Stephan Protschka

Stephan Protschka (born November 8, 1977 in Dingolfing ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and a member of the German Bundestag . Since December 2017, he has been one of six members of the AfD federal board .

Life

After attending secondary school in his hometown, he did an apprenticeship as an electrician and then did his military service . Most recently, he had several independent activities, including as a sales partner for cosmetics for the Forever Living Products brand .

politics

Protschka was a member of the Junge Union Bayerns from 1993 to 2010 and joined the AfD in 2013. As a motive for his entry he named the measures to rescue the euro of the federal government . He then left the Union, looked for a new political home and joined the AfD. In November 2013, he resigned as district chairman of the AfD Niederbayern for health reasons.

After the 2017 federal election , Protschka entered the German Bundestag via the state list of AfD Bavaria . He is a member of the Bundestag Committee on Food and Agriculture and a deputy member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . He denies any "impact on the global climate" from climate protection measures such as the climate package presented by the Climate Cabinet . In December 2017 he was elected one of six members of the AfD federal executive board.

In order to cope with his mandate tasks and to support his parliamentary work, Protschka , like eighteen other members of his parliamentary group, hired employees from the right-wing extremist milieu, according to research by Zeit Online : The employee was a member of the striking Berlin fraternity Gothia , which belongs to the nationalist umbrella organization Deutsche Burschenschaft . In addition to this, according to the taz , two other of his employees also took part in actions or demonstrations of the identity movement .

In 2019 Protschka donated a war memorial in Bytom, Poland, together with the organizations Junge Alternative Berlin and the Academic Burschenschaft Markomannia Wien zu Deggendorf, which are under observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . German "self-defense fighters" are also thinking about this. The Volksdeutsche Selbstschutz was involved in the murder of tens of thousands of Poles and Jews in Eastern Europe during World War II . The NPD youth organization Young Nationalists was also one of the founders, but according to Gazeta Wyborcza their inscription was removed. According to the Polish Institute for National Remembrance , the memorial stone violates current Polish law, as memorials to members of Nazi organizations are only permitted in 13 war cemeteries according to certain rules . A few days after it was erected, the memorial stone was removed again. In an open letter initiated by Jens-Christian Wagner , 25 historians, including Norbert Frei , Michael Wildt , Miriam Rürup and Frank Bajohr , called on Protschka to return his Bundestag mandate , and the Polish public prosecutor's office started investigations into insulting the memory of Nazi victims.

Protschka was re-elected on December 1, 2019 at the AfD federal party conference in Braunschweig as a member of the AfD federal executive committee.

public perception

Behavior in social networks

In 2014 Protschka wrote on his Twitter profile that Chancellor Angela Merkel was planning a “German genocide ” and that the EU was not Europe but “the 4th Reich”.

In November 2017 it became known that Protschka, along with other AfD MPs, is a member of a Facebook group called “The Patriots”. In this group, among other things, Holocaust victims were vilified, but Adolf Hitler and the Wehrmacht were also glorified. Protschka refused to leave this group, as recommended by the AfD parliamentary group manager .

On August 29, 2018, the photographed arrest warrant against an alleged main perpetrator who is said to have been involved in the killing of a 35-year-old in Chemnitz was published via Protschka's Twitter account . The tweet was deleted shortly afterwards, and the Dresden public prosecutor initiated an investigation into the publication of the document.

In December 2018 Protschka tweeted about a German Kenyan who had been arrested on suspicion of murder, saying that he was a “ passport recipient ” and “not a German”.

See also

• Bundestag committees of the 19th German Bundestag
• List of members of the German Bundestag (19th electoral term)

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Forever Living Products Germany. Retrieved July 21, 2018 . 
2. ^ Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski : AfD parliamentary group: right to extreme in the Bundestag. In: The time . September 26, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017 . 
3. ↑ AfD district chairman resigns. In: Wochenblatt.de . November 13, 2013, accessed October 4, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Environmentalists and opposition disappointed with climate package . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . 20th September 2019.
5. ↑ AfD elects new federal board (press release December 4, 2017)
6. ^ Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Johannes Radke, Tilman Steffen: AfD MPs deal with right-wing extremists and constitutional enemies . In: time online . March 21, 2018.
7. ↑ Hannah Bley: Next Generation AfD . In: taz . June 1, 2018.
8. ^ Frank Jansen, Robert Kiesel: Berlin's protection of the constitution takes on the AfD . In: Tagesspiegel . March 13, 2019.
9. ↑ Jan Petter: AfD politicians and neo-Nazis apparently donated war memorials in Poland . In: Tagesspiegel.de . 19th November 2019.
10. ^ Johann Osel: memorial stone of contention. In: Sueddeutsche.de . November 19, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Bartosz T. Wieliński: AfD i neonaziści na bytomskim cmentarzu . In: Gazeta Wyborcza . 19th November 2019.
12. ↑ Patrick Gensing : German memorial stone causes outrage . In: tagesschau.de . November 21, 2019.
13. ↑ Severin Weiland: Poland removed memorial stone for free corps fighters . In: Spiegel Online . November 26, 2019.
14. ^ Sabine am Orde: Historians demand resignation . In: taz . November 25, 2019.
15. ↑ Jan Petter: Historians call for the resignation of AfD politicians . In: Tagesspiegel . November 25, 2019.
16. ↑ n-tv: This is the new top of the AfD. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
17. ^ ^{A b} Carsten Hoefer: The future Bavarian AfD MPs . In: evening newspaper . September 24, 2017.
18. ↑ Jan Petter: AfD politician spread video about “concentration camps” for Germans. In: Der Tagesspiegel Online. November 29, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 . 
19. ^ Theresa Martus: AfD deputy members in a racist Facebook group. November 12, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Katja Bauer: Fear of harm to the party - AfD MPs should leave the racist Facebook group. November 14, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2018 . 
21. ↑ Matthias Meisner , Jakob Schulz: Authorities consider the arrest warrant published by rights to be genuine. In: Der Tagesspiegel Online. August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Homicide in Chemnitz: Court issues arrest warrant for two suspects. In: Spiegel Online. August 27, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018 . 
23. ^ AfD MP Stephan Protschka shared an arrest warrant on the Internet. Passauer Neue Presse , September 5, 2018, accessed on January 3, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Felix Huesmann: AfD MP wants to dictate who is German - and shows closeness to the Nazis . In: Watson . December 6, 2018.
    Aron Boks : A question of relevance . In: taz . December 6, 2018, p. 18.