Oskar Helmerich

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Oskar Helmerich (2016)

Oskar J. Helmerich (born March 30, 1960 in Deggendorf ) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD , formerly AfD ).

In the state elections in 2014 , he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament via the state list of the AfD Thuringia , to which he was a member until 2019, from May 2015 as a non-attached member. After the federal party conference in July 2015, he left the AfD. In April 2016 he changed to the parliamentary group of the SPD Thuringia .

Life and work

Helmerich first grew up in Deggendorf, his hometown in Lower Bavaria . His single mother was a podiatrist and his grandparents were a factory worker. The family was shaped by social democrats and clearly rejected the CSU and its chairman at the time, Franz Josef Strauss . After moving with his mother to Frankfurt am Main , Helmerich attended a Catholic boarding school and passed his Abitur there. After completing his military service, he studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and completed his training in 1991 with the second state examination. He has been working as a freelance lawyer in Erfurt since 1992 and as a specialist lawyer for criminal law since 1996 .

politics

Helmerich's entry into the AfD was motivated by the euro crisis and his rejection of the euro rescue measures ; He claims not to have noticed any nationalist tendencies in the party until the 2014 state elections. He was the spokesman for the AfD district association in Central Thuringia. In the early days of the AfD, the offices of his law firm were also used as the state office of AfD Thuringia .

Since the municipal elections in Thuringia in 2014 , Helmerich was a member of the Erfurt city council. In the same year he moved into the Thuringian state parliament via the AfD state list , on which he ran in second place immediately after Björn Höcke . Until March 2015, Helmerich was a member of the state board of AfD Thuringia and resigned due to political and personal differences. Together with the MPs Jens Krumpe and Siegfried Gentele , who was excluded from the AfD parliamentary group in April 2015 , he opposed the Erfurt resolution initiated by the state and parliamentary group chairman Björn Höcke . On May 13, 2015, his parliamentary group decided to exclude him from the parliamentary group meetings for the time being, to no longer grant him access to internal parliamentary documents and to withdraw his seats in the state parliament committees . As an official reason, the parliamentary group stated that Helmerich had not yet opened a constituency office, would not attend appointments and would pass on internal information to the media. Together with Krumpe and Gentele, he joined the Weckruf association founded by party leader Bernd Lucke in 2015 .

At the end of May 2015, he announced his resignation from the AfD parliamentary group. Afterwards he was threatened with expulsion from the party . After the federal party conference and Bernd Lucke's resignation in early July 2015, Helmerich left the AfD. He remained a member of the Thuringian state parliament and initially belonged to it as a non-attached MP .

At the beginning of April 2016 he was accepted into the Erfurt SPD city council group. On April 13, 2016, the SPD parliamentary group also accepted him as a non-party member in the Thuringian state parliament. Eight of the twelve MPs voted for Helmerich; Diana Lehmann and Birgit Pelke voted against him, Marion Rosin and Christoph Matschie did not take part. One day after the vote, Lehmann announced that she was leaving the SPD state executive. At the beginning of May 2016 it became known that Helmerich had applied for membership in a local SPD association in Erfurt. Since the application was not contradicted within a month, he is now officially a member of the party.

"To attract voters who have migrated to the AfD," Helmerich invited Thilo Sarrazin to a reading from his book Hostile Takeover on May 22, 2019 . This request was rejected by the SPD state chairman Wolfgang Tiefensee . Several leading SPD members in Thuringia distanced themselves from the event.

In the run-up to the election of the Erfurt City Council in May 2019, Helmerich polarized with election posters on which the demand “No right to stay for those at risk” was printed. The SPD district association Weimarer Land therefore called for Helmerich to leave the party. In a letter to Helmerich, the district association accused him of having "never overcome his AfD convictions".

In the state elections in Thuringia in October 2019 , Helmerich ran for the SPD in the Saale-Orla-Kreis II constituency ; with a result of 6.0%, however, he did not succeed in re-entering the state parliament.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Helmerich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Thuringia: Ex-AfD member now belongs to the SPD parliamentary group. Spiegel Online, April 13, 2016, accessed April 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Martin Debes: Suddenly a Social Democrat: Oskar Helmerich and the story of a metamorphosis. Thüringer Allgemeine, July 22, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2016 .
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  7. ↑ a b Martin Debes: No exclusion: Thuringian AfD parliamentary group disciplines MPs Helmerich and Krumpe. In: Thuringian General. May 13, 2015, accessed May 24, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Volkhard Paczulla: Thuringian AfD parliamentary group occupies deviants with penalties. In: Thuringian General. May 14, 2015, accessed May 24, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b Martin Debes: Deputy Helmerich leaves the Thuringian AfD parliamentary group. In: Thuringian General. May 23, 2015, accessed May 24, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Tilman Steffen: Alternative for Germany: AfD youngsters kick out Lucke supporters. In: The time . May 23, 2015, accessed May 24, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Board wants to throw deviants from the AfD. In: Thuringian General. June 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ Ulf Lüdeke: Ex-AfD board member warns: "Björn Höcke wants a leader state". Focus , April 6, 2016, accessed April 7, 2016 .
  13. ↑ a b Martin Debes: Ex-AfD politician included in the Thuringian SPD parliamentary group. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. April 13, 2016, accessed April 15, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Martin Debes: Matschie criticizes the inclusion of ex-AfD politicians in the state parliamentary group. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. April 14, 2016, accessed April 15, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Elmar Otto: After the inclusion of ex-AfDler: SPD woman Diana Lehmann resigns. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. April 15, 2016, Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Martin Debes: Thuringian ex-AfD member of the state parliament applies for SPD membership. In: Thuringian General. May 3, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Ex-AfD member Helmerich is now officially in the SPD. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. June 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 .
  18. ^ Zeit Online: Thuringia's SPD boss distances himself from the Sarrazin reading , accessed on March 30, 2019
  19. ↑ FOCUS Online: horror in the party: SPD man invites Sarrazin to election campaign event. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  20. ^ Mdr.de: Politics: New Debate about Helmerich in the SPD | MDR.DE. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Helmerich, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helmerich, Oskar J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Deggendorf