Thilo Sarrazin

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Thilo Sarrazin (2014)

Thilo Sarrazin (born February 12, 1945 in Gera ) is a German economist , author and politician . From 1975 to 2010 he worked in the public sector and from 2000 to 2001 in a leading position at Deutsche Bahn AG . From 2002 to April 2009 Sarrazin was Finance Senator for the SPD in the Berlin Senate and then a member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank until the end of September 2010 .

Sarrazin's controversial theses on financial, social and population policy have already sparked various social discussions. After Sarrazin had become known nationwide with advice to Hartz IV recipients and had written a controversial bestseller with Germany , he resigned from the Bundesbank board.

Sarrazin was a member of the SPD from 1973 to 2020. On July 31, 2020, the Federal Arbitration Commission of the SPD effectively excluded Sarrazin from the party. He wants to challenge the decision.

Career

Thilo Sarrazin, the eldest of four children of the doctor and writer Hans-Christian Sarrazin (1914–2013) and the West Prussian landowner's daughter and artist Mechthild Sarrazin , born von Fischer (1920–2014), was born in Gera at the end of the Second World War when his mother was temporarily staying with relatives as a refugee from eastern Germany. He grew up in Recklinghausen and graduated from high school in Petrinum in 1965 . After completing his military service , he studied economics at the University of Bonn from 1967 to 1971 , then worked there as an assistant at the Institute for Industrial and Transport Policy and was awarded a doctorate in 1973 by Fritz Voigt at the Faculty of Law and Political Science. rer. pole. PhD . In his dissertation he dealt with epistemological problems of economic history from the perspective of critical rationalism . From November 1973 to December 1974, Sarrazin was a research assistant at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . During this time he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany .

From 1975 Sarrazin worked in the federal public service , from 1975 to 1978 as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Finance (1977 delegation to the IMF in Washington, DC ), then until 1981 as head of division in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , from 1981 again in the Federal Ministry of Finance. Between 1978 and 1982 he worked as a speechwriter for Hans Apel . From October 1981 he was the office manager and close collaborator of Federal Finance Minister Hans Matthöfer and his successor Manfred Lahnstein . After the social-liberal coalition in October 1982 Sarrazin remained in the Federal Ministry of Finance, where he was responsible for the rail transport temporarily and sequentially several presentations conducted, including from 1989 to 1990, the unit Inner German relations , the German-German monetary, economic and social union together prepared with the then Federal Minister of Finance Theo Waigel and the later Federal President Horst Köhler . From 1990 to 1991 Sarrazin worked for the Treuhandanstalt . Until 1997 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in Rhineland-Palatinate , then Chairman of the Management Board of the Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft ( TLG IMMOBILIEN ). From 2000 to December 2001 he was with Deutsche Bahn, from January 2002 to April 2009 Berlin Senator for Finance and from May 2009 to September 2010 a member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

As a result of the operation of a benign tumor on nerves of the inner ear in August 2004, the right half of his face was partially paralyzed.

Sarrazin is with the retired elementary school teacher and author Ursula Sarrazin , geb. Breit (* 1951), married, daughter of the former DGB chairman Ernst Breit , and has two sons.

In December 2016, the magazine voted Cicero Sarrazin at number five on its list of the most important German intellectuals.

Deutsche Bahn AG

Between spring 2000 and December 2001, Sarrazin was employed by Deutsche Bahn , initially for four months as Head of Corporate Auditing and from September 1, 2000 as a member of the DB Netz Management Board , responsible for planning and investments. The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG approved his dismissal in November 2001. He was released from work with full pay until the end of 2005. According to the former CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG, Hartmut Mehdorn , Sarrazin was the only board member he had to part with during his time at DB AG. As a reason, he cites that Sarrazin did not stick to joint decisions.

Sarrazin is considered significant developer of the people's share model of the Deutsche Bahn, the issuing non-voting provided for people's shares to the voice of limiting private investors and to bring the model of capital privatization of Deutsche Bahn basis. He is a proponent of the railway's orientation towards profitability according to a cost-effectiveness analysis . His relationship with Mehdorn is characterized as "permanent enmity".

After Sarrazin's dismissal from the management board of DB Netz AG, he was defeated in 2007 as the Berlin Senator for Finance before the Federal Court of Justice in a process for the continuation of his employment relationship and the resulting claims to wages or severance pay .

Berlin Senator for Finance

In January 2002, Sarrazin became Senator for Finance in Senate Wowereit II ; From 2006 he was a member of the subsequent Senate Wowereit III in the same function .

When he took office, Sarrazin renounced senatorial payments to the public and wanted to rehabilitate Berlin's budget as a “one-dollar man”. In his opinion, however, the twice as high remuneration from his dormant employment with Deutsche Bahn (DB) should continue to be paid. Deutsche Bahn refused to continue paying the salary with reference to the Berlin Senators Act and on the grounds that a senator should not receive any other remuneration in order to guarantee his independence. According to DB, the employment contract with Sarrazin had been terminated with legal effect because the Senator had failed to obtain the approval of the Bahn Supervisory Board for his appointment to the Senate. The district court of Frankfurt had brought a similar action Sarrazin on sick pay off by DB on June 19 of 2002.

Sarrazin stuck to the classic cameralistics for the budget management of municipal authorities. In material terms, he carried out a strict austerity and budget policy . In 2007, for the first time in the history of the State of Berlin, there was a budget surplus (EUR 80 million).

With 46 sideline jobs, Sarrazin was the Senate member with the most sideline jobs in June 2008. Among other things, he was a member of the supervisory board of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , Charité , Investitionsbank Berlin and Vivantes GmbH .

In the context of the Tempodrom affair, he was accused of illegally granting state funds. The prosecution brought charges in November 2004. Sarrazin filed a complaint against the investigating attorney general . In December 2004, the Berlin Regional Court refused to open main proceedings because of indecision .

Sarrazin already knew in 2006 of the illegal awarding practice for contracts from the state-owned housing association Howoge and approved them. In 18 cases between 2002 and 2009, it did not put out planning contracts , but rather awarded them directly. One of the main contractors was the engineering office of the SPD politician Ralf Hillenberg . After the violations became known, the two managing directors of Howoge, who like Hillenberg were SPD members, were dismissed without notice. A parliamentary committee of inquiry examined the matter; the opposition criticized internal party felt, while the SPD-led government coalition did not recognize any failures in the legal sense.

In 2007, Sarrazin, as chairman of the supervisory board of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG, negligently approved a risky speculative business that he did not fully understand. In the Supervisory Board meeting on April 25, 2007, the discussion of the item on the deal, which included a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) from JP Morgan , including voting, lasted only four minutes. Only one member of the supervisory board addressed a lack of an opinion on risks by BVG lawyers. Sarrazin called for an immediate vote. The deal was approved without a dissenting vote, with the employee representatives abstaining. In 2008 it resulted in a loss of EUR 204 million. In a complaint against the JP Morgan bank , BVG stated before a London court that such transactions, as an institution under public law, were prohibited by law and the articles of association and were therefore void. The process is statute-barred after five years. Claims for damages against the management and the supervisory board of the BVG are examined by the Berlin Senate.

In 2008, the State of Berlin escaped the lease of a state-owned property to the Golf- und Landclub Berlin-Wannsee e. V. Additional income of three million euros when Sarrazin arbitrarily waived a repair clause in the event of loss of charitable status. The Berlin state parliament had previously rejected the sale of the property to the golf club for EUR 3.8 million. Parliament and the taxpayer association criticized the process. The public prosecutor's office and the Senate excluded Thilo Sarrazin from benefiting from criminal law .

On April 30, 2009, Sarrazin resigned from his political office to move to the board of directors of the Bundesbank ; Ulrich Nussbaum became his successor in the office of Berlin Senator for Finance .

Member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

The appointment to the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank took place at the initiative of the State of Berlin , against the will of the Bundesbank President Axel A. Weber .

Due to his appearance, the Bundesbank executive board refused the new member Sarrazin international duties; he was only assigned the areas of responsibility for cash , risk controlling and information technology . Later Sarrazin said: “As a Bundesbanker, the work of the week was done after one and a half days on Tuesday noon.” So he devoted himself - also with the use of Bundesbank staff - to his off-duty affairs as a lecturer at the administrative college in Speyer and as a book author.

When a provocative interview with Thilo Sarrazin on non-banking topics appeared in the weekly magazine Stern in May 2009 , the Bundesbank immediately distanced itself from the statements made by its board member.

Statements made by Sarrazin about Arab and Turkish immigrants in an interview with the cultural magazine Lettre International were disapproved by the Bundesbank on September 30, 2009. The bank distanced itself “decidedly in content and form” from Sarrazin's “ discriminatory statements”. On October 1, 2009, Sarrazin responded with a personal communication. It was not his intention to discredit individual ethnic groups . He promised to exercise “more caution and restraint” in the future when making public statements. Bundesbank President Axel Weber publicly stated on October 3, 2009 that the Bundesbank had suffered reputational damage that had to be repaired quickly. This was interpreted as an indirect call for Sarrazin to resign. When he refused, the board withdrew his cash department . Sarrazin remained the business areas of risk controlling and information technology ; in May 2010 the revision department was added.

In connection with the debate about the book Germany abolishes itself , Sarrazin came under renewed pressure at the end of August 2010. The bank accused him of violating the principle of political moderation and damaging the institution's reputation with his provocative and discriminatory statements, “especially on migration issues ”, “continuously and to an increasingly serious extent”. The pejorative remarks are also likely to impair the peace of the company considerably, especially since many employees have a migration background . Sarrazin initially refused to leave the company voluntarily. On September 2, 2010, the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbank applied to the Federal President to have Sarrazin removed from his post; at the same time his business areas were withdrawn from him with immediate effect . Two days later, Sarrazin warned the Federal President Christian Wulff , who was now responsible for the matter, of a “political show trial ” and indirectly threatened a lawsuit against possible dismissal.

In negotiations with the participation of the Federal President's Office on September 9, 2010, it was achieved that the Board of Management of the Bundesbank no longer upholds the allegations made against it, that Sarrazin asks the Federal President to release him from office and the Bundesbank withdraws its request for dismissal. Both contracting parties agreed that Sarrazin would receive a pension in the amount that would have been available to him from 2014 had the contract not been terminated prematurely. Compared to the Bundesbank's first pension offer for his 17 months in office, Sarrazin receives a thousand euros more per month, based on the entire original contract term.

Government and opposition politicians welcomed this agreement. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said it was good “that this amicable settlement now exists” because the Bundesbank can now continue to work in peace. The General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Stephan Kramer , spoke of a “rotten compromise” that was “a shame” for the whole country. The chance was missed to draw a clear line by expelling Sarrazin that such racism in our society is intolerable.

The taxpayers' association commented: "If the farewell is now additionally gilded, that not only has a taste, but that is not okay." The deputy federal chairman of the party Die Linke , Katja Kipping , criticized: "Sarrazin is caused by agitation rich and apparently even receives administrative assistance from the office of the Federal President. That's a golden handshake in installments. "

Political positions

Fiscal policy positions

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on January 28, 2012, Sarrazin spoke out in favor of abolishing the state financial equalization system without replacement . This was a regulatory error. In view of the simmering euro crisis , in May 2012 he took the view that “Europe could live quite well without the euro”. The euro will only work in the long term if the other countries basically behave like Germany on economic issues. If you can see that the others don't want that, you have to draw the consequences. The introduction of the euro was a mistake and was mainly due to the wish of the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , who wanted to take a step towards the political unification of Europe. But that was "an act of political deception".

immigration

At the beginning of 2018, Sarrazin was one of the first to sign a “ Joint Declaration 2018 ” close to the AfD , in which it says: “With increasing astonishment we are watching how Germany is being damaged by illegal mass immigration. We show solidarity with those who are demonstrating peacefully for the restoration of the rule of law on the borders of our country. ” In addition to Sarrazin, Vera Lengsfeld , Uwe Tellkamp , Eva Herman , Max Otte , Karlheinz Weißmann and Martin Semlitsch signed the declaration. The declaration is illustrated with a photo of a women's march supported by those around the AfD . This is one of the reasons why the declaration was accepted as an “amazing alliance of bourgeois and national conservatives and new right conspiracy theorists ”. At a rally at Hambach Castle in early May 2018, the NZZ attested the sharply formulated Sarrazin to be the most reserved of the speakers.

Controversy

Sarrazin's theses repeatedly attract media attention, both in his book publications and in his appearances. There are also repeated demonstrations, for example at universities, where political left groups in particular try to prevent certain events. The University of Siegen has taken such incidents as an opportunity to comment.

Tips for Hartz IV recipients and positions on retirement provision

In February 2004, on the talk show Sabine Christiansen , Sarrazin pleaded for the civil servants' pension system to be phased out as soon as possible. The state's pension burdens should decrease significantly. "It's going to be a tough discussion, but you have to work on it," said Sarrazin. He also criticized the level of pensions. The additional pension for civil servants should be cut and later abolished entirely. He also announced that teachers in Berlin should no longer be civil servants in the future.

Sarrazin's proposals for a change in Berlin's social and educational policy, in particular for cuts in the social sector, were often accompanied by protests. In February 2008 he gave tips on how ALG-II recipients could feed themselves for less than four euros a day. Criticism came from the German Caritas Association , the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and the former Berlin Senator for Social Affairs, Heidi Knake-Werner . The CDU politician and former Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health, Heiner Geißler , stated: "The senator's mistakes, misleading and deficient arguments scream to heaven and cast a bad light on the Berlin financial administration." One should also ask, " whether a member of the Berlin government may mock poor people without consequences with slogans saying ' Avarice is cool ' ”. When mass poverty turns into anger and aggression, “political provocateurs like Sarrazin” are also responsible.

In May 2009, Sarrazin told Stern magazine about how the unemployed deal with energy: “First of all, 'Hartz IV' recipients are more at home; secondly, they like to be warm, and thirdly, many people regulate the temperature with the window. ”The social system must be changed in such a way“ that one cannot improve one's standard of living with children, which is the case today ”. Rather, politics must ensure that only those children have children who "can cope with it". He called the pension increase in July 2009 a “completely nonsensical measure”. Instead, the federal government must prepare citizens for the fact that old-age pensions will fall “in the long term to the level of basic security ”. The social association VdK Germany reacted indignantly: “It can hardly be surpassed in absurdity that one should be able to improve one's standard of living through having children. These women need more, not less, government support for their children - and no cynical comments from Mr Sarrazin. "

Interview in Lettre International

Sarrazin's statements on Berlin's economic and migration policy, which were published in September 2009 in the cultural magazine Lettre International , provoked violent reactions . The city is burdened by two components: "the 1968 tradition and the West Berlin sloppy factor". In its political currents, Berlin is "not positioned as an elitist, but rather plebeian and petty-bourgeois in its outlook". Large parts of the Arab and Turkish immigrants are neither willing nor able to integrate. Berlin has a particularly large number of “disadvantaged people from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds”, and there is also “no method of properly involving these people”. There is a “continuous negative selection ”. Sarrazin called for elite support and the "outgrowth" of "about twenty percent of the population who are not economically needed". In this context he proposed, among other things, the complete cancellation of transfer payments for foreigners from the " lower class ". About the Turkish and Arab migrants he said verbatim:

“The Turks are conquering Germany just like the Kosovars conquering Kosovo : through a higher birth rate. [...] Integration is an achievement of those who integrate. I don't have to acknowledge someone who does nothing. I do not have to recognize anyone who lives off the state, rejects this state, does not properly care for the education of their children and constantly produces new little headscarf girls. This applies to 70 percent of the Turkish and 90 percent of the Arab population in Berlin. "

After sharp criticism from the Bundesbank , Sarrazin wrote in a personal communication that was published on October 1, 2009 that he had "clearly described the problems and prospects of the city of Berlin", but did not want to discredit individual ethnic groups. "If this impression arises, I very much regret it and I apologize for it." Sarrazin's interview statements were supported by, among others, Hans-Olaf Henkel , Ralph Giordano and the social scientist and critic of Islam Necla Kelek . The former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt agreed with Sarrazin regarding the achievements of German Jews during the Weimar Republic . The domestic political spokesman for the NPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament , Andreas Storr , commented: “Thilo Sarrazin’s statements are among the few constructive proposals that a member of the political and economic elite of the FRG has made in recent years to resolve the issues associated with immigration Has caused problems. ”An exclusion of“ foreigners living in Germany ”from receiving state transfer payments,“ as Sarrazin suggests ”, would, in Storr's opinion, not only“ solve numerous budget problems ”, but also“ put a stop to the formation of parallel societies on German soil advance ". Storr described it as a “good sign for Germany” if the new federal government would make Thilo Sarrazin the commissioner for foreigners despite his SPD party membership ”. An “orderly return of foreigners living in Germany to their home countries” could then “finally be tackled”. Looking back on the interview in August 2010, Michael Klonovsky from Focus said that Sarrazin had dared “to name the collateral damage caused by redistribution using the example of the hopelessly indebted capital, in which a growing lower class unwilling to work and integrate is only spoiling the mayor's party mood to a limited extent ".

Criticism came from the then chairman of the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag , Sebastian Edathy (SPD), the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband , the service union ver.di and the political scientist Gerd Wiegel . Arno Widmann , head of the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau , said of Sarrazin: “He only reacts hysterically to the change in conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany. He's crazy. ”The time journalist Christian Staas felt reminded by Sarrazin's interview statements of writings on racial biology and described the social and population policy program as a“ eugenic project ”. The general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Stephan Kramer , called the interview statements by Sarrazin at a joint press conference with the federal chairman of the Turkish community in Germany , Kenan Kolat , “perfidious, infamous and seditious”. Sarrazin's analysis of the problems of the lower classes is reminiscent of the Nazis' subhuman terminology . Kolat spoke of "stigmatizing and inhuman". The authors of such sentences would have to be prosecuted by the courts. He wrote a letter to Axel Weber and asked for an interview. The demand for Sarrazin's resignation should be "more strongly worded".

The director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development , Reiner Klingholz , criticized much of what Sarrazin claimed could not be statistically proven, and cited as an example the thesis that 70 percent of the Turkish and 90 percent of the Arab population of Berlin are the state and in large parts are neither willing nor able to integrate. When confronted with this criticism, Sarrazin told a SZ reporter that if you don't have a number, then “you have to create one that points in the right direction. And if no one can refute it, then I'll prevail with my estimate. "

After Sarrazin's statements in the magazine Lettre International, the Turkish Association of Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB) filed a criminal complaint with the Berlin public prosecutor for incitement to hatred and insults . However, the latter discontinued the proceedings. A complaint by the TBB was rejected by the Attorney General. In July 2010 the TBB then lodged a complaint with the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

On April 4, 2013, the CERD published its complaint of February 26, 2013 regarding the TBB's complaint. It was found that "the prosecution's lack of an effective investigation into Mr Sarrazin 's statements" amounted to a violation of the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination . In the Lettre interview, Thilo Sarrazin “spread the ideology of racial superiority and racial hatred” and “incited racial discrimination”. The UN expects Germany to review its policies and procedures with regard to racist statements, make the committee's findings widely known, especially to prosecutors and courts, and deliver a report to the federal government on the implementation of the recommendation within 90 days. In a note verbale of the Federal Government to the anti-racism Committee of the UN were in early July made 2013 changes to the legislation on racist speech promised: "The federal government currently analyzed the German legislation on the criminalization of racist remarks in the light of statements made by the Committee." The importance of the law freedom of expression will have to be taken into account. In the meantime, the Federal Ministry of Justice had asked the Berlin public prosecutor's office to re-examine the factual and legal situation and to use “every opportunity” to “reconsider” the termination of the investigation against Thilo Sarrazin. The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office announced in July 2013 that the result of the examination had remained with the closure of the proceedings.

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found that Sarrazin’s statements were similar to those for which Jean-Marie Le Pen was fined EUR 10,000 in 2004 and assessed both the reaction of the German authorities and that of the SPD as inadequate. At the same time, the Commission supported the CERD's complaint for violating the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

First party order procedure

The SPD district association Berlin-Spandau and the Alt-Pankow department ran a party order process against him because of Sarrazin's interview statements in the magazine Lettre International for behavior that was harmful to the party. On the basis of a scientific report by the political scientist and extremism researcher Gideon Botsch from the Moses Mendelssohn Center in Potsdam , they classified the statements in the interview as racist and incompatible with the positions of the SPD. Sarrazin criticized the SZ that the report was intellectually and morally “so dirty, so slimy, so disgusting that anyone who touches it runs the risk of being soiled”. He also attacked Botsch personally. In mid-March 2010, the applications against Sarrazin were rejected by a ruling by the Berlin SPD State Arbitration Commission.

Germany is getting dumber

In June 2010, at an event organized by the School-Business Working Group of the employers' associations in South Hesse , Sarrazin triggered a contradiction with his thesis that the overall German average intelligence was falling due to the immigration of poorly educated migrants. Immigrants from "Turkey, the Middle East and Africa" ​​had less education than immigrants from other countries, and immigrants also had more children than Germans. There is "a different increase in population groups with different intelligence". Intelligence is passed on from parents to children, the share of inheritance is almost 80 percent. His theses were criticized by Chancellor Angela Merkel and the SPD party chairman Sigmar Gabriel , who suggested Sarrazin to leave the SPD.

Germany abolishes itself

Cover of the first edition of Germany abolished

In his book Germany Abolishes Itself, published on August 30, 2010, Sarrazin describes the consequences that, in his opinion , would result for Germany from the combination of a decline in the birth rate, a growing lower class and immigration from predominantly Islamic countries . Sarrazin's theses generated considerable media and political coverage.

Various interviews and talk show appearances took place around the book publication . The Berliner Morgenpost asked Sarrazin whether he was of the opinion that there was also a “genetic identity” of the peoples. With his answer, "[a] ll Jews share a certain gene, Basques have certain genes that distinguish them from others", Sarrazin aroused largely contradiction. Stephan Kramer , General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , replied: "Anyone who tries to define the Jews by their genetic makeup, even if this is supposedly meant positively, succumbs to a racial madness that Judaism does not share." Sarrazin explained in the Beckmann broadcast , he was referring to the article Abrahams Kinder in Tagesspiegel and a report in The New York Times that reported on new genetic research. Such studies have shown that Jews from a wide variety of regions share certain hereditary traits, i.e. actually form a community of descent , which is, however, strongly mixed with other population groups. In a written statement, he quoted the relevant journals, Nature and the American Journal of Human Genetics , and regretted that the imprecise language of expression had caused confusion and misunderstandings. On September 1, 2010, on the television show, he harshly but fairly described his claim that all Jews share a certain gene as “huge nonsense, which I also extremely regret. But I didn't say anything wrong, I was about to explain that the differences between Muslim migrants and other migrants are precisely not due to ethnic origin; on the contrary, they have cultural causes. ”He was definitely not of the opinion“ that there is a genetic identity there ”, and in the interview I only wanted to point out general genetic similarities, whereby the Jews came to mind first. "Of course, it was not a genetic identity in the sense of saying: Those who share a common gene somewhere or share a group of genes are therefore somehow identified as persons." Sarrazin called it "stupidity", the utterance in the Not to have deleted the interview text retrospectively, and it was his “ blackout ” to have let the newspaper “slip away”. Nevertheless, the statement was discussed under the keyword Sarrazin-Gen , which finally put the jury on third place on their list for the word of the year 2010.

Sarrazin's handling of statistics was also criticized. Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Ehrhart Körting, said: “He [Thilo Sarrazin] always had a penchant for statistics. But in the integration debate he only uses those who fit him into the enemy image. ”The psychologists Detlef Rost and Heiner Rindermann , whose works Sarrazin had cited as sources, confirmed shortly after the book was published that there are differences in the intelligence of people - depending on their age and environmental conditions - "Let genetic factors explain fifty to eighty percent", and rated "the figures given by Sarrazin", which would relate to the "importance of genetics for differences in intelligence", as "correct". Sarrazin's theses are, "as far as the psychological aspects are concerned, largely compatible with the state of knowledge of modern psychological research." Andreas Heinz , director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité in Berlin, accused Sarrazin in August 2012 that he According to the misinterpretation of the sources, the "inheritance of intelligence" was clearly too high at 80 percent and, for people of Turkish origin, also disregarded specific social factors such as poverty or disadvantage when explaining IQ values. Heinz later stated that Sarrazin had overlooked or withholding a footnote from Rost's table when evaluating it and thus wrongly concluded that the heredity rate was 82 percent. Rost himself correctly comes to 52 percent heredity of the IQ test performance. It is amazing to find such a capital mistake in the middle of an overall controversial discussion. It is completely incomprehensible, however, that Rost and Rindermann, in their statement on the scientific correctness of Sarrazin's figures in the FAZ of September 7, 2010, did not notice this error or did not want to have noticed and that Sarrazin attested that his figures were on the whole correct. Similar to the “fabrication of the Bell Curve ”, at the core of the argument there is a procedure “which at best can be described as sloppiness and at worst as deliberate deception”.

Sarrazin abolishes himself at the book presentation of Germany

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the book, Sarrazin resigned from his post as Bundesbank executive. According to the migration researcher Klaus Jürgen Bade , the debate started by Sarrazin had a negative impact on the mood of immigrants as well as on the optimism regarding integration in the German population . The migration researcher claimed that Germany's external appeal had suffered as a result of Sarrazin's statements. In surveys, a blatant loss of confidence in immigrants can also be diagnosed. Sarrazin have given Germany "a double own goal". Bade saw Sarrazin as an "arsonist disguised as a scout and peace-breaker in the immigration society ".

An evaluation by Media Control showed that Germany is abolishing itself among the best-selling non - fiction books in bound form (hardcover) since the Federal Republic of Germany was founded. By early 2012, over 1.5 million copies had been sold. The book was number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list for a total of 21 weeks in 2010 and 2011 .

Second party order procedure

In connection with the theses advocated by Sarrazin on population, educational and social policy, another party regulation procedure was brought against him with the aim of expelling him from the SPD. In 2010, the SPD party executive set up its own staff, hired lawyers and formulated an exclusion request. Due to the great popularity of Sarrazin from the grassroots, the SPD general secretary Andrea Nahles felt compelled to justify the position of the party executive on Sarrazin 's theses and the need to expel the party in an unusual action in a letter to all party members. The SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel also campaigned personally for Sarrazin to be excluded. On September 16, 2010 he explained in a Zeit article based on selected quotations from Germany Sarrazin's "hopeless image of man" and "why the SPD cannot tolerate Thilo Sarrazin in its ranks": Sarrazin does not lead any integration- , but a selection debate . In doing so, he openly relies on Francis Galton , but without informing his readers who it actually is. The "hobby eugenicist Sarrazin and his media helpers" are in the process of making theories of state genome selection "acceptable and acceptable" again. "Others and worse" would still refer to it. Anyone who does not feel cold at the message “new life only from desired groups” has probably understood nothing. Thilo Sarrazin has to decide whether he really wants to be used for this. In any case, the SPD does not want to be associated with it.

In a FAZ article from September 18, 2010, Sarrazin vigorously denied the allegations. He pointed out that he was a “eugenicist”, wanted to stigmatize politically and accused him of “preparing the ground for hate preachers among his own people”, was “inadmissible and defamatory”. Anyone who thinks about the future today “and also touches on issues of intelligence, genetics and evolutionary biology” should not be “reflexively imputed” that they want to discriminate against people or limit their rights, freedoms and dignity. One could argue about his theses. "The attempt to ban demographic and population-political issues from the political discourse" does not lead any further. The German social democracy should not ignore these questions.

The proceedings before the Party Arbitration Commission of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district, in which Sarrazin was defended by the former Mayor of Hamburg Klaus von Dohnanyi , was discontinued on April 21, 2011 after an initial hearing and a personal statement by Sarrazin. In it he stated that “in particular, it is not my conviction [to endanger equal opportunities through selective promotion and education policy; all children are worth the same as human beings ”. In addition, he expressly acknowledged the principles of social democracy. At the same time, according to his own statements, he revoked or qualified “not a single line” from his book. He did not consider leaving the SPD because the reasons for this step had not changed since joining the party in 1973 and since the failure of the exclusion from the party was viewed in public as confirmation that his theses corresponded to the statutes and basic values ​​of the SPD does not contradict.

This "amicable agreement" was seen in the media as a withdrawal and a disaster for the SPD executive committee, a sign of considerable uncertainty in the party and also as a personal defeat for Gabriel and Nahles. Immediately afterwards, SPD politicians, including SPD presidium member Ralf Stegner , the deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in Saarland, Ulrich Commerçon , the Juso federal chairman Sascha Vogt and the Bavarian Juso state chairman Philipp Dees, expressed a lack of understanding for the termination of the proceedings and the whereabouts of Sarrazin in the SPD. The Bundestag member Sebastian Edathy threatened Sarrazin that if he "[should] express himself biologically again, his expulsion from the SPD would be inevitable". The Berlin regional association, which was about to begin the election campaign, reported strong protests from the grassroots and the first party withdrawals.

The SPD parliamentary group leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier , however, expressed relief about the outcome of the proceedings . The prominent Berlin SPD district mayor of Neukölln and Sarrazin advocate Heinz Buschkowsky spoke of a “victory of reason” and said that “everyone [moved]. Thilo said he wanted to be nice now. Well, the ice is thin. But we should now deal with solving integration problems. ”Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said in an interview with Menschen bei Maischberger on December 14, 2010 that the party exclusion proceedings against Sarrazin had been“ real nonsense ”. Some of the problems that Sarrazin presented were "correctly seen", "rightly addressed" and "triggered a discussion that was urgently needed", others were "exaggerated". His main mistake was that he “lumped heredity into one pot with cultural tradition”.

Eugenics and biologization of the social

Sarrazin's population-theoretical theses and demands have been described in the Federal Republic by Haller / Niggeschmidt (2012), among others, as a connection to the traditions of political eugenics and racial hygiene (Niephaus, 2012) and to that extent as a break in a taboo ( Hentges , 2010).

In 2012, Peter Weingart answered the question “Is Sarrazin a eugenicist?” In the affirmative. It was established that Thilo Sarrazin is doing away with his central argument in Germany and is building on the basic theses or premises of the eugenicist Francis Galton , whom he describes as the founder of early intelligence research, and against this background he makes population-political demands for class-specific "building stimuli". “More children from the bright, before it's too late” is his programmatic demand. Veronika Lipphardt wrote on Friday 2010: “If Sarrazin had not insisted on quoting eugenicists and racial biologists of the early 20th century, then his theses would not necessarily indicate that he adheres to traditional racial biological or eugenic theories.” The goal of eugenics -Theories in England in the late 19th century had been to “stimulate the upper quarter of the normal distribution of 'intelligence' to fertility and to stop the fertility of the lower quarter. At the same time, Galton's eugenics did not yet think of radical demands such as castration [...] or even 'euthanasia' for 'idiots' and 'Imbezille' in Nazi Germany - but of marriage bans, as Sarrazin also had in mind ”, argued Jürgen Link in 2011 Based on the theses from Sarrazin's book Germany Abolishes itself , the III. International Hartheim Conference with the question of whether and to what extent biological patterns of interpretation of social conditions are on the advance in society. Phenomena such as social stratification, intelligence or the integration of migrants into the host societies would - according to the thesis of the Hartheim Conference - be increasingly traced back to biology, i.e. to the assumption of genetically determined behavior. In 2014 Danny Oestreich pointed out further connections between early English social Darwinism and Sarrazin's theses on population development. Sarrazin applied the Darwinian principle of selection to humans, criticizes Oestreich.

