Stephan Braun (politician)

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Stephen Brown (* the 30th August 1959 in Munich ) is a German politician of the SPD and was from 1996 to 2011 deputy in the parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg .

education and profession

After graduating from high school , Stephan Braun studied political science , Protestant theology and education . Since 1988 he has been a church journalist in the Office for Information of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . He deals with youth education , civil society projects to promote democracy, intercultural and interreligious dialogue as well as with social institutions in his constituency of Böblingen .

Political offices

In the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Braun was chairman of the body under Article 10 of the Basic Law (postal and telecommunications secrecy), a member of the standing committee responsible for constitution and law, the internal committee, the election review committee and a deputy member of the economic and social committee. He was spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group on matters relating to the protection of the constitution, questions of extremism and questions of integration  / migration . Most recently Braun also chaired the state parliament committee for parliamentary control of the protection of the constitution .

In addition to his state parliament functions, he was and is a member of the media council of the State Office for Communication Baden-Württemberg (LfK) and of the media education committee. In addition to the focus on “fighting right-wing extremism”, he also a. as the Protestant chairman of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Stuttgart eV (GCJZ) for a stronger coexistence of religions and cultures.

Commitment to the right

Stephan Braun is an author on right-wing extremism and the New Right . In 2003, together with Daniel Hoersch, he published the anthology Rights Networks - a Danger . In addition to Ute Vogt , the SPD state chairman of Baden-Württemberg at the time , Braun is co-editor of a critical publication on the weekly Junge Freiheit (with analyzes of the program, content, authors and readership), which appeared in July 2007. According to a representation by the daily newspaper , the collected material is sufficient to refute those politicians who found nothing in interviews to help the Junge Freiheit to gain broader attention and possibly even acceptance. The magazine Menschenmachen Medien of the union ver.di emphasizes the importance of the “clear analyzes” on the “ambiguous language of the JF employees”, which “aim to leave a moderate impression on the outside, but the initiated circles with the to supply the desired ideological content ”. The volume emphasizes the "fight for the power to define political-historical terms on the Internet" on the part of Junge Freiheit using the Wikipedia example .

In 2007, Braun also accused the then incumbent Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Günther Oettinger, of membership in the Weikersheim Study Center - according to critics, a “think tank of the New Right ”. A little later, on May 22, 2007, Oettinger terminated this membership. However , Oettinger did not comply with the demand, also made by Braun, that he should also induce his party, the CDU , to issue an incompatibility decision against membership in the Weikersheim study center .

Works

  • Stephan Braun, Matthias Klopfer, Peter Thomas (eds.): A chance for young people: Perspectives - demands - models . Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7918-3461-4 .
  • Stephan Braun, Daniel Hörsch (Ed.): Right-wing networks - a danger . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X .
  • Stephan Braun, Ute Vogt (Ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit" . Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 .
  • Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers. VS Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 .
  • Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler (ed.): The disgruntled democracy: modern popular rule between awakening and frustration. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18410-4 .

Interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Right networks - a danger ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , review by Ralph Kummer at redok , originally published by IDGR, August 19, 2004
  2. ^ Astrid Geisler: Struggle for Image . In: the daily newspaper . August 11, 2007.
  3. ^ People make media - media policy ver.di magazine, 11/2007, ISSN  0946-1132
  4. ^ People make media - media policy ver.di magazine, 11/2007, ISSN  0946-1132
  5. ^ " [1] Article in: Evangelical News Agency Idea from May 31, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), former MdL of Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich