Siegfried Kauder

Siegfried Kauder (2005)

Siegfried Kauder (born November 20, 1950 in Eigeltingen , Stockach district ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). From November 2009 to October 2013 he was Chairman of the Legal Committee of the 17th German Bundestag .

He is the younger brother of Volker Kauder , the former chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

education and profession

After graduating from high school at Hegau-Gymnasium in Singen , Kauder completed a law degree at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which he completed in 1975 with the first state examination in law. After his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination in 1978 and since then (until 2015) has been working as a lawyer in Villingen-Schwenningen .

Political party

Kauder joined the Junge Union in 1967 and the CDU in 1968. From 1993 to 2012 he was chairman of the CDU district association in the Schwarzwald-Baar district . After he was not nominated for the 2013 federal election by the CDU, he ran as an independent candidate and received 3% of the vote. Then he resigned from the CDU.

MP

Kauder was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2013 . He always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Schwarzwald-Baar . In the 2005 Bundestag election he achieved 51.3 % of the first votes and in the 2009 Bundestag election 47.4% .

Kauder is one of the nine members of the Bundestag who sued the Federal Constitutional Court against the compulsory publication of their ancillary income as a result of the “Transparency Act” passed in 2005 ; the lawsuit failed. Nevertheless, despite repeated requests by the Bundestag presidium, he still refused to report the specific amounts of the income from his legal work. He only stated the income levels that corresponded to the amounts in his view. In doing so, he violated the rules of conduct for members of the German Bundestag (Section 1, Paragraph 3, Clause 1, in conjunction with Paragraph 2, Number 1 of the Rules of Conduct) and was publicly reprimanded by the Bundestag Presidium on October 16, 2013 in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the German Bundestag.

Chairman of the BND committee of inquiry

From April 2006 Kauder was chairman of the 1st committee of inquiry of the 16th electoral term, the so-called BND committee of inquiry ( Kurnaz committee of inquiry ). Because allegedly secret or confidential papers of the investigative committee were passed on to journalists by committee members, the public prosecutor's offices in Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin investigated a total of 17 journalists ( Der Spiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Zeit , Frankfurter Rundschau , Tagesspiegel , Berliner Zeitung , tageszeitung , Welt ). A large number of commentators from the press, radio and television saw this as an attempt to restrict the freedom of the press, intimidate journalists and prevent them from doing their work, as a need for secrecy for a large part of the files that were stamped as classified information - only for official use is disputed. In addition to blank pages, newspaper clippings are said to have been classified as secret or classified information by means of a stamp. In addition to Kauder, the second committee chairman Jung and the President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert also supported the work of the public prosecutor's offices, while other committee members - including Max Stadler , Thomas Oppermann , Christian Ströbele , Petra Pau and Michael Hartmann - criticized the public prosecutor's proceedings, in some cases sharply. Lammert had made the proceedings possible through a criminal prosecution authorization. Critics assumed that the institutions providing the files - including the federal government and the BND - intended to cover up. The federal press conference demanded that the investigation be stopped immediately. In the Cicero judgment it was decided that the mere publication of official secrets is no longer sufficient to justify suspicion of aiding and abetting the betrayal. Chairman Kauder almost caused a scandal when, during the questioning on June 26, 2008, he did not want to give the chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen an opportunity to question Heinz Fromm , President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . It was only after Ströbele protested and objected to it by other parties in the committee that the committee later received its rights.

Candidate nomination for the federal election 2013

A CDU constituency assembly took place on July 17, 2012, at which Siegfried Kauder was to be nominated as a constituency candidate for the 2013 federal election . A majority of voters, however, spoke out in favor of postponing the nomination due to dissatisfaction with Kauder. Among other things, he had given a former district manager a ban from entering the house for no apparent reason; the Junge Union (JU) criticized his lack of willingness to talk and was shocked by Kauder's statement that the JU was “not an organization of the CDU”. The former Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Erwin Teufel , who was supposed to mediate between Kauder and his opponents, declared his attempt in October 2012 to have failed. Kauder described the arbitration as "bullshit". When his opponents reproached that he had recently had a "personality change", Kauder said there was a medical finding that he was up to the task as a member of parliament. At the request of Kauder's opponents, the mayor of Donaueschingen , Thorsten Frei , declared that he would compete against him. Siegfried Kauder said he was sticking to his candidacy. In a letter to the CDU members of the constituency, Kauder raised serious allegations against his critics.

