MERA25 parliamentary candidate Melanie Schweizer was dismissed from her job and stripped of her civil servant status as a result of a political smear campaign.

Schweizer was a civil service lawyer and worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Labour. In this year’s federal election, she ran on the Berlin state list for MERA25 and as a direct candidate in Berlin Mitte. The hate campaign that led to Schweizer’s dismissal was triggered by a December 6 post on X in which she accused the Zionist Malca Goldstein-Wolf of waging a “defamation campaign” because she had called the renowned journalist Georg Restle an antisemite for his criticism of Netanyahu’s war.

Goldstein-Wolf apparently researched Schweizer’s occupation and, when she found out that she worked for the Ministry of Labour, made this known on X and initiated a smear campaign against her. Hundreds of Zionist trolls then spread the most vicious slanders against Schweizer and demanded that she be fired.

The media also immediately joined in the smear campaign. On December 11, the tabloid Bild ran with the headline “Heil shocked! Employee spreads vile hatred of Israel” and went so far as to accuse Schweizer of trivialising the Holocaust.

Schweizer was then invited to a staff meeting, then suspended in January and finally dismissed without notice from her job and stripped of her civil servant status in February. At the same time, in the final days of the federal election campaign, her LinkedIn account was blocked without explanation.

  • Genosse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Die politische Betätigung darf weder zu persönlicher Begünstigung, etwa einer schnelleren Karriere, noch zu einer Benachteiligung führen. Stichwort: Ämterpatronage. Für die Besetzung öffentlicher Ämter gilt mit Verfassungsrang, Art. 33 Abs. 2 GG, das Leistungsprinzip. Öffentliche Ämter sind nach den Kriterien Eignung, Befähigung und fachliche Leistung zu vergeben.

    https://www.dbb.de/beamtinnen-beamte/status-dienstrecht/beamte-und-politik.html

    Federal workers have, as everyone else, the right to be politically active. The condition are, that you can’t be part of the parliament or the government and you have to be able to separate between your job and your political career. You are also not allowed to be active in a party that is against the constitution. Someone who is politically active should not face repercussion for this, as long as he remains neutral in his position as federal worker.