Petr Bystron

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Petr Bystroň (2020)

Petr Bystron (* the 30th November 1972 as Petr Bystroň in Olomouc , Czechoslovakia ) is a German politician ( AFD ) and political analyst of Czech origin. He was chairman of the AfD regional association in Bavaria . He was elected a member of the Bundestag on September 24, 2017 .

From March to September 2017 he was judicially confirmed by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution because he “ showed evidence of anti-constitutional efforts”. The reason for the cessation of the observation was the election of Bystron as a member of the Bundestag . According to a fundamental decision by the Federal Constitutional Court, other “requirements and limits” apply to members of parliament .

Life

family

Bystron grew up in Czechoslovakia. In 1987 his parents fled with him to the Federal Republic of Germany and applied for political asylum . Bystron is married and has two children.

Study and job

Bystron studied at the School of Political Science in Munich Economy and International Relations , and graduated with a degree in political science. After completing his studies, he was chairman of the university's friends' association. After protests about his AfD commitment, Bystron resigned from this office.

He founded an international communications agency and sold it to a stock corporation. Today he says he works as a consultant for companies and parties and works on concepts for their communication and “strategic brand management”. According to the commercial register, the advertising agency Bystron GmbH , which was founded by Bystron in 1999, changed its name to Lendvay GmbH in 2004 and switched to " manufacturing, repairing and selling leather shoes ". He is the sole managing partner.

politics

Bystron was a member of the FDP from 2006 to 2013 . He joined the AfD in spring 2013. In the 2013 federal election , he entered the list at number 17 of the AfD. Bystron was a member of the board of the “Europe and Foreign Policy” regional committee. He ran for the AfD in the 2014 election for the European Parliament . After André Wächter left the party and switched to Bernd Luckes ALFA , Bystron was elected as his successor as state chairman of the Bavarian AfD in October 2015 . At the beginning of April 2017, Bystron was voted fourth on the list for the 2017 federal election at the state party conference in Greding . In the election for the top candidate of the Bavarian AfD, he was previously defeated against Martin Hebner in a fight election.

In the Bundestag, Bystron is chairman (and full member) of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy subcommittee. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs .

According to research by Zeit Online, Bystron is one of the 18 members of the Bundestag of the AfD who employ right-wing extremist employees for their mandate tasks and parliamentary work: According to this research, a former employee was an author at Kopp Verlag , whose public documents have been regularly published by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden for several years -Württemberg , and also wrote for the magazine Sezession by Götz Kubitschek , who is considered the ideological head of the New Right in Germany. Eric Weber , another employee of Bystron, is a right-wing extremist, former local politician who, according to the Basel court, was to be attributed to National Socialism . Weber was previously the author of the NPD party sheet German Voice and an employee of a member of the state parliament of the NPD Saxony . In 1987, for example, Weber was noticed by an application to allow the people's campaign against too many foreigners and asylum seekers to use the basement of Basel's town hall to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday . Bystron appointed Falk Janke as office manager . Janke, former Brandenburg state chairman of the Schill party , founded his own group of voters “Dierechte - Courage to Truth” (not to be confused with the party Dierechte ) in 2005 , for which he also sat in the MOL district council from 2008 ; In 2011, he formed a parliamentary group with two district council members elected for the right-wing extremist DVU , including Michael Claus , who has been a member of the state parliament for many years . When he wanted to join the AfD parliamentary group after the 2014 election , it broke up because of Janke's past. Janke became known nationwide through the heute show , when he explained to the cameraman: "For me, the Nazis were extremely leftist".

In September 2018, Bystron received the Eagle Award from the Trump- affiliated “ Phyllis Schlafly Foundation” together with the member of the Polish PiS Party, Dominik Tarczyński . Guests also included ex-Trump economic advisor Stephen Moore , Congressman Steve King, and anti-Semite and YouTuber Stefan Molyneux .

Journalistic activity

In the past, Bystron wrote peculiarly free for the new, right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and for the magazine, which is partly assigned to the same spectrum . He maintains a blog on political and economic topics at the Huffington Post . He also published articles in the Swiss World Week and in the Austrian business magazine Format . He also writes commentaries for the Czech daily Dnes and for the news magazine Reflex .

Bystron appears as a conversation partner in other foreign media, interviews with him appear regularly on Czech radio , in the Czech daily newspaper Blesk , in the Parlamentní Listy, the Slovak business newspaper Hospodárske noviny and on Slovak television. At RT he appears as a “Germany expert”.

Political positions

Petr Bystron

According to Bystron, Islam does not belong to Germany . According to him, Germany's membership in the EU must not lead to the end of the German nation- state. He defended Frauke Petry's statement that a border police officer had to prevent illegal border crossings and, if necessary, also use a firearm. So it is in the law. Bystron said he found the media's rendering of Petry's testimony a typical twist. The newspaper Petry's statement was “completely distorted”, because nobody could believe that the mother of four children was in favor of the use of firearms.

Bystron advocates a rigid deportation policy with “repatriations” instead of “hopeless integration efforts”. He warned the Czech Republic against allowing “terrorists” into the country regarding the refugee movement to Europe . The “blood of Czech victims” would stick to the government if it agreed to a European distribution of refugees.

Controversy

Commercial interests of social organizations

After the organizers of the 100th German Catholic Day in Leipzig in 2016 had not invited any AfD representatives to panel discussions, Bystron accused the churches of running a “billion dollar business” under the guise of charity. He claimed that the church social organizations Caritas and Diakonie were "industry leaders" in accepting refugees. For commercial reasons, the associations therefore have an interest in maintaining the influx of refugees to Germany. He received support for his statements from AfD federal chairman Jörg Meuthen . Matthias Kopp from the German Bishops' Conference said that Bystron's criticism was “not a single fact-based gossip. ... Anyone who derails in this way hits 200,000 volunteers in the church's refugee aid in the face ”.

Contacts to the "Identitarian Movement"

According to a report by the Bavarian Radio Funke (BR) wanted Bystron end of June 2016, two right-wing extremists of " identitary movement " (or earlier rights ) and the Alliance German patriots a public meeting of the Antifascist information, documentation and archive office in Munich in a- Visit World House . However, they were rejected by the organizer with reference to the domiciliary rights . Bystron contradicted the reporting of the BR that he wanted to attend the lecture together with the two people. He met her there by chance and didn't know her better before. The BR then published photographs that showed Bystron with the two right-wing extremists both before the event and in the beer garden.

"Systemling" allegations against Lahm and Hoeneß

Bystron used the attack on the BVB team bus to attack Philipp Lahm and Uli Hoeneß , who had previously criticized the AfD. He accused both of being “systemic” and responsible for the attack, while AfD members “are the only ones who oppose this terror, who fight against it, who [...] with [their] heads and [their ] Life for it ”. In fact, according to the results of the police investigation, it was not an Islamist act of terrorism, but an attempted manipulation of BVB share prices.

Advertising with Ude book

In the 2017 federal election campaign , Bystron had election posters stuck with the slogan “I do politics that Ude only writes about!” And an image of Christian Ude's latest book . The lawyer Ude, Mayor of Munich for 21 years , commented on this with the term “ parasitic advertising”, which comes from copyright law , and recalled his words in the book that the AfD was “not the alternative, but a danger. Namely, the danger that the worst mistakes and derailments of Europe in the 20th century will be repeated again, with all the devastating consequences for the people of this continent, and this time without the excuse that it was not seen coming ”.

Sexism allegations

According to media reports, at the AfD federal party conference in Hanover in 2017, there was a scandal when the AfD member of the Bundestag Corinna Miazga Bystron accused her of sexist comments. In her application speech for the election of the three deputy national spokespersons of the party, Miazga said: “I owe the second reason why I am here to my party colleague Petr Bystron, who made me aware during the election campaign that women like me are actually better at dancing on a pole should. ”Both Miazga and the also candidate Bystron were defeated in the subsequent vote against Kay Gottschalk .

Photo taken during the election for Federal Chancellor on March 14, 2018

In the election for Chancellor, in which Angela Merkel was elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany with 364 votes on March 14, Bystron uploaded photos of his voting card and the ballot paper on his Twitter and Facebook pages. Immediately after Merkel's swearing-in ceremony, President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble in accordance with § 37 sentence 1 i. V. m. § 4 and § 49 of the Rules of Procedure of the German Bundestag a fine of 1000 euros against Bystron for a serious violation of the rules of the German Bundestag .

Target practice in South Africa

In 2018, Bystron went on a business trip to South Africa at state expense , during which he completed shooting training with the controversial organization Suidlanders , which adheres to a right-wing extremist and racist ideology and is preparing for what they consider to be an "inevitable race war in South Africa" with paramilitary training . Bystron told German media that he had "zero fear of contact with the Suidlanders and that they felt as an organization of predominantly white farmers who fear for their lives and organize themselves to survive, should the worst come to the worst."

Observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution

From March to September 2017, Bystron was under observation by the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution . According to Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann , Bystron shows a pronounced closeness to the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement. In an article on the Islamophobic blog PI-News , Bystron wrote that the AfD had to be a “protective shield for this organization”. Bystron brought an action against the observation. According to Bystron, the observation is based on a few quotations in which he rather assesses the extra-parliamentary work of many citizens' movements, including the Identitarian Movement, as correct to bring issues to parliaments. The Munich administrative court initially ruled that Bystron should continue to be monitored, as it shows actual indications of anti-constitutional efforts. However, the Free State of Bavaria may not publicly refer to him by name. For his statements on the Identitarian Movement, Bystron was warned by the AfD federal board, with reference to an incompatibility decision of the AfD federal board, which prohibits AfD members from supporting anti-constitutional organizations.

In November 2017 it became known that the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution had already stopped observing Bystron at the end of September. The reason is Bystron's election to the Bundestag, as there are significantly higher hurdles for observing MPs.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentions Bystron by name several times in its report, which justifies the classification of the AfD as a test case , partly because of its proximity to the Identitarian Movement .

Web links

Commons : Petr Bystroň  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bystron, Petr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bystroň, Petr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD) of Czech origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc , Czechoslovakia