Rolf Weigand

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Rolf Weigand (born June 8, 1984 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German engineer for ceramics, glass and building materials technology and politician ( AfD ). He has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament ( MdL ) since January 1, 2018 .

Life and work

Rolf Weigand studied ceramics, glass and building material technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg from October 2003 to September 2008 . His diploma thesis was on the topic of “extending the service life of refractory materials for the glass industry”. Since 2008 he has been employed as a research assistant in the glass working group at the Institute for Ceramics, Glass and Building Materials Technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, where he received his doctorate in June 2013 on "Extension of the service life of refractory material in direct glass melt contact". Weigand is also the managing director of a company that was spun off from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

In 2008 he was awarded the Theodor Haase Prize of the MORE Freiberg, in 2014 the Adolf Dietzel Industry Prize of the German Glass Technology Society and in 2015 the Richard Hartmann Prize of the Industrieverein Sachsen 1828 eV.

politics

Weigand has been a member of Alternative für Deutschland since 2013 and has been on the board of the AfD Mittelachsen district association and Junge Alternative Sachsen since 2017. He is also the press spokesman for his district association. On January 1, 2018, he took up his mandate in the Saxon state parliament as the successor to Detlev Spangenberg , who, as a member of the 19th electoral term of the German Bundestag, resigned his mandate as a member of the state parliament in December 2017. He is the education and science policy spokesman for his group.

In the mayoral election in Großschirma on June 17, 2018, he ran against incumbent Volkmar Schreiter ( FDP ). When he was re-elected, he received 40.7% of the vote, the AfD's best result in a local election to date. Weigand has been Deputy Mayor of Großschirma since August 2019.

As the press spokesman for his district association, he criticized a lecture planned in the Roßwein city ​​council on the new right . Its organizers, the Treibhausverein from Döbeln , as well as other cultural and political associations in Connewitz and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation , assume that Weigand is left-wing extremist or promoting left-wing extremist violence. He demands that state support be withdrawn from them. The greenhouse association rejects the allegations and refers to its non-profit cultural activities as well as its anti-fascist attitude. On the occasion of proposals in federal politics in June 2019 to designate parents neutrally in forms as parents 1 and 2, he warned against the abolition of “mother” and “father”. The proposal was "openly expressed hostility towards classical families", the government wanted to destroy "normal mother-father-child structures".

Together with Jörg Urban , Weigand presented the AfD parliamentary group's internet platform “Lehrer-SOS” in October 2018, where teachers or schools can be reported where there have been incidents of violence or a violation of political neutrality, for example. The platform was criticized from many sides as promoting denouncing , intimidating critical teachers and illegal for data protection reasons. An expert opinion by the legal service of the Saxon state parliament refuted this and confirmed that the AfD parliamentary group could operate this way. After the platform was set up, Weigand lodged a complaint with the Ministry of Culture about a teacher who had used an excerpt from the show today . According to the ministry, however, none of the AfD's complaints has revealed misconduct by teachers or schools, and some of the complaints are factually incorrect.

As a member of parliament, Weigand also asked several times about criminal offenses and the proportion of perpetrators among foreigners. As a result, he published, "Almost 70 percent of all perpetrators who sexually molested our children and young people in the swimming pool are men from Islamic countries". In the reporting he was criticized for not publishing results that were not politically useful to him - among other things, that serious sexual assaults were only committed by Germans - and thus distorting the overall picture of crime. He even did not publish the result of an inquiry himself because all known perpetrators were Germans. Weigand replied that an open and honest debate about migrant crime must finally be held and that the problem must be resolved. In addition, the criminal offense published by him was only reintroduced in Germany after New Year's Eve 2015/2016 in Cologne.

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Weigand achieved the best result of all candidates in the district election in the district of Central Saxony and was "king of the vote". Even in the city council election in Großschirma, he was able to unite by far the most votes. He made a significant contribution to the election success of the AfD, which now occupies 22 of 98 places in the Central Saxony district council.

For the state election in Saxony in 2019 , he ran for the AfD in 8th place on the list. The Taz describes his candidate speech as “a frenzy when he [the election] conjured up the 'biggest rescue operation for Saxony and our fatherland'”. As a direct candidate, he won the Central Saxony 2 constituency and is one of the 15 constituency members of the new AfD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament.

Works (selection)

  • A contribution to extending the service life of refractory material in direct glass melt contact . Freiberg 2013 (224 p., Freiberg, TU Bergakademie, Diss., 2013).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AfD flashes in Roßwein. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Heike Hubricht: Election thriller ends with a victory for the incumbent. Freie Presse , June 18, 2018, accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Heike Hubricht: Large company: AfD man is second vice mayor. Free Press , August 29, 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ AfD flashes in Roßwein. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Döbelner Treibhaus throws AfD allegations. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Family Ministry makes it clear: We do not want to abolish father and mother. Retrieved on July 28, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ Tino Moritz: Expert opinion: AfD teacher portal permissible AfD portal: "Democracy project" or "teacher pillory"? Freie Presse , October 13, 2018, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Kai Kollenberg: Expert opinion: AfD teacher portal permitted. Freie Presse , April 3, 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ AfD complaints against teachers - "today show" in school lessons. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Saxony's AfD versus teachers: Landtag inquiries about individual educators. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ mdr.de: AfD wants a discussion without blinkers | MDR.DE. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Jan Leißner: Mayors are the "house power" in the district council. Free Press , June 22, 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Grit Baldauf: Change of power in central Saxony. Free Press , May 29, 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The first 18 candidates of the AfD Saxony for the state elections in 2019. March 5, 2019, accessed on July 28, 2019 (German).
  15. ^ Michael Bartsch: AfD election party conference in Saxony: Extreme successes . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 10, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on July 28, 2019]).
  16. ^ AfD wins in the Freiberg region. Freie Presse , September 2, 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Weigand, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and politician (AfD), MdL (Saxon State Parliament)
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City