Susanne Wiest

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Susanne Wiest (2013)

Susanne Wiest (born January 16, 1967 in Dillingen an der Donau ) is a German activist for the unconditional basic income . From March to December 2017 she was federal chairwoman of the Alliance for Basic Income (BGE) party .

Life

Susanne Wiests father is a doctor, her mother a teacher. She grew up in Munich and went to West Berlin after graduating from high school . She lived in a renovated circus wagon for twelve years, sometimes in Berlin or other cities, sometimes in the country, and had four children during this time. Two of their children died. Since 1998 she has been working full-time as a childminder , first in an apartment in Greifswald , then she built a house in Siedenbüssow , a village with fifty inhabitants near Greifswald in Western Pomerania , where she and a friend set up a children's shop. When the taxation for child minders was changed in 2008, which would reduce their income, she presented her request to Erwin Sellering , who was a member of the state parliament at the time, and wrote to Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen . Since she did not receive any satisfactory answers, she submitted a petition to the Bundestag. An older petition was already available for her request (change in the taxation of day care workers), with which she was discussed. The petitions were closed because the request - as far as the abolition of an existing unequal treatment is concerned - was partially granted. The difficult economic situation in Western Pomerania brought them to the idea of ​​an unconditional basic income.

Act

Susanne Wiest, "previously politically inconspicuous childminder", became famous when she formulated a petition in 2008 for the introduction of an unconditional basic income of 1500 euros for adults and 1000 euros for children with the simultaneous suspension of transfer payments and subsidies and submitted it to the German Bundestag . She described her motivation as follows:

"In order to ensure a dignified life for all citizens, the introduction of an unconditional basic income seems to me to be a good solution."

- Susanne Wiest, 2008

Two days before New Year's Eve 2008/2009, the petition was accepted by the Petitions Committee and posted on the Internet. Wiest thus initiated a public discussion. The petition was signed by 52,973 supporters. For the first time since the online petition was introduced in 2009, the Bundestag's server collapsed. The voting period was therefore extended by one week. Die Welt wrote: "The idea [becomes] a true citizens' movement - and Wiest is the head of the scene." On the subject of panic about the job: Does the state have to save us all? she was a guest on the show Menschen bei Maischberger in March 2009 .

If there are more than 50,000 signatures, the Petitions Committee must hear the main petitioner personally. The hearing took place on Monday, November 8, 2010. The audience at the hearing in Berlin was so great that they had to move to a larger hall. The hearing was broadcast on parliamentary television. In the Petitions Committee, the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Ralf Brauksiepe , stated that the Federal Government rejects a basic income because it considers the "complete restructuring of the tax, transfer and social security system" to be wrong. Susanne Wiest continued to fight “undauntedly for the basic income”. The process was only completed in 2013 with the recommendation of the Petitions Committee to the Bundestag to reject the petition.

In the online dialogue with Angela Merkel from February 1 to April 15, 2012 about the “three key questions of the future dialogue”, Susanne Wiest's contribution Secure financial basis for everyone - unconditional basic income was one of the ten best-rated proposals.

For the 2009 federal election , Susanne Wiest ran as a non-party individual applicant in the Greifswald - Demmin - East Pomerania constituency , where she received 1.2 percent of the first votes. In the 2013 federal election she was the top candidate of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Association of the Pirate Party. In the 2017 federal election , she was the top candidate in the state list of the Alliance Basic Income party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . From March to December 2017, Susanne Wiest was chairwoman of the Basic Income Alliance party . On March 14, 2020, during the corona pandemic , Susanne Wiest started another petition to the Bundestag for a UBI, which was quickly signed by more than 100,000 people.

literature

  • Sascha Liebermann: “Uninspired, discouraged, strange.” Susanne Wiest's petition completed after four and a half years. In: ders .: From the spirit of democracy. Unconditional basic income. Humanities Online, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-941743-47-2 , pp. 39-46.
  • Sebastian Balzter: I'm running! Susanne Wiest is campaigning for the introduction of an unconditional basic income. In: FAS No. 34, August 27, 2017, p. 26.

Web links

Commons : Susanne Wiest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Siebert: I ask 1,500 euros for each. In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 9, 2010
  2. ↑ Susanne Wiest. In: Badische Zeitung , October 20, 2012
  3. ^ A b Waltraud Schwab :: Petitioner Susanne Wiest. "Try that". In: Taz , February 10, 2009
  4. ↑ a b c d The politics of a party skeptic. In: FAZ , December 7, 2010
  5. ↑ Götz Werner , Adrienne Goehler : 1,000 euros for each. Freedom, equality, basic income , Econ Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-430-20108-7 , p. 35
  6. ^ Sascha Liebermann: Germany: Far, though Close - Problems and Prospects of BI in Germany. In: Caputo (Ed.): Basic Income Guarantee and Politics. International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee , Palgrave Macmillan US 2012, ISBN 978-1-137-04530-0 , p. 88
  7. ↑ Quoted by Markus Rhomberg, Stepanie Stegerer: “Space for free development” or “Work for others”? Discourse analysis of the public hearing in the petitions committee of the German Bundestag on the "unconditional basic income". In: Götz W. Werner et al. (Ed.): The basic income. Appreciation - Assessments - Ways , KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86644-873-5 , p. 156, PDF; 6 MB
  8. ^ German Bundestag: Reform proposals in social security - Unconditional basic income from December 10, 2008. Retrieved on June 28, 2020
  9. ↑ Wikinews: Petition for a basic income paralyzes the Bundestag server
  10. ^ How political debutante Susanne Wiest caught fire. In: Die Welt , September 22, 2009
  11. ^ Daniel Borchard: People at Maischberger. "Mr. Clement, aren't you ashamed?" In: Handelsblatt , March 11, 2009
  12. ^ Taz, October 26, 2010
  13. ↑ Ulrike Herrmann: Basic Income in the Bundestag. End of a petition. In: Taz , November 7, 2010
  14. ^ "Problematic Effects on Work Incentives". German Bundestag, 2010
  15. ↑ Sascha Liebermann, s. literature
  16. ↑ Angela Merkel (Ed.): Dialogue about Germany's Future , Murmann, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-187-3 , Der Online-Dialog, pp. 232-236
  17. ↑ State list prepared for the federal election - Pirate Party Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  18. ^ Alliance Basic Income - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Landesverband / Landesliste - The Landesverband Bündnis Grundeinkommen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, is founded. In: mv.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de . Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  19. ↑ Board of Directors. In: buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on January 17, 2018.
  20. ↑ Introduction of an unconditional basic income from March 14 , 2020 , epetionen.bundestag.de , accessed on April 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wiest, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German activist for the unconditional basic income
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen on the Danube