Oskar Freysinger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oskar Freysinger (2014)

Oskar Freysinger (born June 12, 1960 in Siders , canton Wallis ; resident in Guttet-Feschel ) is a Swiss politician ( SVP ).

Origin, childhood, education, profession

Oskar Freysinger is the son of an Austrian (from Tyrol) and a woman from Upper Valais. After attending the German-speaking schools in Sion , he studied at the University of Freiburg i. Üe. Literature and philology. In 1985 he finished his studies with a licentiate and a high school teacher diploma. From 1987 to 2013 he worked as a teacher at the Planta high school in Sion.

Political career

Freysinger's political career began in 1997 when he was elected to the Savièse council , at that time still in the ranks of the CVP . In 1999 he founded the first SVP section in his canton and later became president of SVP Unterwallis. In 2002 he achieved national fame through a self-written mockery poem for the Federal Council candidacy of Toni Bortoluzzi , which he recited at the party congress of SVP Switzerland in Lupfig , Aargau . The poem made him known through the media.

According to the poem, Freysinger had to resign as cantonal president of SVP Unterwallis, but was elected to the National Council in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2003 and re-elected in the 2007 elections. In the context of the minaret dispute , Freysinger was an active opponent of minarets. He represented the arguments of the proponents of the ban in various programs, including on the Arab television channel Al Jazeera . In March 2013 Freysinger was elected to the Valais State Council for the 2013-2017 legislature. The State Council began its work on May 1, 2013, and Freysinger became head of the Department of Education and Security. He was not re-elected in the 2017 State Council elections, and his mandate ended at the end of April 2017. He is the first Valais State Councilor to have been voted out in 80 years. After being voted out of office, the SVP filed a complaint with the Federal Supreme Court about false votes. The wrong votes were obviously cast for Freysinger, in June a member of the SVP was arrested in this connection.

From May 2012, Freysinger was one of several vice-presidents of SVP Switzerland. In March 2018, he resigned as a member of the party leadership committee and Vice President of the SVP.

Oskar Freysinger (2007)

Freysinger appeared as a speaker at various organizations from the right-wing populist and anti-Islamic spectrum. In 2009 he took part as a speaker at an event organized by the Vlaams Belang . According to media reports, Freysinger accepted an invitation from the organization Riposte laïque in December 2010 and gave a speech at a controversial meeting of the French Bloc identitaire movement in Paris - like Dominique Baettig in southern France before . Freysinger made sure that no Holocaust deniers , neo-Nazis or fascists would take part. He announced that on the subject of "measures against Islam and its dangers" he would speak less about Islam and more about direct democracy . In June 2011 he was a guest speaker at the founding of the Bavarian regional association of the party Die Freiheit , where he presented Switzerland's direct democracy as a political model and attacked the ruling politicians of the EU states. These only pretend to act democratically, but actually tried to suppress democracy, according to Freysinger.

criticism

According to a documentation by the Swiss Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism, Freysinger published a racist poem with puns about rabble, poop and an army of cockroaches in the Swiss free newspaper .ch . The editor-in-chief of the newspaper distanced himself from it after the publication.

In March 2013, a scene in a report on Swiss radio and television revealed that Freysinger had hung a Reich war flag in the office in his house . This created controversy as the Reich War Flag is used by neo-Nazis these days . Freysinger replied that he bought the flag 15 years ago out of purely aesthetic considerations and that he thinks it is beautiful. He did not know that the flag is mainly used by neo-Nazis.

In August and September 2013, Freysinger once again attracted national attention when he hired the genocide denier Slobodan Despot as an external communications officer . Slobodan Despot, who is a friend of Oskar Freysinger and wrote the book Oskar et les Minarets about him, publicly denies that the Srebrenica massacre of the Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić was a genocide . In this context, an excerpt from Switzerland aktuell dated August 16, 2013 is shown in which Freysinger states that Srebrenica was not about women and children, but about men, most of whom were in combat, and that everything was blown up.

Literary work

Freysinger is a member of the Serbian Writers' Association , as the Swiss Association of Authors and Authors of Switzerland (AdS) rejected his application in 2005 because Freysinger does not share their “socio-political and ethical basic ideas”.

As part of the Rilke Festival 2009 in Switzerland, Freysinger received the poetry prize for a poem. In 2010 he received the culture award of his community Savièse .

In 2013 it became known that Freysinger is the previously unknown author of the novel Canines: antipolar (German canine teeth ) from 2010 on the controversial legal case of Luca Mongelli, published under the pseudonym Janus . The child Luca was found half-naked, unconscious and seriously injured in the snow in 2002; the authorities suspected the family's sheepdog, although Luca spoke of four young people who had beaten him. Since then, Luca has been blind and paralyzed. In the novel, Freysinger criticized the investigations by the Valais authorities. In 2013 the investigation was resumed by the public prosecutor.

family

Freysinger is married and has three adult children and one adult foster child. He lives in Savièse.

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Oskar Freysinger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Frey Singer on WikiWallis.ch.
  2. ↑ The polarizing politician with perseverance. In: Balance . November 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Vincenzo Capodici: SVP poet dreams of Hollywood ( memento of October 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Wallis: SVP moves with Freysinger into the State Council. In: SRF 1 . 17th March 2013.
  5. ↑ Luzius Theler: Varone's relief over the Turkish judgment. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 19, 2013.
  6. ^ Oskar Freysinger on the website of the canton of Valais.
  7. ↑ Andrea Kucera: The Surprise of Morals. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  8. ^ Philippe Reichen, Claudia Blumer: The SVP senses a conspiracy. In: Tages-Anzeiger. March 21, 2017.
  9. ↑ Freysinger voted out - Schmidt first. In: 1815.ch . 19th March 2017.
  10. ^ Election fraud in Valais? SVP files a complaint. In: Tages-Anzeiger. March 24, 2017.
  11. ^ Wrong votes for Freysinger. In: 1815.ch. May 31, 2017.
  12. ^ Election fraud in Valais. The arrested man is a member of the SVP. In: SRF . 15th June 2017.
  13. ^ Toni Brunner confirmed as SVP party president. In: NZZ Online . May 5, 2012.
  14. ↑ Christina Neuhaus: The SVP has to save Switzerland once again. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. March 24, 2018.
  15. ↑ Assessments of the racist incidents in Switzerland in 2009/2. SVP and right-wing extremism. GRA Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism, accessed December 18, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Does Freysinger go to neo-Nazi meetings? In: 20 minutes . November 17, 2010, accessed December 18, 2010 .
  17. ^ Bernard Schmid: Europe-wide anti-Islam congress planned in Paris. In: haGalil . December 6, 2010, accessed December 18, 2010 (German-Jewish online news magazine).
  18. ^ Stefan Brändle: Anti-Islamist Congress: Hetzer among themselves. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 20, 2010, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 20, 2010 .
  19. ↑ Freysinger takes part in anti-Islam meetings. In: SF Tagesschau . December 18, 2010, archived from the original on January 28, 2011 ; Retrieved December 18, 2010 .
  20. ^ Rudolf Stumberger : "Freedom" now also in Bavaria. In: New Germany . June 6, 2011.
  21. ^ Oskar Freysinger: Munich speech on direct democracy ( Memento from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Freedom . June 5, 2011, accessed June 9, 2011.
  22. ^ Racism in Switzerland. Sitten VS, October 13, 2008. GRA Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 18, 2010 .
  23. ^ Daniel Foppa: Freysinger's decorative war flag. In: Tages-Anzeiger. March 26, 2013.
  24. ↑ What is a Reich War flag doing in Freysinger's office? In: SRF 1 . March 26, 2013.
  25. ↑ a b Swiss populist Freysinger. Politician decorates office with Reich war flag. In: Spiegel Online . March 26, 2013.
  26. ↑ Philippe Reichen: A genocide denier for the Valais education department? In: Tages-Anzeiger. August 10, 2013, accessed December 19, 2013 .
  27. ↑ Freysinger hires genocide deniers. In: look . August 27, 2013, accessed December 19, 2013 .
  28. ↑ External communication manager on a part-time basis. (PDF; 4 kB) Canton of Valais. Department of Education and Security (DBS), August 26, 2013, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 19, 2013 (Slobodan Despot press release).
  29. ^ Oskar Freysinger: "Srebrenica was blown up". In: SRF. August 16, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
  30. ↑ Freysinger: No comment on genocide denial. In: 1815.ch. August 16, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013 .
  31. ↑ Thomas Widmer: Greetings from Moscow. In: Die Weltwoche . March 30, 2010.
  32. ↑ Freysinger wins poetry award - organizers little built ( Memento from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tages-Anzeiger. July 30, 2009.
  33. ^ Author portrait by Oskar Freysinger. Weltbild Verlag , accessed on March 25, 2013.
  34. ^ A b Roman Banholzer: Luca case: Freysinger criticizes his own investigators. In: Rundschau , SRF 1 . June 5, 2013, updated June 6, 2013
  35. ↑ a b Cinzia Venafro: The life confession of Oskar Freysinger. "I willingly played the part of evil". In: Blick.ch from October 2, 2018.
  36. ↑ Alejandro Velert: "Papa is a miserable loser". In: Schweizer Illustrierte . May 26, 2012 (interview).
  37. ↑ Ronny Nicolussi: The admiration of the former Federal Councilor for the rebel. In: NZZ Online. May 3, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Freysinger, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SVP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierre , canton of Valais