Ralf Özkara

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Ralf Özkara (born November 19, 1970 in Schramberg as Ralf Helble ) is a German politician (non-party, formerly AfD ).

Life

Özkara was born Ralf Helble in Schramberg and grew up in the Rottweil district . He is a former contract soldier and administrative clerk .

He lives in Berglen and is married to an entrepreneur of Turkish origin. Since July 2010 he has been running a temporary employment agency for nursing staff with her . The couple has a son.

politics

Özkara joined the AfD and was elected spokesman for the Rems-Murr district in 2015. From April 2016 until the end of February 2017 he was Jörg Meuthen's office manager . At the beginning of March 2017 in Sulz am Neckar he was elected as the first state spokesman (state chairman) by the state party conference. In the runoff election he won against Alice Weidel with 224: 209 votes . Since April 2018, he and Marc Jongen have been the state spokesman for the AfD Baden-Württemberg .

Özkara calls for all mosques in Germany to be monitored . He regards Islam as a political "ideology" and an obstacle to integration, with his wife and in-laws being well integrated as Muslims. He turned against Björn Höcke's exclusion from the party .

In October 2018, Özkara ran unsuccessfully in the mayoral election in Offenburg as the first AfD candidate in such an election. The reason he cited was the killing of an Offenburg doctor by an asylum seeker on August 16, 2018. Özkara was aiming for a result of at least 20%, anything else would be a disappointment for him. The CDU politician Marco Steffens won the election , Özkara took fourth place with 5.4% of the vote.

On November 20, 2018, Özkara resigned with immediate effect from the state chairmanship of the AfD “for private, professional and family” reasons. Until May 2019 he was managing director of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament .

In May 2019, Özkara resigned from the AfD and gave the reason: "This party is led by idiots." According to Jan Sternberg in the Göttinger Tageblatt , he was the only one who asked Alice Weidel to resign as part of a donation affair and thus support lost for a candidacy in the European elections . After moving to Bavaria, he got caught up in power struggles and had recently been dismissed, whereupon he threatened with a "loud exit".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Extract from the commercial register ( memento of March 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) of September 16, 2013, accessed on March 5, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Phillip Weingand: Islam critic with a Muslim wife. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . March 9, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Jürgen Maier: State party conference: Özkara leads Southwest AfD. In: Black Forest Messenger . March 5, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Özkara beats Weidel. In: Südwestrundfunk . March 4, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Steiner: Favorite Weidel is subject to AfD party conference. In: Badische Zeitung . March 5, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Carsten Wagner: "Pegasus": New wing dispute with the AfD. In: NDR. September 2, 2018, accessed November 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ralf Burgmaier: AfD candidate Ralf Özkara: "I am not the savior". Badische Zeitung , [1] , September 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ Offenburg: Clear decision in the first ballot Heinz Siebold, in: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 14, 2018 (accessed on November 11, 2018)
  9. ↑ FAZ: AfD state chairman Özkara resigned. November 21, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Jan Sternberg: AfD donation affair - it now seems clear who betrayed Alice Weidel. , Göttinger Tageblatt, May 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Özkara, Ralf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helble, Ralf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Schramberg