Nicolaus feast

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Constantin Nicolaus Johannes Joachim Fest (born July 1, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer , journalist and politician ( AfD ). In 2019 he was elected to the European Parliament and has been the emergency board of the AfD Berlin since the end of January 2020 .

Life

Nicolaus Fest is the son of the time historian , FAZ - publisher and author Joachim Fest and the brother of the publisher Alexander Fest .

Fest grew up in Hamburg and studied law . He received his doctorate in 1995 at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation “ Enrichment and compensation for damages in the violation of intellectual property rights” .

After his legal clerkship , Fest initially worked at the auction house Sotheby’s and at the Ebner Pressegesellschaft in Ulm ( Südwest Presse ). At the beginning of 1995 he came to the publishing house Gruner + Jahr . First he worked for a project in the advertising sector, later he was a consultant for special projects in the office of CEO Gerd Schulte-Hillen . In February 1999 he switched to the press spokesperson team, responsible for internal communication, contact with the regional press and the online presence. After a dispute with Schulte-Hillen, he left the company at the end of May 2000. At the beginning of 2001 he started working for the picture group of the Axel-Springer-Verlag . He was the cultural director of Bild and from October 2013 to September 2014 he was deputy editor-in-chief of Bild am Sonntag, responsible for special tasks. Fest left the newspaper at the end of 2014. In March 2017 he was nominated by the AfD Berlin at number 5 on the state list for the 2017 federal election. In his Bundestag constituency Berlin-Charlottenburg - Wilmersdorf , he only achieved 6th place among the direct candidates with 7.2% of the votes cast. He did not succeed in entering the Bundestag via the state list either.

Because of a blog entry in which Fest described “groups of Arab, Turkish or African youth” as “primitive and vicious” and in which the sentence “In this respect, you have to use the word from Max Frisch , according to which we called guest workers , but got people perhaps correct: We called guest workers, but got rabble "finds festival was in 2017 for sedition displayed. The proceedings were discontinued in July 2017 by the Berlin public prosecutor . When the hashtag #Gesindel got into the trending topics of Twitter in October 2019 after a campaign by HoGeSatzbau , Fest declined to comment when asked by Bayerischer Rundfunk , “whether he would repeat the statement made at that time today or distance himself from it”. Fest aktuell (as of 2019) is still spreading the “rabble” statement on its website.

At a citizens' dialogue of the AfD district association Lüchow-Dannenberg / Lüneburg in 2018, Fest demanded that Chancellor Angela Merkel had to be "killed". Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki described this statement as "poor".

For the 2019 EU election , Fest was elected 6th on the AfD's federal list at a delegate party conference in November 2018. He succeeded in entering the European Parliament.

In January 2020, Fest was appointed as an emergency board of the AfD-Berlin. The former country chief Georg Pazderski handed over the business to Fest, as the regular board of directors had not been in office since the end of 2019 and the emergency board that was then appointed only until 25/26. January was used.

Positions

In July 2014, Fest wrote a commentary on Bild am Sonntag in which he described Islam as an obstacle to integration . The comment sparked a debate. The editor-in-chief of Bild , Kai Diekmann , and the editor-in-chief of Bild am Sonntag , Marion Horn , distanced themselves from Fest's statements. At the end of 2014, Fest left Bild , the publisher denied any connection with Fest's Islam-critical commentary .

In January 2016, Fest wrote in the new right-wing Junge Freiheit that Germany was threatened with "de-parliamentarization" under Angela Merkel's government, and described parallels with the Nazis' Enabling Act of 1933 . The Germans would therefore have to “wake up” and “take politics into their own hands”, otherwise there would be “no waking up”.

Fest joined the Berlin State Association of Alternative for Germany in October 2016 . At a press conference on joining the party, Fest said that he considered Islam less a religion than a totalitarian movement that was comparable to National Socialism and not compatible with the German Basic Law . There should be no place for a totalitarian ideology in public. This means that mosques must also be closed. In March 2017, he expanded this demand by telling Tagesspiegel that he wanted to close all mosques.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Common lists for all countries of the parties (European elections 2019 at bundeswahlleiter.de). Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Nicolaus Fest - Alternative for Germany. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Nicolaus Fest takes over the emergency board of the Berlin AfD. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Melanie Amann, Severin Weiland: Ex-BamS-Vice joins AfD. In: Spiegel Online . October 5, 2016, accessed October 5, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Peter Caspar Hamel: Dr. Nicolaus Fest strengthens Gruner + Jahr's public relations work. In: Gruner + Jahr AG & Co , January 24, 1999.
  7. ↑ Ulrike Simon: Media. "Image": The new Springer bosses debut. In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 3, 2001.
  8. ↑ Marion Horn takes over editor-in-chief of Bild am Sonntag. at axelspringer.de on September 13, 2013, accessed on March 10, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b State party congress in Brandenburg AfD ends the free choice of candidates , Der Tagesspiegel , March 7, 2017
  10. ^ Report on ex-journalists AfD denies personnel around Nicolaus Fest , Der Tagesspiegel , October 27, 2017
  11. ↑ a b Human dignity and breaks in logic | Nicolaus feast. Accessed October 24, 2019 (German).
  12. ^ Advertisement against Nicolaus Fest for sedition . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . March 31, 2017, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed October 24, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Hasan Gökkaya: Investigations against Berlin AfD politicians Fest stopped . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . August 18, 2017, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 16, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Social media campaign against AfD: What is behind "#Gesindel" . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . October 22, 2019.
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Kubicki: "All in all, that's poor". Retrieved October 16, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ Christian Meier: Nicolaus Fest writes on the sidelines with an anti-Islam comment. In: Meedia , July 28, 2014.
  17. ↑ Green politician Beck demands apology from "Bild" In: Zeit Online , July 27, 2014.
  18. ↑ Christina Hebel: "Bild" - editor-in-chief distances itself from anti-Islam commentary. In: Spiegel Online , July 28, 2014.
  19. ↑ Alexander Kissler : An isolated idiot. Nicolaus Fest was thrown out of the picture after a comment critical of Islam. Would that still be the case today? In: Cicero , February 2015 ( Memento from February 2, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), pp. 104–105.
  20. ↑ Sonja Álvarez: AfD and Pegida bring “Young Freedom” a record circulation. www.tagesspiegel.de, January 25, 2016
  21. ↑ Fabian Leber: Nicolaus Fest is drawn to the AfD. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 5, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  22. ↑ New AfD man compares Islam with National Socialism. In: focus.de . October 6, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Severin Weiland: To begin with, close the mosques. In: Spiegel Online . October 6, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Fest, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fest, Constantin Nicolaus Johannes Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg