Thomas Ehrhorn

Thomas Ehrhorn (born March 20, 1959 in Helmstedt ) is a pilot and German politician of the AfD . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Ehrhorn attended the Gymnasium Neue Oberschule in Braunschweig , where he passed the Abitur. From 1978 to 1980 he did military service in the German Armed Forces and then began studying architecture. He acquired a commercial pilot license and initially worked as a flight instructor. After obtaining his license as a commercial pilot, he worked for a long time in ambulance and business aviation. Most recently he was employed as a survey pilot at a subsidiary of the German Air Traffic Control . Ehrhorn lived in Bargfeld and Lachendorf ; He moved to Jarnsen in the mid-2000s .

politics

Ehrhorn has been chairman of the AfD district association in Celle since June 2013. From March 2015 to March 2017 he was deputy state chairman of the AfD Lower Saxony . In the 2017 federal election , he entered the German Bundestag via the state list of the AfD Lower Saxony .

In the 19th German Bundestag Ehrhorn is a full member of the Committee for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure , the Committee on Culture and Media and the Committee on Food and Agriculture .

Ehrhorn caused horror in the Bundestag in 2019 when he spoke out against the rehabilitation of concentration camp prisoners who had been classified as so-called "anti- social " by the Nazi regime . He described them as "vagrants, beggars, Sinti and Roma , alcoholics, petty criminals, pimps and those who were classified as work-shy", including "killers, fraudsters and rapists". Historians and the International Auschwitz Committee (IAK) as well as politicians from other factions were shocked by Ehrhorn's statements. Christoph Heubner from the IAK said that Ehrhorn was continuing the "lines of interpretation of the Nazis". Ehrhorn rejected the allegations.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Simon Ziegler: Thomas Ehrhorn: A pilot with a ticket for the Bundestag. In: Cellesche Zeitung. September 26, 2017, accessed March 25, 2020 .
^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
↑ Florian Schillat and Daniel Wüstenberg: "Right-wing agitation" at the witching hour: Historians and Auschwitz committee horrified by AfD speech. April 4, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ehrhorn, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Helmstedt

[1] Simon Ziegler: Thomas Ehrhorn: A pilot with a ticket for the Bundestag. In: Cellesche Zeitung. September 26, 2017, accessed March 25, 2020 .

[2] German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .

[3] Florian Schillat and Daniel Wüstenberg: "Right-wing agitation" at the witching hour: Historians and Auschwitz committee horrified by AfD speech. April 4, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .