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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 7:07:01 GMT -7
 The Blue Party (German: Die blaue Partei) is a national-conservative political party in Germany that was founded on the initiative of the former leader of the Alternative for Germany ( AfD), Frauke Petry, after she left the party following the 2017 federal election. The party presents itself as more moderate than the AfD, and aims to attract social conservatives, right-wing liberals and former AfD members to join the party. As of 22 October 2017, the party has one member in the Bundestag, one in the state parliament of Saxony and four members in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The party is officially chaired by Michael Muster.  Party leader of the Blue Party, Michael Muster HistoryFrauke Petry was elected leader of the Alternative for Germany ( AfD) on 4 July 2015. However, internal disputes within the AfD in the run-up to the 2017 federal election saw Petry stand down as leader to be replaced by Björn Höcke from the party's far-right wing. Petry and Höcke both attempted to exclude each other from the party, with Petry accusing Höcke and his supporters of being extremists. However, Petry decided she would still stand at the federal election. In the run-up to the election, Petry registered a website and a political party under the name die Blauen, sparking speculation that she would join her new party. Petry left the AfD immediately after being elected in September 2017, but announced that she would be an independent. This changed in October 2017, when Petry officially announced the founding of the Blue Party. Petry became the first Blue Party member in the Bundestag and, because of her dual mandate, the first Blue Party member in the Landtag of Saxony. She was shortly joined by her husband Marcus Pretzell, a representative in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, and three other NRW representatives: Alexander Langguth, Frank Neppe and Anette Schultner. Petry stated that the party hopes to compete in the 2019 state election in Saxony.  Alexander Langguth Frank Neppe Anette Schultner Bürgerforum die 'Blaue Wende' mit Frauke Petry und Marcus Pretzell Leaders of the Blauwe Parteiwww.blauewende.de/ |
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 7:13:34 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 7:15:23 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 14:29:38 GMT -7
Die Blaue Partei, Bürgerforum Blaue Wende is Pro-Israel and wants a strong connection with and cooperation with Israel.This is not strange or unusual, because many rightwing populist movements and political parties are Pro-Israel, have Zionist tendencies and in their National conservative, National liberal, Nationalistic and anti-migration stance. Israeli people of German Jewish descent played a role in Israeli politics, the Israeli government, the Israeli army and in the connection between Israel and Germany. I mention some Israeli's of German background; Uri Avnery, Gabriel Bach (judge of the Supreme Court of Israel and was the deputy prosecutor in the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann), Karl M. Baer (20 May 1885 – 26 June 1956; one of the first Israeli transgender people), Naftali Bezem (Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924), Avraham Burg (Israeli author, politician and businessman), Yosef Burg (Israeli of German descent, born in Dresden, Germany, on 31 January 1909, father of Avraham Burg, Yosef Burg was elected to the first Knesset, and served in many ministerial positions for the next 40 years. He was one of the founders of the National Religious Party. The ideology of the National Religious Party was a combination of Religious Zionism, Religious nationalism, Religious conservatism, Greater Israel -Eretz Yisrael Hashlema- and Settler interests.), Ruth Calderon (Hebrew: רות קלדרון, born 25 September 1961) an Israeli academic and politician. She served as a member of Knesset for the liberal Yesh Atid party between 2013 and 2015 (she has an Ashkenazi mother originally from Germany); Ezriel Carlebach (born in the city of Leipzig, Germany on November 7, 1909, died in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1956) was a leading journalist and editorial writer during the period of Jewish settlement in Palestine and during the early days of the state of Israel. Leah Rabin (Hebrew: לאה רבין, née Schloßberg; 8 April 1928 – 12 November 2000) was the widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. Leah was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to an upper-middle-class family of Russian-born parents. Yitzhak Raveh (Hebrew: יצחק רווה; 10 November 1906 – 8 November 1989) was a German-born Israeli judge who was one of the panel of three judges presiding over the trial of Adolf Eichmann. The other judges were Moshe Landau and Benjamin Halevi.  Yitzhak Raveh (1906 – 1989) was a German academical educated and trained Israeli judge, who had worked as a Court Assessor, Assistant Judge, and Judge in the Weimar Republic in the early thirties.Yitzhak Raveh was born in Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany, the youngest of six children born to Heinrich and Selma Reuss. He was given the name Franz Reuss. His father was a teacher, Hebrew scholar and author. When he was two years old, his family moved to Berlin. Reuss grew up in an environment of both German and Jewish cultures. After completing his primary and secondary education at local German schools, he studied law at the University of Berlin, completing his degree in 1927. He earned a Doctorate of Law in 1929 at the University of Halle. After two years of private practice, Reuss was appointed as a Court Assessor, Assistant Judge, and Judge at the Court of First Instance at Charlottenburg, positions he held from 1931 until the spring of 1933. When the Nazi Party came to power that year, Reuss sensed an increasing animosity and competitiveness directed at him by his colleagues at the court, causing him to resign his post on March 31, 1933. The next day, all Jewish Judges who had been admitted to the Bar after 1 August 1914 were permanently removed from the bench. Within a month, Judge Reuss, with his young wife Batya, boarded a ship for the British mandate of Palestine. Reuss resumed his legal profession in Palestine. He rose from private law practice, through directorship of the new Israeli Land Registration Ministry, followed by his appointment in 1952 as judge in the Tel Aviv-Yafo District Court, He held this position until his retirement in 1976, specializing in Land Law. Upon accepting the judgeship, he officially changed his name to Yitzhak Raveh (initially spelled Ravé). In 1960, Judge Raveh agreed to serve on a special, three-judge panel at the Jerusalem District Court created for the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who had been instrumental in the annihilation of millions of European Jews during the Second World War. Raveh had been asked to serve because of his judicial acumen, his familiarity with the German language, literature, philosophy, educational system and culture, and because he had lost no family in the war. (His parents were dead and his siblings had all left Germany before the war began.) His familiarity with German philosophy and education became pivotal to the trial, as in questioning the defendant, Raveh forced Eichmann to assume and acknowledge responsibility for his actions in accordance with the moral law dogma prescribed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, whom Eichmann had studied as a student. As an expert in Land Law, Raveh later headed a parliamentary committee, named after him, which overhauled Israeli rental laws, including those for the protection of lodgers. Raveh also lectured at symposia at the Tel Aviv University, wrote for law journals, and trained future lawyers and judges. Yuval Steinitz Israel's Minister of Energy, in charge of Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a member of the Security Cabinet. He is a member of the Knesset from the Likud party. He served as Minister of Finance (2009-2013) and as Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs (2013-2015). Steinitz is of German jewish descent, and you probably can see that if you look at his surname Steinitz, which doesn't sound Hebrew or Slavic like many jewish Israeli names. Adin Theilhaber-Talbar Adin Theilhaber-TalbarAdin Theilhaber-Talbar (8 October 1921 – 6 September 2013), was Deputy Director of the Israel Ministry for Commerce and Industry, furthered German-Israeli cooperation and was the founder of the Israel Academic Sports Association (A.S.A.). Talbar was born in Berlin. He was a grandson of Adolph Theilhaber, who was an advisor to the Bavarian court, and the son of Felix A. Theilhaber (de), a renowned dermatologist and author in the early 20th century. Originally from Bamberg (a town in Upper Franconia in northern Bavaria in Southern-Germany), his father came to Berlin, where he married Stefanie Czapinska, who came from a highly educated Jewish household in Włocławek, Poland. German-Israeli relationsFollowing the successful negotiations about economic aid to Israel, Talbar was co-founder of the German-Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Tel Aviv in 1966. In 1966 Talbar organized an international university basketball tournament at the Tel Aviv University. For the first time a German sports team – the team of the University of Heidelberg – participated in a competition against an Israeli team in Israel. The games were opened by FISU president Primo Nebiolo. Accompanied by demonstrations and under the protection of 200 policemen the Israeli and German team leaders exchanged crests. The German flag was guarded by police throughout the tournament. This broke the taboo of sports, however, and by extension cultural contacts between Germany and Israel. In 1978 he founded the German-Israeli Association in Jerusalem.
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Post by karl on Sept 10, 2018 15:31:50 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 16:12:35 GMT -7
Karl,
I have a strong central European fascination for German Jews and Austrian jews who had not only a strong influence within the German speaking cultural, art, scientific, philosophical, psychoanalysis (Freud, Josef Breuer, Alfred Adler and Wilhelm Stekel) world (Berlin, Vienna, Zürich/Basel), but also in England (UK), France, the Netherlands, the USA, Czech Republic, Poland, British Palestine and Israel. German jews in advance in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century formed the elite of American Judaism. Later the German Ashkenazi jews merged with new Central- and Eastern-European Ashkenazi Jewish migrants from Poland, Russia, Ukraine, the SovjetUnion, the Baltic states, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and some jews that came from France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia, Italy and France.
Jewish intellectuals and creative professionals were among the leading figures in many areas of Weimar culture. German university faculties became universally open to Jewish scholars in 1918. Leading Jewish intellectuals on university faculties included physicist Albert Einstein; sociologists Karl Mannheim, Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse; philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Edmund Husserl; political theorists Arthur Rosenberg and Gustav Meyer; and many others. Seventeen German citizens were awarded Nobel prizes during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), five of whom were Jewish scientists. The German-Jewish literary magazine, Der Morgen, was established in 1925. It published essays and stories by prominent Jewish writers such as Franz Kafka and Leo Hirsch until its liquidation by the Nazi government in 1938.
As new arrivals in Palestine, German Jews who had fled from the National Socialist regime were unwanted. But then they helped to build Israel.
The wave of immigration to British Mandated Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s known as the Fifth Aliyah was composed predominantly of Yekkes. Many of them settled in the vicinity of Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, leading to the nickname "Ben Yehuda Strasse." Their struggle to master Hebrew produced a dialect known as "Yekkish." The Ben Yehuda Strasse Dictionary: A Dictionary of Spoken Yekkish in the Land of Israel, published in 2012, documents this language.
German Jewish Émigrés to Palestine shipped their possessions in so-called lifts, a type of container. Often the furniture, made from German oak, including double beds and Blüthner pianos, didn't fit in their new apartments.
But they tried to transport a piece of Germany, their homeland. Rolling pins and crotched doilies, oven mitts and cookbooks: the authentic objects testify to how strongly rooted the Jewish population was in German culture.
But in Palestine, many of the Jeckes felt uncomfortable revealing their native language and origins in public. Their language was, after all, the language of the Nazi perpetrators.
"Back then someone said to me, 'German is only spoken quietly,'" recalls Ruthi Ofek, "You always felt under pressure."
But it also had to do with the animosity between the Jeckes and Jewish émigrés from Eastern Europe. They had put down roots in Palestine long before 1933 and looked down on the new arrivals.
The derogatory term Jecke, applied to German Jews, is said to originate from the fact that German émigrés, in all their bourgeois stiffness, would not remove their jackets even in the soaring desert heat.
In the connection, negotiations, relationship, bilateral contacts between the Bundesrepublic Deutschland and the State of Israel the German Jews, the Jecke's must have played a certain role. I can't prove it, but some Israeli's with German Jwish background has great influence in Israel as judges, lawjers, politicians, businesspeople, scientists, professors, Union leaders, music composers, musicians, artists, writers, Labour politicians and probably as army officers and ministers in Israeli governments. They probably will have been mediators, connectors and a human bridge between the Israeli and German authorities, but I can't prove that. I have no sources, no files and no articles, essays, text to show that.
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 16:41:09 GMT -7
Dear Karl, I think that Frauke Petry and her new political movement or party will have a tough time to compete with Alternative für Deutschland and the CSU (Christlich-Soziale Union) from Bavaria (Bayern) and even the CDU. Alternative für Deutschland is to large to compete as a minority who left Alternative für Deutschland. And the center right CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) of Angela Merkel might under the influence of competition from Alternative für Deutschland move to a more rightwing conservative direction after Merkel leaves office and will abandon the CDU party leadership. Merkel has governed and lead the CDU for a long time and I think like every great leader she will have plans for leaving the political stage and will work on her successor, a new leader of her party and future CDU Bundeskanzler. But it is a fact that Frauke Petry has political experience and a group of National conservative people who support her and she has one seat in the Bundestag. Her message looks modern, rightwing conservative, Market Laissez Faire oriented, but less extreme than Alternative für Deutschland. Maybe some people of the moderate wing of the Alternative für Deutschland, and some old CDU and CSU members, voters and followers will support Petry's Bürgerforum Blaue Wende/Die Blaue Partei? The Blaue Partei's demand for stronger border controls, restrictions on asylum, and no dual nationality and denouncing of "political Islam", but the moderate stance that it does not endorse the AfD's claim that there is no place for Islam in Germany and the Economic liberalism, Euroscepticism and clearly rightwing and conservative stance of the Bürgerforum Blaue Wende/Die Blaue Partei will attract some people of the rightwing of the liberal FDP, CDU and CSU voters and Alternative für Deutschland voters who want to vote something else, but want to keep the strong stances of the Alternative für Deutschland. Bürgerforum Blaue Wende/Die Blaue Partei serves these people right, because the party is taugh on immigration, wants to stop Islamic immigration like Alternative für Deutschland and is Eurosceptic like Alternative für Deutschland, but less extreme. Many Germans will like that, but probably many Germans today don't know Frauke Petry's Bürgerforum Blaue Wende/Die Blaue Partei. Cheers, Pieter |
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 16:47:23 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 16:57:32 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 10, 2018 17:11:44 GMT -7
Frauke Petry also has had contacts with foreign rightwing movements and political parties from the Netherlands, France, Austria and France. Frauke Petry moved into a different direction than Alternative for Germany, but she keeps going on and has a strong character and personality. She knows how to deal with aversion, hatred and the pressure from her larger former Alternative for Germany fraction in the German parliament. The Alternative für Deutschland have 92 seats, the Union (CDU/CSU) have 246 seats, the Social Democrats (SPD) have 153 seats, the Left (Die Linke) have 69 seats, The Liberals (FDP) have 80 seats and Die Blauen (Bürgerforum Blaue Wende/Die Blaue Partei) from Frauke Petry have 2 seats, Frauke Petry and Mario Mieruch.  Frauke Petry and Mario Mieruch in a time that they were still Alternative for Germany members |
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