At the CDU constituency assembly on November 16, 2012, which was attended by 733 CDU members with voting rights, Thorsten Frei was nominated as a direct candidate with 68.6% of the votes, while Siegfried Kauder received 31.4% of the votes.

Kauder ran as a single applicant in his previous constituency. The CDU state chairman Thomas Strobl advised Kauder in mid-July 2013 to leave the CDU in order to forestall a party exclusion. Volker Kauder advocated the exclusion of his brother Siegfried from the party.

On August 8, 2013, the CDU district executive in the Schwarzwald-Baar district voted with 17 out of 19 votes for an application for exclusion from the party, which should be negotiated before the arbitration tribunal of the state CDU. In the federal election on September 22, 2013 Kauder received 3.0% of the first votes in the constituency of Schwarzwald-Baar. Shortly after the federal election, he left the CDU.

Other engagement

Kauder was President of the Federal Association of German Music Associations (BDMV) from 2010 to 2016 . From 1998 to 2014 he was a member of the executive board of the White Ring , Mainz . Furthermore, he was president of the soccer club FC 08 Villingen from 2010 to 2014 .

Private life

Widowed since he was 46, Kauder has been married again since 2011.

Political positions

Bribery of Members of Parliament

On April 8, 2011, Kauder spoke out in a speech to the German Bundestag against stricter legal regulations with regard to corruption and the bribery of members of parliament. He refused to ratify an international UN agreement to fight corruption. As a reason for his rejection, he cited the vague formulation of the UN Convention and what he saw as the wrong view of MPs as officials. In addition, Kauder takes the position that parliamentarism and lobbyism are inextricably linked and concludes from this that potential cash flows should not be punished. Kauder explained in this context: "For a politician, suspicion is enough, and the office he has is already damaged." In 2013, Kauder acted as a co-initiator of a cross-faction bill that not only "accepted the benefits of." Mandate holders ”, but also the granting of advantages is a criminal offense. He was isolated within the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. In addition to Kauder, all opposition factions, including the left, supported the motion.

Stock exchange sales tax

Kauder generally rejects a stock exchange sales tax . In September 2009, he declared that the introduction of the relevant taxes was not justifiable in his view. He stated "In the current difficult economic situation, tax increases do not fit into the political landscape".

Freedom of the press and criticism

At the end of November 2010, Kauder, who at that time already held the office of chairman of the legal committee of the Bundestag, demanded , due to terror warnings in Germany, that the press must be obliged to refrain from reporting on places at risk, as such reports may be an incentive for terrorists. His proposals in this regard were seen in parts of the German press landscape as a demand for restrictions on press freedom . However, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group rejected Kauder's proposal.

According to Spiegel Online , Kauder renewed his attacks on freedom of the press in September 2011 in the debate about the so-called “Depeschen Debacle” and the discussion about Wikileaks . In an editorial on Spiegel Online this position was described as "populist - and dangerous". The German Association of Journalists rejected Kauder's demands. Michael Konken , chairman of the association, regretted that Kauder was making a new attempt with the same goal only nine months after his last attempt to restrict freedom of the press.

Two strikes warning model

In autumn 2011 it became known that Kauder was promoting a two-strikes warning model for copyright infringements on the Internet. He announced that he would introduce a corresponding bill in the fourth quarter of 2011. He justified his initiative by stating that, as President of the Federal Association of German Music Associations (BDMV), he was dissatisfied, as FDP Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger had not yet submitted a draft for a new amendment to copyright that contained such an obligation. Kauder emphasized that the warning model had to be taken out of the third basket on copyright law and presented as a “little law”. The music industry reacted enthusiastically to this proposal, while critical voices were raised about his initiative from his own group.

During the debate about the Two Strikes model, a poem was published on Google+ in which the assumption was made that Kauder repeatedly infringed the copyrights of others on his website by taking at least two images from the Panoramio photo service without knowing or naming the respective author and had used it without a copyright notice. After further dissemination of these allegations, Kauder confirmed the use of third-party images, as well as their removal from his website and used the process as an example of the practicality of his own legislative proposals. At the same time, he stated that he now owned the copyrights to the two photos, which in Germany, in contrast to the rights of use, is only possible through inheritance. As a result of this unlawful "appropriation" of copyright, the verb "kaudern" per tweet was redefined ". Transfer the copyrights of others by simple observations upon himself" The views of the castle Donaueschingen or the Burg Hornberg , were only on 4 October 2011 that is, five days after the alleged deletion, removed from the website. On November 30, 2011, there was a photo of Laszlo Szendrei without proof of copyright.

Publications

• Chances and future of the adhesion process. In: Dieter Eppenstein (Red.): Reparation for crime victims. Experiences and perspectives. Documentation (= Mainz writings on the situation of crime victims. Vol. 21). 10th Mainz victim forum from 17./18. October 1998. Organized by the Weisse Ring - non-profit association for the support of crime victims and for the prevention of criminal offenses eV Weisser Ring, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-9806463-0-0 , pp. 21-26.
• Victim interest and state claim to punishment. In: University of Applied Sciences Villingen-Schwenningen, University of Police (Ed.): Memorial for Hagen Gülzow. Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 1999, ISBN 3-89649-479-1 , pp. 131-137.
• Comprehensive victim protection for victim witnesses. What remains to be done In: Dieter Eppenstein (Red.): Protection of victim witnesses in criminal proceedings. Documentation (= Mainz writings on the situation of crime victims. Vol. 30). 13th Mainz victim forum from 27./28. October 2001. Organized by the Weissen Ring - non-profit association for the support of crime victims and for the prevention of criminal offenses eV Weisser Ring, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-9806463-9-4 , pp. 65–71.
• Compensation for German victims of acts of violence committed abroad. In: Journal for Legal Policy. Vol. 36, No. 11, 2003, ISSN  0514-6496 , pp. 402-404
• Acquisition of third-party funding - criminal duty? , In: Brigitte Tag , Jochen Tröger, Jochen Taupitz (Ed.): Acquisition of Third-Party Funding - Criminal Service? (= Publications by the Institute for German, European and International Medical Law, Health Law and Bioethics of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. Vol. 20). Springer, Berlin et al. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20999-9 , pp. 267-268.
• The parliamentary participation of the Bundestag in the fight against terrorism within the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. In: Erwin Müller, Patricia Schneider (Hrsg.): The European Union in the fight against terrorism. Security vs. Freedom? (= Democracy, Security, Peace. Vol. 180). Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2073-0 , pp. 335-348.
• The accessory prosecution from a defense attorney's point of view. In: Working Group on Criminal Law of the German Lawyers' Association (Ed.): Criminal defense in the rule of law. 25 years of the Criminal Law Working Group of the German Lawyers' Association. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4283-0 , pp. 579-591.
• Criminal liability for preparatory acts of terrorism. Reply to Deckers / Heusel, ZRP 2008, 169. In: Journal for legal policy. Vol. 42, No. 1, 2009, pp. 20-22.

Web links

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

Wikiquote: Siegfried Kauder  - Quotes

• Siegfried Kauder's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Siegfried Kauder on parliamentwatch.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.villingen-schwenningen-siegfried-kauder-wohnt-nun-am-bodensee.52dbf391-2b8d-477c-a1be-d34a3e4d1584.html
2. ↑ Spiegel Online: MPs complain against transparent politician salaries
3. ^ Friedrich Merz and the right to informational self-determination. Retrieved November 24, 2018 . 
4. ^ Information from the Presidium of the German Bundestag: Detection of a violation of the rules of conduct for members of the German Bundestag by the MP Siegfried Kauder - Bundestag printed paper 17/14825, published: Berlin, October 17, 2013 ( PDF )
5. ↑ Inga Helfrich: Siegfried Kauder: The little brother is looking for the leak. In: taz.de . August 3, 2007, accessed November 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} n-tv news: investigation according to BND reports. In: n-tv.de. August 2, 2007, accessed November 24, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Christoph Schmitz-Scholemann: 10 years ago - The "Cicero" judgment strengthens the freedom of the press (archive). In: deutschlandfunk.de. February 27, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2018 . 
8. ↑ http://www.depub.info/tagesschau/artikel/bndausschuss20/ (link not available)
9. ^ This is how the CDU arbitration failed , Südkurier online October 24, 2012; “Deeply shocked.” Schwarzwälder Bote online , July 14, 2012
10. ↑ Thorsten Frei challenges Siegfried Kauder , Südkurier online, October 24, 2012
11. ↑ CDU mud battle: Kauder attacks critics , Südkurier online, October 25, 2012
12. ↑ CDU gives Volker Kauders brother a slap. Die Welt online , November 17, 2012; CDU , Schwarzwälder Bote online , November 17, 2012
13. ^ Villingen-Schwenningen Will Siegfried Kauder be expelled from the CDU? , Schwarzwälder-Bote, July 15, 2013
14. ↑ Will Siegfried Kauder be expelled from the CDU? , Schwarzwälder Bote online, July 15, 2013
15. ↑ spiegel.de July 16, 2013: dispute in the CDU: Volker Kauder threatens brother Siegfried with expulsion
16. ^ Spiegel.de: Application for exclusion from the party: CDU votes for Siegfried Kauder to be expelled
17. ↑ Bitter defeat. CDU rebel Siegfried Kauder flies out of the Bundestag , Focus online, September 22, 2013
18. ^ "Going it alone: ​​Siegfried Kauder turns his back on the CDU after 45 years" , Badische Zeitung , September 27, 2013, accessed on September 28, 2013
19. ↑ http://www.miz.org/news_7479.html , https://professionals.klassik.com/karriere/details.cfm?ID=1512
20. ↑ see weisser-ring.de club structure ( memento of December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 29, 2011); See also Siegfried Kauder: Thank you for your great commitment to the victims of crime , in: Weißer Ring, issue 1/2015 , p. 9
21. ↑ VS - Siegfried Kauder elected President of FC08 , Schwarzwälder Bote online April 9, 2010; FC 08 Villingen: Leo Grimm is the new president , Südkurier online July 3, 2014
22. ^ Siegfried Kauder remarried , Südkurier from November 14, 2011, accessed on February 26, 2012
23. ↑ PORTRAIT: Siegfried Kauder ( memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from August 3, 2007, accessed on February 26, 2012
24. ↑ Kauder's speech in the German Bundestag on April 8, 2011 - Bundestag printed matter 17/103 http://www.siegfriedkauder.de/Kauder2010/02_Berlin/02_Reden/08.04. Bribery of parliamentarians_stenographic report.pdf (Link not available)
25. ↑ cf. The right-left disruption of German network politics. spiegel.de, October 5, 2011 (accessed October 5, 2011)
26. ^ Siegfried Kauders lonely fight against bribery of parliamentarians telepolis, June 6, 2013 , accessed on June 6, 2013
27. ↑ compare, for example, Siegfried Kauder on Ab stellenwatch.de on September 25, 2009
28. ↑ Union puts freedom of the press to the test because of the threat of terrorism . saarbruecker-zeitung.de November 23, 2010
29. ↑ ibid., Cf. z. B. also New Front in the coalition war - Siegfried Kauder wants to restrict the freedom of the press more strongly after the Wikileaks leak, Telepolis, September 2, 2011
30. ^ Union parliamentary group leader Kauder whistles his brother back , Spiegel-Online from November 24, 2010
31. ^ Attack on freedom of the press , Spiegel-Online from September 2, 2011
32. ↑ Press release of the German Association of Journalists: DJV makes it clear: Freedom of the press is not an option. from September 2, 2011, online z. B. at pressebox.de ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 5, 2011) 
33. ↑ cf. z. B. "GVL evening: CDU politician Kauder promises warning model", music week, 23 September 2011 .
34. ↑ cf. z. B. "Union allegedly plans two-strikes law - Siegfried Kauder promises GVL to bring in less than two months", Telepolis, September 26, 2011 .
35. ↑ cf. z. B. “Siegfried Kauder Law for Two Strikes Warning Model Coming in Germany”, golem.de September 26, 2011
36. ↑ cf. z. B. CDU MP calls copyright locks "completely absurd" , spiegel.de September 27, 2011 .
37. ^ ^{A b} Siegfried Kauder does not understand copyright law , Zeit-Online from September 30, 2011
38. ↑ Siegfried Kauder - A boy story in seven pranks , accessed on September 27, 2011
39. ↑ double standards? Siegfried Kauder and Copyright , netzpolitik.org, accessed on September 29, 2011
40. ^ Copyright hardliners are caught in the Handelsblatt copyright trap of September 29, 2011
41. ^ Copyright fighter Kauder allegedly violated copyrights , Spiegel-Online from September 29, 2011
42. ↑ piratig.de ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
43. ↑ from left to right B. CDU legal politician Kauder with a small copyright problem, heise.de September 29, 2011
44. ↑ Felix Werdermann: The hunted hunter. Friday October 4th 2011
45. ^ Copyright fighter Kauder allegedly violated copyrights , Spiegel-Online from September 29, 2011
46. ↑ My constituency ( memento from September 29, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on October 3, 2011
47. ↑ http://www.siegfriedkauder.de/Kauder2010/03_Wahlkreis/03_index.html phis-dead link | url = http: //www.siegfriedkauder.de/Kauder2010/03_Wahlkreis/03_index.html | date = 2018-11 | archivebot = 2018-11-29 16:44:10 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
48. ↑ Panoramio: A Duna völgyében 0. accessed on October 30, 2011