Siegfried Gentele

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Siegfried Gentele (2016)

Siegfried Heinz Gentele (born April 13, 1952 in Mariental-Horst ) is a German politician . In the state elections in 2014 , he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament via the state list of the AfD . From April 2015 he was a non-attached MP . After the federal party conference in July 2015, he left the AfD and was then a member of the ALFA for four months before leaving this party. From March 2016 he became involved in the German Family Party , and in July 2019 he joined the Democracy Direct party .

Life

Gentele began training as a gas station attendant in 1968 and initially worked in this profession, then as a car mechanic and workshop manager, and later as a manager and businessman. Between 2001 and 2008 he was initially marginally employed as a salesman, then without any work and finally dependent on unemployment benefit II . From 2009 until he moved into the state parliament, he was employed as a sales representative in his son's company.

Gentele lives in Harztor - Niedersachswerfen in the Nordhausen district . He is married and has two children.

politics

Political career

Gentele joined the AfD on August 30, 2013 and became a member of the board of the AfD district association Nordhausen - Eichsfeld - Mühlhausen . In 2014 he moved into the state parliament via the state list of the AfD Thuringia and was deputy chairman of the petitions committee there until April 2015 . In Nordhausen he was the first member of his parliamentary group to open a citizens' office.

On April 15, 2015, the AfD parliamentary group announced that Gentele had been excluded from the parliamentary group and justified this with a broken relationship of trust and behavior that was grossly damaging to the faction. Gentele himself attributed this step to a newspaper interview in which he had criticized party and parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke . After the exclusion, he intensified his criticism of Höcke and asked him to resign from all offices and to resign from the AfD. Since then, a party expulsion process has been initiated against Gentele. Already in April 2014 he was threatened with exclusion from the AfD. Together with Jens Krumpe and Oskar Helmerich , he joined the Weckruf association founded by party leader Bernd Lucke in 2015 .

After the federal party conference, on July 7, 2015, he announced his departure from the AfD and spoke out in favor of building a new party. After founding the Alliance for Progress and Awakening on July 19, 2015, Gentele announced that she wanted to found a Thuringian regional association of the party and run as deputy head of the state. On October 22nd, 2015 it was announced that Gentele had resigned from the ALFA "for private and personal reasons". In an interview with MDR Info in November 2015, he spoke of a "stab in the back" and stated that he "resigned from the ALFA after the federal executive board made a decision behind [s] his back."

From March 2016 he was a member of the Family Party of Germany and from April 2016 General Secretary of the Thuringian State Association. On July 9, 2016, it was announced that the federal executive had made use of its right of veto and expelled Gentele from the party. The federal party congress on the same day, however, as the highest organ of the party, confirmed the admission of Gentele as a party member; he thus also remained Secretary General of the regional association. Since July 2019 he has been a member of the Democracy Direct party , for which he ran unsuccessfully at number five in the 2019 state election in Thuringia .

Political positions

According to its own statement, Gentele is committed to the "fight against corruption , nepotism and waste of tax money within political offices". He is in favor of reducing the number of members in the Thuringian state parliament by 26 people. He describes the lowering of the hurdles for referendums as his central theme .

Gentele is not one of the signatories of the Erfurt resolution and spoke out against a “ national-conservative course” by the AfD. In an interview in April 2015, he described himself as liberal-conservative and positioned himself “to the right of the CDU ”.

In June 2015 he voted for the abolition of the state education allowance . In general, he mostly votes with the government factions (Left, SPD, Greens), i.e. against CDU and AfD. However, he rejects an important project of the state government: when the preliminary law for implementing the regional reform in Thuringia was put to the vote, Gentele voted against it.

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Gentele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography ( memento of August 8, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), thueringer-landtag.de, accessed on January 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Member of Parliament Siegfried Gentele: New political home found in "Demokratie Direkt". meinanzeiger.de, July 14, 2019, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Member of the state parliament without a group: Siegfried Gentele has found a new party. nnz-online.de , July 24, 2019, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Initiative AFD-special party: New attack on party leadership , thueringer-allgemeine.de , April 8, 2014
  5. ↑ Four instead of three , nnz-online.de, September 15, 2014.
  6. ↑ Successful establishment of the AfD district association Nordhausen - Eichsfeld - Mühlhausen ( Memento of December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), afd-thueringen.de, November 17, 2013.
  7. ^ AfD MP Siegfried Gentele opened the citizens' office in Nordhausen , thueringer-allgemeine.de, November 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b c Siegfried Gentele has to go. deutschlandfunk.de , April 15, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2015 .
  9. ↑ AfD throws MP Gentele from the parliamentary group ( memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), mdr.de , April 15, 2015, accessed on March 21, 2016.
  10. ↑ scandal in the AFD: Lucke calls Thuringian state leader Höcke to resign and party outlet on , thueringer-allgemeine.de, May 8, 2015.
  11. ↑ a b Thuringian AfD dissenters are threatened with exclusion proceedings ( memento from June 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), otz.de , June 21, 2015.
  12. ↑ Gentele: Höcke is no longer acceptable as AfD party leader , thueringer-allgemeine.de, April 17, 2015.
  13. ↑ Martin Debes: Deputy Helmerich resigns from Thuringian AfD parliamentary group. thueringer-allgemeine.de, May 23, 2015, accessed on May 24, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Member of the state parliament resigns from AfD. thueringer-allgemeine.de, July 7, 2015, accessed on March 21, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Jan-Henrik Wiebe: Former AfD politician Siegfried Gentele wants to help found the new party. tlz.de , July 16, 2015, accessed on July 16, 2015 .
  16. ↑ a b AfD renegades make Lucke ALFA boss ( memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), mdr.de, July 19, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2015.
  17. ^ AfD split officially: Ex-chairman Bernd Lucke founds a new party. otz.de, July 20, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Former Thuringian AfD member leaves Alfa party. thueringer-allgemeine.de, October 22, 2015, accessed on October 22, 2015 .
  19. ^ New Lucke party flew apart after an optimistic start in Free State ( memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), mdr.de, November 6, 2015.
  20. ^ Family party of Germany LV Thuringia. Familienparteithueringen.chayns.net, March 21, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2016 : “As of now, the Family Party not only has a member of the European Parliament, but also a member of the state parliament in Thuringia. Welcome to the family party, Mr. Siegfried Gentele MdL! (Y) Mar 21 at 5:03 pm "  ( page no longer available )Template: dead link /! ... nourl
  21. ↑ Gentele elected General Secretary of the Thuringian Family Party. otz.de, April 20, 2016, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  22. ^ Siegfried Gentele excluded from the family party. insuedthueringen.de, July 9, 2016, accessed on July 9, 2016 .
  23. ^ Resignation of the federal chairman called for. nnz-online.de, July 13, 2016, accessed on July 16, 2016 .
  24. ^ Elections in Thuringia. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Election 2014: Are fewer MPs enough in the Thuringian state parliament? , otz.de, August 13, 2014.
  26. ↑ Are you a right-wing populist, Mr. Gentele? , nnz-online.de, October 7, 2014, accessed on May 8, 2015.
  27. ↑ "A little hot-headed on the way". zeit.de , December 3, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015 .
  28. ↑ State Parliament member Siegfried Gentele voted against territorial reform , thueringer-allgemeine.de, June 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gentele, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentele, Siegfried Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (AfD, ALFA, Family Party, DIE DIREKTE), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariental-Horst