Does the German Federal President want to make unconstitutional politics?
km. The German Federal President Joachim Gauck is replacing managerial staff of his presidential office from the times of his predecessors Köhler and Wulff, and filling vacancies primarily with members of the SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
Immediately after he assumed office, Gauck appointed SPD-member David Gill his undersecretary, the Green Andreas Schulze temporarily his speaker, and the SPD-member Johannes Sturm his consultant. The “Hamburger Morgenpost” (17 July) reported that there will be further similar staff decisions in the office of the Federal President. Ferdos Forudastan, the former young socialist activist, who is the green politician Michael Vesper’s present wife, will succeed the temporary speaker Schulze. A confident of SPD-politician Gill, Wolfram Stierle, will be head of the planning department.
To all appearances, these personnel decisions have been made by bypassing the staff council of the office. According to “Hamburger Morgenpost”, the staff council has pointed out in a letter that personnel decisions “are in most cases subject to approval by the staff council,” and in the news from T-online (20 July) you can read the statement of the staff council “that positions must principally be put out for tender.” Furthermore the “Hamburger Morgenpost” quoted a CDU-politician - without mentioning his name - as follows: “The plentitude of personnel decisions in one political direction casts a poor light upon the Office's non-partisanship.”
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The German Basic Law has set very narrow limits for the Federal President's administration. Strictly speaking, he does not have a political task. His main task is to represent Germany as a whole, thus all Germans, particularly abroad. This tight restriction of tasks is the result of Germany’s worst experiences with a politically powerful head of state. The president of the Reich of the Weimar Republic, whose position had been established as that of a “substitute Emperor” after the end of the German Empire in 1918, had dictatorial rights (nomination and dismissal of the Reich chancellor, dissolution of the parliament, enactment of emergency decrees with legal force). Already from 1930 onward the Nazi dictatorship had been prepared with these powers, not just from 30 January 1933.
Obviously, Joachim Gauck, the new German Federal President, ignoring his constitutional task restriction – is also striving for political power beyond the constitutional organs intended for his office. Not in the name of the people, but in his own name and that of interested circles, Gauck has repetedly advocated both globalistic neoliberalism and German participation in imperial wars all around the world. He even requested the Germans to “at last” give up resistance against German war casualties.
Now he keeps filling the office of the President with like-minded comrades.
In their book “Cohn-Bendit, l’imposture” (see Current Concerns, Nr. 28 from 2 July 2012) Paul Ariès and Florence Leray explain that the green whip Daniel Cohn-Bendit is the “best advocate of green capitalism,” “somebody the system needs to enforce its false solutions to the crisis.”
Cohn-Bendit is the “cantor of globalisation” and has been known as aggressive warmonger for almost 20 years. Does Gauck hence belong to the Cohn-Bendit-Kretschmann-axis? Just a reminder: Joachim Gauck – recommended by the new Bilderberger Jürgen Trittin (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) – was originally the rival candidate to CDU/CSU/FDP-candidate Christian Wulff. Only after Wulff’s resignation was he the recommended candidate of all parties – except for the Linkspartei – proposed by CDU, CSU and FDP.
If Joachim Gauck wants to make politicy, he must resign from the office of the Federal President.
Decorating and disguising himself with the non-party aura of the Federal President and then intending to make tough policies with this office-bonus is a clear breach of the constitution. Who in Germany will still stand for that? And where is the outcry of the German media, which has been so loud with his predecessor? •
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