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Zeca Schall 2009
Zeca Schall, election campaign support in Erfurt 2009

Zeca Schall (born Fonseca ; * 1963 in Quitongo , Cuanza Sul , Angola ) is a German-Angolan member of the CDU Thuringia .

Life

Sound studied at a technical college for agriculture in Angola. His father was killed by Angolan rebels in 1984, and so was his mother in 1994. In 1988, Schall came to Hildburghausen as a contract worker and completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator at the VEB screw and standard parts plant . Schall married a German woman, whose name he adopted, and in 1997 became the first Angolan to apply for naturalization. In 2004 he became a German citizen and joined the CDU on the same day. He retained his Angolan citizenship. Between January and September 2009, Schall completed an apprenticeship at the “Regional Office for Foreigner Issues, Youth Work and Schools” (RAA eV) in Berlin .

Political commitment

In the district council election in June 2009, Schall ran for the district council of Hildburghausen on list position 30 of the CDU, with a total of 40 mandates for the district council. Schall received 42 first votes and was not elected. Schall works in the AG “Integration of Foreign Citizens” of the Thuringian CDU, which was founded in 2008 and is open to all Thuringian CDU members who are interested in the subject. Schall neither leads the AG nor is he its spokesman. Schall has no office or mandate in the CDU at the Thuringian state level, but was incorrectly referred to in media reports as the "integration officer" or "migration officer" of the CDU Thuringia. After a false dpa report, he was also referred to in the media as the "integration officer of the state government", an office that Eckehard Peters had held in Thuringia since 1992 as the foreigner representative of the Thuringian state government. (In most federal states, this function is now called the integration officer .) The Focus mistakenly declared Schall to be a member of the parliament.

Schall states that he already applied to the CDU Thuringia as a full-time integration officer in 2008 without receiving an answer. When he asked shortly before the state elections in 2009, he was asked to apply again, which he sent two weeks before the election. On September 7, 2009, however, the state manager of the party informed him that the position was not planned for financial reasons and that there was also no voluntary position as an integration officer in the party.

Schall advocates the establishment of migrant organizations. He advocates compulsory kindergarten attendance for children with a migration background and the participation of adult migrants in integration groups. He asks foreigners who want to stay in Germany to also take on German citizenship .

NPD campaign in the 2009 election campaign

Schall became internationally known in the Thuringian state election campaign in 2009 when he was depicted on election posters together with Prime Minister Dieter Althaus (CDU) and other people and was then threatened by the NPD . The NPD instructed its district associations to hang NPD posters with the slogan “Have a good trip home” next to all posters on which Schall could be seen. In a press release, she referred to Schall as a “Quotenneger”, gave his address and announced that she would seek a “direct conversation” at his home town in order to “encourage him to return home”. Schall was then placed under police protection. Members of the right-wing scene were subsequently prevented from approaching his home by the police. Several reprimands were issued, including against NPD boss Udo Voigt .

The CDU Thuringia filed criminal charges for sedition , coercion and insult. From August 10th, the party began to cover the election posters with sound, which resulted in considerable criticism from other parties. The CDU announced that the exchange of posters had already started before the start of the NPD campaign and should not be viewed as a reaction to it.

The campaign against Schall attracted international attention; Auxiliary Bishop Reinhard Hauke expressed solidarity with Zeca Schall on behalf of the Catholic Church.

The council assembly and the district mayor of Hildburghausen unanimously passed a resolution on August 19, 2009, which "is intended to underline the city's openness to all democratically minded people and the rejection of ethnic exclusion by right-wing extremists".

From August 22nd, the NPD hung up its own election posters showing the portrait of Schall and a bratwurst, as well as the text "real Thuringian, false Thuringian". A few weeks earlier, the Junge Union in Thuringia had already advertised with similar posters, which had the same label but the portrait of the top left-wing candidate Bodo Ramelow from Lower Saxony, but had to cancel this poster campaign after protests.

The public prosecutor's office in Meiningen was investigating the NPD posters. In Weimar and Eisenach they were removed by order of the respective Lord Mayor, in other places the posters were pasted over by citizens.

The CDU quartered Schall in a hotel to protect him from the NPD and to recover from the many interviews and tried to withdraw him from the election campaign. Schall himself, on the other hand, affirmed that he wanted to continue his election campaign activity in a reduced form. He took part in the inauguration of the winter sports hall on August 24, 2009 in Oberhof together with Dieter Althaus and Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble.

Despite the losses of his own party of more than 10 percentage points, at the end of the election, Schall welcomed the fact that the NPD had failed to make it into the state parliament. Schall advocates a ban on the NPD and increased engagement in Thuringia against right-wing extremism, which should include bans, demonstrations and a state program.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zeca Schall in portrait. "I love Thuringia, I love Germany" , Der Tagesspiegel , August 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The man on the poster dreams of integration . Free Word, August 12, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freies-wort.de
  3. ↑ a b Regina Haubold: Page no longer available , search in web archives: "I was a bit sad ..." , Interview with Zeca Schall, Free Word , September 16, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freies-wort.de
  4. ↑ Results of the district council elections 2009 in the district 069 Hildburghausen at the Thuringian State Office for Statistics.
  5. ^ Information from the press spokesman and organizer of the CDU Thuringia, Heiko Senebald ( memento of October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of August 24, 2009.
  6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The man on the poster dreams of integration . Free Word, August 12, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freies-wort.de
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Cuddle with Angie . Thuringian General, July 31, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wahl.thueringer-allgemeine.de
  8. ↑ Standard , Tagesspiegel , Deutsche Welle , Solinger Tageblatt ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), time
  9. ^ The Commissioner for Foreigners and his role . In: Website of the Foreigners Commissioner of the Free State of Thuringia. (Retrieved August 26, 2009.)
  10. ↑ Concern after NPD attacks against black MPs . In: FOCUS Online from August 11, 2009.
  11. ↑ CDU worries about the safety of Zeca Schall . ( Memento of August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Free Word, August 11, 2009, 1:43 pm
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: attack on sound condemned . Thuringian General, August 15, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.thueringer-allgemeine.de
  13. ↑ “Althaus, the NPD and the fear of courage” , Die Welt , August 17, 2009
  14. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Thuringia's CDU denies allegations in the Schall case . RP-online , August 17th, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / nachrichten.rp-online.de
  15. ^ Black politician targeted by German far-right . Video report from CNN , Aug. 14, 2009
  16. ^ Tristana Moore: German Election Campaign Takes a Racist Turn . TIME Magazine, August 18, 2009
  17. ↑ «Quotenneger» is not intimidated - the public prosecutor is investigating the NPD . Basler Zeitung, August 14, 2009
  18. ^ Black Politician in Germany Suffers Racial Slurs . New York Times, Aug 13, 2009
  19. ↑ Extremistas alemães “mandam para casa” político conservador de origem angolana . ( Memento of July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) El Publico, August 16, 1009
  20. ^ D: Church in solidarity with Zeca Schall . Vatican Radio, August 15, 2009
  21. ^ Resolution "Hildburghausen is open to everyone - except for Nazis" . ( Memento of August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Free Word , August 21, 2009
  22. ^ In the state parliament and to power , Tagesspiegel , August 24, 2009
  23. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: City hung up posters of the NPD@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tlz.de
  24. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: OB leaves NPD poster hanging . Thuringian newspaper , August 27, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tlz.de
  25. ↑ Among blacks . In: Die Zeit , No. 36/2009
  26. ↑ Wolf Schmidt: Frustrated side parting . taz, August 31, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Sonic, Zeca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Angolan member of the CDU
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Quitongo , Angola