Martin Hohmann

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Martin Hohmann was an independent member of the German Bundestag; he had originally been elected for the Christian Democratic Union, the centre-right party. On October 3, 2003 he made a speech in which he called Germans to be more patriotic. He denounced the view, that the German nation bears a collective guilt for Nazi crimes and especially rejected the term "Tätervolk (nation of perpetrators)". His citing the involvement of some Jews in the 1917 Russian October Revolution was criticised for being anti-Semitic. The CDU Bundestag fraction voted to expel him on November 14, 2003, but he retained his seat in the parliament. On July 20, 2004 his party revoked his membership.

In the Bundestag election of 2005, Hohmann fought to keep his seat of Fulda on the 'direct mandate' or first vote, and won just over 20% of the vote. Although he came in third place, this was the best performance by any independent candidate in the election.