Uwe Junge

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Uwe Junge (2016)

Uwe Junge (born September 16, 1957 in Hildesheim ) is a German staff officer ( former lieutenant colonel ) and politician ( AfD , previously CDU ). From 2015 to 2019 he was state chairman of the AfD Rhineland-Palatinate . Since 2016 he has been a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament and chairman of his parliamentary group .

Life

Origin and family

Uwe Junge was born in 1957 into a displaced family; his father, a trained painter and restorer, was a soldier himself. After primary school in Lingen, he first attended the Neustadt am Rübenberge grammar school and in 1975 obtained his secondary school leaving certificate in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . From 1975 to 1978 he completed a professional training as a typesetter .

The boy is married and has two children. He lives in the Mayen-Koblenz district .

Military background

Training, posts, assignments and promotions

In 1978 he joined the armed forces as a sergeant candidate ; in the course of time he made two career changes and later became a career officer . In 1983/84 he trained as an industrial foreman printing ( typesetting ) in Biberach and as a state-certified printing technician in Düsseldorf. In 1988 he attended the Army Technical School for Education and Business in Darmstadt. Young was initially used as a platoon leader and company commander ; In 1996 he was in Croatia as part of the IFOR assignment .

In 2001 he attended the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. From 2002 to 2007 he served in the Battalion for Operative Information 950 in Mayen and Koblenz. In 2003 he was part of the ISAF mission in the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Kunduz . From 2007 to 2014 he worked at the Bundeswehr Operational Information Center (ZOpInfoBw) in Mayen. In 2011 another assignment abroad followed in Kunduz. From 2014 to 2016 he was head of department in the newly established Center for Operational Communication of the Bundeswehr (ZOpKomBw) in Mayen. In October 2016, Junge retired from active service as a lieutenant colonel in the army .

He is a member of the German Federal Armed Forces Association .

Controversy about possible discrimination against a subordinate

In the 2016 annual report of the Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag , an anonymised case study is described, according to which a supervisor allegedly made discriminatory statements against a homosexual female soldier . Among other things, he is said to have said: "Marriage and family are particularly protected in Article 6 of the Basic Law: mother + father + children. The nation needs German children." Judicial disciplinary proceedings are due to the suspension of the rights and obligations arising from military service as a result of an election to the state parliament ( Section 25 (2) SG in conjunction with Section 5 (1) and Section 8 (1 ) AbgG ) and anyway pending discharge from the Bundeswehr has not been attempted. However, a violation of the principles of internal guidance and the duty of care ( Section 10 (3 ) SG ) was established. According to information from the Allgemeine Zeitung from Mainz, the supervisor is said to have been a boy. The Bundeswehr and Junge did not initially comment on this. Junge later confirmed the incident to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and presented the discriminatory statement as "taken out of context" and as a compliment that would now be used slanderously against him.

Accusation of violation of the moderation requirement

In 2017, Junge's statements about Angela Merkel and the Cologne police and interior authorities due to the incidents on New Year's Eve 2015/16 led to the allegation of violating the moderation requirement . From the investigators' point of view, both statements violate the moderation requirement that applies to active soldiers in political activities.

Political activity

Party memberships and functions

Junge was initially a member of the Union's youth organization , the Junge Union . From 1975 to 2009 he was a party member of the CDU , then under René Stadtkewitz from the end of 2010 to September 2011 a member of the right-wing populist party Die Freiheit . Junge said he left the party Die Freiheit before the AfD was founded.

In March 2013 he joined the AfD. He describes the party as a " bourgeois people 's party ". From 2013 to 2015, Junge was deputy district chairman of the AfD Mayen-Koblenz and a member of the federal committee for foreign and security policy. In May 2015 he became deputy state chairman and, after the split in July 2015, as the successor to Uwe Zimmermann, he became state chairman of the AfD Rhineland-Palatinate .

He was the coordinator of the 2016 state election program and was elected the top candidate for the 2016 state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate on November 10, 2015 .

On November 30, 2019, Junge failed at the 10th federal party conference of the AfD with his candidacy for election to the federal board of the AfD, he was defeated by a supporter of Björn Höcke , whom he had criticized shortly before.

MP

Local politics in Mayen-Koblenz

In the local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2014, Junge was elected to the Mayen-Koblenz district council for the AfD with 11,454 votes . There he was parliamentary group chairman from 2014 to 2016 . In 2014 he became a deputy member of the school board committee and in 2016 of the district committee.

Rhineland-Palatinate state policy

In the state elections in March 2016 , he moved into the 17th state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate via the state list of his party, which got 11.7 percent of the second votes on site. As a direct candidate in the constituency of Andernach (constituency 11), he received 11.5 percent of the first votes and thus landed in third place behind the applicants from the SPD (37.6 percent) and CDU (36.3 percent). On March 17, 2016, the 14-member AfD parliamentary group in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament elected Junge as its chairman.

He is a full member of the Council of Elders, the Budget and Finance Committee, the Audit Commission and the Interim Committee as well as Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Home Affairs, Sport and State Planning (see committees of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament ).

Junge was a member of the 16th Federal Assembly , which met in February 2017 to elect the German Federal President .

In April 2020, Junge announced that he would no longer stand for the state election in 2021 and would withdraw from politics.

See also

Web links

Commons : Uwe Junge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Speit : Bourgeois agitators. Germany's new center-right - from AfD to Pegida . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05632-5 , p. 102.
  2. ^ German Bundestag, 18th WP, printed matter 18/10900, briefing by the Commissioner for the Armed Forces. Annual report 2016 (58th report) of January 24, 2017, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Markus Lachmann: Lesbian soldier discriminated . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , January 26, 2017, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Uwe Junge is said to have discriminated against a soldier ( memento from January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). on the Rhineland-Palatinate cause! , Südwestrundfunk, January 26, 2017 (ardmediathek.de).
  5. ↑ Timo Frasch, Wiesbaden: Dispute over discrimination: AfD politician Junge raises allegations against the Bundeswehr . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 18, 2019]).
  6. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate: AfD parliamentary group leader should lose immunity - SPIEGEL ONLINE - politics. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Frederik Merx: Boy gambled away. In: SWR . November 30, 2019, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ dab / sev: Höcke critic Junge no longer wants. In: Spiegel Online . April 6, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Boy, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim