Nicole Höchst

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Nicole Höchst (born February 10, 1970  in Homburg (Saar) ) is a German teacher and politician ( AfD ). She was elected to the 19th German Bundestag in 2017 , where she is a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . Their policies are described by various interest groups as homophobic and hostile to disabled people, which Höchst himself denies.

Life and family

Born in Homburg (Saar) grew Nicole maximum in Monheim am Rhein and studied in the 1990s to teaching . She completed her legal clerkship at the Liebfrauenschule Mulhouse in Mulhouse (Grefrath) . After that, she was Head of Sales Germany Central / North for GUESS USA and from 2002 secondary school teacher at the Vocational School of Economics and Management Rheydt-Mülfort. From 2007 to 2012 Höchst was a student councilor at the Staatliche Speyer-Kolleg and from 2009 until she moved into the Bundestag she worked at the State Pedagogical Institute Rhineland-Palatinate in the section "Languages ​​Secondary  I  and  II " . Until she joined the AfD in 2013 , Höchst was a member of the CDU . She has been a member of the AfD's Federal Program Commission since February 2015. Nicole Höchst lives in Speyer and has four children whom she brings up alone.

Your daughter is a member of the youth council in Speyer. After she recited racist poems at a poetry slam organized by the youth city council and the initiative "Speyer without racism - Speyer with courage" in September 2018, the organizers excluded her from the award ceremony. Your lecture did not correspond to the topic of " moral courage ", but fueled fears. While the AfD criticized the exclusion as undemocratic, Mayor Monika Kabs accused the AfD of using the competition for a provocation.

MPs

In the 19th German Bundestag , Höchst is chairwoman of project group 5 of the Vocational Education Study, as well as chairwoman of the “Vocational Education” study commission . In addition, she is a full member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Subcommittee on Civic Engagement. Höchst is a deputy member of the committee for family, senior citizens, women and youth , as well as the board of trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

Political positions

General statements and classifications

In the election campaign for the 2017 federal election , Nicole Höchst announced in a political talk organized by the Göttenbach-Gymnasium in Idar-Oberstein that Islam does not belong to Germany .

Die Zeit wrote about Höchst shortly after her election to the Bundestag in 2017 that she was “more active on Facebook than almost any other AfD candidate. However, a uniform political profile cannot be identified ”. On her private page, she shares articles in the right-wing, Islamophobic “ PI News ”. On her public profile, she advertised both the party leader at the time, Frauke Petry, and her rival and then co-chairman Jörg Meuthen .

When asked about the right-wing reputation of her party, Höchst argues that all parties have to live with their margins and that the AfD has a strong internal party democracy . She also said Germany had “less of a problem with xenophobia than more of a problem with hostile strangers”. At the beginning of 2018 it became known that Höchst was a member of a right-wing extremist Facebook group. Then she distanced herself from the group and declared that she had left the group and that she had become a member without her knowledge - although this should not be technically possible.

In early 2019, Höchst equated Chancellor Angela Merkel with Adolf Hitler . "The Schnauzer now wears a diamond," she said at the time. In an interview with ZDF in November 2019, she stuck to this statement. If you look at how “Adolf Hitler came to power, what was brought into line, who pushed through on the streets, what subsequently became great politics”, you see “a lot of parallels”.

Equality and Family Policy

At an election campaign event, Höchst justified her opposition to same-sex marriage and an adoption right for same-sex male couples with “Studies [that] show that there are more pedophiles among homosexual men .” When asked, Höchst cited various studies, including one with 20 Participants. The Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation, however, doubted the result of this study because of its inexplicable size and called it dubious. Furthermore, according to Höchst, the abolition of the marriage ban is merely a satisfaction of the smallest interests. In addition, Höchst speaks out against sex education in schools under the catchphrase “ early sexualization ” , among other things because it unsettles children. Sex education is "an attack on children's souls". In addition, she denies the existence of more than two sexes , so with the words "If there are more than two sexes, I am a rainbow-puffing pink glitter unicorn". Because of her statements, Höchst's posting to the board of trustees of the Hirschfeld Foundation was sharply criticized by the lesbian and gay association, among others : she was "unsuitable and unqualified". Höchst countered allegations that she was homophobic with reference to many homosexual friends.

In the questioning of the federal government and the family minister Katarina Barley on January 17, 2018 Höchst rejected the Elterngeld Plus because it was only a measure that only very few people would take advantage of and only served to “satisfy very small interest groups”. Höchst rejects the previous equality policy for women because it forces women to work. There is no structural disadvantage for women in Germany. The real threat to women, however, comes from Islam .

Höchst was nominated by her parliamentary group for the board of trustees of the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld , but failed in the election by the Bundestag .

Incest and migration

Höchst wanted to know via a small inquiry from the federal government whether the number of severely disabled children in Germany had increased since 2012. In their opinion, more and more disabled children would result from marriages of relatives in immigrant families. Politicians from other parties criticized the request as inhuman, a "guilt principle" in the case of disabilities and the devaluation of the disabled are reminiscent of National Socialism . Sharp criticism came from the German social associations, among others, which accused the highest level of hostility towards the disabled and "devaluing people with disabilities and suggesting an 'absurd connection' between disability, incest and migration". Because of the request and actions of other AfD politicians, the associations switched a nationwide advertisement directed against the party. In response to this, Höchst threatened to cut state funds from the social organizations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicole Höchst. German Bundestag, accessed on May 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gustl Stumpf: direct candidates in PORTRAIT Nicole Höchst (AfD): death threats and bullying put families on their toes. Rhein-Zeitung, August 21, 2017, accessed on May 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Kai Biermann, Astrid Geisler, Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski: AfD parliamentary group: Right to extreme in the Bundestag . In: The time . September 26, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Politics in the back room. In: rheinpfalz.de. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ n-tv news: AfD politician's daughter rhymes right-wing slogans . In: n-tv.de . October 2, 2018 ( n-tv.de [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  6. ^ Speyer: Scandal in the poets' contest. In: rheinpfalz.de. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  7. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Vera Müller: Idar-Oberstein. Göttenbach high school students heat up candidates vigorously. August 29, 2017, archived from the original on January 25, 2018 ; accessed on April 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b c Leander F. Badura: Resilience and counter pressure. February 2, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  10. ^ AfD politicians in Facebook groups with right-wing extremist content. Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, April 11, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ David Gebhard, Dominik Rzepka: Nicole Höchst: AfD politician compares Merkel with Hitler. In: ZDF . November 26, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Matthias Zimmermann: Very uncomfortable? AfD sends opponents of gay marriage to the advocate committee. January 29, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  13. ^ A b Tilmann Warnecke: AfD sends hardliners to Homo Foundation. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 26, 2018, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b Nicole Höchst is a "rainbow-puffing pink glitter unicorn". queer.de, January 26, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Homophobic AfD politician sent to gay foundation - Source: https://www.berliner-kurier.de/29558354 © 2018. Berliner Kurier, January 25, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Plenary Protocol 19/6 of the German Bundestag from January 17, 2018. In: bundestag.de , p. 467 (D) (PDF; 830 kB)
  17. ^ Foreign shame alarm in the Bundestag: AfD politician about equality. Brigitte, March 2, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  18. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/queerspiegel/kuratorium-fuer-hirschfeld-stiftung-afd-hardlinerin-faellt-im-bundestag-bei-wahl-fuer-queere-stiftung-durch/23601344.html
  19. ^ Reply to the media coverage of Nicole Höchst on facebook. In: facebook. April 12, 2018, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  20. ↑ "Crass media coverage": AFD to severely disabled, inbreeding and immigrants. In: euronews. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  21. ↑ "A small question from the AfD in the Bundestag on severely disabled people in Germany. In: bundestag.de. March 22, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Alessandro Peduto: AfD request on the disabled causes outrage. Freie Presse, April 16, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  23. ↑ AfD MP attacks social organizations. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 29, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Highest, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg