Thomas Juergewitz

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Thomas Jürgewitz (born July 21, 1959 in Bremerhaven ) is a German politician of the AfD . Until its dissolution, he was chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Bremen's citizenship .

biography

education and profession

After training as a shipbuilder in Bremerhaven, Jürgewitz studied administration . He has been a federal civil servant since 1980 .

politics

Jürgewitz joined the Junge Union . In 1984 he left the CDU . In 2003 he was in the Schill party for a few months . From 2010 he was politically active in the Cuxhaven district board of the Free Voters . He ran for a district council mandate for the FDP and the Free Voters . In 2013 he joined the newly founded AfD Bremen and was elected deputy spokesman for the Bremen state board.

He was the top candidate of the AfD for the 2015 general election in Bremerhaven. After a decision by the election review court on December 21, 2015, according to which the AfD in Bremerhaven was affected by counting mishaps, he should have moved into the Bremen citizenship instead of the SPD politician Petra Jäschke ; this decision was overturned by the Bremen State Court , as the inconsistencies in the counting were not relevant to the mandate.

In the general election in Bremen 2019 , he moved into the state parliament on list number 1 in Bremerhaven. In June 2019, the AfD parliamentary group elected Jürgewitz as its chairman. In August 2019, he gave a speech during a citizenship meeting, which he had largely taken over from a right-wing blog - without marking the quotes. With this he violated the rules of procedure of the citizenship.

Until the end of September 2019, Jürgewitz was deputy chairman of the Bremen state association of the AfD , which the constitution protection declared in January 2019 to be a "test case". According to a report by the Weser-Kurier, one reason for this should be positive statements by Thomas Jürgewitz about the Identitarian Movement (IB). Among other things, Jürgewitz said: “The IB uses intelligent, funny, non-violent actions to draw attention to grievances in Germany, which, however, displease the do - gooders. Because the IB wants to preserve the German identity. "

In May 2020, Jürgewitz described communism as the top of all crimes of mankind in a citizenship speech . Green MP Henrike Müller then announced that he would have it checked whether the statement was a criminal relativization of the Holocaust .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita on the AfD Bremen website. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Rainer Donsbach: An unequal couple. In: Nordsee Zeitung . January 28, 2015, accessed December 21, 2015 .
  3. ^ Vita ( memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the AfD Bremen website , accessed on December 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ spiegel.de: AfD does not get an additional citizen mandate , accessed on September 13, 2016
  5. ↑ Bremen CDU, Left and AfD elect new parliamentary group leaders
  6. ↑ Jochen Grabler: Citizenship speech by AfD member Jürgewitz was copied. In: buten un inside. September 9, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Weser Kurier.de: Dangerous Flirt: The Bremen AFD and the Höckeflügel ; accessed on January 26, 2019
  8. ↑ Weser-Kurier.de: The vocabulary of Bremer AFD politician ; accessed on January 26, 2019
  9. ↑ Communism statement by Jürgewitz has consequences. In: buten un inside. May 14, 2020, accessed August 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Juergewitz, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-German historian and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven