Steffen Koeniger

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Steffen Königer (2016)

Steffen Königer (born October 15, 1972 in Potsdam ) is a German craftsman and politician. From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of the New Right weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . Since the late 1990s, politically right-wing parties active, he was in the state election in 2014 over the national list of the AFD in the Brandenburg parliament voted to which he belonged until of 2019. From December 2017 he was one of six assessors in the AfD federal executive board until he left the party in November 2018. According to his own statements, he did so in protest against right-wing tendencies in the party.

Life

Königer attended the Polytechnic High School in Werder (Havel) from 1979 to 1989 and trained as a skilled worker for plastic and elastomer processing from 1989 to 1991 . In 1994 he graduated from the Potsdam College and was a journeyman in the vulcanization trade. From 1994 to 1996 he did community service in a kindergarten in Potsdam.

From 1996 to 2004 he studied political science , psychology and modern history at the University of Potsdam , but did not finish his studies. During this time he was a member of the Potsdam board of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS).

From 2000 to 2004 he worked for the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit as editor-in-chief for the Zeitgeist & Media section . He then went freelance as a tiler , but wrote articles for Junge Freiheit until 2011 .

In 1995 he was named "Mister Brandenburg". The Brandenburg state championships in windsurfing , he reached the top spot of 2005. He was chairman of the board of the Werder / Havel windsurfing club. V.

Königer is the father of two children and divorced since 2014.

politics

Party and elections

From August 1989 to March 1990, Königer was a member of the citizens' movement Neues Forum .

From February to December 1999 he was a member of the right-wing populist party Bund Freie Bürger - Offensive für Deutschland, Die Freiheitlichen , for which he claimed to be a direct candidate in constituency 21 (Potsdam-Mittelmark I / Brandenburg an der Havel) in the state elections in Brandenburg in 1999 II) took place; However, the state returning officer of Brandenburg does not show any first votes for the Federation of Free Citizens in the specified constituency.

Koeniger said he was active in the Schill Party for a few months . He wanted to run for them in the local elections in Brandenburg in 2003, but did not achieve the required number of support signatures.

In March 2013 he joined the AfD. He ran in the 2013 federal election at number 5 on the state list. When he ran for Mayor of Werder (Havel), he received 8.4 percent of the votes cast.

In 2014, Königer was chairman of the Mittelmark district association . In 2015 he was a co-signer of the Erfurt resolution . In 2016 he ran for the office of deputy chairman of the AfD Brandenburg (behind Alexander Gauland ); Königer was defeated by Andreas Kalbitz . In 2016, Königer was the spokesman for the State Committee for Achievement and Justice: Federal Finance, Tax and Social Policy. On December 3, 2017, he was elected as a member of the AfD's federal board. On this occasion he hit the headlines because he claimed that children in the German education system were "pumped full of ideologies, with early sexualization, gender mainstream, with political correctness" from kindergarten to high school. The 68ers had "left a crater landscape in the education sector, scorched earth, a bombed cultural nation." This is "the total war against the people of poets and thinkers ."

In June 2016 he gave a much-noticed speech "on gender madness" in the state parliament, which consisted almost exclusively of greetings from sexual minorities.

In November 2018, Königer announced his exit from the AfD. He could no longer agree to stay with his conscience, since some regional associations had been lost to "destructive groups" who consciously accepted observation by the protection of the constitution .

For the election to the district council of Potsdam-Mittelmark , Königer originally wanted to stand as a non-party member of the CDU's list , but withdrew the candidacy after criticism and is now running as an individual candidate .

MP

In the local elections in Brandenburg in 2014 Königer was for the AFD in the district council elected-Mittelmark Potsdam. He became parliamentary group chairman and a member of the Werder city ​​council .

In the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , he ran again as a direct candidate, this time in the state constituency of Potsdam-Mittelmark III / Potsdam III (constituency 19). He received 9.1 percent of the first votes. Koeniger was a full member of the Committee for Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family A7 and the election review committee in the Brandenburg state parliament. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Center for Political Education . After leaving the party in November 2018, Koeniger was a non-attached member of the Brandenburg state parliament.

public perception

Koeniger sees himself as a “freedom-loving bourgeois conservative”, but also as a “ national conservative ”. The Potsdam political scientist Gideon Botsch has described him as a right-wing populist who deliberately addresses right-wing voters.

Web links

Commons : Steffen Königer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AfD elects new federal board (press release December 4, 2017)
  2. ↑ Christian Füller : With the Ostelbierin to the right? . In: taz , March 20, 2002.
  3. ↑ Martin Dietzsch , Siegfried Jäger , Helmut Kellershohn , Alfred Schobert : Nation instead of democracy. Being and design of "Junge Freiheit" . 2nd unchanged edition, Unrast, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-733-6 , pp. 208 f.
  4. ^ A b Henry Klix: Friend of Prussian Virtues . pnn.de , August 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Sascha Adamek: AfD Brandenburg does not come to rest. Intrigantenstadl with right wing problem . RBB , October 19, 2014.
  6. ^ A b c Jens Steglich: AfD politician wants to become mayor . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , June 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Anna Günther Potsdam: Winners party for losers . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 15, 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 29, 2018]).
  8. ↑ These titles won the athletes in 2005 . pnn.de, January 9, 2006.
  9. ↑ Surf club reports Schliemann . July 2, 2008.
  10. ↑ Steffen Königer, candidate for the country's list of AFD (PDF) afd-brandenburg.de. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ State election on September 5, 1999: constituency 21 - Potsdam-Mittelmark I / Brandenburg an der Havel II . Wahlen.brandenburg.de, accessed on March 17, 2016.
  12. ^ Criticism of the campaign against the Potsdam CDU . pnn.de, November 8, 2003.
  13. ↑ Mayoral election 2014 , Werder (Havel), accessed on September 21, 2014.
  14. ↑ Thorsten Metzner, Alexander Fröhlich: AfD elects right-wing hardliners to the top . pnn.de, November 21, 2015.
  15. ↑ Landesfachausschüsse , afd-brandenburg.de, accessed on March 19, 2016.
  16. ↑ FOCUS Online: Scandal at the party congress: AfD man speaks of total war against the education system - video . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 4, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Welt.de November 29, 2018: Steffen Königer. Assessor in the AfD federal board resigns from the party
  18. ↑ zeit.de December 8, 2018 / Tilman Steffen: Progressive Alienation
  19. ↑ PNN March 31, 2019: Ex-AfD politician Königer runs without a party
  20. ↑ n-tv March 31, 2019: Ex-AfD member runs as a single candidate for district council
  21. ↑ Results by constituency: constituency 19 - Potsdam-Mittelmark III / Potsdam III , Brandenburg State Returning Officer, accessed on September 20, 2014.
  22. ^ Correctiv.org: AfD politicians move into the board of trustees of the state centers for political education
personal data
SURNAME King, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftsman, journalist and politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , GDR