Roland Ulbrich

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Roland Ulbrich (* 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German lawyer and politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Life

Ulbrich studied law . He works as a lawyer in Leipzig . In 2018 he represented the AFD politician Kay Nerstheimer that because of sedition was indicted. He has been a member of the city council of Leipzig for the AfD since the local elections in Saxony in 2019 . On September 1, 2019, he succeeded in entering the Saxon state parliament for the AfD Saxony in the 2019 state elections . He moved into the state parliament via the state list.

Ulbrich's law firm has been the target of attacks several times.

Political positions

Ulbrich is considered a representative of the far right in the AfD. In 2016 he was a member of the “Patriotic Platform”, was in close contact with Beatrix von Storch and in 2017 was one of the initiators of the “Freedom Patriotic Alternative” (FPA), which took a stand against Frauke Petry . According to the Antifa Recherche Team Dresden, he represented an "open ranks" towards Pegida . After the opinion of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the AfD, Ulbrich campaigned for former NPD members to join the AfD.

Ulbrich became known throughout Germany when he asked on Facebook after the attack in Halle in October 2019: “What is worse, a damaged synagogue door or two Germans killed?” The attack in Halle was only “property damage”, there was “not even an attempt a homicide ”committed against the synagogue visitors. According to Tagesspiegel , "many" consider his statements to be anti-Semitic. They implied that Jews were not Germans and played down the attempted massacre in a synagogue as a minor act.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melanie Gürgen: Trial against AfD politicians opened. Accusation of sedition. In: Taz. January 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ City Council Leipzig , accessed on September 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ The faces of the new parliament. In: Saxon newspaper. 3rd September 2019.
  4. ^ Attack on the office of an AfD politician. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. April 17, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ The tears of the AfD boss at the party congress at home. In: The world. March 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Julius Betschka: AfD politician calls attack on synagogue "damage to property". In: Tagesspiegel. October 15, 2019 (accessed October 15, 2019).
  7. ^ Matthias Meisner: Revolt in the home of Frauke Petry. In: Der Tagesspiegel. February 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ Tino Heim (ed.): Pegida as a mirror and projection surface. Interactions and demarcations between Pegida, politics, media, civil society and social sciences. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-13571-3 , p. 40.
  9. ^ Roland Ulbrich (AfD). The patriotic alternative to Frauke Petry. MDR Sachsenspiegel, February 25, 2016.
  10. ↑ Andre Meister, Anna Biselli, Markus Reuter: We publish the Verfassungsschutz report on the AfD. In: netzpolitik.org. January 28, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Ulbrich, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany