Tim Peters

Tim Peters (* 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer and CDU politician . Since 2013 he has been chairman of the CDU association Brussels-Belgium .

Professional background

Peters studied from 1995 to 2001 law at the Technical University of Dresden , the University of Paris-Nanterre and the Humboldt University of Berlin . After taking his license en droit (France, 1998) and the first state examination in law (2001), he worked as a research assistant at the business law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and for the legal advisor of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group Ronald Pofalla in the German Bundestag . He then studied political science at the Technical University of Chemnitz. In 2005 he was sponsored by the Hanns Seidel Foundation at the doctoral program “Political Extremism and Parties” and with the extremism researcher Eckhard Jesse with his work Der Antifaschismus der PDS. Causes and effects of the Dr. phil. PhD.

After graduating from university, he initially worked temporarily as legal advisor for European environmental law in General Electric's European representation in Brussels and, after completing his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin, passed his second exam at the Federal Ministry of Finance and the European Commission in Brussels in 2007. After that he worked as a lobbyist at the EU headquarters until 2012 in the function of a "consultant for industrial policy and resource efficiency " for the interest group BDI / BDA German Business Representation Brussels . He is an official of the European Parliament.

Peters is married. He has been a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. since 1995 . Chursachsen Dresden.

Political activity

Peters was active in the student union , at fourteen he joined the Junge Union (JU) in Hamburg, in Berlin-Mitte he was on the board. Most recently he was chairman of the Berliner Junge Union.

During his studies he was in the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) and sat for this in the student parliament . In 1999 he and other students sued the Advisory Council of the HU-Berlin before the Administrative Court of Berlin for exercising their general political mandate . In 2000 he was elected on the politics platform dol2day for schoolchildren as "'General T" by the CIP, the Christian Democratic Internet Party ", for four-week" Internet Chancellor ", a" gimmick of a small group within the huge Internet community ", such as the magazine Der Spiegel evaluates the election results for "General T." meant.

Peters ran for the Bundestag in 2005 in Berlin as CDU candidate without success. He was the founder of the JU Abroad Association Brussels and has been Chairman of the CDU Association Brussels-Belgium since March 2013 .

As chairman of the Berliner Junge Union, he publicly advocated an extension of the working life through earlier entry into the profession and later retirement (“pension from 67”). He called for a “system change” from a pension financed equally by employees and companies to one that had to be financed privately and solely by the employees (“private provision”). In the comment of the CDU politician Norbert Blüm that the pension is safe, he saw “one of the biggest lies of the politicians of the last decade”. He criticized the former Foreigners Commissioner Barbara John (CDU), Rita Süssmuth (CDU) and the former Federal Foreigners Commissioner Marieluise Beck (Greens) for their support for wearing the headscarf in the public service , describing them as "useful idiots" of fundamentalist Islam. That is "misunderstood liberality". He called on John to resign from the CDU state executive. He also turned against the CDU honorary chairmanship of the former governing mayor of Berlin , Eberhard Diepgen , because he had cast a bad light on the party in the Berlin banking scandal .

Voices on Peters writings

During his time in Berlin as a functionary of the Junge Union, after a multi-page guest contribution in a circular of the PDS with a view to individual aspects, Peters occasionally experienced a critical and friendly reaction from their spectrum (2004). Peer Jürgens explained that Peters was dealing with "anti-fascism" should be seen with "respect". Peters is therefore freed from the "wall in the head". Unfortunately, however, he puts his analysis “on fragile foundations” and is too much guided by the “cold warrior” Eckhardt Jesse. Peters' understanding of democracy also includes all formally democratic parties of the extreme right. In doing so, he makes them "acceptable". A researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation at the time did not see Peters as an electoral fighter, but as the academic doctoral candidate who proceeded “with diligence and high scientific accuracy”, but at the same time criticized that he wanted “the anti-fascist-oriented article Art. 139 [of the Basic Law]. make meaningless ".

In 2006 Peters published a book, his dissertation. Four meetings can be proven for this:

• In 2006, the political scientist Jürgen P. Lang took the view in the Germany Archive that Peters' argumentation was conclusive and "easy to understand".
• The FAZ editor Reiner Burger declared in 2006 that Peters examined “the anti-fascism of the PDS” comprehensively for the first time. He came to the conclusion that there was no ideological renewal of anti-fascism and that their alliance policy was aimed at political isolation in the German party system Peters research has now shown that the PDS presents itself “as the defender of the democratic constitutional state”, but only “ultimately” wants to “create a 'cultural hegemony' for itself through activities against right-wing extremism”.
• In the journal for political science (also on the portal for political science ) the reviewer Christian Zettl spoke in 2006 of an "extremely detailed work", albeit without "originality on a methodological level". The question of the extremist traits of the PDS is only marginally reflected critically.
• In the 2007 yearbook Extremism & Democracy , André Brie from the spectrum of the then PDS stated that Peter's book, despite the apologetic dominance of sources from the field of extremism theory, which narrowed the view of common traits, characteristics and manifestations of left and right-wing extremism and so inevitably narrowed the ignore and relativize fundamental differences, and despite neglecting the empirical analysis of primary sources as well as some incorrect analyzes and conclusions, it is a “thorough work worth considering”. It could also and especially for critics of his method of extremism theory and his conclusions be an important basis for constructive debates on the past and present of anti-fascist politics.

In a contribution published by the Junge Union in 2009 on the subject of “political extremism”, the editor Philipp Missfelder saw the contributions of the historian Hubertus Knabe and Peters at a quality level: Both of them provided “in the best sense of the word enlightenment about the character of the SED continuation party 'Die Linke '". The result is “a frightening and threatening panorama of an unreasonable, destructive political force”, which is becoming more and more firmly established in the political system of the Federal Republic and is threatening to spread ever further.

