Karamba Diaby

Karamba Diaby ( born November 27, 1961 in Marsassoum, Senegal ) is a German politician (SPD) and since the general election 2013 Member of the German Bundestag. He is a chemist and Geoökologe.

Life and career

Diaby was born in Marsassoum in the Casamance region of Senegal in the southwest, the youngest of four siblings and grew up there. His mother died three months after his birth, his father when he was seven years old. After the death of both parents, the orphan of his 17- year-old sister and her husband was taken. At the age of 13 he attended a boarding school in Sédhiou and four years later he obtained a place in the Lycée Gaston Berger in Kaolack, which prepared him to the university in the capital Dakar.

From 1982 to 1984 he studied with the help of his brother, biology and geology teacher at the University of Dakar. It also awoke his interest in political issues. During his studies, he met the future President of Senegal Macky Sall know. Through his political activism in Dakar in the early 1980s he came into contact with a left-wing student organization in Prague, which funded a study for young people from all over the world in the former Eastern Bloc. He applied for a scholarship and got the approval for the Martin Luther University; the GDR also awarded several scholarships to students from non- socialist countries. At baseline, he took from 1985 to 1986 a nine -month German course at the Herder Institute of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Subsequently, he studied from 1986 to 1991 Chemistry at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. There he also met his future wife Ute know who Agricultural Sciences studied. After graduating with a degree in chemistry, he joined 1992-1996 doctoral studies at. In 1996 he submitted his doctoral thesis studies on heavy metal and nutrient balance in Halle allotment gardens - a contribution to geo-ecological characteristics of the city hall a region. For his doctoral thesis a quintessentially German institution brought him closer to the allotment.

After the Doctor of Natural Sciences ( Dr. rer. Nat. ) Diaby moved to the one-world house hall, where he worked from 1996 to 2001 as project manager. There were other stations in the area of ​​intercultural education and youth work in Halle, before Diaby 2011 joined as a consultant in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Saxony- Anhalt.

Karamba Diaby is married and has two children. Since 2001 he is a German citizen and non-denominational. In addition to German and his native language Diakhanke / Mandingo he speaks French, the official language of Senegal. His first name accented on the last "a" is a short form for Karamokhoba, which means on Mandingo " the scholar ".

Commitment

Early on, dedicated Karamba Diaby, first in the student council, while studying in Halle, he was spokesman for the international students. Later he was elected to the Council of Foreigners of the hall and was National Chairman of the Integration Council, an umbrella organization of municipal councils foreigners. Since the mid- 1990s Diaby works in various social projects with a focus on education and integration. In January 2002, he was received by the then Federal President Johannes Rau in recognition of commitment to the understanding between immigrants and Germans.

Party

Diaby joined the SPD in 2008. When drawing up the national list for Saxony -Anhalt at the state party of the SPD on 16 February 2013, was elected on the third place in the regional list for the federal election of 2013. At the same time he was candidate for the constituency 72 in Halle.

Member of Parliament

2009, a year after joining the SPD, Diaby was elected to the City Council Hall. He has since been a member of the Committee on Planning and Environmental Affairs and the Education Committee. The Operating Committee Eigenbetrieb for employment promotion, he left in 2012.

In the general election in 2013 Diaby candidate in the constituency 72 in Halle. He reached there by 23.34 per cent of the primary vote, the third highest behind the former prime minister of Saxony- Anhalt, Christoph Bergner (CDU, 36.29 percent) and Petra Sitte (The Left, 25.51 percent). However, he could move on the third country list position of the SPD in Saxony- Anhalt in the Bundestag. This means that Diaby and Charles M. Huber ( CDU), the first African- German members of the Bundestag. Contrary to many published on his election to press reports, he is not the first member of parliament, who was born in Africa. For example, drew the Hans -Günther born in Keetmanshoop Toetemeyer in 1983 in the Bundestag.

Diaby was elected to the committees on human rights, education and research.

Positions

Karamba Diaby would not be reduced to his skin color and the integration policy. Already in his time on the city council of Halle he decided against the integration policy and had himself elected to the committees on environment and education. Also in the Bundestag he wants not occur as an integration specialist.

Sedition

The General Assembly of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council has on 13 May 2011 the claim decided under the chairmanship of Karamba Diaby, more to pursue racist propaganda criminally and punish. For this, the tightening of § 130 of the Criminal Code ( incitement of the people ) should be called by petition. Trigger for the advance of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council was the 2010 published book Germany abolishes itself and the statements made by Thilo Sarrazin. In a telephone interview with the boys freedom, in which he did not understand the name of the newspaper, he explained the decision by the Federal Immigration and Integration Council. The online article in the boys freedom led to a wave of massive tirades and threats against Diaby. Him reached around 400 emails and dozens of threatening letters, some also went to the SPD Federal Executive in Berlin, even death threats were among them. The state protection determined. Also, the blog Politically Incorrect took up the issue and put it with the Grand boubou, a traditional clothing for men in West Africa, dar. Since then, he no longer wears his Boubou in public.

Writings

• Studies on the heavy metal and nutrient balance in Halle allotment gardens: a contribution to geo-ecological characteristics of the urban region hall. 1st edition. Tectum, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-89608-463-1.
• Intercultural and anti-racist pedagogy in Saxony- Anhalt: the project IKAP. In: tungsten Stender, Georg Rohde, Thomas Weber ( ed.): Cross-cultural and anti-racist education: project experience and theoretical contributions ( = Knowledge & Practice Vol 117. ). 1st edition. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-386-09931-7-0, pp. 165-176.
• Cultural understanding - convey culture: methods of intercultural education at the example of the daily work in the community center of the youth workshop "Happy Future" Halle- Saale Kreis eV In: John Bishop (ed.). Culture Teaching competence in higher education ( = Merseburger media educational writings: artistic - technical introduction to the basics for training in the field of applied Culture, Media and Social. Vol. 5). Shaker, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-383-22751-2-9, pp. 203-209.