Open, honest and down-to-earth of the SPD leader and Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz declared his world. But his book is not a choice program, Würselen stresses the former book retailer. From Volker Witting, Berlin.
The SPD Federal Chairman and Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz, writes a diary; for over 30 years. For every year a Band and “for each day a page,” he says in his book, “What is important to me”. First of all, he thought, what to write for a crazy question: In the election year, a book. But then it occurred to him that he had to take the time “to work through what I experienced, what moved me and what makes me Worry.”
And honestly, sometimes touching, personally, but also very political. Schulz explained to the Chancellor the candidate Schulz, his life, his Experience and his talks.
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Much of this book has to do with a place in the border triangle between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands: Würselen near Aachen, Germany. The home of Martin Schulz. Here he grew up here he has lived up to the heights of being and the Depths of alcohol dependence, played football, is the youth organisation of the SPD, the young socialists, joined, has launched his professional and political career. As a bookseller and then as mayor.
“For me, especially my family, my neighbors and friends that allow me to create the grip. Since there is no ‘Mr Chairman’ or ‘the candidate’, but since I’m just ‘the Martin’.” Authentic. How this 188 pages are in the book of acts. Even if the book reveal any really new insights or views of the politician Schulz.
Würselen is something like a burning glass for the biography of Martin Schulz. His ideas and political Beliefs have a lot to do with this small town in North Rhine-Westphalia and the experience of Martin Schulz, his family, here.
The Schulz, by the way, with Sigmar Gabriel have in common, his predecessor in the office of the SPD party Chairman. The Würselen Gabriel is, of Goslar, a small town in the Harz mountains. For both the home hub, grounding, noise in the political life.
Europe as a project of “Never again!”
A whole Chapter, Martin Schulz, is dedicated to his parents, who were married in April 1940. Only just before father Albert Schulz was drafted as a soldier for the Wehrmacht. He wanted to give his wife’s social security. He would not return from the war, would ensure that his wife can get a widow’s pension. Schulz’s parents survived. “The grim experiences of the war but was shaped by writes your life until your last days,” Schulz said. And the vow of the parents, he has joined already at that time: “Never again!”
So, too, the enthusiasm of the Euro-parliamentarian and subsequent Chairman of the European Parliament for the Europe as a peace project. For him, growing up in direct proximity to the Netherlands and Belgium, was war the answer to the “rupture of Civilization” the world is logical: “The European Union was, is, and remains therefore, first and foremost, always be an Agreement for peace.” Europe means to him, the international responsibility: Not in the sense of being the world’s policeman, “but to defend the well-understood self-interest and our values”.
And what are the, the candidate for Chancellor, in his book, justice, education for all, equal wages for men and women, the fight against ultra-nationalism.
A book – not a party program!
But Schulz insists in an Interview with broadcaster RBB: “The book is not a book, where I make concrete political demands, in the Form of a party or the election program.” To anyway’ only on 25. June will be presented at a party conference in Dortmund.
Whether the publication of “What is important to me,” even a boost in the polls can cause? Hardly. The social Democrats, Martin Schulz, are back with only 24 per cent – according to the Schulz-Hype far behind the Union. Schulz writes: “Only a few countries are as free, as democratic, prosperous and socially secure.” Only most of the German is not to write the SPD, Martin Schulz, but the duration of Chancellor Angela Merkel.