Uwe Behrendt

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Uwe Behrendt (born April 1, 1952 in Pößneck ; † September 16, 1981 in Lebanon ) was a German right-wing extremist . He became known through his murders of Shlomo Lewin , the former chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, and his partner Frieda Poeschke.

Life

Uwe Behrendt came from Pößneck in Thuringia and graduated from high school there in 1970. After a failed escape attempt in 1973, he sat in the GDR eleven months in Cottbus in custody, was for 50,000 DM ransomed and in the July 24, 1974 Federal Republic deported.

He studied theology, German and medicine in Ulm, Erlangen and Tübingen and traveled to South Africa and what was then Rhodesia . He had contacts to various right-wing extremist groups and in 1976 ran for the University Ring Tübingen Students (HTS) for the General Student Committee of the University of Tübingen . In June 1976 Behrendt was elected to the University Political Committee (HpA) of the German Burschenschaft .

Through the HTS he got in touch with Karl-Heinz Hoffmann and became a member of his military sports group Hoffmann (WSG).

Murders and Escape to Lebanon

On December 19, 1980, Behrendt shot Shlomo Lewin and his partner Frieda Poeschke with a submachine gun in front of their house in Erlangen . Lewin had written several critical reports about the "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann". According to Hoffmann's statement, Behrendt confessed to him. Hoffmann helped Behrendt to cover up traces and burned parts of his clothing. At the time of the crime, Behrendt was living at Ermreuth Castle , Hoffmann's private residence. After the murder he left the Federal Republic on December 23, 1980 and stayed until December 25, 1980 in what was then the Pößneck district for a kind of Christmas visit to his parents in the GDR. After that he is said to have returned to the Federal Republic of Germany and fled from there to Damascus in Syria and on to Beirut in Lebanon , where the WSG ran a foreign organization through contacts with Fatah . In Lebanon, Behrendt allegedly tortured and mistreated other WSG members. One of the members, Kay Uwe Bergmann , disappeared without a trace. Behrendt died of suicide on September 16, 1981 in a Lebanese military camp.

Murder trial

In January 1983, the public prosecutor's office at the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court concluded the investigation into the Lewin / Poeschke murder case and brought charges before the jury. According to the results of the police and public prosecutor's investigations, Behrendt is said to have committed the murders of Lewin and Poeschke on behalf of Karl-Heinz Hoffmann. In September 1983 the 5th Criminal Chamber initially refused to allow the indictment to be tried due to a lack of evidence. On September 12, 1984 the trial against Hoffmann and his partner Franziska Birkmann, whose glasses had been found at the crime scene, began. After 185 days of hearing, the court found on June 30, 1986 that Uwe Behrendt had planned and carried out the murders on his own.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Maegerle: In the brown swamp. Look to the right, October 25, 2011 (fee required)
  2. ↑ a b c With the backpack . Spiegel 34/1984
  3. ^ Wolfgang Most: Association of individual perpetrators: Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann . haGalil , January 3, 2006
  4. ↑ Chief, I shot the chairman . Der Spiegel , 47/1984
  5. ↑ BT-Drs. 18/11602 , answer to question 16.
  6. ^ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic. CH Beck, p. 73.
  7. ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke, Birgit Rätsch, Yury Winterberg: After Hitler: radical right arm. Bertelsmann 2001, p. 42
  8. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy: Oktoberfest - The assassination: How the repression of right-wing terror began. Ch.links Verlag, 2016, p. 243f.
personal data
SURNAME Behrendt, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Poessneck
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1981
Place of death Lebanon