René Stadtkewitz
René Stadtkewitz [ʃtʰatʰˈkevɪt͡s] (born January 9, 1965 in East Berlin ) is a German politician . From 2001 to 2011 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . He was elected via the district list of the Pankow CDU . From October 2010 to October 2013 he was federal chairman of the party he co-founded, Die Freiheit , after having been a member of the CDU for years.
Life
From 1981 to 1984 Stadtkewitz made vocational training as a metallurgist for rolling mill technology with a high school diploma. From 1984 to 1986 he did his basic military service . He claims that he refused to work at the border and that he was harassed by the Stasi as a result. “At 21 I was finished with the GDR,” said Stadtkewitz.
From 1986 to 1991 Stadtkewitz worked in industrial robot construction. In the year the Berlin Wall fell , he and his family fled from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany via Hungary . After reunification he returned to Berlin. From 1994 to 1996 he was a commercial clerk ; since 1996 he has been the managing director and part-time limited partner in a craft business.
Stadtkewitz is married and has two children.
On the night of August 10, 2006, Stadtkewitz and his family were arson attacked in their home. A Molotov cocktail was thrown into an open cellar window and a mattress was set on fire. Stadtkewitz and his wife got the two sleeping children out of their beds and fled outside. Stadtkewitz had already been threatened a few months earlier. He was informed in three letters that “the family will be on the collar” if he did not give up his opposition to the construction of the Khadija Mosque and if he did not resign from his seat as a member of parliament. The state security started the investigation because a political background was not excluded. The CDU politicians Friedbert Pflüger and Frank Henkel as well as the state and parliamentary committee of the Berlin CDU declared their solidarity with Stadtkewitz. The perpetrators have not yet been identified.
Party and MP
Stadtkewitz had been a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 1995 . During the Berlin banking scandal he was a member of the investigative committee of the Berlin House of Representatives. From 2001 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2007 Stadtkewitz was chairman of the CDU Berlin-Pankow . From March 2007 to October 2009 he was its deputy chairman. In the 2006 election to the Berlin House of Representatives, Stadtkewitz obtained 17.3 percent of the first votes in the Berlin district of Heinersdorf. From 2006 until he left the CDU in October 2009, he was head of the working group for urban development, building, housing and transport on the board of the CDU parliamentary group and was spokesman for building and housing policy until September 2010.
On October 30, 2009, Stadtkewitz announced that he was leaving the CDU, but remained a member of the parliamentary group, as the CDU parliamentary group announced a week later. After Stadtkewitz invited the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to a discussion event on October 2, 2010, the Berlin CDU parliamentary group threatened Stadtkewitz's exclusion. Stadtkewitz insisted on his position, whereupon the CDU parliamentary group executive decided unanimously at its meeting on August 30, 2010 to recommend the group to be excluded. On September 7, 2010, Stadtkewitz was excluded from the CDU parliamentary group with 27 of 34 votes. Thereupon Stadtkewitz, together with the former CDU politician Marc Doll and the former member of the board of the Pirate Party , Stefan Koenig, announced the founding of a new party called "Freedom", which took part in the 2011 election for the Berlin House of Representatives for the first time. The party was officially founded in Berlin on October 28, 2010, and Stadtkewitz was elected Federal and State Chairman for Berlin. In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011 , Stadtkewitz's co-founded party received 1.0% of the second vote and failed because of the five percent hurdle . Stadtkewitz received 2.9% of the first votes in his constituency and was not re-elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. In September 2013, due to a lack of electoral success, he called for support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that was newly founded in February 2013 . In October 2013 he resigned from the office of federal chairman of “Die Freiheit”.
Positions and Actions
In September 2006, Stadtkewitz hit the headlines of the Berlin daily newspapers because he gave an interview to the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit shortly before the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives . After this interview, Stadtkewitz was confronted with calls for resignation from his own ranks. In the interview he warned that “politics had moved too far from the people” and criticized the “shift in the political coordinate system to the left”.
Stadtkewitz campaigned against the building of the Khadija Mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Berlin-Heinersdorf . He supported the citizens' initiative ipahb e. V. and took part in several demonstrations against the building of mosques. At the final rally of the demonstration on July 11, 2007, he gave a speech in which he described Islam as a “political religion” and as “not integrable in Europe”. Stadtkewitz and other representatives of the Pankow CDU also directed their support for the protests against the building of the mosque against the CDU City Councilor Martin Federlein, who approved the construction of the mosque in accordance with applicable laws . Stadtkewitz and the Berlin CDU condemned the “ Islamophobic propaganda” surrounding the protests in a joint statement by the parliamentary groups following an arson attack on the mosque construction site .
In October 2009, Stadtkewitz applied to the German Bundestag for an online petition calling for a commission of inquiry that would “deal with immigration and integration and develop recommendations for the parliament for possible improvements to citizenship and immigration law”. He promoted the petition with the slogan "Support Sarrazin ". In the justification, Stadtkewitz once again particularly emphasized “immigration from countries with a predominance of Islam” and claimed “a lack of willingness to integrate”. The Petitions Committee did not allow the petition as a public petition: "It should be left to the parliamentary groups to check whether and to what extent they want to take a corresponding initiative in Parliament".
Stadtkewitz was also one of the first to sign the action to stop the link trend , which, according to its own statement, has been opposed to the “abandonment of Christian-conservative and market-economy positions” in the CDU since 2010.
Around the middle of 2010, Stadtkewitz invited the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to Berlin. He accepted the invitation and gave a speech to around 500 guests on October 2nd, 2010. Around 80 demonstrators protested in front of the host hotel.
Social Commitment
Stadtkewitz has been a member of the UHW ( Unionhilfswerk e.V. ) since 2005 and of the Verein für Pankow e. V.
From 2008 to 2014 Stadtkewitz was state chairman for Berlin-Brandenburg and deputy federal chairman of the right-wing populist association Citizens' Movement Pax Europa , which claims to be committed to the values of the " free-democratic basic order " and the "preservation of the Christian-Jewish tradition of our European culture" begins and at the same time describes Islam as a " fascist ideology". He has been its federal chairman since 2014.
Web links
- René Stadtkewitz kandidatenwatch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Sabine Rennefanz : The outsider . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 2010
- ↑ a b Werner van Bebber: On the right path. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 2, 2010.
- ↑ Lutz Schnedelbach, Birgitt Eltzel and Tonio Postel: "If we had slept, two children would be dead" In: Berliner Zeitung , August 11, 2006.
- ↑ Pflüger shows solidarity with the attack victim Stadtkewitz . In: Die Welt , August 12, 2006.
- ↑ Matthias Lohre: CDU suspects left-wing extremists behind the attack. In: the daily newspaper , August 15, 2006.
- ↑ Candidates from the constituency Pankow WK 5, election archive 2006 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Politician Stadtkewitz also leaves Berlin CDU . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 1, 2009
- ^ Stadtkewitz-remains-in-the-CDU-parliamentary group . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 7th
- ↑ Florian Fuchs, Matthias Kolb: Between Geert Wilders and Martin Luther . SZ-Online , July 23, 2010
- ↑ CDU parliamentary group head recommends the exclusion of Stadtkewitz ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BerlinOnline on August 30, 2010
- ↑ CDU excludes Stadtkewitz . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 7, 2010
- ↑ Freedom: press release
- ↑ Berlin ex-CDU politician founds his own party . rbb of September 10, 2010
- ^ The State Returning Officer for Berlin: Second votes in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2011: Preliminary result. Retrieved September 19, 2011 .
- ↑ Alexander Häusler: Hostility to Muslims as a right-wing extremist gateway . For the Federal Agency for Political Education . online from March 17, 2014
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Right-wing populist party “Die Freiheit” - Islam haters continue from October 24, 2013
- ↑ Jens Anker, Karsten Hintzmann: Interview causes a lot of trouble. In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 10, 2008.
- ^ Moritz Schwarz: Lost trust. In: Junge Freiheit , September 8, 2006 (interview).
- ↑ Islam is Political Religion , transcript of the speech from July 11, 2007, on the occasion of the demonstration of the Berlin citizens' initiative ipahb against the construction of the Ahmadiyya mosque
- ↑ René Stadtkewitz u. a .: Condemn arson attack on mosque construction site. (PDF; 22 kB) In: Drucksache 16/0391. Berlin House of Representatives, March 22, 2007, accessed November 7, 2009 .
- ^ Gereon Asmuth: CDU loses right-wing populists. In: the daily newspaper , November 2, 2009.
- ↑ Online petition to the German Bundestag, October 2009 ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 27, 2009
- ↑ Manifesto against the left trend. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2010 ; Retrieved October 4, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Opponents of Islam in Berlin - Wilders attacks Merkel . In: Spiegel Online , October 2, 2010
- ↑ Praise for Sarrazin, scolding for Merkel. In: the daily newspaper . October 3, 2010, accessed November 14, 2010 .
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile of Stadtkewitz on the homepage of the Berlin House of Representatives
- ↑ CDU argues about critics of Islam in its own ranks . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 24, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stadtkewitz, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Die Freiheit, previously CDU), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |