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Koloman Brenner (born 28 May 1968) is a German-Hungarian linguist, politician, associate professor. He belongs to the ethnic German community of Hungary. Between 2014 and 2017 he was the Deputy Director of the German Institute of the Faculty of Humanities at
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...
. His research fields are; the phonetics and phonology of German language, German and comparative dialectology, minority languages and multilingualism. He is an active participant of German public life in Hungary. He has been a Member of Parliament since 2018, and he is also a member of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
The Assembly is made up o ...
. He has been Deputy Speaker of the
Hungarian National Assembly
The National Assembly ( hu, Országgyűlés, lit=Country Assembly) is the parliament of Hungary. The unicameral body consists of 199 (386 between 1990 and 2014) members elected to 4-year terms. Election of members is done using a semi-proporti ...
since 2020.
Early life
He was born into an ethnic German family in
Sopron
Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő.
History
Ancient times-13th century
When the area that is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a ...
. He finished his primary and secondary school studies in his hometown. In 1986 he earned his high school graduation from Széchenyi István Grammar School. He began his university studies in 1987 in history and German language at the
József Attila University of Szeged, where he graduated as a high school teacher in 1992, and two year, earned his doctorate.
For three years after his graduation he taught nationality knowledge at Benedek Elek Nursery College of Sopron, between 1995 and 1997 he worked as a teaching assistant at the Dániel Berzsenyi College of
Szombathely
Szombathely (; german: Steinamanger, ; see also other alternative names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by t ...
at the German Language and Literature Department, then as an adjunct. In 1997, he started to teach at the
University of Veszprém, where he was a senior adjunct at the Department of German Language and Literature. In 1999 he left Veszprém and started his doctoral studies at the German Doctoral School of
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...
. In addition, he worked at
Faculty of Humanities
A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In American usage such divisions are generally referred to as colleges ...
of the
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...
as an adjunct professor at the German Institute. He was appointed university docent in 2007 and habilitated in 2010. Between 2011 and 2015, he was Deputy Strategic Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and from 2012 to 2016 he was a member of the University Senate. Between 2014 and 2017 he held the position of Deputy Director of Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, German Institute. In addition to his work in Hungary, he was guest lecturer and researcher at a number of German and Austrian universities (
Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...
,
Bonn
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,
Vienna
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Tübingen
Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...
,
Marburg
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,
Regensburg
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).
In 2002 he defended his PhD thesis. He became a member of the Linguistics Committee of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...
. He is also a member of several scientific associations: Hungarian Germanist Association, International German Dialectological Society (Central German Dialectological Society), Central European German Association (Mitteleuropäischer Germanistenverband), German Central, Eastern, and South-East Europe Central-research scientific adviser,
University of Regensburg
The University of Regensburg (german: link=no, Universität Regensburg) is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on 18 ...
. He is also a board member of the international editorial board of the online magazine INTRALINEA and member of chairman committee of the publisher of Wiener Sprachblatt. He publishes his scientific publications in Hungarian, German and English.
Political career
After the
end of communism in Hungary
Communist rule in the People's Republic of Hungary came to an end in 1989 by a peaceful transition to a democratic system. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary remained a communist country. As the So ...
, Brenner became an active participant in German national life in Hungary; between 1992 and 1994 he was the head of the Sopron office of the Hungarian Germans' Association. He then became a member of the
National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary
The National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary (german: Landesselbstverwaltung der Ungarndeutschen, LdU; hu, Magyarországi Németek Országos Önkormányzata, MNOÖ) is the nationwide representative organization of the German minority in Hu ...
. From 1996 to 2017, he represented the MNOÖ (the National Self-Government of German in Hungary) in the
Federal Union of European Nationalities
The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1949 in conjunction with the formation of the Council of Europe. As of 2019, there were 103 member organizations representing ...
(FUEN). In 1998 he also became a member of the Association of German Writers and Artists in Hungary (VudAK). In 2015, he also became active in national politics, became an education and foreign affairs expert of the
Jobbik
The Movement for a Better Hungary ( hu, Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), commonly known as Jobbik (), is a conservative political party in Hungary.
Originating with radical and nationalist roots, at its beginnings, the party described itself ...
, and then in 2017 it was announced that the party would be a Sopron candidate in the 2018 parliamentary elections, which led to his resignation from MNOÖ. He was behind the
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
candidate (Attila Barcza) in the election, but won a seat on the national list. In addition to his foreign affairs committee in the Parliament, he will be a member of the national cohesion committee until 2020, and a member of the legislative committee from April 2020. Since the end of 2018, he has held the position of deputy leader of Parliamentary Group of
Jobbik
The Movement for a Better Hungary ( hu, Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), commonly known as Jobbik (), is a conservative political party in Hungary.
Originating with radical and nationalist roots, at its beginnings, the party described itself ...
. He is a member of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
The Assembly is made up o ...
, where his foreign policy focuses on the protection of national minorities and education policy. Member of the Committee on Culture, Education and the Media, rapporteur on academic freedom and university autonomy.
After Fidesz tried to hinder his election by not providing a quorum for the parliamentary vote, he was elected for the third run, by 109 votes to 1, with 1 abstention.
References
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1968 births
Hungarian-German people
Jobbik politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026)
Linguists from Hungary
People from Sopron
Academic staff of Eötvös Loránd University
Germanists
Living people