Patrick Humke

Patrick-Marc Humke-Focks (2009)

Patrick-Marc Humke (until January 2011: Humke-Focks ; born April 30, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a politician of the Die Linke party . From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Humke-Focks grew up in Moordorf in the East Frisian district of Aurich . After graduating from the IGS Aurich-West in 1988, he did his community service in the workshops for the disabled in Aurich, after which he did an apprenticeship as a gardener, which he completed in 1993. He then worked in a tree nursery in Göttingen , then in individual care for the severely disabled. There he was works council and works council chairman for over nine years . During this time, he began studying social work and social pedagogy at the HAWK in Hildesheim , which he completed with a diploma as a social pedagogue . Then he worked in his profession. Later he was employed as an employee for party development at the Linkspartei.PDS and then country manager of the party.

Humke-Focks became a member of the state parliament in the Lower Saxony state elections in 2008 and the social and health policy spokesman for the “Die Linke” parliamentary group. Until 2010 he was a member of the party's state executive committee. After missing the five percent hurdle in Lower Saxony's state elections in 2013 , Humke left the state parliament. At the subsequent state party congress he was re-elected to the state executive committee by the delegates in order to participate in the reorganization of the party in Lower Saxony. He retained the content-related responsibilities for the areas of social affairs and health.

From October 2013 Humke worked in his job in a child and youth welfare facility in the district of Göttingen and changed jobs in February 2014. He worked at the Göttinger Werkstätten until November 2017 as a department head for outpatient assisted living. Since December 2017 Humke has been working in the management and educational coordinator of the children's and youth home "Das Uhlenhus" (locations in Göttingen, Landolfshausen and Potzwenden). On April 1, 2020, he started a new job at Ostfriesische Wohnstätten- und Arbeitsigungs GmbH (OBW) as the manager of a home for people with mental disabilities in Emden.

Humke is a member of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) and ver.di . He is also a member of the Association for the Promotion of Anti-Fascist Culture in Göttingen and of the Red Aid. In 2016 he became chairman of the Sparta Göttingen soccer club.

In 2020 Humke moved to Süd-Victorbur (Südbrookmerland municipality, Aurich district ).

politics

In the state election in Lower Saxony in 2008 , he entered the Lower Saxony state parliament via the state list . He had been voted fourth on the state list. In his constituency of Göttingen-Stadt , he received 10.4% of the vote as a direct candidate; at the state level, the Left had achieved (7.1%). During the election campaign, he commented on the statements made by the Hessian Prime Minister on the subject of foreigners and crime: " Roland Koch & Co. [are] pioneers for old and new fascists". Humke-Focks also campaigned against Hartz IV , the privatization of the health care system, for the right to mobility, for basic security to meet needs, for the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, for the participation of all people in social and cultural life Life and for a comprehensive health care in Lower Saxony.

Humke was councilor of the city of Göttingen from 1996 to 2016 and missed his fifth re-election in the last local elections in Lower Saxony on September 11, 2016. He worked in various extra-parliamentary alliances.

There have been numerous criminal proceedings against the politician in the past. According to newspaper reports, there were ten charges against Humke-Focks by 2009. Up until then he had been sentenced four times. He was sentenced to fines because of the statements "professional thugs" and "idiot gang" to police officers.

In January 2009 the Lower Saxony state parliament lifted the political immunity of the MP Humke-Focks because of criminal investigations. He was accused of calling a police officer a "bum" on the sidelines of a demonstration against a table dance bar in Göttingen in the summer of 2008. The proceedings were discontinued against payment of 1000 euros to a non-profit organization. On June 15, 2011, he was sentenced by the Hanover District Court to a fine of 40 daily rates , a total of 5200 euros, for resisting state power . Humke hit a police officer during a demonstration in 2008.

In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 , the left could not overcome the five percent hurdle and he left the state parliament. Humke was re-elected to the state executive at the subsequent state party convention; his responsibilities included the areas of social affairs and health. Humke no longer ran for the state executive at the state party conference of the Lower Saxony Left in 2015.

In the local elections on September 11, 2016, Humke resigned from the Göttingen city council after 20 years.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} parliamentwatch.de | Profile of Patrick-Marc Humke, DIE LINKE - Lower Saxony 2008-2013. Retrieved January 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Humke is the new boss of Sparta Göttingen. July 5, 2016, accessed January 15, 2019 . 
3. ^ Re: Patrick Humke-Focks . In: taz . February 22, 2008, p. 23 ( online ).
4. ↑ Expensive demo participation die tageszeitung, on September 2, 2009, (accessed on May 9, 2014)
5. ↑ Again proceedings against Humke-Focks Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung (accessed on May 9, 2014)
6. ↑ Public prosecutor plans to investigate left-wing politicians Kreiszeitung.de (accessed on May 9, 2014)
7. ↑ Schaumburger Nachrichten of June 16, 2011: Lower Saxony's left-wing politician Humke condemns Humke always denied this accusation and repeatedly pointed out that he had arbitrarily placed himself between the police and demonstrators and had not hit anyone. (Accessed on May 9, 2014)
8. ↑ Wucherpfennig takes over from Humke. Retrieved January 15, 2019 . 
9. ↑ wahlen.kdgoe.de 2016: Antifa LINKE (accessed on September 24, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Patrick Humke-Focks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• patrick-humke.de
• Website of the left-wing parliamentary group of Lower Saxony ( Memento from December 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )