Willy Wimmer

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Willy Wimmer (1990)

Willy Wimmer (born May 18, 1943 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). From 1976 to 2009 he was a member of the Bundestag . Between 1985 and 1992 he was defense policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU and then Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense . From 1994 to 2000 he was Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) .

Life

Education and profession

Wimmer studied after graduating from high school Odenkirchen at the University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Law . After the first state examination in law and his legal clerkship , he passed the second state examination and has been working as a lawyer in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt since 1977 .

Political career

Entry into the CDU, party offices

Wimmer joined the CDU in 1959 and was initially involved in the Junge Union (JU) as a member of the Rhineland JU state board and chairman of the Lower Rhine JU district association . From 1986 to 2000 Wimmer was chairman of the CDU district association Niederrhein, since then he has been honorary chairman.

In the merger of the block party Eastern CDU with the Western CDU, Wimmer played a decisive role as a pacemaker of development. De Maizière's meeting with Wimmer on January 27, 1990 in Neuss “hit the Adenauer house like a bomb”. Wimmer intended to put additional pressure on Kohl. De Maizière emphasized to Wimmer that the support of the federal CDU was decisive for the election campaign of the Eastern CDU. Wimmer was supposed to mediate a conversation between the two chairmen that the West CDU had avoided until then. De Maizière had already invited to a press conference after the conversation, at which he wanted to make the failure of the negotiations between the two parties public. “Wimmer had to act and called Kohl. A little later this became the electoral alliance 'Alliance for Germany', which won the Volkskammer election in the GDR on March 18 and paved the way for German unity. This first became the cooperation, then the merging of the two CDUs. "

During the CDU donation affair in 2000, Willy Wimmer accused the party leadership of “lacking family feeling”. He suspected that Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble were trying to disconnect from Kohl over the affair. In his opinion, however, the ties between the party and Kohl were stronger: "This is not about Oedipus or Oedipussi, this is about the future of the CDU".

Local politics

Wimmer was a member of the Mönchengladbach city ​​council from 1969 to 1980 and of the landscape assembly of the Rhineland Regional Council from 1975 to 1976 .

Member of the Bundestag

In 1976, Wimmer moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Rheydt - Grevenbroich II constituency . In the federal elections from 1980 to 1998 , he always won the direct mandate in the Neuss II constituency . In the elections of 2002 and 2005 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Krefeld I - Neuss II . In 2005 he achieved 47.4% of the first votes .

Since the 1990s, especially since the Yugoslav Wars , Wimmer has criticized the party and parliamentary group lines more and more clearly on foreign and security policy issues. He complained that the group had imposed sanctions on him: he was no longer allowed to speak, had business trips canceled and had been isolated by the group leadership. In this context, he criticized a restrictive approach to the rights of MPs and saw this as a threat to parliamentary democracy. "If you exclude people from parliamentary deliberations by not being allowed to speak in front of parliament and they are thrown from the committee if they open their mouths there, that contributes to our parliamentary system degenerating."

For the 2009 election , he surprisingly did not occur at more. According to the company, this decision had no political reasons.

Political offices

Wimmer was defense policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group from April 1985 to December 1988 and was able to establish international contacts, which he later established as Parliamentary State Secretary (1988–1992) under Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg and as Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1994–2000 ) could build.

As defense minister in 1986, Wimmer took part in the NATO exercise WINTEX in the Marienthal government bunker . In the course of this NATO exercise, NATO headquarters in Brussels requested approval for the use of nuclear weapons against Dresden and Potsdam. Wimmer refused to take part in the planning of a nuclear weapon deployment on German soil. Chancellor Helmut Kohl then decided that the representatives of the federal government should immediately withdraw from the further exercise. The exercise was then continued without German participation.

From December 19, 1988 to April 1, 1992, Wimmer was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Defense with a special focus on: Integration of the armed forces in Germany and cooperation with the Western Group of Troops (formerly the Soviet Union, now the Commonwealth of Independent States ) in the Kohl III cabinet and cabinet Kohl IV . On April 1, 1992, he left office together with the then Federal Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg .

In his monograph and in the documentation of the statements made by a contemporary witness forum by the military historian Hans Ehlert , it is shown from Wimmer's point of view that he was able to push through most of the points of the defense ministry's negotiation program. However, he failed with his concept of taking individual NVA officers into the Bundeswehr. Originally, GDR officers told Wimmer that the NVA had been taken over by the Bundeswehr. Bertram Wieczorek , Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry for Disarmament and Defense of the GDR, praised Wimmer's comprehensive report of the events, which was free of legends. According to his statement, Wimmer's intention to take over generals and admirals from the NVA into the Bundeswehr failed because of the objection of Hans-Dietrich Genscher . Some generals and admirals of the NVA had been employed as advisors at the Federal Ministry of Defense for several years, but were then removed at the request of NATO. When the NVA soldiers were dressed in western uniforms, Wimmer claims to have acted against the tricks of the military bureaucracy that hindered this process.

Wimmer was Deputy Head of the Delegation of the German Bundestag to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and was Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE from July 1994 to June 2000.

Presence in the media

Sören Herbst noted on Twitter in March 2018 that Wimmer actually only appears in the media around conspiracy theorists such as KenFM or the Russian propaganda stations RT and Sputnik ; The reason, however, was Wimmer's appearance on MDR .

In addition to the authorship of the populist right-wing cross Front magazine Compact took Wimmer at the 2014 Conference and interviews of Kopp publishing part. In addition, he was interview partner of the presenter Ken Jebsen several times on his show KenFM and on the Iranian radio IRIB . He was also one of the invited speakers for the Pleisweiler Talks, which are organized by the reflection pages . He also appeared several times in news talk and the talk show Pro & Contra on the Austrian private broadcaster Puls 4 . Wimmer is an editorial member of the online platform Cashkurs of the stockbroker Dirk Müller . In addition to alternative internet media and blogs such as Telepolis , Nachdenkseiten , ExtremNews and freieweltnet , Wimmer's political views have been presented in the regional rather than national press since around 2005, in the Donaukurier , the Allgemeine Zeitung , the Schwäbische Zeitung , the Taunus-Zeitung , the Neue Westfälische der Rheinische Post . and at Sputnik

Functions in business

Wimmer was a member of the Advisory Board of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, Düsseldorf, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Morgan Stanley , London.

Private

Wimmer is married and has one son. He's a Roman Catholic.

Political positions

Refugee issue

The end of the Cold War led to the question of Germany's new international responsibility and the security alliance. Instead of the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union, Wimmer feared that hundreds of thousands or even millions could make their way from the hunger belts of Asia and Africa to rich Western Europe. The Bundeswehr criticized Wimmer's ideas: “It can't be our job to fend off black hordes at the Brenner Pass.” And as a “leading power” for missions around the globe, the future German army is certainly no good.

Kosovo War

In 1999 he spoke out against Germany's military participation in the Kosovo war . Wimmer spoke of an "ordinary war of aggression" and accused Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping in particular of serious manipulation.

Schröder's government was not able to act due to the pressure exerted by the USA and the obligations entered into by the previous government. The NATO would never have made the decision for war if Helmut Kohl would have been Chancellor. In addition, Wimmer accused the NATO leadership of forcing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to enter into international negotiations through the negotiations in Rambouillet , in breach of the Vienna Agreement , in order to enforce the "NATO dictate" of marching through Yugoslavia. According to Wimmer, the Rambouillet negotiations and the Račak massacres were only the pretext for the war that followed a few weeks later with the bombing of Belgrade. Willy Wimmer saw the question of human rights violations as a pretext legitimation for the undermining of international law by the western alliance.

In 2003, Wimmer drew parallels to the Iraq war in an open letter to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group that he wrote together with Peter Gauweiler : “Both the US intervention in Iraq and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and its capital, Belgrade, took place without a mandate from the United Nations Nations . This is true of the German doctrine of international law and has been emphatically assessed as contrary to international law. ”In the Iraq war, the world public was served with the untruth. A comparable review of the statements of German officials during the Bundeswehr mission against Yugoslavia has not yet taken place in the Bundestag.

Iraq war

Shortly before the start of the Iraq war , Wimmer traveled to Baghdad from March 8th to 11th, 2003 with Peter Gauweiler . The invitation came from the Nuncio of Baghdad through Cardinal Ratzinger with the knowledge and consent of Pope John Paul II. Officially, they did not travel in a political capacity, but as Christians and visited Christian communities. In Baghdad, Wimmer criticized the USA's possible solo effort: "If the rules of the United Nations are no longer adhered to, then this is the dawn of an age of law of the thumb, the dawn of a new barbarism." Wimmer had previously accused the Union of leaders of them partly argue, "as if you were already on a field hill outside Baghdad". Wimmer was one of five deviants from the CDU's line of US support. As a result of the US intervention, Wimmer foresaw a confrontation “in which two cultures in our world, which depend on one another for cooperation, would become unconditionally hostile for generations. The effects can lead to the edge of a global conflict. "

Together with Peter Gauweiler , Wimmer wrote an open letter to Angela Merkel on July 18, 2016, in which she was asked to comment. According to the letter, the reason was their silence on the Chilcot report , which weighed heavily on Tony Blair's former government . Like him, Angela Merkel, against the Schröder government, had supported Germany's participation in the Iraq war in the coalition of the willing . “We Germans in particular now have an obligation to fully meet our new responsibilities. This also expressly includes participation in military operations to defend freedom and human rights, to establish stability and security. ”On February 13, 2003, she said that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's non-participation was a“ wrong way ”. The letter calls on Angela Merkel to change her assessment.

Afghan war

Immediately after the decision of the Bundestag on March 9, 2007 to support the NATO troops in Afghanistan through the use of Tornado aircraft, he and MP Peter Gauweiler (CSU) filed a complaint against this with the Federal Constitutional Court . At the same time, an application was made for a temporary injunction . The MPs asserted that the Tornado operation would lead to a tacit amendment to the NATO Treaty , which was incompatible with the general prohibition of violence in the UN Charter and customary international law and violated Articles 24, 25 and 26 of the Basic Law, which made Germany illegal Support US actions . An amendment to the NATO treaty would require explicit parliamentary approval. Since this did not happen, the rights of the MPs were violated. Representative in the organ dispute proceedings was Dietrich Murswiek .

The application for a temporary injunction was rejected by the 2nd Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court on March 12th because the main applications were inadmissible. Insofar as the applicants assert that the Federal Government has violated the rights of the Bundestag, they as individual members of parliament are not authorized to assert the rights of the Bundestag. Insofar as they assert the violation of their own rights, there is no conclusive explanation.

NSA affair

During the cell phone affair surrounding Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013, the Frankfurter Rundschau referred to Willy Wimmer's critical attitude towards foreign policy and surveillance by the USA in the article Now the days of ridicule are over . It was rumored in government circles that the former state secretary in the Ministry of Defense always warned during confidential conversations, "Be careful, the CIA is listening." His following remark that cell phones are actually only safe from surveillance in a refrigerator were not taken seriously at the time, but rather ridiculed. Now remember it again.

Ukraine crisis 2014

Wimmer criticizes the US foreign policy stance towards Russia in the 2014 Ukraine crisis . In his opinion, the policy of the Ukrainian government could not solve the crisis. Wimmer criticizes the US stance in Ukraine as preparation for a war in which the Ukraine will complete a bolt between the EU and Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Wimmer also expressed criticism of the Western European "leading media". Among other things, he referred to what he believed to be a "NATO network" in the German media.

In his analyzes of Eastern Europe, Wimmer refers to his experiences from the Bratislava Conference ("Is Euro-Atlantic Integration Still on Track? Opportunities and Obstacles", April 28-30, 2000), which was reported by the head of the US State Department and the think tank American Enterprise Institute on the focus topics Balkans and NATO east expansion: At this conference high-ranking politicians presented their plans to enforce their geostrategic interests.

Publications

  • Let us serve you for the good ... The way of the NVA into the Bundeswehr. Neusser Zeitungsverlag / Druck + Verlag Josef Wegener, Dormagen 2000, ISBN 3-9803165-6-4 .
  • with Wolfgang Effenberger : Return of the gamblers: shadow strategists, warmongers, silent profiteers 1914/2014. zeitgeist Print & Online, Höhr-Grenzhausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-943007-07-7 .
  • Foreword to: Wolfgang Effenberger: The American Century, Part 2: Return of Geo-Imperialism? Grin Verlag GmbH, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-90215-6
  • The Moscow files . zeitgeist Print & Online, Höhr-Grenzhausen 2016, ISBN 978-3-943007-12-1
  • Status report on: Halford Mackinder : The key to world domination. The Heartland Theory with a situation report by Willy Wimmer . Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-86489-289-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanns Jürgen Küsters (Konrad Adenauer Foundation): THE KOHL ERA IN CONVERSATION. The union of CDU (East) and CDU (West) in 1990 . Elaborated version of a lecture on September 30, 2010 in Berlin, Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen 18/2011.
  2. ^ Frank Pergande: Review: Non-fiction book. The thumbs of the hard height. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 13, 2001. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Crash in the Union: Kohlians criticize party leadership . Der Spiegel, January 30, 2000.
  4. ↑ Interview: "Pay attention to it" (WILLY WIMMER After 33 years in the Bundestag, the CDU politician demands greater respect for freely elected MPs), Das Parlament , 2009, No. 29/30, accessed on December 13, 2014
  5. ↑ Ludger Baten: Farewell to Berlin: A seasoned man: After more than 32 years in politics, Willy Wimmer is no longer standing for the Bundestag. In: NGZ. October 24, 2008, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Use of atomic bombs against East German cities? IALANA press release of July 17, 2009 on the declaration by Willy Wimmer (Member of the Bundestag, CDU) about the WINTEX / FALLEX maneuver of NATO from 1986 (wording) . Leaves, September 2009, pages 123-124.
  7. ↑ Stubborn model boy . Der Spiegel, issue 48, September 27, 1989.
  8. ^ OE Schütz: A fighter for peace in the world . Rheinische Post, 23 November 2013. Quote: [Wimmer 1989:] “Even in the simulation game of an escalating East-West conflict in the role of defense minister, I could not represent that NATO attacked Dresden and Potsdam in a nuclear first strike. It was clear to me that if there was a real, even just conventional war, there would be nothing left of Germany. ”Chancellor Kohl joined Wimmer, and Germany got out three days before the end of the winter exercise.
  9. ^ A b Hans Gotthard Ehlert: Army without a future. Ch. Links Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-86153-265-1 , p. 68 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ Willy Wimmer: Let us serve you for the better. The way of the NVA in the Bundeswehr. , Neusser Zeitungsverlag, Dormagen 2000. ISBN 978-3-9803165-6-9
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Jochims: The GDR in transition. epubli, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-6260-5 , p. 149 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  12. ↑ Rp Online: CDU member Willy Wimmer presented his book: Weg der NVA in the Bundeswehr. In: rp-online.de. November 17, 2000, accessed March 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ museum magazine online: The way of the NVA into the Bundeswehr. In: museumsmagazin.com. July 16, 1990, accessed March 6, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Editor: Military Hard to digest. The Bundeswehr takes over the NVA without enthusiasm. Minister Stoltenberg does not yet know how many new soldiers are under his command. In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1990 ( online ).
  15. ↑ No cooperation with the mouthpiece of the Kremlin. Tagesspiegel , March 28, 2018
  16. ↑ World premiere or world conspiracy: The Compact Conference in Berlin. Zeit Online on November 23, 2012
  17. ^ A network for Putin and Pegida. tagesspiegel.de from August 16, 2015.
  18. ↑ Kopp Online in conversation: Willy Wimmer, Markus Gärtner. Kopp Verlag , February 22, 2016, accessed on October 2, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Storz : "Querfront" - career of a political-journalistic network In: OBS working papers. No. 18, 2015, ISSN  2365-1962 , p. 13. ( PDF file; 0.5 MB ).
  20. ↑ Camilla Kohrs: Evil is always and everywhere. The New Right media. Part 4: The KenFM portal. In: Correctiv . December 30, 2016, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  21. ↑ IRIB - The German Program: Interview with Willy Wimmer. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  22. ↑ NachDenkSeiten | IQM e. V .: Here are the videos from the Pleisweiler conversation with Willy Wimmer - www.NachDenkSeiten.de. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Geopolitical Research: Syria Ukraine The PULS 4 News Talk With Willy Wimmer. February 20, 2016, accessed October 2, 2016 .
  24. ↑ wikiTHEK: Pro and Contra - Talkshow on Syria / Russia (with Willy Wimmer, Herbert Scheibner, among others). April 28, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  25. ↑ cashkurs.com: Author , accessed on January 1, 2017.
  26. ↑ Article by Willy Wimmer | Telepolis. In: www.heise.de. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014 ; accessed on October 2, 2016 .
  27. ↑ NachDenkSeiten | IQM eV: Search results wimmer - www.NachDenkSeiten.de. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Ex-State Secretary Willy Wimmer (CDU) on the Crimean crisis and the role of the USA. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  29. ^ Publishing group Rhein Main GmbH & Co. KG: Willy Wimmer, State Secretary a. D., on a lecture on Europe's peace in Alzey. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  30. ↑ Lydia Schäfer: The autumn educational work is going to be political. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  31. ^ Taunus Zeitung: Book "The Moscow Files": Willy Wimmer: "Basic Sympathy" for Donald Trump | Taunus Newspaper . ( taunus-zeitung.de [accessed on October 27, 2017]).
  32. ↑ Kirsten Tirre: Expert on global security policy visits Hüllhorst . In: Hüllhorst . ( nw.de [accessed October 27, 2017]).
  33. ↑ RP ONLINE: What is actually ... ?: Willy Wimmer: A fighter for peace. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  34. ↑ Willy Wimmer: 2019, one hundred years after Versailles: the "Huns" in Washington. In: Sputnik. December 31, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  35. ↑ ab altenwatch.de: Willy Wimmer (CDU), Member of the Bundestag 2005–2009 .
  36. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  37. ↑ http://kath.net/news/70795
  38. ↑ Editor: All strings in hand . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1990 ( online ).
  39. ^ Franziska Krämer: The politics of Germany in the Kosovo question. Potsdam 2009, pp. 84f.
  40. ↑ Willy Wimmer: The sleepwalkers become dream dancers. on: nachdenkseiten.de , June 29, 2014.
  41. ^ "Ordinary war of aggression in Kosovo" ( Memento from January 19, 2013 on WebCite ) . NGZ online, February 13, 2001, archived from the original on January 19, 2013.
  42. ↑ Willy Wimmer, in: "The Americans feel they are the successors of Rome" - Strategic conflict patterns in the Balkans - "Blätter" - Conversation with Willy Wimmer. Sheets for German and International Politics, 9/2001, pp. 1054–1065 [special print: pp. 2–13.], Interview by Karl D. Bredthauer and Margund Zetzmann
  43. ^ Letter from members of the Bundestag Peter Gauweiler and Willy Wimmer under the subject "24./25. March as the 5th anniversary of the war against the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, March 18th as the first anniversary of the war against Iraq ”to Angela Merkel and Michael Glos, March 24th, 2003.
  44. ↑ Gauweiler in Iraq. In: Der Tagesspiegel. March 10, 2003.
  45. ↑ Willy Wimmer: International law must not become law of the thumb. Deutschlandfunk interview of March 10, 2003 from Baghdad.
  46. ↑ Andreas Sonderegger: Soft Power and Religion: The Holy See in International Relations. (= Global society and international relations). Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18421-0 .
  47. ↑ Patrik Schwarz: Saddam confuses the CDU. In: TAZ. January 13, 2013.
  48. ↑ Willy Wimmer: Farewell to a world we know. Conversation with Lutz Herden in: Friday, March 21, 2003.
  49. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Merkel's position on the Iraq war: “Don't you believe that any word of insight or better: repentance would be indicated?” In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  50. ↑ Application Organstreit Wimmer / Gauweiler (“Tornado-Klage”) , March 9, 2007.
  51. ^ Application for a temporary injunction in the Organstreit proceedings , March 9, 2007.
  52. ↑ Dietrich Murswiek: Summary of the arguments on the Tornado lawsuit of the Bundestag member Dr. Peter Gauweiler and Willy Wimmer. , March 9, 2007.
  53. ↑ Press release of the Federal Constitutional Court No. 29/2007 of March 12, 2007 on decision 2 BvE 1/07 .
  54. ↑ Daniela Vates, Peter Riesbeck: The time of jokes about spies is over . Frankfurter Rundschau, October 26, 2013.
  55. ↑ Willy Wimmer: Red alert . Telepolis, July 17, 2014.
  56. ↑ Willy Wimmer: There is a NATO network in the German media . Junge Welt, September 13, 2014, ( freely accessible ).
  57. ↑ Willy Wimmer: I think sanctions are wrong . In conversation with Desirée Brenner in: Donaukurier, March 28, 2014.
  58. ↑ Aleksandar Pavić: Correspondence between German Politicians Reveals the Hidden Agenda behind Kosovo's “Independence”. Global Research, March 12, 2008 (with Wimmer's open letter to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from the conference in Bratislava in English)
  59. ^ The letter from Willy Wimmer of May 2, 2000 to the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder , Nachdenkseiten , April 25, 2014.
  60. ↑ Willy Wimmer: The Americans see themselves as successors to Rome . Blätter-Talk in: Blätter for German and International Politics 9/2001, pp. 2–13.
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach