Udo Hemmelgarn

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Udo Hemmelgarn (2020)

Udo Theodor Hemmelgarn (born May 4, 1959 in Harsewinkel ) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and businessman. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Udo Hemmelgarn is a trained industrial clerk. Since 1981 he has been working as a freelance businessman in the real estate and catering sectors. He has been a founding member of the AfD since March 2013 and moved into the Bundestag as a member of the AfD on September 24, 2017 . Hemmelgarn is married and has one daughter.

Political activity

From 2013 to 2018 Hemmelgarn was the spokesman for the AfD district association in Gütersloh. He has been a member of the Gütersloh district council since 2014, and has also been the spokesman for the AfD district association in Detmold since 2014.

In 2017 he was a founding member of the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung eV, of which he is still a member, and in the same year he succeeded in becoming a member of the German Bundestag for the AfD.

Hemmelgarn is a member of the committee for building, housing, urban development and municipalities , he is the building policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group as well as chairman and working group leader for this area. He is also a founding member of the Energy Security Association.

He is a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag and of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . As a member of the Bundestag, he met with other members of the AfD parliamentary group in March 2018 and November 2019 with representatives of the Assad regime in Syria , where he called for an end to EU sanctions. The meetings sparked harsh criticism across all parties.

Controversy

Hemmelgarn is by journalists Julia Rathcke and Thomas Reisener ( Rheinische Post ) of Reichsbürgergesetz associated scene; Hemmelgarn, on the other hand, denies the allegations with the words that he is “fully” behind the Basic Law. Hemmelgarn failed in court when attempting to take action against this Rheinische Post article . The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia responded to the report that it did not comment on personal data.

The social scientist Alexander Häusler stated in a report by Frontal21 in 2018 : "With Mr. Hemmelgarn, one can assume that there are significant interfaces to the worldview of the Reich citizens." The background to this is the “alternative knowledge congresses”, co-organized by Hemmelgarn, of the AfD-affiliated association for the promotion of political dialogue , which are regarded as network meetings for conspiracy theories and Reich citizenship ideology.

In May 2019 it became known that Hemmelgarn, together with other AfD MPs - contrary to current regulations - had used a diplomatic passport for a private trip to the Crimea , annexed by Russia .

Hemmelgarn came into a crossfire of public criticism after he cynically expressed himself on Twitter following the collision of two Eurofighters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (June 2019).

In November 2019, Hemmelgarn attracted attention by participating in a smear campaign against the mayor of Hanover , Belit Onay , when he incorrectly suggested in a tweet that there had been street parties with moon star after his election .

Web links

Commons : Udo Hemmelgarn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Udo Theodor Hemmelgarn on bundestag.de
  2. ^ German Bundestag - Committee for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Municipalities. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Daniel Hechler: AfD politician in Damascus: "Finally sensible relationships". In: tagesschau.de . November 22, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Outrage over the AfD's trip to Syria. In: tagesschau.de . March 7, 2018, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Fabian von der Mark: Sharp criticism of AfD trip to Syria. In: Deutsche Welle . November 18, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Julia Rathcke & Thomas Reisener: Bundestag election 2017: Reich citizen Udo Hemmelgarn (AfD) wants to join the Bundestag . In: Rheinische Post . 29th March 2017
  7. ↑ Düsseldorf: AfD member fails in court against RP . In: Rheinische Post. October 14, 2017
  8. ↑ He could move into parliament: "Reichsbürger" is a candidate for the AfD in NRW . In: Focus . 29th March 2017
  9. ↑ Reich Citizens undercover - "The FRG does not exist!" In: ZDF.de. November 27, 2018, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Police presence in Fröndenberg for "Alternative Knowledge Congress 2018". In: Rundblick-Unna.de. November 11, 2018, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ AfD MPs apparently entered Crimea with diplomatic passports. In: DiePresse.de. May 23, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ RP online.de: After two fighter jets crash: AfD politician is criticized with malicious Eurofighter tweet ; accessed on June 25, 2019
  13. ↑ Udo Hemmelgarn: " Great thing, and how quickly the" German flag "has mutated into a" Red "with a moon star! #Hannover # Turkey #AfD ". In: Twitter . November 10, 2019.
    Konstantin Kumpfmüller, ARD fact finder: Fakes about Belit Onay . In: Fact Finder . November 11, 2019.
    Simone Schnase: Hate from all sides . In: taz . November 16, 2019, p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Hemmelgarn, Udo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hemmelgarn, Udo Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Harsewinkel