Thomas Gens

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Thomas Gens (born January 3, 1970 in Bergen on Rügen ) is a German local politician . He is the mayor of the island of Hiddensee . In 2011 he was a candidate for the state parliament of the CDU , which, due to his alleged past as a functionary of the German People's Union (DVU), revoked his admission to the party during the election campaign. After an objection procedure had not been decided for a long time, Gens resigned from the CDU in May 2013. It hit the headlines again when an alleged earlier declaration of commitment for the Stasi became known.

biography

From 1998 to 2002 Gens was a member of the DVU, possibly as chairman of the DVU district association in Northern Western Pomerania . According to a DVU-internal letter, which the NDR claims to have available, in 2001 he was possibly three months executive state chairman. After that, Gens was a member and direct candidate of the short-lived populist People's Party of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which ran for the state elections in 2002 and received 0.2 percent of the vote.

In 2004 he joined the CDU. After Gens had successfully challenged the local election on June 7, 2009 before the administrative court , the higher administrative court and the state constitutional court, because the then mayor Manfred Gau ( citizen of Hiddensee ) had unauthorized influence on the election result, the election had to be repeated. On September 19, 2010, Gens was elected honorary mayor of Hiddensee with 51.76 percent of the vote.

After the death of the CDU direct candidate for the 2011 state election , Udo Timm , two weeks before the election, Gens was nominated at short notice as a direct candidate for the CDU in the Rügen I state electoral district . The election in this constituency had been postponed by two weeks to September 18, 2011 because of the death, in order to give the CDU a deadline to nominate a new constituency applicant and to produce new ballot papers and postal ballot papers.

After the NDR had put in the room that Gens had previously been a functionary of the right-wing extremist DVU, the CDU District Executive Rügen revoked his admission to the party on September 5, 2011 on the grounds that he had the previous DVU membership and his functionary work with his Party entry into the CDU and the nomination for the direct candidacy for the state election kept silent. Gens argued that his past had been known for years.

Gens did not withdraw his candidacy and continued to campaign. Since the ballot papers had already been printed, he was still listed as a CDU candidate. The Rügen CDU could no longer nominate a new candidate, so it called for candidates from other parties to be elected. In the election, Gens had a first vote share of 13.3%; the direct mandate fell to the SPD.

The CDU's local association in Hiddensee distanced itself from the revocation of membership of the party and continued to support Gens as mayor. An objection procedure initiated by Gens was pending until May 2013, so the decision was not final. On the day of the decision of the responsible CDU district party court, Gens himself declared his resignation from the CDU. The party court decided and nevertheless announced the exclusion, as there was no valid document with regard to the resignation. After leaving, Gens was initially an independent mayor of Hiddensee.

In November 2012, the Berlin Regional Court prohibited the NDR-Nordmagazin from reporting on an alleged declaration of commitment by Gens for the Stasi, which he is said to have signed as a minor, as well as on Stasi cooperation. However, after a ruling by the Rostock Regional Court in August 2013, the NDR was allowed to report that Gens had worked for the GDR State Security because the NDR had sufficiently fulfilled its research obligation and provided sufficient facts. According to Gens' electoral group, the Rostock Higher Regional Court changed the Rostock Regional Court's judgment in April 2014.

Gens, who is an honorary official as a honorary mayor and who in 2010 denied his involvement with the Stasi in a declaration of honor in connection with the mayoral election, denied cooperation with the Stasi. The public prosecutor determined whether he was telling the truth with his affidavit or whether he was liable to prosecution by making false statements. After viewing the file signed with "Thomas Gens", the West-Rügen office demanded that Gens' appointment as mayor be revoked. The local council of the island of Hiddensee decided that Gens would remain mayor of Hiddensee and stood behind their mayor, according to which the signature was not from him.

A little later, the CDU local association and the CDU parliamentary group in the local council disbanded in order to act as an independent voter community called "Mindful Democrats - The Hiddenseepartei".

In the 2014 local elections , Gens was confirmed as mayor with 76.5% of the valid votes. He was initially not allowed to vote by the West Rügen municipal electoral committee; However, the Vorpommern-Rügen district electoral committee decided unanimously that the mere discussion about his Stasi past was no reason not to admit him.

Also in 2019 gene was confirmed in office. He received 55% of the vote and his party received 51%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Handbook of the German political parties (=  handbook ). 3rd, expanded and updated edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-17994-6 , pp. 152 ( dnb.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Candidate with a right-wing extremist past. In: ndr.de . September 3, 2011, archived from the original on December 17, 2011 ; Retrieved November 27, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c Bernhard Honnigfort: CDU on Rügen without a candidate. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 7, 2011, accessed November 27, 2014 .
  4. ↑ ostsee-zeitung.de: Hiddensee: Island without mayor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (May 28, 2010)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  
  5. ↑ ndr.de: Hiddensee has a new mayor (September 22, 2010)
  6. ↑ ndr.de: Hiddensee's mayor takes office on Rügen ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (August 27, 2011)
  7. ↑ wahlen.mv.de: press release , state election 2011, by-election in constituency 33 - Rügen I of August 22, 2011
  8. ↑ a b ndr.de: Because of DVU membership: CDU excludes gens ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (September 6, 2011)
  9. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Established and excluded (September 16, 2011)
  10. ↑ ostsee-zeitung.de: CDU excludes Thomas Gens  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (May 8, 2013)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  
  11. ↑ ndr.de: Thomas Gens leaves the CDU ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (May 8, 2013)
  12. ↑ a b ndr.de: NDR wins legal dispute against Thomas Gens ( Memento from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), August 23, 2013
  13. ↑ Thomas Gens wins legal battle against NDR , press release of the “Mindful Democrats”, May 23, 2014
  14. ↑ ndr.de: CDU sees itself confirmed after gene expulsion (January 22, 2012)
  15. ↑ ndr.de: Gens remains mayor of Hiddensee (February 2, 2013)
  16. ↑ Reinhard Bingener and Matthias Wyssuwa: Against Riesen , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Online, September 21, 2013
  17. ^ Hiddensee: Wolfgang Siegel is subject to the incumbent. Ostseezeitung , accessed on June 4, 2014 .
  18. ↑ ndr.de: Gens is allowed to run in local elections ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), April 15, 2014.
  19. ↑ Runoff ballot, drawing of lots and missing candidates on Rügen. In: ostsee-zeitung.de. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gens, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (non-party, formerly CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen