Sebastian Czaja

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Sebastian Czaja, 2018

Sebastian Czaja (born June 28, 1983 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( FDP ). He is chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives . From September 2015 until his resignation in February 2020, he was General Secretary of the Berlin FDP .

Family, education and work

Sebastian Czaja grew up in Berlin-Mahlsdorf . His older brother Mario Czaja is a CDU politician and former Berlin Senator for Social Affairs . Sebastian Czaja attended the Klingenberg Oberschule in Berlin-Biesdorf from 1996 to 2000 and acquired the secondary school leaving certificate , after attending the Upper School Center for Energy Technology II in Berlin (2000 to 2004) the subject-specific university entrance qualification . In January 2004, Czaja completed an apprenticeship in electrical engineering by passing the journeyman's examination. After attending the Victor Klemperer College in Berlin-Marzahn (2004 to 2008), he obtained the general university entrance qualification in 2008 . He then worked for the construction company Strempel & Große from Marzahn-Hellersdorf, which also co-financed Czaja's district office in Marzahn-Hellersdorf.

After leaving the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011, Czaja was an advisory representative for the "Jahn Baumanagement" company from 2012 to autumn 2013, then responsible for project development for the company "beton & rohrbau CF Thymian" and has been with beton & rohrbau since 2016 2.0 GmbH is active in project development.

Czaja is married and has one daughter.

Party career

CDU

From 1999 to 2005 Czaja was a member of the CDU and 2001/02 district chairman of the Junge Union Marzahn-Hellersdorf . At the same time, he was the deputy state chairman of the Berlin Student Union .

FDP

After joining the FDP in 2005, he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district council until 2006 . From 2009 to 2012 Czaja was district chairman of the FDP Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Since February 2019 he has been chairman of the FDP district association Steglitz-Zehlendorf, in which he has led the FDP local association Zehlendorf-Wildwest since July 2017.

In 2009, Czaja founded the sports policy specialist and working group of the FDP parliamentary group chairman conference (FVK) and was its chairman and spokesman.

From September 2015 until his resignation in March 2020, Czaja was General Secretary of the FDP Berlin, which confirmed him in his office with 80.9 percent at its state party conference on March 9, 2018. At the FDP party congress on March 12, 2016, Czaja was elected the top candidate for the House of Representatives election on September 18, 2016 with 72.4 percent of the vote .

The FDP received 6.7% of the vote on September 18, 2016 (2011: 1.8%).

After moving back into the Berlin House of Representatives, his election as FDP parliamentary group chairman and his confirmation in office in October 2017, Czaja was elected deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group chairmen's conference on January 29, 2018 .

Public offices

District Assembly

Czaja exercised his mandate as district councilor in the district council meeting (BVV) Marzahn-Hellersdorf in 2001 until the end of the legislative period in 2006. Through his move from the CDU to the FDP in 2005, in which he retained his mandate, the FDP grew to the strength of a faction in the BVV, which quickly brought Czaja great influence, but also criticism from other FDP politicians.

Berlin House of Representatives

Sebastian Czaja (2016)

In 2006, Czaja became a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group there for sport, vocational training, science and research. In the House of Representatives he was a member of the committees for sport, vocational training, science and research as well as a member of the main committee and deputy chairman of the districts subcommittee. He was also a member of the State Committee for Education and Sport and the Federal Committee for Universities. On April 26, 2009, Czaja was elected deputy chairman of the Berlin FDP parliamentary group. He gave up his spokesperson for science and research at this point. After Czaja had sharply criticized the then FDP party chairman and top candidate Christoph Meyer immediately after the closing of the polling stations in the House of Representatives election on September 18, 2011 and demanded his resignation, he was voted out of office as deputy parliamentary group leader on September 30, 2011. In this election, Czaja ran as the top candidate on the district list and constituency candidate for Marzahn. Since the FDP was no longer represented in parliament after the election with a result of 1.8 percentage points, Czaja's mandate also ended.

In the House of Representatives election on September 18, 2016, Sebastian Czaja led the Free Democrats back into the House of Representatives as the top candidate and was elected chairman of the FDP parliamentary group there on September 19, 2016. On October 17, 2017, the 12 FDP MPs confirmed Czaja in this office. In November 2017 it became known that since the beginning of the legislature , Czaja and his colleague Thomas Seerig had received a lump sum from tax revenues of 850 euros per month for an office that did not yet exist. After public allegations, Czaja stated that he had "improperly worded" his original claim that he had not yet withdrawn any money. In April 2019, Czaja called BER boss and State Secretary Engelbert Lütke Daldrup a "notorious liar" from whom "taxpayers should not expect any truth". The litigation brought about by Lütke Daldrup over the possibly defamatory assertion of Czajas ended with a settlement, after which he declared in court that he would no longer designate the airport manager that way. In a preliminary injunction, the Hamburg Regional Court prohibited the FDP parliamentary group leader in the Berlin House of Representatives from making a statement that a court had classified the right-wing extremist Björn Höcke as a fascist. Czaja had written in a name contribution that the AfD "in the Thuringian Free State, with its state chairman Höcke, even knows a type of politician at its head, whom a court classifies as fascists on the basis of verifiable facts."

Other engagement

In 2014 Czaja founded together with the former housing policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Sebastian Körber , as well as with the vice-president of the Real Estate Association Germany IVD , Jürgen Michael Schick , the FDP-affiliated association “Liberale Immobilienrunde”, of which he is deputy chairman. Since 2014, Czaja has also been a member of the “City Working Group”. He is involved in the German Parliamentary Society and was a member of the youth development program of the “German Council Ne (X) t Gen”. He is also an ambassador for the “Sport against Violence” association, which has set itself the goal of providing young people with alternatives and perspectives in difficult urban environments. In addition, he is u. a. Deputy chairman of the Victor-Klemperer-Kolleg sponsoring association and assessor of the berliner Wirtschaftsrechner, as well as member of the association of friends and sponsors - Kiddies Family and of the board of trustees for the reconstruction of the Fraenkelufer synagogue.

Czaja was the initiator of the referendum “Berlin needs Tegel”, which Tegel wanted to keep permanently as a commercial airport even after the BER opened. In the referendum on the continued operation of Berlin-Tegel Airport on September 24, 2017, a majority of 56.4% voted in favor of the continued operation of Tegel. The Senate was asked to ensure the continued operation of Tegel Airport as a commercial airport for an unlimited period. Since the referendum did not include a specific bill, the result of the vote was not legally binding, so in June 2018 the Berlin House of Representatives decided that the referendum could not be implemented by the Senate.

Czaja is an opponent of the Berlin rent cap .

honors and awards

In 2005, Czaja was voted the second most unpopular Berliner after Hartmut Mehdorn by the readers of the Berliner Morgenpost because he wanted to cut the public funds for the children's aid project Arche in Berlin-Hellersdorf.

For the Berlin FDP House of Representatives election campaign for which Czaja was responsible, his party and the agency HEIMAT received the 2016 Political Award from the specialist magazine “politik & kommunikation” in the categories “Political Campaign” and “Digital Public Affairs” as well as “Viral Communication” - the latter especially for the guerrilla measure and start-up campaign with which his party in London with the slogan "Dear start-ups, keep calm and move to Berlin." had advertised company founders.

The business magazine “Capital” included Czaja in the “Young Elite - the Top 40 under 40” in the category “Politics and State” in 2017 and 2018, in which the country's outstanding talents under 40 years of age who are making careers in parties and authorities to be chosen. A year earlier, the FDP politician was one of the Rising Stars 2016 of "politik & kommunikation", who "have already achieved a lot in youth organizations of parties, in state parliaments, ministries and in the German Bundestag and still have great things ahead of them."

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Czaja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Personal. ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Sebastian-Czaja.de , accessed on July 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Page 2 of 2: Berlin FDP in free fall - “It is died at the end” | Cicero Online. March 4, 2016, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Profile in parliament watch
  4. ↑ Can this man give Berlin the “fresh cell treatment”? In: Welt.de , September 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Berlin politicians remember December 19, 2016 In: tagesspiegel.de , December 19, 2017.
  6. ^ Message from the FDP Marzahn-Hellersdorf on Facebook , April 15, 2012.
  7. ^ Message from the FDP Steglitz-Zehlendorf, February 28, 2019
  8. ^ Message from the FDP Zehlendorf-Wildwest, July 17, 2017
  9. ↑ Thorkrit Treichel: Liberals in Berlin: Sebastian Czaja is the new General Secretary of the FDP. In: Berliner Zeitung , September 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ Communication from the FDP Berlin , March 9, 2018
  11. ^ Communication from the FDP Berlin ( memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), March 12, 2016
  12. ↑ FDP parliamentary group chairman conference under new leadership In: portal liberal, January 30, 2018
  13. ↑ a b Stefan Alberti: Finally at eye level. In: the daily newspaper , May 2, 2009.
  14. ↑ FDP and SPD decide on parliamentary group chairmanship. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 31, 2009.
  15. ↑ Constantin Magnis: Berlin FDP in free fall: “It is died at the end”. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Cicero , November 8, 2011.
  16. ↑ Czaja confirmed as the Berlin FDP parliamentary group leader . Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 17, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
  17. ↑ "That was improperly formulated". Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  18. ↑ "That was improperly formulated". Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  19. ↑ FPD politician Czaja is no longer allowed to call BER boss a liar. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  20. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: AfD: Björn Höcke achieves success in court - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  21. ^ Website of the association , accessed on April 1, 2019.
  22. ^ Website of the association , accessed on April 1, 2019.
  23. ^ Website of the association , accessed on April 1, 2019.
  24. ↑ Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives , accessed on April 1, 2019.
  25. ↑ Referendums on BER and Tegel Airport are a must for Berlin on: Tagesspiegel online from December 9, 2015.
  26. ↑ Final result of the referendum on the continued operation of Berlin-Tegel Airport "Otto-Lilienthal" (TXL) published by the Berlin State Voting Officer on October 5, 2017.
  27. ↑ Official information on the referendum published by the head of the regional vote in Berlin.
  28. ^ Referendum in Berlin - Clear majority wants Tegel to continue operating. RBB online, September 25, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017.
  29. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/txl-debatte-im-abenkenhaus-der-flughafen-tegel-wird-parlamentarisch-beerdigt/22688460.html
  30. ↑ Sebastian Czaja: Plenary minutes, 50th meeting, p. 5912. (PDF; 1.9 MB) In: parlament-berlin.de. November 28, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Tegel fan steps out of his brother's shadow. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Coworking for Democracy - New Approaches to Political Communication In: Hamburger Wahlbeobachter, March 30, 2017
  33. ↑ Winner list 2016 | Political Award
  34. ↑ Sebastian Czaja: German politician , accessed on July 14, 2020
  35. ↑ Young Elite 2018 - Politics and State , accessed on July 14, 2020
  36. ↑ Die Rising Stars 2016 In: politik-kommunikation.de, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Czaja, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP, CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin