Zeca Schall

Zeca Schall ( born Fonseca, born in 1963 in Quitongo, Cuanza Sul, Angola ) is a German - Angolan member of the CDU Thuringia.

Life

Sound studied at a technical college for agriculture in Angola. His father was killed in 1984 by Angolan rebels, his mother in 1994 also. In 1988 came the sound as a contract worker to Hildburghausen and completed in the VEB screws and standard parts factory trained as a lathe operator. Sound married a German woman, whose name he adopted and introduced in 1997 as the first Angolans for naturalization. In 2004, he became a German citizen and joined the CDU on the same day. His Angolan citizenship he maintained. Between January and September 2009, completed a sound training in the "Regional Office for Foreigners, youth work, and school" ( RAA eV) in Berlin.

Political commitment

The district council elections in June 2009 sound candidate for the council of Hildburghausen on list position 30 of the CDU, with a total of 40 to be awarded mandates for the county council. Sound received 42 first preference votes and was not elected. Sound works with the established in early 2008 AG " integration of foreign citizens " of the CDU in Thuringia, Thuringian open to all CDU members with an interest in the subject matter. Neither directs sound AG nor he is their spokesman. Schall the CDU on Thuringian State level no office or mandate, but was referred to in media reports erroneously as " integration agent" or "Migration Agent" of the CDU Thuringia. After a false dpa report he was described in the media as " Integration Commissioner of the State Government ", a post which held in Thuringia since 1992 Eckehard Peters as Foreign Representative of the Thuringian state government. (In most states, this function is now referred to as integration coordinator. ) The Focus declared sound by mistake to the deputies.

Sound indicates to have applied already in 2008 the CDU Thuringia as a full-time commissioner for integration, without having received a response. When he was in demand just before the state election in 2009, he was invited to apply again, which he had sent two weeks before the election. On September 7, 2009, the country manager of the party he had, however, informed that the place for financial reasons is not provided, and there is no volunteer position of a commissioner for integration in the party.

Sound is committed to the construction of migrant organizations. He calls for the mandatory kindergarten attendance of children with migration background and the participation of adult migrants in integration groups. Foreigners who wish to stay in Germany, he asks, also to take up German citizenship.

NPD campaign in the 2009 election campaign

Sound became known internationally in the Thuringian state elections in 2009, when he had been mapped together with Dieter Althaus (CDU ) and other people on election posters, and was then threatened by the NPD. The NPD instructed its district organizations, in addition to all the posters on which sound was to see NPD posters " good trip home " to hang out with the slogan. In a press release described it sound as "quota negro ", called his home address and announced that he would seek " direct talks " to his hometown to him " to animate the journey home ." Sound was put under police protection. Members of the right-wing scene were prevented from subsequently by the police to approach his house. Several restraining orders were issued, including against NPD leader Udo Voigt.

The CDU Thuringia filed a criminal complaint for sedition, assault and insult. Since 10 August, the party also began to cover the broken election posters with sound, which had considerable criticism from other parties result. The CDU was announced, the exchange of the posters had been started before the campaign began, the NPD and not to be regarded as a response.

The campaign against sound attracted international attention, Auxiliary Bishop Reinhard Hauke ​​expressed on behalf of the Catholic Church in solidarity with Zeca Schall.

The council and the mayor of the district of Hildburghausen have unanimously passed a resolution on 19 August 2009, which is intended to emphasize the openness of the city for all democratically minded people and the rejection of racial exclusion by right-wing extremists.

The NPD has from August 22, hung his own election posters bearing the portrait sound and a bratwurst show and enter the text " true Thuringia, Thuringian false ". A few weeks previously the Junge Union had campaigned in Thuringia with similar placards which bore the same inscription, but the portrait of originating from Lower Left - top candidates Bodo Ramelow, this poster campaign but had to cancel after protests.

Because of the NPD posters determines the prosecutor in Meiningen. In Weimar and Eisenach they have been removed by order of the respective mayor, in other places, citizens have pasted the posters.

The CDU quartered sound to protect him against the NPD and its recovery from the many interviews in a hotel, and tried to pull him back from the election campaign. Sound itself, however, reiterated that they would continue his campaign activity in reduced form. He participated in the inauguration of the Winter Sports Hall on August 24, 2009 in Oberhof, together with Dieter Althaus and Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble part.

Despite the losses of his own party of more than 10 percentage points sound greeted at the outcome of the election, that the NPD missed a place in the state legislature. Sound advocates a ban on the NPD and engagement in Thuringia against right from which bans demonstrations and a national program should include.