Rainer Podeswa

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Rainer Podeswa (born February 16, 1957 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German physicist and business economist as well as a politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). He has been a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg since March 2016 .

Life

Podeswa comes from a working class family. After graduating from high school in 1976 at the Bochum-Wattenscheid municipal high school, Podeswa began training for candidates for the higher service in the police force of North Rhine-Westphalia , which he broke off after less than a year. He then studied physics and business administration at the University of Cologne . In 1987 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

He then worked for Siemens in Germany, France and Mexico for several years . From 1995 he was a board member for sales and research and development at Beru in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg . As part of a savings program after the takeover of Berus by BorgWarner , he left the company at the end of 2007. Since then, he has worked in the management of several companies and has worked as a management consultant.

Podeswa has been married since 1984 and has two children. He lives in Ilsfeld .

politics

Podeswa is a member of the Alternative for Germany . He was in the state elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2016 with 18.2 percent of votes in the constituency Heilbronn (Constituency 18) in the state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg selected. In September 2016, Podeswa was elected one of four deputy group leaders. He resigned from this position on January 9, 2019

Podeswa is a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Center for Political Education .

Positions

When he presented his candidates at the state party conference in 2015, Podeswa commented on his attitude towards gender mainstreaming as follows: “The gender ideology is the spiritual outflow of nuts with a communist ideal world image, which even Karl Marx would not have understood . "

At the end of 2017, at the AfD federal party congress, he supported a motion by MP Wolfgang Gedeon , who had come under fire for his anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist treatises , according to which the term “ secondary anti-Semitism ” was an “ideological battle term”, used to defame political opponents and intimidate the Serving the public and should therefore be rejected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry of the dissertation Podeswas in the online catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Beru pulls the emergency brake: job cuts and savings program . automobilwoche.de, December 13, 2007
  3. ↑ Birgit Ebner: Auto supplier Beru pulls the emergency brake ( memento from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). lkz.de, December 14, 2007
  4. ↑ Selected applicants , State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg , accessed on March 14, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2016-09/baden-wuerttemberg-afd-fraktion-wiedervereinigung-joerg-meuthen
  6. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.baden-wuerttemberg-zwei-afd-vizefraktionschefs-zurueckgitten.bf4596bf-ee05-4240-a07d-29938c5d30ea.html
  7. ↑ AfD politicians move to the boards of trustees of the state centers for political education correctiv.org
  8. ↑ AfD on gender equality: "The spiritual discharge of crazy people". In: FOCUS Online. January 18, 2015, accessed April 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: The AfD and anti-Semitism. www.handelsblatt.com, November 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Podeswa, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), MdL of Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen