Ronald glasses

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Ronald glasses (born December 16, 1973 in West Berlin ) is a German journalist and politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). He is editor for the media department and employee of the online editorial team and since 1995 author of the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . Furthermore, he is the regular author of the monthly magazine Uniquely free . Glasses was a national liberal member of the FDP from 1991 to 2007 . Since 2013 he has been a member of the AfD, since 2016 a member of the state board and press spokesman of the AfD Berlin and since October 2016 a member of the Berlin House of Representatives , where he is deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group.

Life

After graduating from the Canisius College in Berlin in 1993 , Gläser studied North American Studies and Business Administration at the Free University of Berlin and graduated in 2002 with the academic degree Magister Artium . He has been working as a journalist for the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit since 1995 , most recently as an editor .

Glasses is married to a Ukrainian and has two children.

Political activity

Glasses was a member of the FDP from 1991 to 2007 . According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he was one of Jürgen Möllemann's supporters and was assigned to the party's “far right wing”. After Möllemann's death in 2003, glasses speculated that he could have been murdered by a " secret service of a small country in the Middle East " and referred to the Israeli secret service Mossad .

Glasses joined the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2013 . He is a board member of the AfD district association in Pankow as well as an assessor and press spokesman for the Berlin regional association . In the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 , he was on the list of 3rd place in the House of Representatives elected. He is a member of the committees for communication technology and data protection, for the protection of the constitution and for European and federal affairs, media. On October 15, 2018, glasses was voted out as chairman of the data protection committee with the votes of all parliamentary groups except the AfD. After a homicide in Chemnitz , which subsequently led to right-wing extremist riots , at the end of August 2018 he distributed parts of a leaked arrest warrant against an Iraqi suspect at the time via Twitter , thereby violating Section 353d No. 3 StGB .

Political positions

In a 2010 column for Junge Freiheit , Gläser described British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a war criminal . With his blindness to the true war goals of Stalin and his war policy directed against Germany, he had contributed significantly to a largely shattered Europe with fifty million dead and communist rule over Eastern Europe .

In April 2019 it became known that glasses had already made statements glorifying weapons in a Whatsapp group chat initiated by Stephan Wirtensohn, AfD parliamentary group chairman in the district council assembly (BVV) in Pankow. Politicians from other parties demanded Glaser's resignation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. n-tv news television: Ex-soldiers and a phantom: The AfD troop from Berlin . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on June 5, 2017]).
  2. ^ Texts by Ronald Gläser in the monthly magazine Strangely free
  3. ^ Ronald glasses, Alternative für Deutschland parlament-berlin.de
  4. Karin Janker, Oliver Das Gupta: These AfD politicians will sit in the Berlin House of Representatives in the future . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 19, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 25, 2018]).
  5. a b c d Berlin House of Representatives: Ronald Gläser , short biography on the Berlin House of Representatives website, accessed on May 30, 2017.
  6. ^ Alternative for Germany: State Board of AfD Berlin . AfD Berlin website, accessed on September 19, 2016.
  7. Spiegel TV Magazin , September 25, 2016.
  8. ^ A b Maria Fiedler, Fabian Leber, Karin Christmann, Felix Hackenbruch: These AfD politicians will soon be in parliament. In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 19, 2016, accessed on September 19, 2016.
  9. Karin Janker, Oliver Das Gupta: These AfD politicians will sit in the Berlin House of Representatives in the future. In: süddeutsche.de . September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
  10. Holger Kulick: Vigil for Möllemann - The myth is alive. In: Spiegel Online . June 12, 2003, accessed October 9, 2016 .
  11. Felix Hackenbruch: Glasses voted out of office as chairman of the data protection committee , Tagesspiegel, October 15, 2018
  12. ^ New German MP with rising right-wing party once described Churchill as a war criminal . In: The Telegraph . ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed June 5, 2017]).
  13. ^ Ronald glasses: Was Churchill a hero? In: Young Freedom . September 16, 2010, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  14. Grüner calls for Ronald glasses to be excluded from the party. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  15. Berlin AfD party spokesman found assault rifles against Antifa "great". Retrieved May 14, 2019 .