Verena Hartmann

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Verena Hartmann (born March 29, 1974 in Räckelwitz ) is a German politician ( non-party , previously AfD ) and communications manager . In the 2017 federal election , she entered the German Bundestag via the AfD's state list in Saxony . On January 27, 2020, she announced her resignation from the party and the parliamentary group , referring to the influence of the radical party movement “ Der Flügel ”.

Life and work

After graduating from the Gotthold-Ephraim-Lessing-Gymnasium in Kamenz in 1994 , Verena Hartmann completed her studies at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Berlin , which she graduated in 1998 with a degree in administrative management and with the appointment of police commissioner . She worked for a year in the patrol duty of the Berlin police , became a chief commissioner and security officer and was a clerk in the controlling department of the police until 2003 . She then became a crime-fighting clerk in the area of domestic violence . In 2005 she began studying social and business communication at the Berlin University of the Arts , which she completed in 2011 with a degree in communications . Since 2013 she was responsible for internal and external communication in a management consultancy .

Hartmann lives in Berlin-Pankow , where she moved from Königstein in Saxony in 2018 , is Protestant , married and has two children.

Political party

Verena Hartmann joined the AfD in 2016 and has been a member of the board of the AfD district association Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains since March 2016 . In October 2018 she became a member of the district board in Berlin-Pankow.

In the 2017 federal election campaign, Hartmann spoke out against “a culture of welcome for people from the Arab region”, for more freedom of expression and against the “ Nazi club” against the AfD. She called for a "welcoming culture for children" and announced that "we will chase the old parties ahead of us."

Hartmann was seen as a supporter of the AfD federal spokeswoman Frauke Petry, who left the party after the 2017 federal election . The fact that Petry and her husband Marcus Pretzell were invited to a thank-you ceremony hosted by Hartmann in October 2017, despite their resignation from the party, triggered a scandal in Hartmann's former district association. An AfD district council member asked them to resign their parliamentary mandate and to leave the AfD.

On January 27, 2020 Hartmann announced her immediate exit from the AfD and the AfD parliamentary group . She justified it with the influence of the party flow Der Flügel . You now pull through the entire AfD from the party leadership to the district associations. She wrote of the wing's “right-wing extremist behavior both internally and externally”. Even before she left, Hartmann had signed a resolution by AfD functionaries in the summer of 2019 that criticized the style of the wing .

MPs

Verena Hartmann moved into the German Bundestag via the AfD's state list of Saxony in the 2017 federal election, where she is a member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture . She did not run for a direct mandate . In the 19th German Bundestag, Hartmann is an advisory member of the Tourism Committee .

In response to a question about an erotic video game at parliamentwatch.de , Hartmann expressed criticism of the protection of minors in Germany , “which is no longer”, and that video games are generally not beneficial for children. She announced that she would "fight against these abuses" in the Committee on Family. The Union faction rejected their advance; the protection of minors is sufficient. Other groups did not comment on the question.

In March 2018, Hartmann and three other AfD MPs wanted to know, through a small question from the federal government, whether the number of severely disabled children in Germany had increased since 2012 because they believed that people without a German passport were "inbreeding" and therefore more often disabled Children. The request was criticized by the German Ethics Council , among other things , because it was formulated in a way that was hostile to disabled people, was “deliberately bordering on right-wing extremist vocabulary”, and established a “recognizable abstruse connection to the migration issue”. After the criticism, Hartmann denied - contrary to the content of the document - that he was a signatory of the request.

After Hartmann was verbally violently attacked by her parliamentary group colleague Jens Maier in January 2018, the AfD parliamentary group announced that it would conduct a mediation process between Hartmann and Maier . As a result of this incident, the AfD parliamentary group planned to develop internal rules of conduct and a catalog of penalties for violations of these rules.

After an Eritrean living in Switzerland had pushed a child in front of a train in July 2019 in Frankfurt am Main , Hartmann wrote on Twitter that she “curse the day” of Angela Merkel's birth. Heute.de listed the tweet in a report on hate speech , and for the Westdeutsche Zeitung , Hartmann "shot" the bird when the AfD instrumentalized the crime. Hartmann deleted the tweet to which Oliver Pocher also replied. In another tweet she wrote: "It was unfair of me to take all those born on that day into kin - mea culpa ." Christian Wolff wrote in a comment for the l-iz that Hartmann was "her own, on Merkel." targeted statement ", and judged:" It is hardly possible to be more lying, less conscientious. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AfD district board Berlin-Pankow: district meeting and keynote speech by AfD Berlin-Pankow, homepage of the district association, message from September 18, 2018 (under “News”) (accessed on November 19, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b Welcome to the Hartmanns. In: Saxon newspaper. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ AfD district board of Berlin-Pankow: 7th district party conference successfully elects new board, homepage of the district association, message from October 14, 2018 (under "News") (accessed on November 19, 2018).
  4. ↑ Kai Biermann, Astrid Geisler, Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski: AfD MPs: Right to extreme in the Bundestag . In: The time . October 24, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 13, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b AfD MP Hartmann leaves the Bundestag faction. Agency report. Der Spiegel , January 27, 2020, accessed on January 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Bundestag: AfD parliamentary group loses more members. Junge Freiheit, January 27, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Verena Hartmann justifies leaving the AfD with the power of the right wing. Zeit.de, January 28, 2020.
  8. ↑ The AfD parliamentary group is shrinking. Süddeutsche.de. January 28, 2020.
  9. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ parliamentwatch.de | Question to Verena Hartmann regarding children and youth - Bundestag . In: parliamentwatch.de . October 28, 2017 ( ab altenwatch.de [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  11. ↑ What a game with wobbling anime breasts reveals about the AfD's youth protection plans, vice.com, November 9, 2017
  12. ↑ Haris Odobasic: CDU comments on the AfD Ecchi initiative. Anime2You, November 7, 2017, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  13. ↑ "Crass media coverage": AFD to severely disabled, inbreeding and immigrants. In: euronews. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  14. ^ AfD Frankfurt defends controversial request. Frankfurter Rundschau, April 12, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2018 .
  15. ^ Social associations horrified by AfD. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 22, 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Markus Schmidt: AfD outraged with a question about disabilities. Yahoo Nachrichten Deutschland, April 13, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Markus Wehner : Mediation in the AfD parliamentary group, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 31, 2018, p. 4.
  18. ↑ Jens Schneider: Parliamentary behavior course for AfD members. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Verena Hartmann: Ms. Merkel, what else do you want to do to us? You will never know what it means to be a mother, neither for a child nor for this country! But I curse the day you were born! ( Memento from July 31, 2019 in the web archive archive.today )
  20. ↑ Nicole Diekmann: Hate Speech: Justice still has something to do . In: heute.de . July 31, 2019.
  21. ↑ Werner Kolhoff: How the AfD instrumentalized the Frankfurt case . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . July 31, 2019.
  22. ↑ To Frankfurt: AfD MPs cursed Merkel's birth - Pocher sees red . In: Münchner Merkur . July 31, 2019.
  23. ↑ Christian Wolff: AfD shows its true colors once again. www.l-iz.de, July 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD) and member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Räckelwitz