving every EU citizen a free Interrail ticket for their 18th birthday on a European research trip in 2014 and thus giving all young people the opportunity - regardless of their social, financial or national background - to get to know and appreciate Europe. The proposal, also known as #FreeInterrail , was widely discussed in the media and politically across Europe and was largely received positively. A survey by the ZDF Politbarometer in September 2016 shows that a majority of Germans consider this proposal to be sensible. The proposal was also taken up in the European Parliament , where it is supported by MEPs from the EPP , ALDE , Greens / EFA and S&D groups . The European Commission calls it an "excellent" idea, but is still hesitant to fully implement it.

After a pilot project in 2018 with 15,000 free Interrail tickets, the EU Commission plans to provide up to 700 million euros for #DiscoverEU between 2021 and 2027 , as the EU's FreeInterrail-based initiative is called.

Young European Collective

Speer is co-founder of the European team of authors and activists The Young European Collective . The group consists of 18 members from 14 different European countries. In autumn 2015 the collective published a jointly written generational and European essay entitled “Who, If Not Us?”, Crowdfunded the printing and distributed 6,000 copies to young people in several European countries. The group was also funded by the Mercator Foundation. The German translation of the book was published in June 2017 by Verlag Droemer Knaur .

Life

After his parents escaped via the Prague embassy , Martin Speer grew up in Heroldsberg . Before his socio-political work, Speer built up the “OCÓO” beverage brand. He studied economics in the United States and Germany. 2015 - 2016 Speer was press spokesman for political scientist Ulrike Guérot . 2016 - 2018 press spokesman and head of the Federal Association of German Foundations.

He lives with his partner in Berlin and Frankfurt.

Awards

  • "Young Elite: 40 under 40", ranking of the 40 top talents in the field of state and society, capital
  • “Leader of Tomorrow” - Knowledge Pool St. Gallen Symposium 2015 and 2016
  • Top 4 of the “European Charlemagne Youth Prize ” 2017
  • Bayreuth model award of the 2017 bayreuther dialoge, the future forum for economy, philosophy and society
  • Political Award 2017 (#FreeInterrail)
  • "Blue Bear", European Prize of the City of Berlin 2018
  • Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration (#FreeInterrail), 2018
  • Innovation in Politics Award 2018

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Till Schwarze: Interrail: Travel against Europe frustration . Zeit Online , September 27, 2016; Retrieved July 18, 2017
  2. ↑ Open letter to Merkel: Celebrities call for equality in gay marriage. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Appeal: Celebrities accuse politics of discouragement. In: Welt Online . Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Vincent-Immanuel Herr, Martin Speer: Quote: Youth dare . In: The time . April 12, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Hannes Schrader: Bundestag Election: Do the Young Fail at Democracy? | ZEIT campus . In: The time . September 21, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Generational justice - “One step back” . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
  7. ↑ "Maybrit Illner": Pension in the "Republic of Future Atheists". In: Welt Online . Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Obsolescence: Germany is becoming a pensioner democracy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ( faz.net [accessed July 20, 2017]).
  9. ^ Badische Zeitung: Federal Constitutional Court: No right to vote under 18 - Germany - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Quaas: Notice of appeal according to §2 WahlPrüfG . Ed .: Quaas and Partner. November 19, 2013, p. 1 .
  11. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Children sue against minimum age for voting rights | Germany | DW | 07/15/2014. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Barbara Galaktionow: Celebrities demand equation of gay marriage . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2013, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Open letter to the Bundestag: Celebrities demand full rights for gay couples . In: Spiegel Online . May 13, 2013 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Bernhard Lassahn: The marriage dies of a poisoned fruit salad, and the children are brought by the rattle stork . Manuscriptum, Waltrop and Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-937801-90-2 , pp. 1 .
  15. ↑ Open letter to Merkel: Celebrities call for equality in gay marriage . In: Spiegel Online . June 1, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Open letter on gay marriage: List of co-signatories . In: Spiegel Online . June 1, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  17. ^ Sign the petition. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Vincent-Immanuel Herr, Martin Speer: Europe: Really beautiful here . In: The time . May 19, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  19. ^ Sign the petition. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (UK English).
  20. ↑ Love letters to London: 50,000 people want to persuade the British to stay. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (American English).
  21. ↑ Tanja Wieser: Interrail free tickets for more EU enthusiasm . In: Europäische Union aktuell - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
  22. ↑ Till Schwarze: Interrail: Travel against Europe frustration | ZEIT campus . In: The time . September 27, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  23. ↑ Jon Henley European affairs correspondent: EU plan to counter Brexit: give teenagers free InterRail tickets . In: The Guardian . October 5, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  24. ↑ Strasbourg: Europe skepticism: Free Interrail ticket should attract young people to the EU . In: THE WORLD . September 18, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  25. ↑ Research Group Elections> Polls> Politbarometer> Archive> Politbarometer 2016> September 2016. Accessed on October 16, 2017 .
  26. ↑ MEPs want to give free rail passes to young Europeans | News | European Parliament . ( europa.eu [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  27. ↑ Parliament's free Interrail plan replaced by smaller € 2.5 million travel fund for teenagers. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (UK English).
  28. ↑ Do you want to discover Europe this summer? In: European Youth Portal. April 30, 2018, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  29. ↑ ZEIT ONLINE: Free Interrail: EU plans 700 million euros for free Interrail tickets . In: The time . May 2, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 26, 2019]).
  30. ^ The Young European Collective . In: Who, If Not Us? ( whoifnotus.eu [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  31. ^ The Book . In: Who, If Not Us? ( whoifnotus.eu [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  32. ↑ Support Us . In: Who, If Not Us? ( whoifnotus.eu [accessed October 16, 2017]).
  33. ↑ Who if not us? - Book by Droemer Knaur. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
  34. ↑ 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall - The freedom generation is afraid of change . In: Cicero Online . ( cicero.de [accessed on July 18, 2017]).
  35. ↑ Rexam and Pure Product GmbH sweep 3 Beverage Innovation Awards for OCÓO Beauty Drink - New Food Magazine. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  36. ^ Beauty in a bottle: drink yourself healthy . In: The National . ( thenational.ae [accessed July 18, 2017]).
  37. ^ HWR Semester Journal: It's up to us . Ed .: Berlin School of Economics and Law. No. 1/14 . Berlin 2014, p. 8 .
  38. ↑ Speer is the new press spokesman at BVDS . In: magazine press spokesman . September 13, 2016 ( pressessprecher.com [accessed September 6, 2017]).
  39. ↑ Speer is the new press spokesman at BVDS . In: Politics & Communication . ( politik-kommunikation.de [accessed on July 18, 2017]).
  40. ↑ Top 40 under 40 - State and society. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  41. ^ [Magazine] 46th St. Gallen Symposium: Debate Growth. In: tonilane.com. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  42. ↑ European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2017 - Presentation of the projects. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  43. ↑ Presentation of the model award | Bayreuth Dialogues 2017 . In: Bayreuther Dialoge 2017 . ( online [accessed October 16, 2017]). Presentation of the model award | Bayreuth Dialogues 2017 ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2017 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bayreuther-dialoge.de
  44. ↑ Bayreuth Model Prize. In: bayreuther dialoge 2019. Retrieved on August 20, 2019 (American English).
  45. ↑ Dreyer, Ziemiak and Ströbele received a political award . In: Politics & Communication . ( politik-kommunikation.de [accessed on May 18, 2018]).
  46. ↑ Berlin European Blue Bear Prize. May 15, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
  47. ↑ Winner of the 2018 Jean Monnet Prize: #FreeInterrail campaign . In: EuropeanConstitution.eu . ( europeanconstitution.eu [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  48. ^ The Innovation In Politics Awards . ( innovationinpolitics.eu [accessed November 20, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Speer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German activist, economist and political communicator
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig