Philipp Lengsfeld

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Philipp Lengsfeld (2014)

Philipp David Lengsfeld (born March 21, 1972 in East Berlin ) is a German politician . From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag ( CDU ). He is the eldest son of the former politician Vera Lengsfeld and the journalist Sebastian Kleinschmidt and the grandson of the pastor and religious socialist Karl Kleinschmidt .

Lengsfeld first became known through the Ossietzky affair , when he and three classmates were expelled from his East Berlin school in 1988 after criticizing military parades and not withdrawing them because of a literal request for freedom of expression . Lengsfeld positions himself against the German climate protection policy , emphasizes the supposed positive effects of climate change and considers the goals of the Paris climate protection agreement to be unattainable.

Life

youth

Growing up with his mother, Lengsfeld first attended the POS “ Wilhelm Pieck Oberschule ” in Pankow in a class with extended Russian lessons . In summer 1988 he completed the POS and moved to EOS "Carl von Ossietzky" in Pankow. Growing up in the area of ​​the GDR civil rights movement, as a student he was a contemporary witness of the events surrounding the environmental library and the Zionskirche in 1987 and the Liebknecht-Luxemburg affair in January / February 1988, in which his mother was first arrested, then for "attempted rioting" Sentenced to a six-month prison term and was finally released in early February 1988 after protests at home and abroad to study in England. Since this study visit was initially planned for a year and Lengsfeld was in the phase of the final exams of the 10th grade, he stayed in the GDR .

Ossietzky affair

See also the Ossietzky affair .

On September 11, 1988, Lengsfeld, together with other students from the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Oberschule , showed self-painted banners against neo-Nazis in the GDR during a commemorative event honoring the victims of fascism . After the students also posted critical contributions to the situation in Poland , against military parades and the NVA on the school's “Speaker's Corner” in the following days , Lengsfeld and Katja Ihle , Benjamin Lindner and Kai Feller were class members from the FDJ on September 29th excluded and expelled from the school on September 30th in front of the entire student body. Despite massive protests inside and outside the GDR, the rehabilitation of the four Ossietzky students only took place in the course of the fall of the Wall in November 1989. Jens Reich called the “courageous Ossietzky students” “pioneers” of the 1989 movement in the GDR.

Further school career, studies and work

Lengsfeld left the GDR in November 1988 with a one-year permanent visa and followed his mother to England. In Cambridge in 1988/89 he attended a state Sixth Form College . After rehabilitating the Ossietzky students on November 1, 1989, Lengsfeld returned to Berlin on November 9, 1989 and, after his return, attended the Ossietzky School again on November 12, 1989. In 1990 he became their first freely elected head boy.

Lengsfeld studied physics at the TU Berlin . Diploma thesis and doctorate took place in the Berlin-Adlershof branch of the Hahn-Meitner Institute . In 2002 Lengsfeld switched to Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals .

Political career

Lengsfeld has been politically active since 1995. Initially at Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , he moved to the CDU in 2001 when he took up the red-red Senate in Berlin . Lengsfeld was a member of the Prenzlauer Berg district assembly from 1995 to 1999 and a member of the BVV Pankow in 2001 and from 2006 to 2011. Lengsfeld stood for the CDU in the 2013 federal election ; as a direct candidate, he was defeated in the Berlin-Mitte constituency , but moved into the Bundestag via the state list . There he became a member of the German-Korean parliamentary group. In February 2017, he was defeated in the vote on the renewed Bundestag candidacy to the former Berlin CDU chairman and Senator for the Interior Frank Henkel and left the Bundestag at the end of the legislative period.

Lengsfeld is a member of the Berlin Circle of the CDU and a co-opted member of the federal executive committee of the Values ​​Union .

Lengsfeld was a member of the Bundestag's research committee.

Positions and controversies

Climate and energy

Lengsfeld is critical of the "excessive expansion of renewable energies" and in his greeting to the 2016 congress of the AfD-affiliated association European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) , which opposes human-made global warming , described the consensus in climate policy as an "autocratic system". In 2019, Lengsfeld and Fritz Vahrenholt founded re: look climate gGmbH , which, according to its own information, critically deals with scientific work and findings in the field of climate and environmental science.

In June 2017, a few days after Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate protection agreement, Lengsfeld signed a position paper, along with other representatives of the Berlin CDU / CSU circle , that strongly criticized German climate protection policy under Angela Merkel . The signatories mention possible positive effects of climate change, criticize the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and present the goals set in the Paris Agreement as unachievable.

In 2018, Lengsfeld spoke to the House of Lords on climate policy issues. He previously gave an interview to the British lobby group Global Warming Policy Foundation .

equality

Lengsfeld is against the equality of marriage for gay and lesbian couples .

Others

In the controversy about the naming of the Pankow district after the district merger in 2001 (merger of the old districts Weißensee, Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg), Lengsfeld was an opponent of attempts to reverse the decision made by the district council meeting in 2001 for the name Pankow. The name dispute was finally settled at the beginning of the next legislative period.

Private

Lengsfeld is Protestant, married and has two children. His maternal grandfather was Franz Lengsfeld, a lieutenant colonel in the MfS .

Publications

literature

  • Jörn Kalkbrenner: Margot Honecker against Ossietzky students. Judgment without trial . Berlin 1990.
  • Lars-Broder Keil: The risk of having your own opinion: on the relegation of students from the Berlin EOS "Carl von Ossietzky" in the fall of 1988. In: Germany Archive , 41, 2008, Volume 4, pp. 684–690
  • Ehrhart Neubert : History of the opposition in the GDR: 1949–1989. Series of research on the GDR society , Volume 346. Federal Agency for Political Education , 1998, ISBN 978-3-86153-163-0 , p. 774 ff: The Ossietzky affair.
  • Gerhard Besier : The SED State and the Church 1983–1991: Hohenflüg and Crash. SED state and the church. Propylaeen-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-549-05455-0 .
  • Vera Lengsfeld: From now on things went uphill ...: My way to freedom. Langen Müller, 2002, ISBN 3-7844-2857-6 , p. 273 ff.
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Endgame. The 1989 revolution in the GDR. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58357-5 , pp. 291-297.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Lengsfeld  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin - Fateful Years of a City: 1988 , film by Lutz Pehnert, first broadcast on November 2, 2019 / rbb (relevant quote at approx. 01:27:00)
  2. ↑ BStU - "Sacked" - The relegation of students of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-school 20 years ago - the second document Accessed on March 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ BStU - "Thrown out" - The relegation of students from the Carl von Ossietzky School 20 years ago - Document 3. Accessed on March 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ BStU - "Thrown out" - The relegation of students from the Carl von Ossietzky School 20 years ago - Document 6. Accessed on March 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Endgame. The 1989 revolution in the GDR. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58357-5 , pp. 291-297, here p. 297.
  6. ↑ See in the English language Wikipedia under en: Sixth form college
  7. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil: The risk of having your own opinion: on the relegation of students from the Berlin EOS "Carl von Ossietzky" in the fall of 1988. Germany Archive Volume 41 (2008), No. 4, pp. 684–690.
  8. ↑ a b c d Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld - Direct. For middle. In: lengsfeld-mitte.de. Retrieved July 20, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Christiane Pering; Philipp Lengsfeld; Peter Seidensticker: Iso- versus Low-Osmolar Contrast Media and Contrast Medium – induced Nephropathy. In: Radiology , Volume 250, Number 1, January 2009, pp. 298 f.
  10. ↑ Interactive graphic: Berlin's direct candidates for the federal election. In: tagesspiegel.de. 2013, archived from the original on July 20, 2013 ; Retrieved July 20, 2013 .
  11. ^ Andreas Fritsche: Liberal, neoliberal, CDU. Why Vera Lengsfeld's son Philipp has a chance of entering the Bundestag . In: Neues Deutschland , September 13, 2013, accessed on September 25, 2013
  12. ↑ The Federal Returning Officer : Results of the 2013 election to the German Bundestag ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (elected applicants), accessed on September 23, 2013
  13. ↑ Henkel becomes a direct candidate in Mitte . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on March 1, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Berliner Kreis: About us
  15. ↑ https://www.lengsfeld-mitte.de/5_14_Person.html
  16. ↑ Members of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment: Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld
  17. ↑ Paul Gäbler: The German climate skeptic scene meets in Munich. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 18, 2019, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Wolfgang Hassenstein: CDU member moves climate policy close to the GDR dictatorship . In: Greenpeace magazine . February 6, 2017 ( greenpeace-magazin.de [accessed February 8, 2017]).
  19. ↑ Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld (CDU), Member of the Bundestag: Greeting (10th IKEK) , video on YouTube
  20. ^ EIKE (Ed.): Press release of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) . November 15, 2016 ( lengsfeld-mitte.de [accessed March 5, 2017]).
  21. ↑ https://taz.de/Klimawandelleugner-in-Deutschland/!5627120&s=Klimaleugner/
  22. ↑ Climate protection: CDU rights demand farewell to German climate targets . Zeit Online , June 3, 2017; accessed on June 7, 2017.
  23. ↑ youtube, Climate Euphoria, Climate Hysteria: Insights from the German Political-Media Complex , April 23, 2018
  24. ^ Author = Werner van Bebber, Sabine Beikler: Homosexual marriage divides Berlin CDU . Der Tagesspiegel Online, June 30, 2015; accessed on September 4, 2018
  25. ^ Pankow name dispute finally ended. (PDF; 51 kB) parliamentary group of the CDU Pankow, December 14, 2006, accessed on July 23, 2013 (press release).
  26. ^ Philipp Lengsfeld: My grandpa, the Stasi officer in Berliner Zeitung , July 4, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Lengsfeld, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lengsfeld, Philipp David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, involved in the Ossietzky affair
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin