Stefan Körner (politician, 1968)

Stefan Körner 2014

Stefan Körner (born November 8, 1968 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ) is a German politician and was chairman of the Pirate Party Germany from June 2014 to August 2016 .

Party career

Körner joined the Pirate Party in 2009. On August 6, 2009, he was elected deputy chairman of the newly founded Upper Palatinate District Association for one year .

Körner (left) when he took office as Bavarian state chairman, 2010.

On September 5, 2010, he was elected chairman of the Bavarian regional association at the state party congress in Regensburg and was confirmed in this office at the state party congresses in 2011 and 2012. At the state party conference on October 26, 2013, he did not run again for this office in the state association.

As the Bavarian party chairman, in 2011 he was the main initiator of the referendum against tuition fees intended by the Pirate Party of Bavaria . In collecting the required 25,000 signatures, the Bavarian Free Voters overtook the Bavarian State Association with a specially initiated referendum, so that their referendum “No to tuition fees in Bavaria” was subsequently supported by the PIRATES.

In his position in 2012 he took part in Horst Seehofer's PR - Facebook party in the Munich noble club "P1" . When Seehofer became aware of him, he offered Körner das Du. In return, Körner presented the Bavarian Prime Minister with a membership card of the Pirate Party with membership number “1337” for “leet” (= elite in the Leetspeak ). Seehofer took the ID card with the words "But I'll stay with the CSU anyway ." Due to the high media presence at the event, Körner made it to the ARD news program Tagesthemen with his ID gag .

In the 2013 federal election , Körner ran in the constituency of Amberg and won 2.5% of the vote. He also ran for fourth place on the Bavarian state list. In 2013 he also protested against the planned drone flights by the United States' armed forces over the Upper Palatinate.

At the extraordinary federal party conference in June 2014 he was elected federal chairman of the party with 62.05 percent of the vote, replacing Thorsten Wirth . Körner ran for this office in 2013. He is assigned to the liberal wing of the party and is regarded as a representative of those who want to emphasize above all the competence of the pirate party in the area of network politics . Further political priorities are data protection , civil rights and political participation .

Personal

Körner is non-denominational , has been a freelance software developer and trainer since 1994 and has two daughters.

Web links

Commons : Stefan Körner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Körner new head of the Pirate Party , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 28, 2014.
2. ↑ Pirate Party: Referendum against tuition fees , Merkur online, August 10, 2011.
3. ^ BY: Referendum for tuition fees , entry in the party wiki of the Pirate Party Germany.
4. ↑ Seehofer gives the technical expert , in: Christoph Pagel: Seehofer is shipwrecked - but draws a positive balance , Focus, May 9, 2012.
5. ↑ Horst, my privateer friend , Bayerische Staatszeitung , May 11, 2012.
6. ↑ Stefan Körner , parliament watch .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Pirat Körner running for federal chairmanship , Mittelbayerische, October 22, 2013.
8. ↑ Pirate Party: Stefan Körner becomes the new chief pirate , Spiegel online, June 28, 2014.
9. ↑ Stefan Körner, state chairman of the Bavarian Pirate Party , Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria, November 2012.
10. ↑ Essentials ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SKworld.de, accessed on June 29, 2014. 
11. ^ Federal board elections of the Pirate Party Germany 2014 , Kompass, March 31, 2014.