The head of the Berlin CDU demands the expulsion of the former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maassen. The reason: In an interview, Maassen commented on “racism against whites” and made problematic “racial theory” statements.
After the most recent “racial theory” statements by ex-Verfassungsschutz President Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of the Berlin CDU, Kai Wegner, is demanding his expulsion from the party. This is reported by the “Tagesspiegel”. The Secretary General of the CDU, Mario Czaja, also distanced himself from Maassen’s statements and called on him to leave the party. Czaja writes on Twitter: “Again and again he uses the language from the milieu of anti-Semites and conspiracy ideologues and places himself again and again close to the AfD.” However, Czaja does not demand an expulsion from the party.
The triggers are the recent controversial statements by Maassen, who again polarized in an interview with theses close to a conspiracy. In it he talks about racism against white people. Not recognizing this is “an expression of a green-red racial theory, according to which whites are regarded as an inferior race and that Arab and African men must therefore be brought into the country.”
These are not the first controversial statements for which Hans-Georg Maassen has been criticized. The former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution repeatedly attracted attention with questionable claims about migrants or Corona. It was only at the weekend that Maassen praised a YouTube channel run by conspiracy ideologues from the Reich bourgeois milieu. Maassen wrote on Twitter that “these smart and brave young people” are the future.
For the parliamentary group leader of the Berlin CDU Kai Wegner, who is currently running for election to the House of Representatives in the capital, the former president of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has now finally disqualified himself as a party member. “Mr Maassen has crossed another line. It has to be over now. Anyone who makes such statements has no place in the CDU,” Wegner explained to the medium. In the past, the Berlin CDU boss had protected Maassen. He said the CDU must also accept uncomfortable opinions, even if he doesn’t share Maassen’s views. Now, however, Wegner seems to have had enough.
Author Ralph Bollman
The CDU leader at the time, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, also criticized Maassen and explained that she did not see any attitude in him that connected him to the CDU. However, she did not want to express a call for expulsion from the party.
In January 2022, some high-ranking CDU members called for this. The incumbent CDU leader Friedrich Merz has so far always rejected these demands, for which he has been criticized.
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