Josef Winkler (politician)
Josef Philip Winkler ( born April 5, 1974 in Koblenz ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). He was from 2009 to 2013 Deputy Leader of the parliamentary party Alliance 90/The Greens in charge of the Working Group 3 - democracy, justice and social policy.
- 2.1 Refugee Policy
- 2.2 Church policy
Life
Education and work
Winkler, whose mother is from the Indian state of Kerala, completed after high school graduation in 1993 at the Goethe -Gymnasium in Bad Ems training as a nurse, which he finished in 1997 with the state exam. From 1997 to 2002 he was a nurse in orthopedics and geriatric psychiatry.
Party race
Winkler has been a student member of the Green Party in 1990. Here he was 1991-1993 Spokesman of the Board of the district association Rhein- Lahn. Since June 2011 he has been Member of the party of the National Association of Rhineland- Palatinate, where he served in 2001 to 2008.
Deputies activity
From 1994 to 1999 and from 2004 to 2007 Winkler was a member of the city council in his hometown Bad Ems. From 1994 to 1999 he was also Chairman of the Green Group in association council Bad Ems. From 1999 to 2003 and 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the council of the district of Rhein -Lahn, where he was at times also chairman of the Green Party.
From 2002 to 2013 Winkler was a member of the German Bundestag. Since 2009, he was Deputy Leader of the parliamentary party Alliance 90/The Greens and responsible for its working group 3 - democracy, justice and social policy. In this legislature, Winkler was a refugee policy spokesman and spokesman for church policy and interreligious dialogue of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group. Previously, he was from 2002 to 2009 Migration Political speaker and 2002-2005 democracy policy spokesman of his group.
Josef Winkler was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs ( 2002-2013 ), deputy member of the Committee on Petitions (since 2009, previously 2002-2009 Member and Chairman ) and substitute member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure (2009 to 2013).
Winkler was chairman of the Indo-German Parliamentary Group of the German Bundestag and Vice-Chairman of the German - South Asian Parliamentarians. Winkler was a member since 2003 of the Delegation of the German Bundestag for the Inter-Parliamentary Union and since 2011 a member of its Executive Committee.
Josef Philip Winkler has moved over the national list of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Federal Parliament in 2002, 2005 and 2009.
Others commitment
Josef Winkler is a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council of the German Foundation for World Population, Member of the Board of the action a sense of community eV and a member of the Board of Trustees of Theo - twenties Foundation. In his home town of Bad Ems he serves as director of the cabaret CasaBlanca, he is senator of Bad Emser Carnival Gesellschaft eV and the low Ehrenelferrat Lahnsteiner Carnival Association.
Winkler manages the property, area 2 basic questions of law, the state, the international community and the political ethics ( Political basic questions ) of the Central Committee of German Catholics ( ZdK ), the General Assembly, he has been committed since 2008, he is member of the Board of Trustees of the Christian- Islamic society e. V., Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leo Baeck Foundation, a member of the diocesan Assembly of the Diocese of Limburg ( since 2004), member of the board of trustees of Catholic German women's Federation and member of the scientific advisory board of the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Berlin.
These are all to volunteer activities without remuneration.
Political positions
Refugee policy
Winkler opposes a " devastating " and " unworthy " " foreclosure European policy," stay with the refugees in transit States defenseless before the borders of the European Union within the legal vacuum. He criticized that European governments are erected new and higher hurdles, rather than creating legal avenues for the safe arrival of refugees. This resulted, as Winkler, every year thousands of deaths in the attempt to reach the shores of Europe. Winkler calls for solutions that were based on humanity and human rights. From the federal level Winkler calls for the abolition of the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, as it pursues the purpose to discriminate against people. He also criticized the detention in Germany as arranged too often and for too long, and often in the wrong place, namely with offenders conducted. It calls for a fundamental reform of the detention in Germany and the handling of rejected asylum seekers. In the fall of 2012 Winkler accused Interior Minister Hans -Peter Friedrich and the CDU / CSU " irresponsible scaremongering " in the context of increasing numbers of asylum seekers. The Minister of the Interior agency said Winkler, the number of asylum seekers falsified represent bottlenecks in the accommodation are self-inflicted and the verbal build-up in the debate was largely the parliamentary election campaigns in Lower Saxony and Bavaria owed.
Church policy
Winkler committed " to the separation of church and state, as it is regulated in the Basic Law with the newly limping separation, which means that the churches and the state have just but a whole lot to do with each other. " Just a consistently secular state he sees however are critical: a decades -kept respectful treatment should not endanger you, so Winkler, believers should not be forced to retreat into more private. Between his party Alliance 90/The Greens and the Christian churches Winkler sees many similarities but also differences, such as the family picture, or in dealing with homosexuality. Winkler is co-author of the 2012 Catholic by several green politicians formulated author paper " True Move". In the paper are, inter alia, democratization of the Catholic Church, changes in the relationship between church hierarchy and faithful, a reform of the church tax, an appreciation of the work of women in the church, tolerance and equality in dealing with homosexuality and a dedicated guided ecumenical dialogue required. Media attention and much criticism there was the idea of introducing a " cultural tax on the Italian model " instead of church tax. An implementation of such plans seems hardly possible, since this would require an amendment of the Basic Law: Lawyers of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD ) had referred incompatible in 2007, a similar control model with Article 140 of the Basic Law. For Islam Winkler calls the legal equality with other religions in Germany.