Thilo Sarrazin
Thilo Sarrazin is a German politician and writer. He is a former SPD senator of finance for the State of Berlin (2002-2009) and served on the executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank (2009 - 2010), until his controversial remarks on Jewish genetics and alleged lack of integration of Muslim immigrants in Germany in his 2010 book lead to a media backlash that resulted in his resignation. [1]
Career
He had already sparked controversy as senator of finance for the State of Berlin by making 'disparaging comments about German welfare recipients' [1]
The party leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) announced in August 2010 that it will investigate whether to terminate Sarrazin's membership, because allegedly his theses are diametrical to basic social-democratic values.[19] An arbitration committee, meeting in Berlin on 21 April 2011, decided that Sarrazin could remain a member of the party. The formal accusation that he had damaged the party with his theories could not be upheld, in particular because Sarrazin read a statement in which he said he had never intended to depart from social democratic values and that he had never intended to suggest that social-Darwinist theories should be implemented in political practice.[20] This in turn led to dissatisfaction among many SPD party leaders.[21]
Books
In his 2010 book Deutschland schafft sich ab[de] ("Germany abolishes itself"), the best selling book on politics by a German-language author in a decade,[4] he denounces the failure of Germany's post-war immigration policy, sparking a nationwide controversy about the costs and benefits of multiculturalism.
'Sarrazin makes abundantly clear, that demise comes as a result of immigration.' [2]
In 2012 another book by Sarrazin was published, Europa braucht den Euro nicht ("Europe doesn't need the euro"). The book argues that the introduction of a single currency in Europe was a bad idea and should be overturned.
Views
On Immigration
said in an interview that immigrants sponge off the state, are incapable of integrating themselves into German society and "constantly produce little girls in headscarves." [3]
In an interview for Lettre International, he said that "a large number of Arabs and Turks in (Berlin) ... have no productive function other than in the fruit and vegetable trade." In the same interview, he claimed that the Turks were "conquering Germany ... through a higher birthrate."
On Islam
On Jewish People
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Massive Pressure' : Islam Critic Sarrazin Resigns from Bundesbank Board, Der Spiegel, September 10 2010. Accessed 3 October 2016.
- ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/injurious-defamatory-and-polemical-new-book-plunges-germany-into-immigration-debate-a-713796.html
- ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/injurious-defamatory-and-polemical-new-book-plunges-germany-into-immigration-debate-a-713796.html
