Thor of Waldstein

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Thor von Waldstein (born November 7, 1959 in Mannheim ) is a German lawyer and publicist , including co-author of the legal commentary on inland navigation law . From 1979 to 1982 he was chairman of the right-wing National Democratic University Association (NHB) and is considered a representative of the New Right .

Life

Origin and studies

Thor von Waldstein was born in Mannheim in 1959 as the son of the lawyer Sigwalt von Waldstein, who from 1973 temporarily belonged to the federal board of the right-wing extremist NPD . His father attracted attention, among other things, through "national revolutionary" statements.

According to his own statements, he attended the Lessing grammar school in his hometown. From 1978 to 1985 von Waldstein studied law as well as history , philosophy , political science and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1985 he passed the first state examination in law. From 1986 he completed his legal clerkship (until 1988) in the district courts of Waldshut-Tiengen and Baden-Baden and worked on his dissertation. In 1988 he worked briefly at the German Chamber of Commerce in India in Bombay and Madras and passed the second state examination in law.

In 1989, he was the political scientist Bernard Willms , who is considered a pioneer of the New Right, at the University of Bochum with a thesis on The pluralism criticism in the political theory of Carl Schmitt to Dr. rer. soc. PhD; The second reviewer was Wilhelm Bleek . In the foreword, he expressly thanks Hans-Dietrich Sander , a right-wing extremist publicist who aroused his interest in the constitutional lawyer and political philosopher who died in 1985.

In 1991/92 he received a doctorate from Günther Wüst at the Law Faculty of the University of Mannheim to become Dr. iur. with the work The declaration procedure in inland waterway law ; The second reviewer was the faculty representative for inland waterway law, Günther Wiese .

Legal activity

In 1989 he established himself as a lawyer in Mannheim , specializing in shipping law, and acted as a legal representative before the European Court of Justice (ECJ). He also became a co-author of a legal commentary , the fifth edition of which was published in 2007 and is considered the standard work in this area, as well as a correspondent for the specialist journal Schiffahrt und Technik .

In addition to his work as a business lawyer, he also defended several people from the right-wing extremist scene. His mandate (together with Hajo Herrmann ) for the American Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter received international attention in 1994 . In this context, the specialist journalist Rainer Fromm called him a “ right-wing radical ” lawyer.

Other clients included a. In 1998 the editor of the right-wing extremist magazine Staatsbriefe , Hans-Dietrich Sander , in 2004 the daughters of Nazi Minister Fritz Todt and in 2007 the right-wing extremist and historical revisionist publisher Wigbert Grabert .

politics

As a student, von Waldstein was interested in the French extreme right-wing Nouvelle Droite , as he himself states. From 1979 to 1982 he was chairman of the right-wing National Democratic University Association (NHB) and in 1984 was nominated for election to the European Parliament by the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) headed by Martin Mußgnug at the time . The party got 0.8 percent of the vote and missed the move. For a time he was also deputy federal chairman of the NPD youth organization Young National Democrats (JN). In 1982, he was together with a NPD parliamentary candidate co-initiator of the racist evaluated Bavarian list for foreigners stop in the vicinity of the party.

Journalism and speaker activity

According to the social scientist Alexander Häusler from the research focus right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , the lawyer is "a well-known author, lawyer and speaker of the extreme right".

For example, von Waldstein wrote for various right-wing extremist organs such as Nation and Europa and Staatsbriefe , in the historical revisionist magazine Germany in Past and Present , in the young conservative organ Zeitwende and in the new right papers Elements , Secession and Young Freedom . The extremism researcher Armin Pfahl-Traughber , who von Waldstein describes as a former “NPD activist”, counts his frequently printed “Theses on Capitalism” (1998) as “right-wing extremist criticism of capitalism ”. The social scientist Fabian Virchow (2000) also identified in some of von Waldstein's publications, published in the Staatsbriefe (2001) and the JN magazine Einheit und Kampf (1990), an “ anti-Americanism ” inclined to the “extreme right” . In a legal opinion by the Viennese legal scholar Heinz Mayer (2005) for the Welser Initiative against Fascism and the Mauthausen Committee Austria , a contribution by Waldstein in the AFP information from 1985 is criticized for the fact that it " consistently used the time of National Socialism in a particularly cynical manner" represent. For example, von Waldstein described the Holocaust as an “American cultural product”. As the historian Hans Fenske reviewed, von Waldstein defamed the Weimar Republic as "the first state-organized liberalist adventure on German soil" in the yearbook on the Conservative Revolution published by Heinz-Theo Homann and Gerhard Quast in 1994 . In 1945 the Germans were “expected to do this for the second time”. Furthermore, today's Germany is “externally determined” and the political science professorships in “Greater West Germany” are only mediocre in their “ ideological allotment gardens that are hidden away from us ”. So there are “clear reserves” against the free democratic basic order (FdGO), so Fenske. In a JF contribution, too, he used an “open polemic” against the Basic Law , according to Horst Meier .

One focus of his work - going beyond his dissertation - is the discussion and dissemination of the theses of Carl Schmitt (“Crown Lawyer of the Third Reich”). In 1992 he wrote in the right-wing conservative newspaper Junge Freiheit : “Carl Schmitt's books (...) should be enjoyed neat - like a good Scottish malt whiskey. If you sleep under your pillow with the Basic Law, you don't need Carl Schmitt. However, anyone who has recognized that the constitution is the prison in which the res publica of the Germans - especially after the small reunification - is being held, is turning to his works right now. "

In addition, von Waldstein appeared as a speaker at the right-wing society for free journalism (GfP), a state political congress of the new right Institute for State Policy (IfS), the right-wing German seminar and the political academy of the right-wing Austrian working group for democratic politics (AFP). He also gave a lecture at the NPD-affiliated Deutsche Akademie , the "Bogenhausen Talks" of the extreme right-wing fraternity Danubia Munich and the committee for fraternity work (AfbA) at the fraternity Frankonia Erlangen .

In 1998 his name appeared in connection with the "intellectualization efforts of right-wing extremism" under the heading " National Revolutionary Ideology" in the report of the Federal Ministry of the Interior for the protection of the constitution . The Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein also listed it. In 2003 it was included in a study on the New Rights of the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia . The specialist journalist for right-wing extremism Anton Maegerle (2009) expressly counts him - like the Federal Ministry of the Interior - among the New Right . He is a “right-wing extremist ideologue”, according to Maegerle (2004). The social scientists Thomas Pfeiffer (1999/2000) and Fabian Virchow (2007) also called him a “right-wing extremist” or “extreme right”.

In September 2017 he appeared at an event organized by the new right-wing Institute for State Policy around Götz Kubitschek in Schnellroda . The Identitarian Movement observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was also represented there.

In 2018 Thor von Waldstein argued in the "Secession" with Siegfried Gerlich about the position of the "New Right" on Israel.

Fonts (selection)

Legal publications

  • The declaration procedure in inland waterway law (= Mannheim contributions to inland waterway law . Volume 1). Dissertation . Binnenschiffahrts-Verlag, Duisburg 1992, ISBN 3-87078-037-1 .
  • with Wilfrid Bemm: Rhine Shipping Police Ordinance . Commentary (= Guttentag collection ). 3rd, revised edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1996, ISBN 3-11-014379-8 .
  • with Hubert Holland: Inland waterway law. Comment . Founded by Otto Vortisch and Otto Zschucke, continued by Wilfried Bemm, 5th, completely revised edition. de Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-164-7 .

Other contributions

literature

  • Stephan Braun , Anton Maegerle : Lawyers of the extreme right. In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 , pp. 378-403.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Thor von Waldstein: Foreword from 2008 . In: Ders .: The prey value of the state . Graz 2008, p. 11 f.
  3. ^ Franziska Hundseder : Rights make cash. Money and financiers of the brown scene . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-80047-0 , p. 101.
  4. ^ A b Thor von Waldstein: Foreword from 1989 . In: Ders .: The prey value of the state . Graz 2008, p. 13 f.
  5. ↑ Thor von Waldstein: Foreword . In: Ders .: The declaration procedure in inland waterway law . Duisburg 1992, no p.
  6. ↑ a b c Anton Maegerle : Holocaust denier . In: grandstand. Journal for understanding des Judentums , 43 (2004) 172, pp. 42–46, here: p. 44.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Stephan Braun , Anton Maegerle : Lawyers of the extreme right. In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 , p. 383.
  8. ↑ Redaktion , Schiff und Technik, accessed on June 1, 2015.
  9. ↑ Sarah Rembiszewski: The Final Lie. Holocaust Denial in Germany. A second generation denier as a test case . Tel Aviv University Press, Tel Aviv 1995, ISBN 965-7033-04-7 , p. 92.
  10. ↑ a b Rainer Fromm , Barbara Kernbach: European brown seeds. The international interdependence of the radical right-wing scene . Aktuell, Munich et al. 1994, ISBN 3-87959-512-7 , p. 15.
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personal data
SURNAME Waldstein, Thor of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim