Martin Reichardt, May 21, 2026, Education and the German Left

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/80, p. 9665.

Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen present. 

We move today for a national education summit in the knowledge that the motion 

[Drucksache 21/6029]  as always will be rejected. It will be rejected even though is evident that Germany is stuck in the deepest education crisis in its young history, ladies and gentlemen.

The crisis finds expression in the sobering number which says that 40 percent of the 15 years old students no longer achieve the minimal competence in reading and mathematics. The origins of this crisis are various, yet have one thing in common: They are the result of serious failures in the Politik of CDU, CSU, Social Democrats, Linke and Greens. Here follows a small selection:

For starters I name the re-stringing of the proven, three-part school system, with its inherent performance orientation, by means of a system which has so far lowered what is demanded that a great part of those with an Abitur are no longer capable of studies, and a large number of students are dismissed in the occupational world, those who no longer fulfill the minimal requirements for professional training.  

In addition is the replacement of an education oriented on the factual [Realien], consisting of reading, writing, figuring and natural science, by a leftist, ideological indoctrination of outlook [Gesinnung]. Here are two examples:

After weeks of deficient German instruction due to a teacher shortage, occurs in the first planned hour of German an outlook speech on the leftist discovered terminology of so-called everyday racism. Students who ask why no German instruction takes place will be persuaded with the accusation they would be willing to promote racism. 

Johannes Fechner (SPD): Where was that?

 
Or: After weeks of school trans propaganda, a child in the eighth class outed himself as a trans-sexual. Immediately, instead of doing correct instruction, documentation on the injury to trans people will be shown and the injury to the so-called queer community will be made a theme. 

Johannes Fechner (SPD): Which school? Which place? 

Maïk Brückner (Linke): Where was that, then?

The list of this nonsense could continue as you like but, ladies and gentlemen, I spare myself that. Let us let it be.

In conclusion, of course may not be lacking the permanently denied pink elephant in the room: The consequences of the unhindered mass migration and the teaching of students with insufficient knowledge of German in regular classes.

Maïk Brückner (Linke): Bingo!

In addition comes the violence problematic inherent with this clientele.

The named problems are thus so intensified that a traceable teacher shortage – some 35,000 – prevails. The new secret recipe against this shortage is called SOL, self-organized learning. In clear text, a teacher supervises umpteen classes in which then nothing more runs, ladies and gentlemen.

And no, my dear self-named leftist democrats, it does not suffice to simply pump more money into the education system and ever further increase the number of school social workers. Their number has climbed from 3,000 in the year 2010 meanwhile to 20,000, which however has obviously in no way prevented the catastrophic development in the German education system. 

The education summit demanded by us is compellingly required and needs to make a theme of and solve the problems just raised here by me. The time of hiding behind pedagogical optimism and naïve leftist wishful thinking needs to end, ladies and gentlemen. 

Katrin Fey (Linke): Begin with yourself!

And still one thing: The fact that educational success in Germany depends heavily on the parents’ home is caused by you of the old parties. It is namely recognizable that in a desolate educational system shaped by leftist ideology

Maïk Brückner (Linke): Eijeijei!

often only such children unfortunately can be successful whose parents have the possibility of helping at home and paying for remedial instruction,

Götz Frömming (AfD): Right!

and privately compensate for the catastrophic failure of your Politik, ladies and gentlemen.

Maïk Brückner (Linke): Then what do you cry about?

In education – as generally – the Linke themselves with assistance from the CDU create the problems which they afterwards can no longer solve. The blame will then be sought everywhere and nowhere.

I call upon you: Make an education summit which begins to finally do away with your years-long catastrophic Politik and its failures.

Maïk Brückner (Linke): Breathe!

Our reference to that enjoins: Return to a performance principle, Realien education instead of leftist indoctrination, and no regular schooling without sufficient knowledge of German. Vote for our motion. Do penance, and save our children.

Many thanks.

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Martin Reichardt, November 9, 2023, Children’s Basic Security

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/134, 16885-16886. 

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. 

The Children’s Basic Security [Kindergrundsicherung] will be praised by the green Ampel as a heart’s project. Yet we all certainly know what actually are the heart’s projects of this green Ampel: Disconnection of the climate-friendly nuclear power plants, weapons deliveries to war zones, 

            Nina Stahr (Greens): The theme!

comprehensive de-industrialization of Germany and unbridled mass immigration. That is the political framework with which you drive families in Germany into poverty. Yet, for that, you will be rightly punished throughout Germany at the elections, and das ist gut so. 

            Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (Greens): Pride comes before a fall!

The expenditures in connection with flight and migration alone in this year amount to 48.2 billion euros. 

            Götz Frömming (AfD): At least!

For your big toss for families, you have a crummy 2.4 billion left over. And that is a scandal which speaks for itself. 

All of this of course becomes the more perverse as your entire social rhetoric is continually sabotaged by your own concrete policy. What you give to families on one side, you take away from them on the other side. The effect of your Kindergrundsicherung immediately dissolves  into nothing in the face of shocks which families receive in regards purchasing, the glance at the corresponding accounting and the energy prices, ladies and gentlemen.

So it is to be designated as one thing only, namely a labeling swindle. And here we have once again politically placed you, ladies and gentlemen. 

            Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (Greens): Oh!

For the Kindergrundsicherung, it is so as for the Bürgergeld [citizens’ wage]. Much money has been inequitably pumped into imported poverty since 2015. The number of foreign children in receipt of transfer benefits has tripled since 2010. 

Kai Whittaker (CDU/CSU): Here, someone apparently has not at all peeked at the law! Had no desire to read the legal text, Herr colleague. Or what? 

Martin Gassner-Herz (FDP): It was too complicated for him! He understood nothing!

In 2010, it was 303,962 children, this year it is 935,000 children, most of whom come from Syria and the Ukraine. And I say to you: The opinion of the people in this country makes clear that the understanding for a policy which gives away the social benefits to all the world and drives one’s own people into poverty has finally been used up, ladies and gentlemen. 

            Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (Greens): Crude nonsense! 

The Kindergrundsicherung is an additional instrument for the financial benefit of all the world and provides an additional incentive for migration into our moreover wasted social system, ladies and gentlemen. 

            Emilia Fester (Greens): Can you not for once think of something new?

In addition, the Kindergrundsicherung is an additional building block within the left-green reconstruction of society. It is in line with an entire chain of similarly mounted projects, as, for example, the so-called children’s rights in the Basic Law. All of these projects have one thing in common: The child shall be removed from the family social relation and transferred into the hands of a supposedly kindly, leftist political state. And we will not let you get away with that! 

            Anke Hennig (SPD): That is just ridiculous, what you are saying here! 

Nina Stahr (Greens): Because you do not tolerate that children have their own opinion! Inconceivable!

You propagandize for the de-coupling of the child from its parents. Greens and SPD especially want state command over the children’s beds. Yet we will prevent that, ladies and gentlemen. 

            Nina Stahr (Greens): We want that children have rights! That is a difference!

The families, the parents – that is for all of you just a burdensome intermediate level which hides a risk. You want that children be raised and financed not by their parents, but better by leftist ideologues, and exactly so raised as you would gladly have it. Yet this also we will not allow, ladies and gentlemen.   

            Stephanie Aeffner (Greens): You haven’t cast a glance at the law!

In conclusion, the following may be said: With this law, you go a further step along the way, well-known by you, to the disempowerment [Entmündigung] of the parents, the disempowerment of families, and the happiness of all the world. 

            Vice-president Aydan Özoğuz: Please come to a conclusion.

Yet we of the AfD will not participate in this. For we as the only ones say: Our families and our Germany first! 

            Annika Klose (SPD): Name one concrete example! Name just one!

Many thanks.

           Anke Hennig (SPD): Ridiculous! 

 

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Martin Reichardt, May 21, 2021, All-day School

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/231, pp. 29712-29713.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Frau Giffey, on account of her doctorate work, has now finally resigned. That was long overdue. Frau Lambrecht, if you show the same elan in family policy as Frau Giffey in the last months – which you can do gladly – then you have not much to do.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): So offensive!

Not only on account of her plagiarism is it right that Frau Giffey has resigned, but because it was she who permitted that the policy in the Corona phase made the children sick, ladies and gentlemen. We today are speaking on all-day attendance of children, and that is already a disdain, considering the present situation of our children. I thus now come, in the conditions of the scope of this discussion, to what needs be said.

Not this law but the recommendation of a mass vaccination of children as a basis for the restitution of human rights and education was Frau Giffey’s last, official act. She wants to send our children to a fully unnecessary, final battle against the Corona virus. That is a disgrace, ladies and gentlemen.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): This vocabulary is a disgrace!

Children who neither are instigators of the pandemic nor commonly infect others shall first recover their rights, and thereby also the all-day attendance, if they have been immunized with a vaccine which has an emergency authorization.

            Sönke Rix (SPD): That is just not right! You are lying!

My delegation decisively says to that: No! Hands off our children! Our children are not your test rabbits, ladies and gentlemen.

            Bettina Margarethe Wiesmann (CDU/CSU): Abysmal!

Yet precisely that want all delegations here other than mine, and against all scientific studies.

What we however precisely do know is the following: Children have no use for this vaccine. Only the pharma lobbyists and Herr Spahn have a use for this vaccine, ladies and gentlemen.

            Ekin Deligöz (Greens): Theme!

There are no studies which appraise the long-term damages. This shall first come in four years. Who, against this background, propagandizes for a mass vaccination of children should be ashamed of himself.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): Do you know the theme of the debate?

When you board an aircraft which has an emergency authorization and so take a flight, then that is your amusement. But when children are required to fly in such aircraft, then that is a scandal, ladies and gentlemen.

What happens with the children who have not been vaccinated? Are they not allowed on class trips? Are they not allowed in the swimming pool?

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): Deal with the theme!

Are they not allowed to make use of all-day attendance, as is now already happening with the children who do not let themselves be tested? Ladies and gentlemen, what then shall become of this? Will these children also be excluded and be designated as socially harmful? That is the question we have here before us.

            Silke Launert (SPD): Unspeakable!

Need unteachable parents thereby reckon that their children will be taken away? Since once you have implemented children’s right in the Basic Law, then you can declare vaccination to be a children’s right and then you can enforce this vaccination against the will of the parents. That we do not want, ladies and gentlemen.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): Incitement! Incitement! Incitement! Nothing else!

A Germany in which politics makes the children sick is one in which meanwhile much, much too much, is possible.

            Sönke Rix (SPD): You are here inciting with un-truths!

The departed Minister Giffey declared herself in favor of vaccinating children and youths as quickly as possible. She said: We owe it to the children and youth. – I say to you: No, we do not. We owe to our children – with and without vaccination and tests – open schools, common games and free air to breathe, ladies and gentlemen. We owe them to be at hand, warmth and care. We owe them a life without fear and a return of their basic rights, and that as quickly as possible, ladies and gentlemen.

We also owe it to them – and this the Social Democrats should write behind the ears – that we do not abuse the trust of our children and youths. We owe that to them, and not a useless, dangerous vaccination, ladies and gentlemen.

            Sönke Rix (SPD): You are spreading hatred and incitement!

 

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Martin Reichardt, April 23, 2021, Family Policy

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/225, pp. 28664-28665. 

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

With Wednesday’s debate on the infection defense law, the AfD has documented that we are the only delegation which stands for the people’s freedom and self-responsibility in Germany. We are the only ones who want to defend our children from forced testing and obligatory masks. We are also the only party which stands for the traditional family of father, mother and children. This is not regressive, as we could hear recently in the public broadcasting, but most profoundly modern and a pledge for Germany’s future.

The AfD wants a real paradigm change in family policy.

            Grigorious Aggelidis (FDP): Back to the Kaiser Reich!

We want to place families at the center. Families in Germany need to again be valued; for they are the contributors [Leistungsträger] of our society. With the children, they are growing Germany’s future. Each morning they get to work; they thereby pay taxes and duties over-proportionately. We need to say to these fathers and mothers: You are the foundation of our statecraft.

The consequences of the demographic catastrophe become ever more obvious. For half a century Germany realizes one of the lowest birth rates worldwide. Instead of conducting an activist family policy, the government sets up mass immigration. 2 million people in the last six years have immigrated by means of the asylum system. This failed demographic policy of our government has cost billions of euros – money which is lacking for our families; money which might have been applied to a sustained promotion of families.

The AfD therefore demands that the Federal government introduce a family splitting: A splitting by which the number of children is yielded in the income tax and which will also relieve the single parent; a splitting by which an average family with three children simply pays no more corresponding taxes. For we also require a strong middle-class and middle-class families which again dare say yes to children and families.

Families with one or two children should also profit and we therefore want a family splitting and a child benefit [Kindergeld]. We need strong middle-class families which can again afford their own four walls. Of the 30 to 40 year olds, only every fourth lives in his own dwelling.

Sebastian Brehm (CDU/CSU): You have rejected the new home child benefit [Baukindergeld]!

And why? Because the insatiable state digs deep into the pockets of these people! The families are the milk cow of the nation.

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Beyond that, we of the AfD wanted in this legislative period to relieve families as a whole, in that we have demanded an added value tax privilege of 7 percent on children’s products. And this has been rejected here by all delegations.

            Sebastian Brehm (CDU/CSU): Just not financed.

In 1988, the experts’ council for family questions demanded a family splitting. It demanded  family starter loans whereby families can better manage the early phase and be supported. None of these demands have been implemented in the last 30 years. Invariable only is the structural disregard for the social relations vis-à-vis families in Germany, and that is sad.

With our motions [Drucksachen 19/28763, 28795] for the introduction of a baby welcome loan and an interest-free child credit and for family splitting, we want to reduce this structural disregard vis-à-vis families. They should be at the center of all political management. I am happy with the family-friendly consultations in committee.

Many thanks.

 

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