Morten Messerschmidt

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Morten Messerschmidt

Morten Messerschmidt (born November 13, 1980 in Frederikssund ) is a politician of the Danish People's Party (DF). He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 .

job

After graduating from high school in 1999, Messerschmidt studied law at the University of Copenhagen . In 2009 he passed the exam. From 2003 to 2005 he worked for Mogens Camre, Member of the German Parliament .

politics

In 2001 Messerschmidt, together with Kenneth Kristensen Berth and other members of the DF Youth Association, placed a newspaper advertisement with the slogan "Mass rape, gross violence, insecurity, forced marriage, oppression of women, gang crime - that is what a multiethnic society offers us". For this, the young politicians were sentenced in October 2002 to 14 days in prison on probation in accordance with Section 266 b of the Criminal Code - which roughly corresponds to the German incitement to hatred.

Messerschmidt was elected to the Folketing for the first time in 2005 and received the post of European policy spokesman for his group. In 2007 he was able to improve his personal election results considerably and was rewarded with the additional post of energy policy spokesman. In the 2009 European elections , he ran as the top candidate for the DF. He achieved the second-best personal result in the Danish European elections and joined the Eurosceptic group on Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFD). In the 2014 European elections he received the highest number of personal votes that a candidate has ever received in the Danish European elections; they corresponded to a share of the vote of 20.5 percent (DF 26.6 percent). The parliamentary group he led joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.

As chairman of the European MELD party , he had to repay around 150,000 euros in misused EU grants in October 2015. A little later it became known that Messerschmidt had started the founding of another European party in July 2015 ("Alternative for Europe"), for which EU funds had already been requested; on October 28, 2015, the DF officially withdrew from the project.

Political positions

Messerschmidt firmly represents positions critical of the EU. He has repeatedly called for the abolition of the European Parliament and would like to transfer all powers back to the nation states. Controls at the state borders are to be reintroduced. The EU should receive less money from national budgets. It is important to prevent Turkey from joining the EU.

Public appearance

Messerschmidt appears - in contrast to the otherwise lax dress rules in Danish politics - extremely neatly dressed. He doesn't shy away from popular media formats to get attention. In 2003 he took part in Big Brother VIP on Danish television; In 2008 he recorded a CD of Christmas carols with his wife, the singer Dot Wessmann.

On April 27, 2007 the daily newspaper BT reported that Morten Messerschmidt had shown the Hitler salute and sang Nazi songs on Hitler's birthday, April 20, in the Grøften restaurant in Tivoli . Messerschmidt admitted that he was drunk and sang the first verse of the first verse of the Deutschlandlied . Messerschmidt denied that he wanted to have glorified Hitler. In order to avert damage to his party, he temporarily resigned from the party and parliamentary group. After two years before the Danish courts, Messerschmidt was released from the charge of publicly showing the Hitler salute.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Trier Mogensen: The past catches up with Messerschmidt (Danish) Politiken.dk, July 8, 2009, accessed on July 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Preliminary final result Danmarks Radio, May 26, 2014, accessed on July 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Messerschmidt stiftede nyt europæisk parti (Danish) Danmarks Radio, October 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Main concern (Danish) ( Memento from September 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) website of the DF, accessed on July 13, 2012
  5. ^ Hitler glorified in Tivoli (Danish) BT online, April 27, 2007, accessed on July 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Jakob Sorgenfri Kjær: Messerschmidt denies having shown the Hitler salute (Danish) Politiken.dk, May 22, 2007, accessed on July 13, 2012
  7. ↑ Messerschmidt wins against BT in the Nazi trial (Danish) Berlingske online, February 26, 2009, accessed on July 13, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Messerschmidt, Morten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician (DF), member of the Folketing, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Frederikssund