Peter Felser

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Peter Felser (born September 20, 1969 in Dillingen an der Donau ) is a German entrepreneur , educator , politician and vice chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . He is a member of the 19th German Bundestag .

Career

Felser comes from a large family with ten other siblings. His father was a teacher.

Felser served as a contract soldier from 1989 to 2001. He achieved the rank of first lieutenant . From 1992 to 1996 he studied pedagogy at the University of the Federal Armed Forces and at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . He completed his studies as a qualified teacher . In Munich he became a member and at times spokesman for the reformed university guild Heinrich der Löwe . He later acquired a certificate as a PR consultant at the University of Management and Communication (FH) in Potsdam .

By his own account he was twice as Bundeswehrsoldat in foreign assignment . Together with the New Right publisher Götz Kubitschek brought Felser 2001 a book with reports about the war in Bosnia used the Bundeswehr out. He was co-owner and managing director of a media publisher in Kempten (Allgäu) . He writes for the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . He had been a member of The Republicans party since at least the early 1990s , according to his own account until 1992.

Felser lives with his family on a converted farm in a hamlet in the Oberallgäu district . He is Catholic, married and has five children.

Felser held lectures and seminars at the Academy of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) and the CSU- affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation . He was a lecturer at the University of Kempten .

Felser is chairman of the AfD district association in the area of ​​the federal constituency of Oberallgäu , based in Lindenberg im Allgäu ( district of Lindau ). He was elected to the 19th German Bundestag in 2017. On October 5, 2017, he was elected one of four deputy chairmen of the AfD parliamentary group. He is a member of the Bundestag Committee on Food and Agriculture and a deputy member of the Defense Committee . Felser is a member and chairman of the “Artificial Intelligence” commission of inquiry .

In September 2017, Die Zeit wrote about Felser: “The positions that Felser presents on his website largely correspond to the consensus within the AfD.” Felser himself emphasizes that he is not an “ultra right-wing”, he is fighting for a moderate line of the AfD. However, due to Felser's right-wing media productions, doubts were voiced about this self-assessment. Der Spiegel wrote in 2019 about Felser: "He is not an Alexander Gauland, not a provocateur. He wants to establish the AfD as a conservative party that is more concerned with refugees."

Activities ahead of time as a MP

Commercials for the Republicans party

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Felser took part in the production of television spots in 2001 and 2003 as a co-owner of a media publisher, which were intended for election campaign purposes by the party Die Republikaner , which at the time was still rated as right-wing extremist by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . However, both the Sender Freies Berlin and the Hessischer Rundfunk refused to broadcast because they saw incitement to hatred as a result of Holocaust denial . In the same video, the Central Council of Jews was suspected of being a secret co-governing organization and warned against Michel Friedman . The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin not only confirmed the "clearly anti-Semitic character" of the content, but also ruled that the film "according to the understanding of an unbiased and discreet audience can only be understood to mean that the Holocaust should be approved, denied or played down with it".

When the spots became a topic in the media in November 2017, Felser let it be known via a spokesman: “Indeed, it could be misunderstood as a denial of the Holocaust, because hardly anyone noticed that the provocative poster shown was from the initiator of the Holocaust. Memorial Lea Rosh , who of course did not want to deny the historical fact of the Shoah . It's different whether Lea Rosh shows such a poster or the Republicans in a video. ”He regrets the spot. In 2003 there was another video of the Republicans with participation by Felser. In the film, the increase in state funding from the Central Council was portrayed as a negative development. In 2002, Felser said in a message to the Republican party leadership that this statement was considered "harmless", but was always a "provocation".

Producer of new right publications

In mid-December 2017, the Allgäuer Zeitung published researched information about Felser's long-term connections to the right-wing and right-wing extremist scene . Among other things, it became known that the former neo-Nazi Jirka Buder, who has been working for the AfD in Thuringia since spring 2017, worked at Felser's media agency from 2006 to 2016. Felser produced media for right-wing and right-wing radical publishers. Including DVDs with lectures by the well-known history revisionists Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof , Walter Post and Stefan Scheil . The Allgäuer Zeitung also researched that the three-letter name of the media agency refers to the three surnames of the founders, including one of the central figures of the New Right , Götz Kubitschek . Felser had first denied this, but Kubitschek had confirmed this information to several newspapers. A long time ago, Kubitschek left Felser's media agency as a partner, but continued to broker orders. The third company founder, Bernd Widmer was to research the information portal on far-right activities, look to the right , in the 1990s in a high position at the New Right free Bund active. In the Kubitschek network, which also includes the new right-wing think tank Institute for State Policy and the newspaper Junge Freiheit , Peter Felser's media agency played a “role as a producer, technical service provider and transshipment point”, according to the Allgäuer Zeitung.

Felser himself stated that as managing director he was responsible, but that he actually only heard little of various productions, a description that a former employee of the agency (which had four to five employees) contradicted: “A joke that he did didn't want to have known. There was no text that didn't run across Felser's desk. ”The proportion of right-wing productions compared to normal commissions is rated differently. While an ex-employee stated that 40% of the business activities were right-wing publications, Felser states that at most “something went from this direction on the side”, this was never a separate business field: “Contract work is contract work. But you don't do that kind of crap out of inner conviction. "

"Scout app"

In July 2020, Peter Felser's app publisher published a so-called "Anti-Corona app", which is intended to find out how many users in the immediate vicinity have installed the official Corona app. In an interview with Business Insider Germany, Felser said “he wanted to bring a little transparency into the dubious project of the federal government.” However, the app does not have access to the Apple and Google interfaces and therefore only functions to a limited extent. In addition, in contrast to the official Corona app, the “scout app” could actually track and evaluate the locations of the users.

Memberships

  • German Agricultural Society (DLG)
  • Association of German Agricultural Journalists (VdAJ)

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of Peter Felser . Peter Felser. November 27, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  2. ^ AfD homepage . Alternative for Germany (AfD). November 27, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
  3. ^ German Bundestag - Peter Felser. In: bundestag.de. September 24, 2017, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  4. ^ Sebastian Lipp: The right-wing clans of the AfD vice. ZEIT , May 18, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ Peter Felser website. Retrieved September 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski and Tilman Steffen: AfD parliamentary group: right to extreme in the Bundestag. Die Zeit , September 21, 2017, accessed on November 28, 2017 .
  7. ^ A b c d e Etienne le Maire: Company of Allgäu Bundestag member Peter Felser (AfD): Propaganda material for right-wing extremists. Allgäuer Zeitung , December 15, 2017, accessed on December 19, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b AfD parliamentary deputy involved in the production of anti-Semitic videos. . In: zeit.de, November 27, 2017 (accessed November 28, 2017)
  9. ^ German Bundestag - Peter Felser . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on March 9, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Simon Voigt: Leif-Erik Holm new vice-chairman of the AfD parliamentary group. Nordkurier , October 5, 2017, accessed November 28, 2017 .
  11. ^ German Bundestag - Enquete Commission "Artificial Intelligence". Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  12. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: "Schützenfest" . No. 21 . DER SPIEGEL, Hamburg May 18, 2019.
  13. ^ AfD parliamentary group vice-chairman Felser on anti-Semitic campaigning. ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: br.de, November 28, 2017
  14. ↑ Peter Felser: AfD parliamentary deputy involved in the production of anti-Semitic videos . In: The time . November 27, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 9, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Peter Felser: AfD politician involved in anti-Semitic videos. SPIEGEL ONLINE, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  16. ^ The right-wing clans of the AfD vice-president Peter Felser. May 18, 2018, accessed on April 17, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ STERN / Christoph Fröhlich: AfD brings anti-corona warning app onto the market. In: STERN. Gruner + Jahr, July 9, 2020, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Felser, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen on the Danube