Ruprecht Polenz

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Ruprecht Polenz (2012)

Ruprecht Rolf Gotthelf Polenz (born May 26, 1946 in Denkwitz ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and President of the German Society for Eastern European Studies .

From 2005 to 2013 he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and from April to November 2000 Secretary General of the CDU. He has been a well-known representative of the Central Union since 2017 .

Since November 4, 2015, he has been the official representative of the German government in the dialogue on the genocide of the Herero and Nama with Namibia .

Life and work

Polenz spent the first six years of his childhood near the small Saxon town of Bautzen . Since his parents did not want him to start school in the GDR , the family fled to the West in 1952 and moved to Hafenlohr in Lower Franconia . After graduating from high school in 1966, Polenz was initially a contract soldier and reserve officer candidate with Telecommunications Battalion 4 in Regensburg (last rank: Lieutenant d. R. ). As a motive he stated his conviction that war can only be avoided through deterrence. From 1968 he then completed a law degree on a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation at the University of Münster , which he completed in 1973 with the first state examination in law. After his legal clerkship , he passed the second state examination in 1976 and worked from 1977 to 1980 as a research assistant at the Institute for Tax Law at the University of Münster. In 1980 he moved to the Münster Chamber of Commerce and Industry as head of the press and public relations department, and became its managing director in 1984. From 1994 to October 2013 he was on leave in this function for the duration of his membership in the German Bundestag. In addition, Ruprecht Polenz was President of the German Atlantic Society from 1996 to 2006 . In 2014 he received the "Prize for Dialogue, Understanding and Reconciliation" at the Catholic Academy Schwerte . Rupert Neudeck gave the laudation . Polenz is also a member of the Center for Liberal Modernism .

Polenz is married and has four children.

Political party

During his studies, Polenz became involved in the Ring of Christian-Democratic Students from 1968 , of which he was state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1973. In 1969 he was elected to the AStA at the University of Münster. From 1974 to 1980 he was a member of the state board of the Junge Union Nordrhein-Westfalen. From 1995 to 2003 he was chairman of the CDU district association in Münster, and since January 18, 2014, Polenz has been honorary chairman of the CDU in Münster.

From April 10 to November 20, 2000 he was Secretary General of the CDU under party leader Angela Merkel . He was elected with 88%. After six months he surprisingly announced his resignation. FDP boss Guido Westerwelle described the resignation as a "pawn" Merkel. The journalist Bettina Gaus speculated in the Taz that Merkel had sacrificed Polenz, who was considered liberal, after parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz had received strong support with his conservative positions on leading culture and migration policy .

For the CDU, he was also a member of the ZDF television council from June 2000 to July 2016 , which he chaired from 2002.

MP

From 1975 to 1994 Polenz was a member of the Münster City Council . From 1994 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2005 to 2013 he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee . Ruprecht Polenz's 1994 and 1998 as directly selected delegates of the constituency Munster and then at the federal elections in 2002 and 2005 on the national list North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag drawn in. In the 2009 Bundestag election he was again able to win the direct mandate in the Münster constituency. In January 2012, Polenz announced that after 19 years as a member of the Bundestag, he would no longer stand for election in the 2013 Bundestag election.

As one of the first CDU members of the Bundestag, Polenz spoke out in favor of introducing Islamic religious instruction in German. In foreign policy, one of his main focuses was Islamic countries such as Turkey and Iran. As Iran's rapporteur for the Union Group, he demanded that Iran renounce weapons of mass destruction , respect human rights and refrain from terrorist acts abroad. In 1997 he pleaded for a cautious opening policy to support the country's reform policy. In 2008, he condemned the annexation of the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russia and supported the sanctions following the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014. After the outbreak of the civil war in Syria , he suggested in 2012 that contingents of Syrian refugees and the Syrian President be admitted to Germany To bring Assad to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Polenz was one of the most active members of the Bundestag on the Internet platform Facebook with thousands of Facebook friends. Polenz made numerous political statements directly on his Facebook wall. According to the magazine Focus, Polenz is the German politician with the greatest reach on Twitter . His tweets were shared or favored more than 900,000 times in the nine-month period. No other German politician has achieved a greater reach.

On June 29, 2012, the International Business Club (IBC) awarded Gelsenkirchen Polenz the INTEGRA integration award.

Club activity

Polenz is chairman of the Christian-Muslim Peace Initiative e. V. and board member of the Christian-Islamic Society as well as deputy chairman of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft e. V., the alliance of aid organizations. He is also the first chairman of the THW helper association Münster e. V. and member of the advisory board of the Atlantic Initiative .

In 2002 Polenz took part in the Bilderberger Conference in Chantilly .

Political positions

Polenz was in his book “Better for both. Turkey belongs in the EU ”for an EU accession of Turkey , provided that it fulfills the EU accession criteria. In September 2011, Polenz spoke out in favor of monitoring the Islamophobic blog Politically Incorrect by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . In a well-received, open letter, Polenz turned to Rezo after his video " The Destruction of the CDU ". The politician largely agreed with the YouTuber about Rezo's positions on climate protection and the CDU's dealings with young voters, especially with regard to the Fridays for Future demonstrators. He repeatedly referred to the AfD as right-wing, right-wing extremist and fascist .

Awards

  • 2020: Golden Blogger , the "most important award for the influenza scene in Germany"

publication

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruprecht Polenz (CDU) - Jung & Naiv: Episode 455. Retrieved on February 9, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Ruprecht Polenz in conversation with Tobias Armbrüster Deutschlandfunk
  3. ↑ November 4, 2015 - News in the evening. Hitradio Namibia, November 4, 2015
  4. ^ A b Jan Philipp Wölbern: History of the CDU: Ruprecht Polenz. In: KAS.de (Konrad Adenauer Foundation). Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Ruben Donsbach, Amna Franzke, Juliane Frisse, Silke Janovsky, Constanze Kainz: Politicians: Ruprecht Polenz, the serious . In: The time . June 28, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 28, 2019]).
  6. ^ Academy Schwerte: Communio Prize for Ruprecht Polenz. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ruprecht Polenz first winner of the COMMUNIO Prize for Dialogue, Understanding and Reconciliation. Catholic Academy Schwerte, 2014, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Politics - "I never dreamed of Secretary General" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on May 8, 2017]).
  9. ↑ a b c Ruprecht Polenz. May 25, 1946, Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ RP ONLINE: Reactions to the resignation of Ruprecht Polenz: FDP suspects a pawn sacrifice. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ BETTINA GAUS: resignation from polenz: A beautiful day for Edmund Stoiber . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 24, 2000, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 1 ( taz.de [accessed on February 8, 2020]).
  12. ↑ CDU chief is running for the successor to Polenz in the Bundestag ( memento from 23 August 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Münstersche Zeitung , by Jörg Gierse, 5 July 2012
  13. ↑ Polenz criticizes Friedrich's statements on Greece , Der Westen , February 27, 2012
  14. ↑ CDU politician says goodbye to the social network: Polenz is "gone" on Facebook . Westfälische Nachrichten of September 25, 2013.
  15. ↑ FOCUS Online: The Polenz Factor: These are the most influential German politicians on Twitter. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ INTEGRA Award | IBC - International Business Club eV accessed on November 4, 2019.
  17. ↑ Christian-Muslim Peace Initiative eV ( Memento from February 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) November 29, 2007
  18. ↑ Why this hatred of Turkey? ( Memento from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 29, 2010
  19. ^ "Politically Incorrect" flirts with the Union , Berliner Zeitung , September 16, 2011
  20. ↑ Ruprecht Polenz shows how politicians should use social media. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  21. ^ Church and Life, Münster Germany: Polenz holds AfD against fascism and right-wing extremism. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Goldener Blogger: Prizes for Polenz, Tagesschau and Groschenphilosophin , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from March 10, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020

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ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polenz, Ruprecht Rolf Gotthelf (full name)
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DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1946
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