Even Christoph Butterwegge criticized in his essay Salon racism. An ideological reaction to the fear of social decline that Sarrazin blurs the differences between biological and cultural racism. Sarrazin has a double, "dual" or hybrid racism that the author characterizes as contradicting itself. The editor of the conference proceedings, Gudrun Hentges, classifies Sarrazin under the focus on racism among the elites . In her contribution Between “Race” and Class. The racism of the elites in today's Germany tests Sarrazin's ideology. Based on Albert Memmi's widely recognized concept of racism, Hentges finds that it can be described as "racist". In addition, the political scientist, following on from Robert Miles , examines ideological links between racism and sexism, between racism and nationalism and the entanglement of race and class discourses using the example of Sarrazin.

Europe does not need the Euro

The cover of the first edition of Europa does not need the euro

In his book Europe Doesn't Need the Euro , published in May 2012, Sarrazin sees the only long-term opportunity for Europe in a “continent of nation states that bundles its forces where it is expedient and leaves individual flexibility where the individual country so desires ". However, the euro is a compulsory corset, which means that “the crisis in the currency system becomes a legitimacy crisis in the political system”. Sarrazin also refers to a statement by Helmut Schmidt who had drawn a connection between the euro and Germany's guilt for World War II . About the advocates of Eurobonds among the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party, he writes:

"They are also driven by that very German reflex according to which the penance for the Holocaust and World War is only finally done when we have placed all our concerns, including our money, in European hands."

Sarrazin believes that if this should actually play a role in the deliberations of political actors, it must be disclosed and carefully separated from other arguments regarding the common currency.

The then Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) criticized Sarrazin with the words: “There is something very calculating about his method of pretending that there are bans on thinking or speaking about certain topics in Germany, which he then violates. And then it's also nonsensical. ”Politicians of the SPD and the Greens also criticized the theses in the book and accused Sarrazin of“ historical oblivion and historical blindness ”,“ D-Mark chauvinism ”and“ nationalist and reactionary ”theses. Henryk M. Broder commented in Die Welt : "Because he justifies Germany's European policy with penance for the Holocaust, Thilo Sarrazin's new book will be condemned before it has been read." Sarrazin afforded "the luxury of his own thoughts." It is possible that he spins occasionally. You can criticize him for this, but for wanting to forbid him to speak, testifies to a totalitarian attitude of his critics, who otherwise advocate a 'dialogue of cultures' without preconditions at every opportunity. "

The economics professor Stefan Homburg presented the book in Berlin. He described it as "educational" and rich in informative facts about the euro. It contains "no steep theses".

The FAZ business journalist Philip Plickert wrote a benevolent review of the book under the title A Prussian European . Sarrazin wrote “more sensible things than many of his critics”: “His economic analyzes are well-founded, they contain sensible, fact-based arguments and do not justify hysterical criticism (for example from politicians who demanded bans on public broadcasting). Economists can and must argue about some interpretations. "

Actions for injunctive relief against the taz

On September 12, 2012, Sarrazin failed with an application to the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main to have the newspaper DIE tageszeitung ( taz ) forbidden by an injunction to further disseminate the following statement: "Sarrazin is now being used by journalists like an old whore, which is cheap, but still quite usable for its purposes, if you also have to pimp it up ... the only question is who is the whore and who is overstepped? ”The OLG did not yet see the limit to inadmissible abuse criticism crossed.

In November 2012, on Taz Online in the column Foreigners Protection Officer of Deniz Yücel regarding the person 'Thilo S. "expressed the desire to" the next stroke may his work thoroughly carry out ". (Sarrazin never had a stroke.) The German Press Council criticized this as a violation of the Press Code, Item 1. It was criticized that wishing someone a serious illness or something worse went far beyond a critical expression of opinion and was incompatible with human dignity. The Berlin Regional Court found in August 2013 that the taz Sarrazin had to pay 20,000 euros in compensation for a serious violation of personal rights in connection with the column. In addition, the condition was imposed not to repeat the statements.

Compact conference

Sarrazin was a speaker at the “ Compact Conference for Sovereignty” on November 23, 2013 in Leipzig . In the run-up to this event, the chairman of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein, Ralf Stegner , therefore called on Sarrazin to leave the SPD. Because of their participation in the event, members of a left-wing autonomous "Initiative against Racism and Homophobia" carried out a paint attack on Sarrazin's house in Berlin. In a letter of responsibility published on the Internet, they justified the conference under the motto “Are Europe's peoples abolished?” Was “racist, anti-feminist and homophobic”.

The new virtue terror

In his book Der neue Tugendterror , published in February 2014 . Regarding the limits of freedom of expression in Germany , Sarrazin presented the position he had previously expressed in various lectures that in Germany an “equality mania” restricts freedom of expression . One of the “ axioms of the madness of virtue” is the axiom “The classic family image has outlived itself. Children do not need father and mother ”, with which he criticizes same-sex marriage . The "madness of equality" leads to "virtue terror", as it was shown in the French Revolution and in Stalinism . The "ideas of the 68ers " are "Marxist" . You would thus also be in the tradition of this "virtue terror". A “media class” to the left of the majority uses the language of “ political correctness ”, which Sarrazin explains in the chapter “Decadence of Language - Decadence of Thought” with reference to George Orwell's novel 1984 . The work was received differently in literature and science. For the state of opinion see here .

