Waldemar Herdt

Waldemar Herdt (born November 28, 1962 in Sabelowka , Kazakh SSR ) is a German building contractor and politician ( AfD ). He is a member of his party in the 19th Bundestag .

Career

Waldemar Herdt grew up as a member of the Russian-German minority in what was then the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, where he ran an LPG as an agricultural engineer . In 1993 he emigrated to Germany with his family. For three years he was a feed master in a pig farm in Neuenkirchen-Vörden . Herdt is now active in the construction industry.

Herdt joined the party who were faithful to the Bible and was involved in their national executive committee and switched to the Alternative for Germany (AfD). He was at the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 the council voted Neuenkirchen-Vördens and ran as candidate for the parliamentary constituency 38 ( Osnabrück-Land ) in 2017 for a seat in the Bundestag. He moved into the Bundestag via the state list of the AfD Lower Saxony . According to the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , Herdt is very religious and is involved in an evangelical congregation.

Herdt is a member of the “Coordination Center of Russian Germans in the AfD” and authorized spokesman for the “International Convention of Russian Germans”. He is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee within the Bundestag , member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture , deputy member of the budget committee , deputy state group spokesman of the AfD state group Lower Saxony, founding member of the group "Expellees, resettlers and German minorities" within the AfD parliamentary group , Deputy Spokesman of the AK Religionspolitik in the AfD parliamentary group, member of the German delegation in the IPU (Interparliamentary Union), member of the German delegation in the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference and he is an assessor on the AfD district board of Cloppenburg-Vechta. Within the association "Christians in the AfD eV" he is one of the two speakers for the North Region (includes the federal states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen)

In March 2018 u. a. Kai Biermann and Astrid Geisler on research according to which 18 members of the Bundestag of the AfD employ right-wing extremists for their mandate tasks and parliamentary work. After research by the magazine Focus , Herdt hired the " Putin-loyal activist" Heinrich Groth, who was "in the sights of the counter-espionage of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ". For example, Groth had drawn attention to himself in January 2016 when he registered a demonstration of several hundred Russian Germans and right-wing extremists in front of the Chancellery in Berlin on the Lisa case because of a fictitious rape of a girl by refugees .

In the 2019 European elections , Herdt stood for the Christian-conservative, Eurosceptic Centra Partija in Latvia .

Positions

In November 2017, Herdt, together with Roman Reusch and Norbert Kleinwächter, submitted an application to the Bundestag to promote the return of Syrian refugees . In the motion, the MPs claimed: "The security situation in large parts of Syria has improved substantially in the past few months." In doing so, they cited the International Organization for Migration (IOM), according to which "in the first seven months of 2017 alone over a total of 600,000 Syrians ”had returned to their homeland and demanded that the federal government should conclude an agreement with the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad so that refugees could from now on again“ safely and free of charge ”to move to the civil war country . The IOM had published a report under such a heading, but instead of a better security situation it described the opposite: According to the IOM, 93% of these 600,000 people had not even left Syria; they had fled within the country. In the same period, more than 800,000 Syrians were also displaced. 10% of the returnees had to flee a second time. The completed report, a return is "not necessarily voluntary, safe or sustainable" ( English : "not Necessarily voluntary, safe or sustainable"). According to the latest IOM figures, almost 1.5 million people had to flee within Syria between January and October. The members of the other parliamentary groups reacted by shaking their heads, accusing the AfD of “cynicism” and “sleight of hand”. The Süddeutsche received the presentation of the proposal under the title “ Alternative facts for Germany”, the BR perceived a changed culture of debate, and the MDR reported a new culture of debate, which would include “loud and shrill tones and provocations”.

Private

Herdt is married and has four children. He is of the Protestant denomination.

Web links

• Waldemar Herdt on bundestag.de
• Waldemar Herdt on parliament watch.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Normann Berg: Nine applicants for the district council . In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung . July 21, 2016.
2. ↑ Marcus Alwes: Property taxes A and B will increase in Vörden from January 2018 . In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . October 28, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Marcus Alwes: Waldemar Herdt: "With 76 D-Mark in cash" started. In: Osnabrück newspaper . August 19, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Tilman Steffen: AfD parliamentary group - right to extreme in the Bundestag. In: zeit.de . September 26, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017 . 
5. ^ Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Johannes Radke, Tilman Steffen: AfD MPs deal with right-wing extremists and constitutional enemies . In: The time . March 21, 2018.
6. ^ Christian Neef : Putin's propagandist in Germany . In: Spiegel Online . February 6, 2016.
7. ↑ Henriette Jedicke: Pulling the cord with a connection to the extreme right: These are the radical AfD backers . In: Focus . March 22, 2018.
8. ↑ Alexej Hock: Radical whisperers . In: The world . March 21, 2018.
9. ↑ https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/europawahl/europawahl-2019-afd-mann-will-bei-eu-wahl-fuer-lettische-partei-antreten-aber-es-gibt-ein-problem_id_10479715 .html
10. ^ Six Point Plan - Agreement to Promote the Return of Syrian Refugees . In: German Bundestag (printed matter 19/48). November 13, 2017.
11. ↑ Over 600,000 Displaced Syrians Returned Home in First 7 Months of 2017 . In: IOM . 11th August 2017.
12. ↑ Birgit Schmeitzner: AfD changes the culture of debate . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . 22nd November 2017.
13. ^ Jörg Köpke, RND : Union plans repatriations for Syrian refugees . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . November 28, 2017.
14. ↑ Michael Bauchmüller, Kristiana Ludwig: Alternative facts for Germany . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 26, 2017.
15. ↑ Cecilia Reible: Staged demarcation right outside . ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 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. In: MDR . November 24, 2017. 
16. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .