Tino Chrupalla, January 25, 2023, Panzers

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/87, pp. 9673-9674.

Frau President.

I would have of course once very much wished if the title of this current hour – “Leopard Blockade” – still had standing. That would have been absolutely welcomed by the AfD delegation. That, I first of all need say.

Because I also have currently followed this debate. Herr Merz, you have certainly spoken of some things: With you as Chancellor, we would have already delivered combat aircraft.

            Ulrich Lechte (FDP): What then is that for a narrative, Herr Chrupalla?

            Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU): Do not speak such nonsense here!

Thus, for that reason: Your hypocrisy here in this place has actually shown: You proceed in this war mongering exactly as do the FDP and the Greens.

            Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU): Do not speak such nonsense! Wicked demagogue!

That is meanwhile the surrender [Aufgabe] of the largest opposition party in this country, Herr Merz.

I need say to you: I empathize, we empathize with the local Ukrainian people.

            Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU): Ja! That is noted! That is noted!

Since Kriegsangst – that is the theme: Kriegsangst – the Germans also feel here in our country. Yet will the immoderate and primarily egocentric demands of some Ukrainian politicians, which now once again emit via Twitter to more rapidly deliver ever more weapons, help, or will they in principle act more as fire accelerators? Can the Ukraine in general win? Is the application of the means in proportion to the result? Which strategy does the Federal government actually pursue? In regards the questioning of Herr Scholz today, that also remains open.

            Saskia Esken (SPD): Had you listened, Herr Chrupalla!

Do you actually want to provoke the collapse of the alliance? It meanwhile appears thus to many in the German populace who have ever more angst of it.  

Permit me the question: Where actually remain the weapons which we and other countries have already delivered? Are they still in use in the Ukraine or have the Russians long since destroyed these?

            Jürgen Coße (SPD): Go there for once and take a peek!

And that has not been answered. You here suggest to the citizens

            Jürgen Coße (SPD): Go there for once!

that, with delivery of Leopard combat panzers, Russia can be defeated. How many panzers then do you want to collect worldwide so as to attain or exceed the equipment strength of the Russian army? According to statistics, Russia has at its disposal over approximately 12,500 combat panzers,

            Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP): Yet most of which are kaputt!

the Ukraine on the other hand over approximately 2,600. The Ukrainian army thereby presently has nine times as many combat panzers at its disposal as does the Bundeswehr – the Federal Defense Ministry has provided the information in this – with approximately 289 Leopard-2 panzers. Those are the facts.

Now of course the armaments industry steps forward. BlackRock, Herr Merz, is already rubbing its hands. Rheinmetall has a good 239 panzers which are to be readied within two years.

            Ulrich Lechte (FDP): That again is offensive!

I ask you: Why were these panzers not long since made fit for the Bundeswehr? Valued colleagues, look at the deliveries from the Bundeswehr’s stocks or from the additional procurement which we have already made for this war. How long indeed is required to again re-build the stocks of our Bundeswehr? You – primarily the CDU – are plundering our Bundeswehr. How then does it presently appear with the defense readiness of the Bundeswehr? Or are we now completely dependent on alliances and allies?

Ladies and gentlemen, with your decisions you actively prolong a conflict and blockade yourself from peace negotiations. With eyes open, you run directly into open fire; I thus must say it openly: Directly into the Third World War.

Thus, what is the aim of the Federal government and of the largest opposition party, the CDU? Do you want to make this war ours and again plunge Germany into darkness? First we deliver equipment, then light weapons, then heavy weapons. What is next? Is it German soldiers made mission-ready which we then deliver?  

Ulrich Lechte (FDP): And that is the second false narrative! Everything again for the AfD-TV and the Telegram channel! Man, man, man!

On February 2, we remember the anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad with all its war dead. I recommend to you all, certainly you of the FDP, a visit to a war cemetery, where I routinely lay a wreath, or directly before the Berlin Gate at the Seelower Höhe. Almost everyone in this sovereign house can there again find family members who died in the war.

            Ulrich Lechte (FDP): Which is the same in the Ukraine!

The delivery of weapons will increase the suffering and – much worse – there will be countless deaths to be lamented. This war aids no one on the European and Asian continent.

            Sara Nanni (Greens): It happens despite that!

And who believes in making peace with weapons deliveries is really more than naïve. Pressure begets counter-pressure.

Alliances and friendships are honest and true when all sides – all sides! – in common bear the burden. In this case, Germany and Europe are once again one-sidedly burdened. The war again occurs at our front door. Our so-called friends from the United States heat up the situation ever further. Its armaments industry again does good business and can restore the decayed state finances. Ultimately, they, the U.S.A., need not worry about the security of their continent. Yet the security on the continent of Europe is in danger. And there needs be an end to precisely that!

Allies, yes. Alliances, yes, but not at the price of self-abnegation! Europe requires peace and needs to acquire a sovereign place in the world. We need to first serve the interests of our country and of our citizens. You of the Federal government have the duty to avert harm from country and people.

            Vice-president Katrin Göring-Eckardt: Herr colleague, please come to an end.

May you finally do justice to that duty!

Many thanks.

            Ulrich Lechte (FDP): Just assembly line conspiracy theories!

            Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU): Nauseating!

 

[trans: tem]

 

Götz Frömming, January 18, 2023, Education and Immigration

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/78, pp. 9339-9340.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Right honorable Frau Minister.

We today discuss the National Education Report put forward by the authors’ group in May 2022. It is therefore no longer quite dewy fresh, yet that actually is not so bad, ladies and gentlemen; since what we read in this National Education Report, we all actually knew quite well before. And, yes, it is not the only report we have in the area of education. It would be well to be named: Today, the School Barometer is to appear. We have the IQB Education Trend, we have the PISA Countries Comparison, etc. etc. Only, ladies and gentlemen, it needs be said: …the sow, alas, becomes no fatter, and we for long already, Frau Minister, have no knowledge deficit but, dear colleagues, we have a management deficit.

In that regard, I want to mention a couple of points to you. Not far from here, in Pankow, recently schoolchildren with their parents demonstrated for the renovation of their school. What then is that about? I thought that was only in a third-world country, yet it occurs in the middle of Germany. The renovation backlog for school buildings is figured at some 40 billion euros. One billion – we have just now heard – shall now be grandiosely made ready. Yet recently there was 100 billion for weapons. That is a disproportion, ladies and gentlemen.

In addition, we have a massive deficit in personnel. And here it is lamented that 40,000 teachers are lacking. That has not only to do with the Corona preventive measures, but also with the massive influx from the Ukraine. 200,000 students plus x more: The colleagues in the schools cannot simply teach these with the left hand. Here, something must urgently happen, ladies and gentlemen.  

I cannot omit mentioning the following case which goes back just a few weeks. In Ibrenbüren, Nordrein-Westfalen, a 17 year-old young man stabbed his teacher. The silence in this case is deafening, ladies and gentlemen. I unfortunately need also say to you: That is not a single instance. As we know, violence against teachers in the schools massively increases. A third of principals in a survey have reported that they know of violence by students against teachers – it is besides frequently female teachers. In Nordrein-Westfalen, where this young man, by chance with a migration background, stabbed his teacher, it is even almost half of all schools. Also here must something urgently happen, ladies and gentlemen.

What you do, in this and in other cases, can actually only be named continual assistance [unterlassene Hilfeleistung]. In that regard, there are opportunities to improve the situation in the schools.

Let us come to speak of what in fact happens in education in the schools. We know in which States it is working. Those are by happenstance the States in the south of our country. Bavaria and Saxony are dong quite well. In all comparisons, Bavaria and Saxony are at the fore. Yet now for once it needs be recognized: What makes Bavaria and Saxony different? There is there a differentiated school system. There, the Hauptschulen have not been thrown into the waste basket

            Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Nay!

and outside just the shield is unscrewed in the belief that thereby everything will be better.  

            Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Exactly!

It is differentiated. There is a Grundschul recommendation and there is at least a minimal standard of authority and discipline. That is, I think, also a key for learning success.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, respect for the teacher belongs to that,

            Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Right!

exactly of course as respect for the student belongs to that. Yet of these things, apparently in your view out-dated, you want nothing more to know.

Beyond that, we need to return to education and knowledge instead of gender and inclusion at any price. In concluding – and this well accords with the debate: We also need to provide our immigration policy with education criteria.

            Vice-president Yvonne Magwas: Please come to a conclusion.

A further immigration from uneducated classes can our education system no longer bear [Eine weitere Zuwanderung aus bildungsfernen Schichten kann unser Bildungssystem nicht mehr vertragen]. And thereby is no one served.

Many thanks for your attention.

 

[trans: tem]

 

 

 

Karsten Hilse, December 15, 2022, Oil Embargo and Bautzen

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/76, pp. 9056-9057.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. Dear countrymen.

In May of this year, there was an economy destruction minister, formally a children’s book author, who made known to an astonished German public that on December 22, 2022, Germany will join in the oil embargo against Russia and will receive no more oil through the pipeline for purely ideological reasons; since the acquisition of oil through the pipeline was by the EU sanctions expressly admitted for all.

As was made clear to him that the eastern German refineries, primarily the PCK Schwedt, would then need to stop production whereby the supply of fuel and lubricants and chemical intermediary products would be collapsed throughout eastern Germany, he sent his not a little well endowed waiter who promised the blue or green heaven to the displaced people of Schwedt: Crude oil would continue to come to Schwedt, if in the meantime in smaller quantities; the jobs of around 2,000 employees would be secured by a job guaranty. He then crowned the whole with the sentence – cite: “Here, the lights do not go out immediately”, which means that they then go out later.

This point in time appears now to have come; since none of the promises made were fulfilled. Neither were the replacement oil deliveries by contract with Poland secured, nor were the corresponding transport means for the required quantities built. A comparable quality of crude oil is at the moment not deliverable. Solely the jobs guarantees – that is, money for doing nothing – were brought well on the way. Yet even that is not sure.

In other words: The green Federal government has planned and implemented the equivalent of the Neurippen state’s attorney now classifying the “Last Generation” climate terrorists as a criminal association, placing this under indictment and conducting house searches of the climate terrorists. The foregoing is based on the repeated efforts to stop the crude oil supply of the PCK Schwedt – thus, the exact same thing that the Federal government is doing.

The Neurippen state’s attorney bases his proceedings on that it concerns the formation and support of a criminal association according to §129 of the criminal code and that the group evidences a “clear role distribution and a continuous structure”. Here also, the similarities are not purely accidental. The only difference is that the Federal government is the executive of a state of law, yet more and more re-interprets, indeed abuses this law.

In this connection may Pope Benedict be recalled when a good eleven years ago here in the Bundestag he wrote to the members in the album, if in another connection, the words of Saint Augustine – cite:           

            Take away the law – what then is the state other than a great band of robbers..

And he was right.

            Bernhard Herrmann (CDU/CSU): Shameful!

           Stefan Schmidt (Greens): That is below even your level!

Yet there is something positive. The warnings to the conservative forces in the Union apparently have provided for a partial reconsideration; since in your motion, which today is brought in for the PCK Schwedt, you find fault not only with the lack of replacement quantities of agreed quality and at fair prices, but also before all with the absence of any legal basis for the embargo. The embargo and all sanctions thus need to go. That this is possible with this government is held by many citizens to be excluded. They hold this government, plainly because it whistles at law and statute, to be – cite: “a great band of robbers”.

The only way to make reasonable policy for Germany is when the conservative forces are finally gathered together, as occurred in my constituency of Bautzen this week. In the local council, almost the entire CDU delegation voted for an AfD motion to eliminate voluntary integration benefits for rejected asylum applicants; and thereby, first, relieve the budget and, second, turn down the magnets for asylum claimants. This example hopefully sets a precedent [macht Schule] in all of Germany, for Germany.  

Sepp Müller (CDU/CSU): You can proceed on the basis that it will not be!                        Definitely not, not for us!