Hostile takeover

After a dispute over the release date and a chapter of his book Hostile Takeover: How Islam Hinders Progress and Threats Society , the Random House publishing group terminated its existing contract with Sarrazin. In response to his legal action, the publishing group confirmed to the Munich Regional Court that Sarrazin had not, as it claims, refused an expert examination of the book. The book was published at the end of August 2018 by FinanzBuch Verlag of the Munich publishing group , which is part of Bonnier Media Germany. In the 37th calendar week in 2018 the title immediately reached # 1 on the " mirror - seller list ." On the occasion of the book's publication, the Stern journalist Arno Luik asked whether, in Sarrazin's opinion, shipwrecked refugees should drown in the Mediterranean. Sarrazin replied:

“The lower the pull factor, the fewer people drown in the Mediterranean. The pull factor created by Angela Merkel has driven up the number of drowning people. People no longer go to the Mediterranean when they know that there is nothing they can get on the other side. If this knowledge is there, no one drowns anymore. "

Third party order procedure and exclusion from the SPD

On December 17, 2018, the SPD party executive decided to initiate third party regulation proceedings against Sarrazin. SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil announced that the basis for the decision was the report of a commission of inquiry into Sarrazin's previous statements and publications. The commission came to the conclusion "that Sarrazin propagates theses which are incompatible with the principles of the SPD and cause serious damage to the party". Sarrazin had previously stated that he felt “still in good hands” in the SPD. In June 2019, the party leadership's motion was negotiated; on July 11, 2019, the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Party Arbitration Commission granted the motion to expel the party. Sarrazin's lawyer appealed the decision to the regional arbitration commission. On January 23, 2020, this confirmed the exclusion. Sarrazin then announced that he would appeal the decision to the Federal Arbitration Commission. On July 31, 2020, the Federal Arbitration Commission of the SPD effectively excluded Sarrazin from the SPD. Thilo Sarrazin has not been a member of the SPD since that day. On the other hand, a civil law suit is possible in which Sarrazin would have to prove a procedural error to the SPD. Until a judicial review, Sarrazin is not a member of the SPD. Sarrazin announced such a lawsuit before the Berlin Regional Court.

Publications

Awards

In November 2012, Sarrazin received the German SME Prize sponsored by the “ markt intern ” publishing group . The reasoning stated that Sarrazin was being distinguished for his journalistic examination of the euro crisis , which did not shrink back from uncomfortable truths and reprisals from “his” SPD. He had worked out the construction flaws of the euro in a well-founded and generally understandable way and pointed out clearly formulated alternative courses of action to solve the crisis.

literature

Biographical data
Interviews and discussions (selection)
  • Interview with SPD Senator Sarrazin: Save energy costs with a thick sweater. In: Rheinische Post . July 28, 2008.
  • An interview with Thilo Sarrazin. In: Lettre International. 86, 2009.
  • Henryk M. Broder interviews Thilo Sarrazin. In: taz. December 7, 2010.
  • Özlem Topçu , Bernd Ulrich : “Boah ey, the Sarrazin!” Encounters with “headscarf girls” and other fans: The bestselling author and social democrat Thilo Sarrazin about the year that changed his life. In: Zeit Online . August 2011 (interview).
General and individual aspects (selection)

Web links

Commons : Thilo Sarrazin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Thilo Sarrazin  - in the news
Wikiquote: Thilo Sarrazin  - Quotes

Individual evidence

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  34. ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: Ex-Finance Senator Sarrazin: Three million euros given away - in favor of a golf club. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 22, 2009.
  35. ↑ Association of taxpayers complains: pleasure trips and designer toilets. In: FAZ.net . October 15, 2009.
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  55. ^ The board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbank applies for the dismissal of Dr. Thilo Sarrazin ( Memento from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Version from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Press release of September 2, 2010.
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  96. ^ Central Council of Jews compares Sarrazin with Hitler. In: The world. October 9, 2009.
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  98. ^ Andrea Dernbach: Strange in your own country. In: Der Tagesspiegel. August 26, 2010.
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  103. ↑ European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: ECRI report on Germany (fifth round of reviews). Adopted on December 5, 2013. Published on February 25, 2014 (PDF; 635 kB). P. 21.
  104. ↑ Gideon Botsch : Are the statements of Dr. To rate Thilo Sarrazin as racist in an interview with Lettre International magazine (German edition, issue 86)? ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 297 kB), report on behalf of the SPD district association Spandau and the SPD department Alt-Pankow.
  105. ↑ In summary, the report on the question states: “Are the statements made by Dr. Thilo Sarrazin in an interview with the magazine Lettre International (German edition, issue 86) as racist? ”Among other things, that“ [t] he contested statements by Dr. Thilo Sarrazin in an interview with Lettre International [...] are clearly to be regarded as racist in key passages "and" the construction and mobilization of prejudices, which is deliberately staged as a taboo breach, combined with far-reaching proposals for action, which are radicalized only by anti-democratic, right-wing extremist parties to politics ”.
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  113. ↑ Sarrazin: “Jews share certain genes” ( Memento from August 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), N24 from August 28, 2010.
  114. ↑ Abraham's children. In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 16, 2010.
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  120. ↑ hard but fair from September 1, 2010.
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personal data
SURNAME Sarrazin, Thilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and controversial bestselling author
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera