Alexander Neidlein

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Alexander Neidlein (2007)

Alexander Neidlein (* 23. February 1975 in Crailsheim ) is a right-wing politicians ( NPD ). He was NPD state chairman in Baden-Württemberg from 2013 to 2016 and former deputy national chairman of the NPD youth organization Young National Democrats . He has been Secretary General of the Federal NPD since March 2017.

Mercenaries and bank robbers

Alexander Neidlein, who comes from Crailsheim , served as a mercenary for the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) in the Bosnian War of the Croatian Army in Bosnia-Herzegovina . After three to four days at the Kažnjenička bojna , a special unit of the HVO, he deserted from the troop on the night of December 15-16, 1993 together with Thomas Franz Kunst from Itzehoe and Stephan Rays from Hamburg . They stole weapons and ammunition and were wanted on a wanted list. Art and Rays belonged to the Hamburg red light and underworld milieu and worked as doormen on the Reeperbahn .

In Hamburg in campaigned South Africa and Namibia living Horst Klenz ( aka Henry Siems or Kluger, Wolfgang Weber) to Neidlein, art and Rays for his right-wing mercenaries in South Africa. Klenz was involved in a 1989 bomb attack on the United Nations office in Outjo . Presumably they actually wanted to join the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) of Eugène Terre'Blanche . Still in December 1993 Neidlein, art and Rays raided together a post office in Lübeck to finance the trip to South Africa. They looted 8,500 German marks (around 4,350 euros ).

They were received at Johannesburg Airport by Monika Huggett , a member of the Ku Klux Klan . On March 14, 1994, three German delivered in Tierpoort in Pretoria a firefight with the South African police killed in the art and two policemen were injured. Rays was arrested in the bushland a few hours after the shooting . A few days later, Klenz and Neidlein were arrested on a farm in Boskop . Neidlein was sentenced to three years probation in Cullinan (South Africa) for illegal possession of weapons and was deported to Germany. Here Neidlein was arrested for the robbery on the post office and sentenced to a youth prison term of two and a half years in Lübeck at the end of 1994 . Neidlein appeared as a " political prisoner " on the list of prisoners of the Aid Organization for National Political Prisoners and Their Relatives (HNG).

Political career

After his release from prison, Neidlein started his political career at the far right with the Young National Democrats (JN) and acted as JN base manager in Schwäbisch Hall / Ostalb in Baden-Württemberg from 1998 to 2000 . Since 2002 he was - initially as an assessor - active in the federal board of the JN. At the JN state congress in Baden-Württemberg on November 8, 2003, Neidlein, who at the time was already living in Saxony, was elected as state chairman. At the JN Federal Congress on 2/3 In 2004 he was elected together with Florian Cordes as deputy federal chairman, and in 2005 he was confirmed in this position.

On April 24, 2005 he was elected deputy to the state chairman Günter Deckert at the 41st regular state party conference of the NPD . For the 2005 Bundestag elections , Neidlein ran as a direct candidate for the NPD in the Stuttgart II constituency , and in the Ulm constituency in 2009 . In the state elections in 2011 , he ran in the Aalen state electoral district and in the Heidenheim state electoral district . In the 2013 federal election he ran as a direct candidate in the constituency of Göppingen . He has been Secretary General of the NPD since March 2017.

Speakers at far-right rallies and other activities

Alexander Neidlein (with megaphone) at a neo-Nazi rally on May 1, 2005 in Nuremberg

Neidlein often appears as a speaker at right-wing extremist rallies. During a demonstration against the Wehrmacht exhibition on June 21, 2003 in Schwäbisch Hall, which he led, he regretted the captured soldiers of the 1st Panzer Regiment of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (" Kampfgruppe Peiper "). She and other war criminals accused of the Dachau trials were allegedly "treated inhumanely" and tortured in order to force confessions. Between mid-December 1944 and mid-January 1945, these soldiers murdered around 71 American prisoners of war and around 100 Belgian civilians. After the Rudolf Hess memorial march was banned in Wunsiedel on August 20, 2005, Neidlein was an active speaker at the central NPD replacement event under the motto “Work for Germans” on Nelson Mandela Square in Nuremberg .

Neidlein is also active as an anti-antifa activist.

The trained publishing clerk has been employed by the NPD publishing house Deutsche Voice in Riesa ( Saxony ) since 2000 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Neidlein  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Crailsheimer Alexander Neidlein leads the NPD in Baden-Württemberg. In: swp.de. April 13, 2013, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Profile of the HVO from December 16, 1993. Retrieved March 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Frank Räther: Right in South Africa recruiting international mercenaries - Political murder is an order: The killers came from the Reeperbahn . In: Berliner Zeitung . March 21, 1994 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
  4. ↑ Bartholomew Grill: German right-wing extremists shoot in South Africa: Mark D . In: The time . No. 13 , March 25, 1994, pp. 8 ( zeit.de ).
  5. ↑ Antifascist collective of authors: Masterminds in the brown net: A current overview of the neo-Nazi underground in Germany and Austria . Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-89458-140-4 , pp. 45 .
  6. ↑ Edward F. Mickolus: Terrorism, 1992-1995: A Chronology of Events and a Selectively Annotated Bibliography . ABC-CLIO, 1997, ISBN 978-0-313-30468-2 , ISSN  1040-7995 , p. 569 ( google.de ).
  7. ↑ Bundestag election on September 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Neidlein, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd February 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Crailsheim