About me
As one of 96 German members of the European Parliament, I represent my voters and my homeland in Brussels and Strasbourg. I stand for a Europe of freedom, democracy and sovereignty, for a Europe of fatherlands, against a European superstate, the EU. Our rich cultural characteristics and differences and their protection are close to my heart. They are an obligation for me to resolutely oppose modern egalitarianism and standardization under the guise of constantly changing empty words that are always the same in content.
I am firmly convinced that personal freedom must go hand in hand with economic freedom. Planned economies, state paternalism and interventionism are outgrowths of a false understanding of what politics can and must achieve.
At the heart of this decadence of our political system is the over-bureaucratised European Union, which has developed into a pure end in itself in many policy areas and ultimately runs the risk of dividing the peoples of Europe rather than uniting them.
As a convinced supporter of our German success story of the social market economy, I want to make it the core of our economic prosperity again.
The interests of German small and medium-sized enterprises as the real drivers of our performance must be at the centre of our considerations.
The increasingly profound influence of the state on individual decisions must come to an end: billions of euros in subsidies for the solar industry have been wasted in the past, and the current one-sided preference for e-mobility will also prove to be a wrong decision, costing hundreds of thousands of highly qualified jobs and ultimately proving to be an ecological disaster.
Our prosperity thrives on the freedom of the individual and not on the lactose-free broth of the all-equalizing, know-it-all nanny state.
I was born in 1983 and grew up very close to Eichstätt - a beautiful town in the Altmühl Valley, which, as a bishop's seat in the north of Upper Bavaria, is on the one hand strongly characterized by traditions and a sense of home. On the other hand, Eichstätt as a university town and the Ingolstadt-Eichstätt region as an industrial location also open one's eyes to the world. Both motives have influenced me. After graduating from the Willibald-Gymnasium there, I studied law and political science in Bayreuth and Munich (LL.B. and Dipl.sc.pol.univ., in other words in business law and political science). After various internships and jobs in Paris and Strasbourg, among others, my path led me to the European Parliament in Brussels in 2014. I initially worked there for an Austrian member of parliament and from 2016 as an advisor for the then patriotic group: with a thematic focus on international trade.
Although I have now put down roots in Brussels and started a family, it is clear that my hometown of Eichstätt has shaped me, that I am still deeply connected to it today and that I want to stand up for it. Just a few years ago, people would have said of Ingolstadt-Eichstätt that this is a region where the world is still in order. But due to wrong policies, this is no longer the case. Even in rural areas, the consequences of mass immigration are becoming more and more apparent. The industrial location is under increasing pressure due to the left-wing ideological fight against the automobile and the disastrous energy transition. Thanks to the trust of the voters in my home region, I have been able to advocate for their interests as a member of the European Parliament since 2019. For me, the key thing here is to put an end to the EU's encroachments and instead to once again emphasize the principle of subsidiarity and the sovereignty of nation states. As a member of parliament, I am therefore also a member of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group.
In Parliament, I am mainly involved as a full member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and as a substitute in the Committee on International Trade (INTA). I am also a member of the delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and the delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.