Peter D. Krause

Peter Detlef Krause (* 24. February 1964 in Weimar ) is a German politician of the CDU in Thuringia .

Life

After his school days from 1970 to 1980 at a polytechnic high school in Weimar, Peter Krause completed vocational training as a skilled worker for mining technology from 1980 to 1983 at SDAG Wismut in Gera . In 1983 he completed this professional training and at the same time obtained his university entrance qualification . He works as a tuscher in the Ronneburg district. From 1983 to 1985 he did an 18-month military service in Erfurt . He then worked until 1988 as an editorial assistant for the Thüringer Tageblatt in Weimar, published by the GDR CDU . At the same time, he began studying journalism at the journalism section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (also known as the “Red Monastery”).

On June 17, 1988, he applied for permanent departure from the GDR , which resulted in his de-registration from the University of Leipzig and his resignation from the Thüringer Tageblatt . Krause was then unemployed and worked as a geriatric nurse for the People's Solidarity in Jena .

In 1989, as a GDR citizen, he initially briefly began studying philosophy at the FernUniversität in Hagen , and was also a guest student in German studies at the University of Jena . In September 1989 he was one of the ten first signatories of the New Forum in the Gera district. Between 1989 and 1994 Krause studied German language and literature and history at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Oldenburg . He finished his studies with a master's degree . From 1994 to 1997 he was a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV (German Graduate Funding). 1999 Krause was with a dissertation on indefinite rhetoric. Friedrich Schlegel and the art of speaking around 1800 at the University of Oldenburg with summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1998 he worked for two and a half months, according to the editor-in-chief for six months as an editor for the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . He remained a freelance author of the paper and also wrote articles for the Ostpreußenblatt , organ of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft . In 2002, he wrote for the right theory Organ stage two reviews.

In 2007 Krause received the Order of Faust , a carnival medal awarded annually in Weimar by the craftsmen Carnevalsverein Weimar eV .

Krause is President of the Weimar Boxing Club, which in 2008 received the Big Star of Sports in silver from the German Olympic Sports Confederation for its integration work .

Political career

Krause became a member of the CDU in 1997. Between 1998 and 2004 he was a scientific advisor to Vera Lengsfeld (CDU) in the German Bundestag. In the state elections on June 13, 2004, he was directly elected to the Thuringian state parliament in the Weimar constituency with 37.9 percent of the vote (second vote 37.7 percent) .

Krause has also been a member of the Weimar City Council since 2004. On June 7th, 2009 he was elected as the top candidate of the CDU Weimar with 5,507 votes again in the city council and on August 20th, 2009 he was unanimously elected chairman of the education and sports committee. In November 2006 he was elected district chairman of his party at a party convention of the CDU Weimar and was re-elected to this office on November 20, 2008 with 97 percent. In the CDU parliamentary group, Peter Krause u. a. Commissioner for the victims of the SED dictatorship.

In April 2008, Prime Minister Dieter Althaus appointed Krause to succeed Jens Goebel for the office of Thuringian Minister of Education . This decision met with criticism nationwide. State and federal representatives of the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party recalled Krause's past as an editor and employee of magazines "rechts von der Union", which had been ignored in his official biography, and concluded that he was unsuitable for his upcoming office. Their representatives as well as the conference of Thuringian student bodies and the Central Council of Jews called on Althaus to withdraw Krause's nomination. Althaus, the CDU parliamentary group and some national newspapers (Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zürcher Zeitung) defended him as a "man in the middle".

In 2004, Krause claimed in a newspaper interview that he was not aware of Junge Freiheit as right-wing extremists. In 2008 he stated that his critics were not aware of the development of the paper; it has "become a recognized medium in the press landscape" and he is an emphatic advocate of press freedom . He called his work as editor of the paper “an episode that quickly came to an end.” After the fall of the Wall, he wanted to become a journalist and the paper was recommended to him. However, he had not been able to realize his ideas there, "to build a conservatively oriented and well-founded, but open, anti-ideological and really critical debate sheet beyond political camps". He later stated in a radio interview that the JF represented "a political line that I, as a CDU politician, do not share."

Furthermore Krause was the author of the New Right theory organ stage . In the context of the debate about Krause, it was recalled that in the 2001 stage the Latin version of the Horst Wessel song was printed under the heading Culturcuriosa, Part 1 .

As Thuringian minister of culture, Krause would have become chairman of the board of trustees of the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau memorials . The director of the Buchenwald memorial, Volkhard Knigge , accused him of having “fogged up and thoroughly softened his contacts with the New Right ” and asked him “to consider what is best for the common good”.

For Henryk Goldberg from the newspaper Thüringer Allgemeine it was not “about the question of whether Peter Krause is a neo-Nazi, of course he is not.” However, he is “one of those who, willingly or not, are on a solid intellectual level ensure that this sediment is given a wide-ranging intellectual legitimation. "

On May 5, 2008, Krause declared that he was renouncing the office of Thuringian Minister of Culture. He sees "no possibility of being able to successfully exercise the sensitive office with appropriate objectivity". Instead, Bernward Müller became the new minister of education. In 2009, in his book Adapted World , Krause went into the circumstances of his withdrawal.

On February 27, 2009, Krause was elected chairman of the parliament's committee for science, art and media. In the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 he was defeated in his constituency with 7,715 votes to Falk Thomas Hartung ( Die Linke ) and thus left the Thuringian state parliament.

He is still city councilor of the CDU in Weimar (as of 2015).

In 2010 he became head of the Bauhaus Academy in Ettersburg. He is currently the director of Ettersburg Palace

Publications

• Indefinite rhetoric. Friedrich Schlegel and the art of speaking around 1800. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-484-68014-8 .
• (Ed.): Rhetoric around 1800. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-60441-7 .
• (Ed.): Rhetoric and Anthropology. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-60468-9 .
• Joachim Dyck, Holger Hof, Peter D. Krause (Eds.): Gottfried Benn Yearbook. Volume 1 , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-93611-4 ; Volume 2: Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-93612-2 .
• Adapted world. Studies, speeches, essays on rhetorical culture and romantic politics. quartus-Verlag, Bucha near Jena 2009, ISBN 978-3-936455-71-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter D. Krause in the catalog of the German National Library

Single receipts

1. ^ University of Leipzig - Chair for Journalism II: From the “Red Monastery” to the Institute for KMW - Leipzig Journalism through the Ages
2. ^ University of Leipzig - Faculty of Journalism: On the 50th anniversary of the foundation on September 20, 2004 ( Memento from October 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ the daily newspaper : Freedom into the gray area , April 28, 2008
4. ^ ^{A b} Spiegel Online : Thuringia: Right-wing editor to be Minister of Education , April 24, 2008
5. ↑ There were two reviews in the sixteenth stage (December 2001 / January 2002):
   1) S. 115–120: Ernst Nolte: Historical existence. Between the beginning and the end of the story? Piper, Munich 1998;
   2) P. 121–131: Panajotis Kondylis: The Political and the Human. Basics of a social ontology. Volume 1. Academy, Berlin 1999
6. ^ State elections in Thuringia 2004 - final result constituency 032 Weimar
7. ↑ CDU Weimar / District Board  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Die tageszeitung, April 26, 2008: From the right edge in Merkel's center
9. ↑ Thomas Schmid (Die Welt, May 3, 2008): Thuringia: Krause defends work for the "Young Freedom"
10. ^ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, April 28, 2008: Formation of a government in Thuringia. Opposition intensifies criticism of Krause ( Memento from April 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
11. ^ Controversy about Peter Krause. Mirror online
12. ↑ stage , Issue 16, December 2001 / January 2002 S. 154th
13. ↑ Thüringische Landeszeitung, May 3rd, 2008: The reputation of the country in danger  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Thuringia on Sunday (Thüringer Allgemeine): A correction. May 3, 2008, p. 3
15. ↑ Netzeitung : Krause renounces ministerial office in Erfurt ( Memento from May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), May 5, 2008
16. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine dated February 26, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ↑ Press release of the Left Party on the subject
18. ↑ Constituency results at the regional returning officer
19. ^ Thuringian General of March 4, 2010