Adolf Dammann

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Adolf Dammann (with card) as the organizer of an NPD rally on October 29, 2005 next to the former Lower Saxony NPD state chairman Ulrich Eigenfeld (right)

Adolf Dammann (born November 6, 1939 in Stade ) from Buxtehude -Neukloster is a right-wing extremist politician of the DRP and later the NPD in Lower Saxony. He was state chairman from 2009 to 2011.

Party career

The banker Adolf Dammann joined the German Reich Party at the age of 18, became a DRP functionary in 1959 and joined the NPD in 1964. In the 1970s he worked as the deputy state chairman of the NPD in Lower Saxony and head of the “Actions” department in the state board of the NPD. In 1985 he worked as a consultant for “Economic, Social and Financial Policy” on the NPD's regional board, and in 1987 he headed the “Parliamentary Work” section on the regional board. In the same year he became chairman of the newly founded NPD district association Lüneburg. Since April 1989, with brief interruptions, he has been deputy state chairman of the NPD in Lower Saxony. In the 2005 federal election , Dammann ran as a direct candidate for the NPD in the Stade - Cuxhaven constituency. In the local elections in Lower Saxony on September 10, 2006, Dammann won the only mandate for the NPD in the Stader Kreisag.

On May 24, 2009, Adolf Dammann replaced Ulrich Eigenfeld as state chairman. Until his replacement by Christian Berisha on May 22, 2011, he was chairman of the NPD Lower Saxony.

Registrants and speakers at rallies by far-right parties

Since the bank branch manager Dammann retired in 2003, he has appeared several times as a speaker at NPD rallies. B. on February 28, 2004 in Osnabrück , on March 20, 2004 in Wilhelmshaven or on April 2, 2005 in Verden . At a demonstration by the NPD on October 23, 2004 in Hanover , he acted as registrant and chairman of the meeting and participated alongside Dieter Riefling and Uwe Schäfer with a speech of his own and reading out a greeting from Thomas "Steiner" Wulff .

property

Dammann owned the "Kalte Zeit" conference center near Sulingen, south of Bremen, which burned down in 1999 and was used as a training center for the NPD. Adolf Dammann still owns a 1,600 square meter property in the center of Bargstedt (Lower Saxony) . In the "NPD-Scheune" training courses and meetings of the JN and the NPD, but also comradeship and song evenings took place until the district of Stade forbade the use of the barn as a meeting place in July 2005 for legal reasons.

Police investigations and criminal proceedings

During a wreath-laying ceremony at the war memorial in Himmelpforten on May 15, 2004 by NPD members and neo-Nazis from the spectrum of free comradeships under the leadership of Alexander Hohensee , Dammann threatened the local priest who had called for a counter-demonstration. Dammann was then investigated for inciting a criminal offense and sedition.

On January 10, 2006, Dammann was sentenced to a fine of 1,200 euros by the Stade District Court for insulting and denigrating the state and its symbols: On February 7, 2007, the judgment on appeal was partially overturned by the Stade District Court and the total fine was reduced to 600 euros.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Dammann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on the Lower Saxony state party conference. In: NPD Lower Saxony. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  2. ^ NPD Lower Saxony elects new state chairman. In: Constitutional Protection of Lower Saxony. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt (2007)
personal data
SURNAME Dammann, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade