Computer scientist Wolfgang Wiehle sits for the AfD in the Berlin Bundestag.
A CSU icon aroused his political interest.
He talks about the change of the political home.
Munich - Wolfgang Wiehle has a weakness for numbers.
At the age of three he could count to 1000, he says.
Later he studied computer science.
And the 56-year-old has a passion for railways and is also responsible for such questions at the AfD in the Bundestag.
Wiehle is now running again for the direct mandate in the south of Munich.
Wolfgang Wiehle was born in Munich * and grew up in the surrounding area, Gröbenzell, Ottobrunn.
“I know the issues surrounding the city and the surrounding area from my own experience,” he says.
Studying computer science in Munich was an obvious choice; his father was a professor for this subject at the University of the Federal Armed Forces.
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
Wolfgang Wiehle (AfD): Once a CSU member, today for the CSU in the Bundestag
Franz Josef Strauss sparked political interest.
1982: retrofitting debate;
on June 5th, Strauss spoke on the Königsplatz about the friendship with the USA.
"That was the reason for me to go to the CSU." Wiehle made a party career, became chairman of the political student association RCDS, sat in today's district committee Sendling-Westpark and from 1994 to 2002 for the CSU in the Munich city council.
His topic has always been transport policy, Wiehle campaigned strongly for the tunneling under the Middle Ring.
But in 2002 politics was over.
There were several reasons for this, he recalls.
"As I understand it, the CSU has developed in the wrong direction." He was an opponent of the euro from the very beginning and voted against the Maastricht Treaty at a CSU party congress in the early 1990s.
"A second reason was the scandal about manipulated votes in the CSU." This Munich CSU scandal had already emerged in 2002 and later led to the resignation of Monika Hohlmeier, Strauss's daughter, the man who had brought Wiehle into politics .
“Another reason was the family,” says Wiehle.
His son was born in 2000 and his daughter in 2002.
"That had something to do with time."
Characteristics
Name:
Wolfgang Wiehle
Age:
56
Occupation:
Member of the Bundestag
Constituency:
Munich-South
Party:
AfD
Marital status:
divorced, two children
Bundestag election: Wiehle (AfD) with a focus on traffic - "choose your own means of transport"
In 2013, the AfD then entered the political stage.
You have filled a gap, against the euro, against the exit from nuclear energy.
“That was the reason for me to leave the CSU and join the AfD.” In 2017 Wiehle moved into the Bundestag via a list.
"It was pioneering work, it was a matter of building a new parliamentary group."
And for him it turned out that the topic of transport was not yet well covered. Wiehle is the second speaker in the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He wants to continue that, he is seventh on the state list and will therefore definitely sit in the 20th Bundestag. “I will do everything I can to ensure that citizens can choose their own means of transport,” he says. He suspects that driving will become unaffordable if all the bans come in this way. "And then there will be people who can no longer afford the car." That is also difficult for the federal government. "If the taxes on the mineral oil are eliminated, over 40 billion euros will be missing," he says. Believe him, he knows numbers.
Meanwhile, the AfD has long since established itself as a constant in the Bundestag and has learned to make demands - in a legal dispute it wants to assert its claim to an office.
All information about the 2021 federal election in Munich: The layout of the constituencies, the parties, candidates and results can be found here *.
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