Fonts

monograph

• The anti-fascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist point of view (= research politics ). With a foreword by Eckhard Jesse. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14775-7

Essays

• with Ulrich W. Schulte: Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law and the limited mandate of composed student bodies. Material-legal constitutional questions after the 6th HRG amendment as well as the enforcement of individual rights. In: Science Law . 36 (2003), 4, pp. 325-343
• The anti-fascism of the PDS. In: Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse (Ed.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2003, pp. 177–193
• How democratic is the anti-fascism of the PDS? Some critical remarks on the party's anti-fascist work from an anti-extremist perspective. In: PDS circular. 2 + 3/2004, pp. 43-50. (PDF)

Contributions to edited volumes

• Anti-fascism and socialism instead of democracy and a market economy. Extremist approaches in the social and economic policy of the Left Party.PDS. In: Eckhard Jesse, Hans-Peter Niedermeier (ed.): Political extremism and parties (= series of publications of the Society for Germany Research . Volume 92). Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-12596-8 , pp. 301-320
• The left. In: Philipp Missfelder (ed.): Challenge political extremism. Consolidate our democracy, strengthen engagement . Weiss, Monschau 2009, ISBN 978-3-923632-10-7 , pp. 52-60

Web links

• Literature by and about Tim Peters in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tim Peters: The anti-fascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist point of view , Wiesbaden 2006, p. 230.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} political scene. In: Politics & Communication 158 (2007), p. 1 (PDF)
3. ↑ Doctoral College “Political Extremism and Parties” , Chemnitz University of Technology, accessed on January 30, 2015.
4. ↑ Alexandra Thein, FDP, Liberal Foreign Policy Visits Brussels ("Tuesday was all about lobbying: Dr. Tim Peters from BDI / BDA German Business Representation Brussels explained the activities of the European institutions from his perspective."), June 24, 2011 , see: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
5. ↑ Bütis [= Reinhard Bütikofer ] Week: April 3, 2012 - "lobbyists List" for January to March 2012, [1] .
6. ↑ [2] .
7. ^ ^{A b} Sibylle Salewski: Unique: The Conservative . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 17376, April 10, 2001, p. 28.
8. ↑ apu: Middle: New board of the Junge Union. In: Berliner Morgenpost . Vol. 103, March 5, 2002, No. 63, p. 5.
9. ↑ Sabine Beikler: Unity is everything . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 18116, May 11, 2003, p. 9.
10. ↑ jmg: Political mandate: RefRat of the HU threatens lawsuit. In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 16801, September 2, 1999, p. 34.
11. ^ Anna Kochs: Political mandate: RefRat defends itself. "Don't waste money". In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 16843, October 14, 1999, p. 34.
12. ↑ On dol2day and the "Chancellor elections" there see: Christian Fuchs / Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Norderstedt 2003, p. 388; Arne Rogg, Democracy and Internet: The Influence of Computer-Mediated Communication on Power, Representation, Legitimation and the Public, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 51f.
13. ↑ Torsten Geiling: Almost like in the RL . Zeit Online , July 13, 2000, No. 29.
14. ↑ Thorsten Pifan: dol2day: General T. rules the Internet Der Spiegel, July 5, 2000
15. ↑ See Junge Union Neukölln, [3] .
16. ^ Burkard Steppacher: German Christian Democrats in the European Commission and their work in political networks . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Düsseldorf 2014, p. 111 (PDF) .
17. ^ CDU district association Brussels-Belgium: new chairman elected , March 22, 2013.
18. ↑ Stefan Schulz: "We need a system change to private provision for retirement" (interview). In: The world . Vol. 58, October 13, 2003, No. 238, p. 34.
19. ↑ Bernd Matthies, Große Klappe , in: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 18318, December 2, 2003, p. 7.
20. ↑ Lars von Törne, headscarf dispute: Barbara John falls out of favor with her party. Criticism from the CDU for tolerance initiative with Süssmuth parliamentary group wants debate - Young Union: "Useful Idiot" , in: Der Tagesspiegel , December 1, 2003.
21. ↑ Karsten Hintzmann: Young Union against CDU honorary chairmanship for Eberhard Diepgen. In: The world . Vol. 59, January 30, 2004, No. 25, p. 33.
22. ↑ Peer Jürgens : Answer to “How democratic is anti-fascism of the PDS?” By Tim Peters (circular 2 + 3/04). In: PDS circular. 4/2004, p. 50 (PDF) ( Memento of the original dated January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
23. ↑ Rolf Richter : Answer to "How democratic is anti-fascism of the PDS?" By Tim Peters (circular 2 + 3/04) . In: PDS circular 4/2004. P. 51–52 ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
24. ↑ Jürgen P. Lang : Tim Peters: The anti-fascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist point of view (review). In: Deutschland Archiv 39 (2006) 3, pp. 544–545.
25. ↑ Reiner Burger: Leftover. PDS and anti-fascism (review). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 5, 2006, No. 180, p. 7.
26. ↑ Christian Zettl: Peters, Tim: The anti-fascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist point of view (review). In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 16 (2006) 4, p. 1.464.
27. ^ André Brie: Peters, Tim: The anti-fascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist point of view (review). In: Uwe Backes, Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy , 19th year, 2007, p. 461f.
28. ↑ Philipp Missfelder (Ed.), Challenge Political Extremism. Strengthening our democracy, strengthening engagement , Berlin 2009, p. 12