Hogamous, Higamous — Germans Are Polygamous
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Baron Bodissey
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A higher court in Germany has essentially made polygamy legal for German citizens — provided that said citizens are Muslim males. If Heinz or Franz tried to turn a couple of Fräuleins into Frauen, he probably would get no more than a cursory court hearing before being thrown in the slammer.
The following translation by Egri Nök was posted at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.
German Court Rules: Polygamy Not Against the Constitution
An original translation from
Stuttgarter Zeitung by Egri Nök:
German Top Court Decides:
German Passport And Two Wives: Both Are Permissible
By Eberhard Wein
August 27, 2017
According to the Koran, a man can marry a second woman; but in Germany, too, this is not against the constitution. At least this is what the two highest administrative law judges say. A Syrian, who is married to two wives, can still become a German national. The city of Karlsruhe cannot revoke his naturalization, the administrative court says.
Karlsruhe — if you contract a second marriage abroad, you can still be a good and loyal citizen. This is the gist of a verdict of the administrative court (VGH) in Mannheim. The highest administrative law judges of the country repealed a contrarian decision by the Karlsruhe administrative court. The city of Karlsruhe had revoked German citizenship from a native of Syria after it surfaced that he had married a second wife in his old homeland.
The 36-year-old Kurd came to Germany in 1999, studied and became a construction engineer in 2008. He married a German that same year, and applied for German citizenship shortly thereafter. At the naturalization test, he scored 33 out of 33 possible points. He received his naturalization certificate in October 2010.
Shortly after the wedding he married a second wife
In 2010, 2013 and 2015, three children were born. But then the man recognized fatherhood for another child born in Damascus in 2012. What surfaced now led to the revocation of naturalization by the city of Karlsruhe. The man allegedly had married another woman in Syria back in June 2008, only seven weeks after his marriage in Germany. The charge is that he had given incomplete information in his application.
In the verdict, the administrative court leaves open the question of whether the plaintiff gained naturalization by willful deceit. It is true that the application form only asked for “previous marriages” and not “additional marriages”. Still, the judges of the previous instance were not wrong to say that a second marriage should have been stated “all the more”. But at the same time, the senate does not share the administrative court’s opinion that the principle of singular marriage was part of the constitution.
Marriage saved woman from ostracism
The city of Karlsruhe had argued that polygamy violated the dignity of man as guaranteed in article 1 [of the German constitution — translator] — in the judges’ opinion “an absolutely unique legal opinion”. They pointed to a decision by the Regensburg administrative court: Whoever violates the principle of single marriage, is not necessary an “enemy of the constitution”, it said “boldly and correctly”.
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