Stefan Räpple

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Stefan Räpple

Stefan Räpple (born May 7, 1981 in Oberkirch ) is a German politician ( Alternative for Germany ; AfD). In the state elections in March 2016, he was elected a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Räpple attended the Oberkirch secondary school and completed an apprenticeship as a pastry chef in Sonthofen after completing his military service . At the evening grammar school in Leipzig , he completed his Abitur in 2008 on the second educational path.

Räpple received a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft , whose preparatory college supported him in the gifted program for future teachers. At the University of Education in Freiburg , he studied mathematics, geography and history to become a teacher for the secondary school, but according to his own statement, he could “not support the content taught there”. According to one source referring to him, he broke off the course, according to another, he graduated from the course but did without the subsequent preparatory service. On the side of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, his studies are summarized with the words “Student teaching at secondary and secondary schools at the PH Freiburg”.

According to its website, Räpple is a certified “hypno coach” according to the regulations of the German Association for Hypnosis e. V. in Munich, trainer, coach and psychological consultant with his own practice. A newspaper report also states that he began training as a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy , for which the final examination was planned immediately after the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 . He runs a practice for hypnosis in Freiburg.

politics

From 2009 to 2012 he was a student member of the University Council of the Freiburg University of Education.

Räpple has been a member of Alternative für Deutschland since the founding party congress . In 2013 he was also a co-founder of Junge Alternative and a member of the national board. At the end of January 2014 he was elected deputy spokesman for the Ortenau district association. Until the program party conference in October 2015, he was chairman of the state committee for education, research and culture.

Räpple was elected in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 with 15.0 percent of the votes in the constituency of Kehl through a second mandate in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

At the beginning of 2019, the AfD parliamentary group proposed Räpple as secretary in the state parliament, but he fell through in the subsequent election. 15 MPs voted for him (the AfD has 20 seats) with 114 votes against and two abstentions.

At the end of March 2020, the court of arbitration of the AfD regional association of Baden-Württemberg excluded Räpple from the party for behavior that was harmful to the party. He was accused of repeated provocations and being too close to right-wing extremist organizations and people. His temporary behavior in the state parliament also found offense.

Positions

Räpple wants to work, among other things, to fundamentally reform teacher training and to introduce a “dual teacher training course”. He calls for a ban on so-called “ early sexualization ”, which is in line with the Magdeburg declaration of the AfD parliamentary groups represented in the state parliaments in autumn 2016. In the AfD parliamentary group, he supported Wolfgang Gedeon , who spreads anti-Semitic theses. According to Andreas Speit's research , he is close to the Identitarian Movement , classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , tried to found a group of Identitarians in Freiburg in 2013 and is said to have "deliberately infiltrated" the Young Alternative in their interests. Räpple stated that he did not know what the Identitarian Movement was doing; the e-mails that the daily newspaper had received were falsified. At the AfD party conference on November 30 / December 1, 2019, Räpple promoted the motion to remove the identity movement from the party's so-called incompatibility list, as this organization helps and supports the AfD. A lawsuit by Räpple against the increase in the expense allowance of the members of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament was dismissed as inadmissible by the constitutional court for the state of Baden-Württemberg .

Räpple was one of the AfD partisans who submitted motions at the federal party conference in late November 2019 to abolish a list of extremist organizations that are incompatible with AfD membership. Räpple called the list a “statute relic from the Lucke time”. According to SPIEGEL, Andreas Kalbitz is currently affected , who was a member of the East Prussian Youth League before joining the party . Your successor organization is currently on the incompatibility list.

At the beginning of January 2020, Räpple called for a demonstration in front of the SWR radio station in Baden-Baden . At the event, he spoke of “ left-wing extremist media people” on the public broadcasters. Also Dubravko Mandic , AFD politician and activist, and excluded from the party former state chairman in Schleswig-Holstein Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein appeared as a speaker.

On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day , Räpple demanded in January 2020 in a Facebook post "End the guilt cult ".

Conduct in the Landtag

Conflict over Wolfgang Gedeon

Räpple and Gedeon at an AfD demonstration in December 2018

In the conflict over the faction exclusion of Wolfgang Gedeon because of anti-Semitic writings, Räpple voted against an exclusion. According to the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit , Räpple suggested to the parliamentary group that the Holocaust denier Gerard Menuhin be called in as an external expert, although he received no support. After the faction split, Räpple remained in the AfD faction. He was the only one who did not sign the preamble to the parliamentary group statute, which was renewed after the parliamentary group was reunited, in which the parliamentary group distances itself from anti-Semitism. The parliamentary group itself emphasizes that the Gedeon conflict was not about anti-Semitic positions, but about a “perceived restriction” of freedom of expression. At a meeting in Bavaria , Räpple criticized that today it was “no longer even possible to ask whether six million Jews perished in the concentration camps or whether it wasn't perhaps only four and a half million”.

Calls to order

During a session of the state parliament in November 2016, Räpple called MPs from other parliamentary groups “ traitors ”, whereupon the President of the State Parliament, Muhterem Aras, issued a call to order against him. Afterwards, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , between Räpple and AfD MP Stefan Herre, who was dissatisfied with his behavior, there was a violent argument in the rooms of the state parliament. According to the AfD parliamentary group, however, there was only a loud and inappropriate discussion between those involved and appropriate measures were taken against Räpple.

In March 2017, Räpple was called to order in the state parliament after interfering with a speech by a member of the Green Party with heckling. Thereupon he insulted the parliamentary vice-president, which he was referred to the state parliament.

In the opinion of Sebastian Kaiser and Thomas Steiner in the Badische Zeitung , Räpple "[a] owing to disciplinary measures by his parliamentary group [...] only leads a shadowy existence in the state parliament: ban on speaking, exclusion from committees and working groups". In an e-mail, Räpple asked his group colleagues to lift the sanctions imposed on him and to send him back to committees. Should that not happen by the end of the year (2017), he would leave the parliamentary group. He also called for Wolfgang Gedeon, who resigned from the parliamentary group after accusations of anti-Semitism, to be re-accepted into the parliamentary group.

Police operation

On December 12, 2018, Räpple insulted the SPD with the interjection, “That's how they are, the red terrorists!” He was called to order and, at the end of his speech, Hans-Ulrich Rülke , as the FDP parliamentary group leader, took the SPD colleagues with reference to their history under National Socialism expressly in protection. He approached Räpple sharply as the successor to those who “marched through the Brandenburg Gate at a goose step”. Räpple then provoked a scandal and had to be removed from the plenary by the police after President Aras had been excluded from the session. Räpple announced a constitutional lawsuit . The former AfD MP and now non-attached Wolfgang Gedeon was also expelled from the room after several interfering calls with the help of the police.

Activities in Chemnitz

In the course of the xenophobic riots , Räpple and his parliamentary group colleague Hans Peter Stauch traveled to Chemnitz . They took part in the Pro Chemnitz demonstration on August 27, 2018 and then boasted about it on Facebook. Both also published photos of their participation on Twitter and wrote, among other things. a .: "In case I should be asked later where I was on August 27, 2018 when the mood in #Germany turned: Yes, I was in #Chemnitz!"

Räpple later declared that the judicial officer who had illegally published the arrest warrant for a suspected perpetrator of the knife attack in Chemnitz was a "hero". The officer had been suspended because his action had violated his official duties and he had endangered possibly uninvolved witnesses whose names were found in the file. Räpple offered the prison man a position in his team of representatives in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. "You are a hero and just like all of my brilliant employees are heroes in their field, I can really use you and your expertise in my team," explained Räpple on Facebook. If "the government is constantly [breaking] the constitution", according to Räpple, it is "a duty for an official to offer resistance and disobedience".

After the riots in Chemnitz, Jörg Meuthen positioned himself more clearly against the right wing of the party than before, in view of the risk of surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Räpple expressed the assessment that Meuthen as an official was "part of the system, probably a secret agent", even if he could not prove it.

Meuthen suffered a severe internal party defeat against Stefan Räpple in the Ortenau district association when he surprisingly failed in the election as a delegate at the federal party congress, while Räpple - whose exclusion from the party Meuthen advocates - was elected.

Evaluation of the terror group NSU

In connection with a memorial event attended by Angela Merkel in Zwickau for the murdered victims of the NSU , Räpple published a Facebook post in which he twice referred to the right-wing extremist terror group as "fake NSU" and the memorial event as "fake NSU nonsense" . When asked by the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Räpple only referred to the fact that the AfD parliamentary group had indicated a different opinion about the NSU in the report of the NSU investigative committee. In reality, the AfD parliamentary group supported the committee’s final report and only complained beforehand that their requests for evidence had not been adequately supported.

Elimination process

The AFD Baden-Wuerttemberg resolved on December 11, 2018 the decision to initiate proceedings against Räpple a party expulsion proceedings for violations of the principles of the party and party repeated destructive behavior. Räpple u. a. an anti-Semitic worldview, non-payment of the electoral fee, despite his income as a member of parliament, the unjustified use of the possibility of reduced membership fees as a case of social hardship and the deliberate proximity at a demonstration to members of right-wing extremist groups who are on the AfD's incompatibility list.

The Baden-Württemberg State Arbitration Court decided in the first instance on March 31, 2020 to exclude Stefan Räpple from the party. The verdict is not yet legally binding. Räpple announced that he wanted to take action against it. He accused the chairman of the (independent) regional arbitration court of not being neutral. "It is clear that there will be no independent judgment." Formally, Räpple is still a member of the AfD before the legal process is exhausted. While the leader of the AfD in the state parliament, Bernd Gögel , assumes that Räpple is automatically no longer a member of the parliamentary group, state parliament politicians from other parties consider a formal expulsion to be necessary.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ Representative profile on the website of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
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  16. ^ Andreas Speit: Bourgeois agitators. Germany's new right center - from AfD to Pegida , Orell Füssli, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05632-5 , p. 170
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personal data
SURNAME Räpple, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 7th 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkirch