The former left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht admitted contact with the initiator of the infamous meeting of right-wing radicals in Potsdam on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz”. However, she had no idea about his attitude.
According to her own statements, the politician Sahra Wagenknecht had contact with the organizer of the Potsdam meeting of radical right-wingers several times without knowing his political background. “He wrote me nice emails,” said Wagenknecht on Wednesday evening on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz.” “Years ago he arranged for me to have dinner with a left-wing German cabaret artist. So that means I wasn’t at all in bad faith that he came from the right-wing scene.” This was “around 2014, 2013”. According to Wagenknecht, the man was there for dinner with her and the cabaret artist in a restaurant.
“I just want to say: These people are obviously very active in trying to make contacts in all directions,” said the former left-wing politician, who recently founded her new party BSW. The last contact was at least months ago, “more likely years”.
Sahra Wagenknecht: “I will no longer have any contact with this man”
It’s about the former dentist Gernot Mörig from Düsseldorf, who, according to the media company Correctiv, confirmed when asked that he was the “sole organizer” of the meeting in a Potsdam villa. According to a report in the “Rheinische Post”, he was already noticed in 2018 because of his right-wing radical past: As the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) “Rheinische Post” confirmed, Mörig, who worked as a private lecturer at the HHU Medical Faculty in the field of dentistry had his teaching license revoked in November 2018. Last week, Correctiv reported on the previously unknown meeting on November 25, 2023, at which right-wing radicals met with politicians from the AfD and CDU. The former head of the Identitarian Movement in Austria , Martin Sellner, said he spoke there about “remigration.” When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that a large number of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
Wagenknecht said that the man had contacted her every now and then “on the level: Oh, you just did a good job on the talk show or you gave a nice speech in the Bundestag. And then I thanked you and that’s it.”
The politician emphasized that when she contacted the man, she “couldn’t have dreamed of concluding that there was a right-wing radical background.” “I mean, now I won’t have any contact with this man anymore. But if someone introduces themselves like that, if someone makes contact in that way, then of course it means that you don’t even think about it, that he’s a right-winger is.”
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Source: Stern
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