German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/189,
pp. 23878-23879.
Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
Dear colleague Gohlke, you have complained that the minister
left the plenary hall before the debate. On one point, I can well understand
her; since in your motion there is really just nothing new. It is the same
plate which you already have set here many times.
Nicole Gohlke
(Linke): All the worse that we must set it yet again!
You again preach redistribution, equalization, and put
forward a socialist, comprehensive coverage mentality which we of the AfD do
not share.
Ladies and gentlemen, not only that: Your motion also
contradicts itself: You complain that it was so bad for the students that they
scarcely had anything to eat, that they knew not where to live – in brief: They
were in a “precarious situation”, as it is stated in your motion.
Nicole Gohlke
(Linke): Do you actually read much? That is even in the numbers!
How then, together with that, does it happen that we
presently have a record number of students – 3 million young people studying –
and it becomes ever more? Presently there are 500,000 in the first semester, by
2030 is forecast an increase of 100,000 to 600,000; you yourself name that
number in your motion. How can it then be that if it is so bad to study and to
be at the Uni, that ever more people strive to be there? So then it cannot be
quite so bad.
What now do the Linke concretely require? They want to
create more dormitory places. So far, so good. They do not, however, consider
that in the last twelve years the capacity of dorm places has been built and
indeed, for all that, 16,000 places; we presently have 240,000 dorm places
nationwide. Interestingly, all of the new dorm places are to arise not in the
east of the country, thus not in the states where the Linke had or has
governing responsibility, but in the west of our country.
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): Mein Gott!
If we peek at that precisely, we may ascertain that it
becomes still more interesting. In Berlin, ja,
you co-govern. There, the accommodations rate lies at a modest 5.8 percent. Similarly
in Bremen: 6.6 percent; Linke in the government. In Saxony, ladies and
gentlemen, we have 15.4 percent accommodations rate, in Baden-Württemberg, for all that,
13 percent. What have these states in common? Right: There, you are not in the
government. It is, ja, interesting.
In addition, you once again demand BAföG [federal education
assistance] for all; so to say, a basic income for students. It shall naturally
be independent of the parents;
Nicole Gohlke
(Linke): Such junk! You really have not understood it!
the FDP meanwhile also adheres to that.
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): Then in which place is that?
How, please, is that socially fair? BAföG independent of the
parents means nothing other than that the daughter, the son, of a well-to-do
dentist, or a well-to-do Linke member, can be eligible. Ladies and gentlemen,
that is not socially fair, that is socially most unfair.
Jens
Brandenburg (FDP – Rhein-Neckar): Self-reliant, grown-up persons!
It naturally happens that you want to abolish the age limit;
so to say, study until pensioned. And naturally shall all foreigners be able to
draw BAföG. You even demand BAföG for the Geduldete,
thus people who actually must leave our country, for whom deportation has been
merely set aside.You fail to recognize however that that has long since been
regulated in the BAföG: §8
paragraph 2a. That can naturally be criticized; but it is long since in there.
Please look it up. You may see also in this place: Your motion is handiwork of
the worst sort.
In sum, ladies and gentlemen: Study is not an occupation.
Schools and universities are not factories and are not social offices. They
are places of improvement and that also is good. Quite briefly in conclusion is
that which we actually ought to place at the center: We must construct
performance concepts [Lesitungsgedanken].
We need more performance stipends. We should also construct dual studies; that
is a sensible arrangement. And we should finally stop the inflation of the
right to college admission. The Abitur,
ladies and gentlemen, must again become an authentic proof of performance.
I thank you.
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