Sergey Lagodinsky

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Sergey Lagodinsky (2013)

Sergey Lagodinsky (* 1975 in Astrakhan , Soviet Union ) is a German lawyer , publicist and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) of Russian-Jewish origin. Since the 2019 European elections he has been a member of the European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group .

Life

Lagodinsky, born in 1975 in Astrakhan on the Volga in what was then the Soviet Union, moved with his family to Germany at the end of 1993, where they settled in Kassel . Lagodinsky studied law at the University of Göttingen and public administration at Harvard University . He received his doctorate in law from the Humboldt University in Berlin and was a fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute and the New Responsibility Foundation .

He writes for several newspapers and broadcasters such as Deutschlandradio Kultur , Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle . He also commented for the BBC World Service and RTVi , for Radio Liberty and N24 and published guest articles for the Tagesspiegel , the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as for Die Welt , the Financial Times Deutschland and the Handelsblatt . From September 2003 to February 2006, Lagodinsky was director of the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee . Since 2008 Lagodinsky was a member of the Presidium of the Representative Assembly of the Jewish Community in Berlin . He has been a member of the Representative Assembly since 2016.

politics

Introduction video by Sergey Lagodinsky of the Heinrich Böll Foundation / Green European Foundation

Lagodinsky had been a member of the SPD since 2001 . He founded the Working Group of Jewish Social Democrats and took part in the Federal Working Group on Integration and Migration of the SPD's federal executive committee. After the termination of the party regulation proceedings against Thilo Sarrazin , he ended his party membership in 2011 and published an open letter to the general secretary Andrea Nahles , in which he justified his resignation with the fearfulness and indecision of the party. A short time later he joined Alliance 90 / The Greens . Lagodinsky has been Head of the European Union / North America Department at the Heinrich Böll Foundation since April 2012 .

In November 2018, Lagodinsky ran for the European elections list at the federal delegate conference of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, the delegates nominated him for 12th place on the list. His party won 21 of the 96 German mandates in the European elections with 20.5 percent of the vote, so Lagodinsky moved in directly. He joined the group Die Grünen / EFA , for the group he is a member of the Legal Affairs Committee , of which he was elected vice-chair. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .

Journalistic statements and controversies

Sergey Lagodinsky (2014)

Lagodinsky has been involved in the discussion about the integration of migrants for years and also describes autobiographical insights into the topic of identity as Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

Sergey Lagodinsky took a stand against Ralph Giordano in the discussion about the construction of the Cologne mosque and advocated the construction of representative Muslim places of worship in Germany. He sharply criticized the dismissal of the head of the Center for Turkish Studies Faruk Şen and spoke out against making the comparison of Turkish and Jewish experiences of discrimination taboo. In the discussion about the comparability of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia , he takes the view that comparative analyzes of both phenomena can be of great use.

In terms of foreign policy, Lagodinsky et al. a. took a position on questions of German-Israeli relations, transatlantic relations and EU issues. In 2009 he engaged in a controversial argument with Klaus Harpprecht on the pages of the Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte on the importance of German-Israeli relations .

In 2006, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Lagodinsky called for the Central Council of Jews in Germany to recognize the cultural and religious diversity of contemporary Jewish life in Germany. After the information about Charlotte Knobloch's resignation was launched in 2010, he described the campaign within the Central Council of Jews against the then president as “undignified”.

In February 2011 there was an open argument between Henryk M. Broder and Lagodinsky regarding the work of remembering the resistance in Rosenstrasse . Broder accused Lagodinsky of thwarting the memorial event's intention to honor moral courage in totalitarian regimes through his collaboration with Irene Runge and Mario Offenberg , whom Broder described as GDR collaborators and “shabby free riders in history”. Lagodinsky replied that he focused on working with people, including those who had made mistakes in the past. Lagodinsky's plea for Germany to participate in the 2009 Durban Review Conference in Geneva , which was boycotted by various Western countries, led to another argument with Broder.

Awards

In 1998 Lagodinsky was awarded the Theodor Fontane Prize of the German National Academic Foundation “for his commitment to German-Jewish reconciliation”.

Web links

Commons : Sergey Lagodinsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ lagodinsky.de: VITA | lagodinsky.de. Accessed March 31, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ Jewish Museum Frankfurt : Sergey Lagodinsky: Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Körber Foundation : Short biography ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Assembly of Representatives: Members. Jewish Community of Berlin, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Sarrazin was too much for him taz.de of April 27, 2011
  7. ↑ SPD has "betrayed basic values" - Interview. Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 28, 2011
  8. ↑ “Sad and ashamed” - a sad letter to Nahles , Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 26, 2011
  9. ↑ Open letter - “The party does not want to face Sarrazin” , Jüdische Allgemeine, April 27, 2011
  10. ↑ From the SPD to the Greens ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Süddeutsche.de, June 8, 2011.
  11. ↑ Sergey Lagodinsky on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's homepage
  12. ↑ Green European List. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ dpa: Greens recommend themselves militantly for Europe. Berliner Morgenpost , November 10, 2018, archived from the original on July 13, 2019 (German).;
  14. ↑ Home | Sergey LAGODINSKY | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Our Uwe . Tagesspiegel, August 10, 2006
  16. ^ Jewish Almanac - Identities . Suhrkamp Verlag, 2009, p. 45
  17. ↑ Fake Jews, Real Problems . In: tachles - Jewish weekly magazine , February 2, 2007
  18. ↑ Don't be afraid of minarets . In: Welt am Sonntag
  19. ↑ The Limits of the Acceptable . taz.de
  20. ↑ Published in: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Islamfeindschaft and their context. Documentation of the conference "Image of the enemy: Muslim - image of the enemy Jew". Metropol, Berlin 2009. p. 151. Review (PDF; 109 kB) by Armin Pfahl-Traughber in DÖW Mitteilungen , 191, p. 7 f.
  21. ↑ Israel - a progressive dream . In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte , August 2008.
  22. ↑ Sergey Lagodinsky, Thorsten Benner: From Lilliputians to Middle Power . (PDF; 35 kB) In: Handelsblatt , January 11, 2007, p. 8
  23. ↑ From question to answer . (PDF; 102 kB) In: Financial Times Deutschland , March 20, 2007.
  24. ↑ Israel and the Germans . (PDF; 338 kB) In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte , July / August 2009.
  25. ↑ The arrogance of the ancestors . (PDF; 117 kB) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 10, 2006
  26. ↑ Lagodinsky: The Central Council behaved in an undignified manner . Interview on Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 8, 2010
  27. ^ Henryk M. Broder: "Dear Comrade Lagodinsky" Axis of the Good, February 23, 2011
  28. ↑ Working with people . Axis of Good, February 24, 2011
  29. ↑ Detox instead of torpedoing . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , April 2, 2009
  30. ^ Henryk M. Broder: No reason for gratitude . Axis of Good April 20, 2009
  31. ↑ "German National Academic Foundation awarded Theodor Fontane Prize" ( Memento from July 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Report from the Science Information Service , November 30, 1998.
  32. ↑ Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi): Sergey Lagodinsky, fellow ( Memento from April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
personal data
SURNAME Lagodinsky, Sergey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Astrakhan , Soviet Union