German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/234, pp.
30302-30303.
Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
The Bundestag election casts its shadow. In one of the last
draft laws of this legislative period shall be prescribed to the boards of
directors of businesses how they in the future need be composed.
Ulli Nissen (SPD): And that is good, too!
Leni
Breymaier (SPD): You do not fix it!
If the board of directors of a firm listed on the exchange
consists of more than three members, at least one of them must be a woman. The Groko [grand coalition] thereby not only
shamelessly interferes anew in the business freedom, but again paves the way
in the direction of socialism. The decisive criterion, qualification, no longer
in the future plays a role. Solely the sex decides the composition of business
leadership. With such an interference, a strengthening of Germany as a business
venue is scarcely to be expected.
That the Union in that regard is to be reckoned an
accomplice is also no surprise. You thereby fraternize with your future
coalition partners; for according to the election program, the Greens have
committed themselves to the goal of the establishment of a feminist government.
Once again is it clear: He who votes black, he receives
green. He who on the contrary wants freedom instead of paternalism, he should
vote blue, ladies and gentlemen.
Women’s quotas are a means of coercion. They most deeply
interfere in the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of property [Eigentum] in Article 14, in the freedom
of occupation [Beruf] in Article 12,
as well as in the equality of man and woman in Article 3, paragraph 2, line 2,
of the Basic Law. Notable constitutional lawyers therefore reject them. It is
simply not constitutionally justified to obligate businesses, in areas in which
there are no sufficiently qualified women, to hire unsuitable personnel.
One sees that the entire debate over women’s quotas causes
only chaos and contradiction. And it has been coordinated for the abolition of
fundamental legal principles like freedom of contract and private autonomy in
favor of a feminist planned economy; for here it is a question of nothing
other. Quotas regulations and sanctions for those not in compliance are not
reconcilable with the principles of the market economy and a free society.
Actually here the FDP also needs to remonstrate with what
has shifted business freedom into reverse. Yet what you, dear Free Democrats, demand
in your motion, that lets the jaw drop. You propose a ban on works meetings
after 4 pm. You strive for more sexual variety at leadership levels and you
fantasize of diversity as a success factor. That is an accommodation to the
cultural Marxist Zeitgeist.
That women can be brought into levels of leadership, quite
without coercion, quite without ultra-feminism, quite without genderism, is
besides shown by the allegedly oh-so reactionary-conservative, oh-so
arch-Catholic Poles. There, mothers and housewives are not degraded to
second-class people by a leftist mainstream. There will not be propagandized by
an intrusive state which roles man and woman have to play in family and
vocation. The result: In Poland, the portion of women in leadership positions
is at 44 percent, as opposed to colorful, diverse Germany at only 28 percent.
If you thus want to bring as many women as possible into management positions,
then please take remedial instruction in women’s policy from our eastern
neighbor.
But in no case, as in the submitted, should be set up means
of coercion. Women’s quotas are such a means. Women’s quotas produce quota
women. Believe me: No woman wants to be characterized as a mere quota woman. We
of the AfD say quite clearly: Strong women require no quotas.
Josephine
Ortleb (SPD): Strong women require nothing from the AfD!
Many thanks.
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