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'''Ulf Dunkel''' (pronounced ˈʊlf ˈdʊnkəl, {{LifeData |birth=1962-08-27 |birthplace=Löningen |birthcountry=Germany}}) is a German salesman, politician, author, composer and [[intactivist]] who engages since Summer 2012 to outlaw the medically not indicated circumcision of boys. He is father of five children and [[Greens ]] politician.

In October 2012 after a longer discussion with [[Volker Beck]], Dunkel wrote an [[Alternative law draft amendment to § 1631 BGB]]. He presented this draft on the 34th Federal Delegates Conference of his Party, the German [[Greens]], in November 2012 in Hannover (Germany). Together with all other requests of others on the topic [[circumcision]], his draft suggestion was moved from the Conference to a so-called "Religion-political Commission". This commission didn't discuss the draft requests to date.

The [[Greens ]] Executive Committee of Lower Saxony had requested Dunkel's exclusion of the party. In late February, 2014, Dunkel and his Executive Committee made a comparison, which waived the reproach of being anti-semitic and xenophobic. Dunkel confirmed that his statements in the [[Circumcision Debate]] in 2012 had served anti-semitic steretypes unintendedly. He again dissociated himself strictly from [[Anti-Semitism|anti-semitism]] and xenophobia. The regional party arbitral tribunal warned him because of these expressions. The proceeding was discontinued; revision was not allowed.<ref>https://ulfdunkel.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/pressemitteilung-zum-pav/</ref>

It can frequently be found that the loss is denied, much as happens with the loss of other body parts. This denial can lead to fathers having their sons circumcised in order not to be reminded of their own loss. In this process, their own body is defined as "normal" and the [[foreskin]] redefined as a foreign object. Their own parents are seen as "good", so that this image is projected onto the circumcision their parents carried out as well, in order to keep the positive emotion intact. The father wants to be a "good" father later in life as well, and so, following an idealised image of his own parents, circumcision, which has been redefined as a "good thing", is passed on to his son by having him circumcised as well.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=van der Kolk |init=BA |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |date=VanderKolkBA 1989 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal

Since 1998, Ulf Dunkel is member of the German [[GREENS ]] party (with a break of five years), was member of the District Association of Cloppenburg, elected member of local parliaments like the city council, and candidate for the German Bundestag and Landtag of Lower Saxony. From July 2015 to March 2018, he was the organizational manager of the [[GREENS ]] District Association of Cloppenburg<ref>{{REFweb |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160608073954/http://www.gruene-cloppenburg.de/geschaeftsfuehrung/ |url=https://gruene-cloppenburg.de/geschaeftsfuehrung/ |archived=yesno

}}</ref> He did not win a mandate , but would be has been a member of the district council again as the first to move upsuccessor since July 2022 and parliamentary group leader since December 2022.

* "[[Komikernation Deutschland]]: Die Beschneidungsdebatte 2012 in Deutschland und die weltweiten Folgen" (''"Comedian Nation Germany: The 2012 circumcision debate in Germany and the global consequences"''), 2023.* "Beschneidung ist Betrug: Und die bevorstehende rechtliche Abrechnung", German translation of the English book "[[Circumcision Is A Fraud: And The Coming Legal Reckoning]]" by [[Peter W. Adler]], 2022.* "[[de_intactiwiki:Beschneidung: Das schmerzhafte Dilemma|Beschneidung: Das schmerzhafte Dilemma]]", German translation of the 2nd edition of the standard work by the late [[Rosemary Romberg]], 2021.

|trans-title=[[Unspeakable Mutilations]]

|trans-title=Alternative law draft amendment to § 1631 BGB],

}} proposed law enhancement for the 31st Federal Delegate Conference of the German [[Greens ]] at the end of 2012 ([[Alternative law draft amendment to § 1631 BGB|English text here]])

|original-url=http://www.mogis.info/blog/2012/08/27/gastartikel-mein-kommentar-an-den-deutschen-ethikrat-wegen-seiner-empfehlung-an-die-bundesregierung/ |url=https://ulfdunkel.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/gastartikel-mein-kommentar-an-den-deutschen-ethikrat-wegen-seiner-empfehlung-an-die-bundesregierung/

|trans-title=guest Guest article: My comment to the German Ethics Council on their recommendation to the German Federal Government