Ralph Weber (legal scholar)

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Ralph Lothar Weber (born October 9, 1960 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German legal scholar and politician ( AfD ). In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 he was nominated for the parliamentary constituency Vorpommern-Greifswald III in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern elected.

Life

Weber grew up in Krautheim (Jagst) , graduated from high school in 1980 and, after completing military service in 1981, began studying law in Würzburg , which he completed in 1985 with the first state examination in Heidelberg . Weber interrupted his legal clerkship because of his doctorate . In 1988 he was at Gerrick of Hoyningen-Huene at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. iur. utr. PhD. His dissertation on the “trustful cooperation between employer and works council in accordance with Section 2 (1) BetrVG ”was awarded the“ Promotion Prize for Young Scientists ”from the employers' association Südwestmetall . In 1989 he passed the second state examination in law in Stuttgart .

Scientific career

Activity as a university lecturer

From 1989 Weber was a research assistant at Othmar Jauernig's chair for civil law and civil procedural law . In addition, he was a lecturer in civil and labor law at the Baden Administration and Business Academy in Karlsruhe . From 1994 he was a lecturer in civil and labor law at the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education .

Weber came to Rostock University in 1995 as a representative of the chair for civil law and legal history . Although Weber did not receive his habilitation - as is otherwise usual - he was offered this chair in 1996 and was appointed university professor in 1997 . Weber was seconded to the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald for the 2009/2010 winter semester . Weber focuses his research on labor law and is a lecturer in general civil law ; he wrote a textbook on property law in two volumes which, after the fourth edition has appeared, will not be continued by the previous publisher due to discrepancies about the future publication frequency; Weber is also co-author of a textbook on the general part of the law of obligations.

Dispute over Thor Steinar clothing

After Weber wore clothing from the fashion label Thor Steinar , which is used by right-wing extremists as a distinguishing mark, in the University of Greifswald, the university adopted a ban in 2010 on the “ use of labels with unconstitutional , racist , xenophobic, violent or other inhumane content” House rules on.

Promotion of the hate song singer Maik Bunzel

In October 2014 Weber accepted Maik Bunzel , singer of the openly National Socialist and anti-Semitic band Hassgesang , as a doctoral candidate. Shortly before, Bunzel had to give up his office as a judge in Bavaria after his past became known through media reports. In Bunzel's lyrics it says u. a. " Adolf Hitler , Sieg Heil it sounds up to you" and "Holy be all peoples command, nuclear missiles on Israel ". The university could no longer prevent Bunzel from being awarded the doctorate. Weber stated that he only found out about Bunzel's past after media coverage of Bunzel's doctorate. He found the texts "disgusting", but had nothing to do with Bunzel's academic qualifications. The rector of Greifswald University, Hannelore Weber , was appalled by the award of the doctoral degree to Bunzel. The alternative for Germany was behind Ralph Weber. He was to be thanked for strictly separating opinion and science from one another.

Lecture with representatives of the spectrum of Reich citizens

As it became known in summer 2016, Weber held a legal history lecture at the University of Greifswald at the beginning of the year, in which a representative of the Reich Citizens' Movement spoke. This movement assumes that the German Reich will continue to exist within the borders of 1937 or 1914 and does not recognize the Federal Republic of Germany as a state. In the lecture the speaker claimed that the Free State of Prussia was still in existence, that one should destroy his West German identity papers and obtain Prussian documents instead. Weber said that he had invited the speaker on the recommendation of a student but did not find out more about the speaker's biography. During the lecture he contradicted the speaker several times and then asked everyone present to leave the room.

politics

CDU membership

Weber was a member of the CDU until 2014 and was part of its conservative wing. In 2003 Weber took a stand against the impunity of abortion . In 2008 he stated in the right-wing conservative newspaper Junge Freiheit that he saw potential for a party to the right of the CDU. In 2010 he hit the headlines because of the initiative to found a right-wing party of the CDU. To this end, he met with the chairmen of the right-wing extremist parties NPD and DVU , Udo Voigt and Matthias Faust . Weber stated that it “makes no difference” “whether I talk to Ms. Merkel or to Mr. Voigt”. In 2012 he repeated his statement in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter . Furthermore, Weber gave for the July issue of the extreme right-wing magazine First! an interview on the same subject.

Intervention in favor of an NPD district administrator candidate

In 2008 he intervened on official stationery for the candidacy of NPD candidates in the district elections in Ludwigslust and East Pomerania at the Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. At the end of April 2008, the state electoral committee in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania confirmed the decision of the district electoral committees of Ludwigslust and East Western Pomerania to exclude the NPD state parliament members Stefan Köster and Michael Andrejewski from the district elections . Weber criticized the fact that people who express a “right sentiment” should “keep away from public office” lacked any “democratic basis”. "As long as a political party has not been officially banned by the Federal Constitutional Court, membership in such associations and / or parties cannot be used as a reason for exclusion from public activity or social engagement."

AfD member of the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

In 2016, after joining the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) , Weber was elected to the arbitration committee of the AfD state association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Weber was the direct candidate of the AfD for the constituency of Vorpommern-Greifswald III in the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 and won it with 35.3 percent of the vote. In the AfD parliamentary group, Weber acts as deputy parliamentary group chairman. According to political observers, he is considered to be the “far right”. In the state election campaign he used the slogan among other things

"No money for your 'refugees' - our money for our children"

- Ralph Weber, 2016

The musician Ulrich Steier criticized the campaign slogan. According to Steier, by placing the word refugees in quotation marks, Weber put all those seeking protection under general suspicion and tried to evade his responsibility.

Weber gives lectures as part of his party activities as scientific publications on the university website.

In April 2017, Weber demanded in a Facebook entry that “'Biodeutsche' with two German parents and four German grandparents” should work to ensure that “our homeland will still be shaped and shaped by a German dominant culture in 30 years”. The Nordkurier received this as a demand for an " Aryan leading culture". Weber's demand is similar to the requirements of the “ Small Aryan Proof ” of the National Socialists. Weber's further statement that there must be an end to the “ Great Exchange ”, according to Nordkurier and Schweriner Volkszeitung, also takes up a term used by the extreme right-wing identity movement observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Weber concluded with the slogan: "Germany for the Germans". According to Nordkurier, Weber then changed his entry and deleted several of the formulations quoted by Nordkurier.

The University of Greifswald distanced itself "very decidedly from the unspeakable statements". The state board of the AfD also saw the statements as a violation of party principles and warned Weber. The AfD is concerned with the preservation of German culture; "Not only all citizens with two previous German generations are invited to take part." In the event of a repetition, the board threatened to take tougher regulatory measures. The AfD parliamentary group fully followed the warning from the state executive.

Private

Weber lives in Kemnitz near Greifswald and has a second marriage. In his free time, Weber claims to be committed to “maintaining the Germanic cultural heritage”.

Scientific memberships

Publications (selection)

  • The trusting cooperation between employer and works council according to § 2 Abs. 1 BetrVG (= publications on economic, labor and social law. Vol. 39). V. Decker et al. Müller, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-8226-0489-5 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1988).
  • From class struggle to partnership. A developmental perspective on the emergence of German works constitution law. Peter Lang, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-631-47969-7 .
  • Property law. 2 volumes. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004/2005, ISBN 3-8329-0838-2 (vol. 1), ISBN 3-8329-0922-2 (vol. 2).

Newspaper articles

Web links

Commons : Ralph Weber  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Election to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 4, 2016 (preliminary result): Elected constituency applicants (first votes)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jochen Zenthöfer: Podium for a "Reich Citizen" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 24, 2016 (accessed on August 1, 2016).
  3. ↑ [+] Pluswerk Team: General house rules for buildings, rooms and land at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald - University of Greifswald Section 5, Paragraph 4, version of June 22, 2012. In: www.uni-greifswald.de. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016 ; accessed on September 17, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Jochen Zenthöfer: When the professor turns a blind eye , FAZ from April 10, 2016
  5. ↑ Christoph Titz: Bizarre dress code: How the University of Greifswald wants to get rid of neo-Nazis , SPON from September 10, 2010
  6. ↑ Overview of doctoral degrees at the Weber chair ( memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 6, 2016).
  7. ↑ Alexander: Fröhlich: How a neo-Nazi from Brandenburg could become a judge Tagesspiegel, October 13, 2014 (accessed April 13, 2016).
  8. ↑ Questionable sympathies. A neo-Nazi received his doctorate in Greifswald. In: FAZ from April 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ At the University of Greifswald, a neo-Nazi was awarded his doctorate, vice.com 11 April 2016 (accessed on 11 April 2016).
  10. ↑ Lisa Kleinpeter: Prof. Rechts awards title to Dr. Nazi. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung from April 12, 2016 (accessed April 12, 2016).
  11. ↑ Jürgen Mladek: The law professor. In: Nordkurier of April 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ Stefan Ludmann: Greifswald students don't want a Nazi doctor, NDR 1 Radio MV, April 13, 2016 (accessed April 27, 2016).
  13. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Brown career. Cottbus neo-Nazi lawyer in the NSU trial. In: Potsdam Latest News from April 20, 2016 (accessed April 27, 2016).
  14. ^ AfD stands behind Greifswald professor, Junge Freiheit from April 12, 2016 (accessed April 27, 2016).
  15. ↑ a b Jürgen Mladek: The law professor. In: Nordkurier of April 29, 2016.
  16. ↑ Daily Mail - Catholic Newspaper for Politics, Society and Culture ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (from May 7, 2003)
  17. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber (CDU) in the “Junge Freiheit” interview about Caffier and the chances of a right-wing party, November 21, 2008.
  18. ^ Matthias Kamann, Daniel Friedrich Sturm: How the AfD benefits from the panic of the parties. In: DIE WELT of August 14, 2016 (accessed on August 16, 2016).
  19. ↑ Christoph Titz: Bizarre dress code. How the University of Greifswald wants to get rid of neo-Nazis. In: Spiegel Online of September 11, 2010 (accessed on August 16, 2016).
  20. ↑ Burschenschaftliche Blätter 2/2012: Ralph Weber: "Do we need a new party on the right of the CDU?" ( Memento of June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 15, 2013.
  21. ↑ See also Weber's reply to the article in the Ostseezeitung from 2010 ( Memento from October 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 37 kB).
  22. ↑ Rostock law professor against rejection of NPD candidates ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  23. ^ Rejected NPD candidates: Schützenhilfe from the CDU professor
  24. ↑ NDR
  25. ↑ a b Alternative for Germany: AfD in Vorpommern-Greifswald sets up direct candidates. ( Memento from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Communication from October 12, 2015 (accessed on August 1, 2016)
  26. ↑ a b Christian Teevs: AfD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: on the far right well positioned. In: Spiegel Online . September 6, 2016, accessed September 7, 2016 .
  27. ^ AfD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  28. ↑ a b Ulrich Steier: AfD's election slogan is a slap in the face. In: Ostsee-Zeitung of July 30, 2016.
  29. ^ Carsten Korfmacher: AfD law professor calls for Aryan leading culture. In: Nordkurier. April 25, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Max-Stefan Koslik: AfD man outed himself as a 'Biodeutscher' , Schweriner Volkszeitung from April 26, 2017
  31. ↑ Frank Pergande : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania AfD warns members , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 27, 2017.
  32. ↑ Jörg Spreemann: Controversial AfD professor remains parliamentary deputy in the state parliament. In: Nordkurier. May 2, 2017. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  33. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber (Chair) - Faculty - Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Ralph Lothar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Krautheim