According to the head of JU "Gleichschaltung": "Kuban plays the little Seehofer"

The new head of the Young Union (JU), Tilman Kuban, has complained of a "Gleichschaltung" of the CDU under Chancellor Angela Merkel - and thus attracts much criticism. "Kuban plays the little Seehofer It is pathetic, if the Union in the European election campaign has no other topic than the refugee policy", said Serpil Midyatli, designated SPD Landeschefin in Schleswig-Holstein, the SPIEGEL.

SPD secretary-general Lars Klingbeil also complained: "First break a taboo, then row back - that's right-wing scam, which the new head of the Junge Union endorsed with his statement." Kuban wants the Union's content and rhetoric to be far to the right move."

After publishing an interview in which the 31-year-old calls this word, he rowed back and said his wording was "inappropriate". But he stands for the fact that other opinions should not be taboo from above.

The term "Gleichschaltung" is mostly used in connection with the National Socialist regime. After coming to power, the National Socialists aligned parties, associations, clubs and the media with their political goals.

Kuban had told the "world" he missed controversial discussions in the party. "In recent years, many in the CDU have not felt comfortable because we have experienced a Gleichschaltung in our orientation, we need again three wings and personalities who say their opinion."

The lawyer was elected to the head of the JU just a week ago, with more than 100,000 members, she is the largest political youth organization in Europe.

Kuban relativizes National Socialism

The deputy of the Greens in the Bundestag, Sven Kindler, reacted outraged. Gleichschaltung was the strategy of the Nazis for the removal of Jews and opposition from the state and society, he wrote on Twitter. Kuban relativizes National Socialism and sounds one to one like Gauland and Höcke. " Meant are AfD boss Alexander Gauland and the AfD country chief in Thuringia, Björn Höcke.

Also the Lower Saxon CDU chairman Bernd Althusmann criticized the statements of Kubans. "Speaking of a Gleichschaltung a democratically-written People's Party CDU, is not acceptable," said Althusmann on Saturday. Kuban was shot over the target. "That's why I'm grateful to him for making his statement clear and apologizing."

Deputy CDU leader and Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner was distanced. There are many opinions in a People's Party, she wrote on Twitter. "It's voted on at party congresses, the majority decides, and there are systems of equality in systems in which, as democrats, we are fortunately not living."

Kuban said that the party base, especially in the refugee crisis, wanted a different policy. "In 2015, a silent majority in the CDU did not support the leadership course." In the year around 900,000 migrants came to Germany. Merkel would have had to set a stop signal much earlier, says Kuban, because her policy was also legally questionable: "The legal position to open the border has indeed never been lit."

For three years, the lawyer Kuban is head of the legal department of the employers' associations Lower Saxony, he is running on a promising list in the European elections in late May.