André Eminger

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André Eminger (born 1979 ) is a German right-wing extremist . He supported the right-wing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) for over 14 years . On July 11, 2018, Eminger was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in the NSU trial for supporting this terrorist organization . He is referred to as the “most loyal supporter” of the right-wing terrorist cell, shows no remorse and continues to move in the right-wing extremist scene.

Life

André Eminger's father was a ski jumper in the GDR's national B team. André Eminger, like his twin brother, Maik Eminger , and his two other siblings grew up in Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, in the Ore Mountains . The two brothers graduated from secondary school in 1996. At first, both brothers were also talented ski jumpers.

After researching the time , the right-wing extremist attitudes of the two brothers differentiated in the mid-1990s. Maik Eminger was interested in the German cult, ethnic ideas and racial studies and was described as the more intellectual of the two. André Eminger began listening to right-wing rock and turned to the blood-and-honor skinhead scene. There he met the neo-Nazi Max-Florian B. in 1998, in whose Chemnitz apartment the NSU lived for the first six months after he went into hiding. It was in this apartment that André Eminger met Beate Zschäpe , Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt for the first time .

André Eminger did basic military service in the German Armed Forces from 1999 . The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) questioned him during this time in November 1999 because his attitude had been noticed. There Eminger stated that he had the words " Blood and Honor " tattooed because he admired the military performance of the SS . Nevertheless, he remained in the Bundeswehr. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer.

With his brother Maik Eminger he built the "White Brotherhood of the Erzgebirge (WBE)"; whose motto: "White Pride is our religion" refers to the idea of ​​a " white revolution ". You edited the trendy magazine "[White] Aryan Law & Order".

André married Susann H. (now Eminger), whom he met in the skin scene. The two have three children.

In March 2003, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution tried to recruit André Eminger as an undercover agent. At this point in time he had been supporting the NSU terrorists for five years. Instead, Eminger claimed that he had left the right-wing scene and that his family was now the most important thing in his life. Eminger declined further discussions with the authorities.

In 2008 Eminger became head of the base of the Potsdam Young National Democrats , the youth organization of the NPD. He organized weekly ideological reading circles to train comrades in Nazi theory.

After the NSU was uncovered, Eminger was still in the right-wing extremist scene, e. B. present at " Rock against foreign infiltration " in Themar.

NSU

André Eminger and the terrorists Uwe Mundlos , Beate Zschäpe and Uwe Böhnhardt had known each other since 1998. That year the “ National Socialist Underground ” terrorist cell was founded. Eminger rented the first conspiratorial apartment in Chemnitz for the NSU . He obtained BahnCards for the terrorists in hiding and rented the mobile homes that were used by Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt for two bank robberies and one assassination attempt.

In December 2006, an apartment was broken into in the house in which the NSU lived undercover. A police officer rang the doorbell at the terrorist's apartment and invited Beate Zschäpe to give a testimony on the police station. Zschäpe was the only member of the terrorist group who did not have forged papers. André Eminger then gave her his wife Susann's ID and accompanied Zschäpe to the police station as her supposed husband. The police did not notice. According to some observers, the NSU would probably have been uncovered as early as 2006 without this act of support.

After the suicide of terrorists Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt on November 4, 2011, Beate Zschäpe set fire to their apartment in Zwickau to cover up traces. She then called Eminger and asked him to help her escape. He drove her to Zwickau's main train station and equipped her with a new set of clothes.

On the morning of November 24, 2011, the GSG 9 with more than 20 officers stormed Maik Eminger's homestead, where André Eminger had fled after the NSU was blown up. 3,835 euros were found in a plastic bag. Eminger was flown straight to the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe and taken into custody, from which he was released in June 2012.

process

Eminger was in NSU process by the Attorney General to attempted murder to aggravated assault , for robbery and causing an explosion with a terrorist organization accused and support. In her plea, she called for Eminger to be imprisoned for twelve years. During most of the trial, Eminger was released, but was in custody in September 2017 because of the risk of escape due to the relatively high punishment demanded by the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Eminger never testified in the five-year trial and was the only defendant to dispense with a closing remarks .

The Munich Higher Regional Court sentenced Eminger to two years and six months' imprisonment for supporting a terrorist organization and acquitted him of the other allegations. The presiding judge Manfred Götzl explained that Eminger could not be proven that he knew what Böhnhardt, Zschäpe and Mundlos were doing underground for 14 years. After giving the reasons for the judgment, the court overturned the arrest warrant against Eminger because pre-trial detention was disproportionate to the sentence. Right-wing extremists in the audience reacted with applause and cheers to Eminger's release. On July 18, 2018, the Federal Prosecutor's Office announced that it was appealing to the Federal Court of Justice against this judgment. The accused also appealed and demanded acquittal. On December 15, 2021, the BGH rejected both appeals, the judgment of the Higher Regional Court is now final.

Reactions

The co-plaintiffs for the relatives of the NSU victims were disappointed with the sentence for André Eminger. The victim's attorney Mehmet Daimagüler described the judgments against the co-defendants Ralf Wohlleben and André Eminger as "mild, too mild". The court reporter Annette Ramelsberger commented that the verdict left the impression that repentance is not worthwhile, but that silence is worthwhile; the neo-Nazi scene celebrated the judgment on Eminger as their victory.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Christian Fuchs, Daniel Müller: NSU trial: The white brothers. In: Zeit Online . April 11, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2018 (teaser freely available).
  2. ↑ Julia Jüttner: NSU Terror: "Brothers are silent - until death". In: Spiegel Online . June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Konrad Litschko: André Eminger in the NSU trial: The quietest helper. In: taz.de . July 24, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Friedrich Burschel: Preferential treatment for a terrorist helper. In: Rosalux.de . July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : NSU: V-Mann raided a pub with Zschäpe's girlfriend. In: Welt.de . May 17, 2016, accessed May 2, 2021 .
  6. ^ Also André Eminger in Themar there. In: NSU Watch. July 17, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  7. ^ A b NSU trial: André E. sentenced to two and a half years in prison. In: Spiegel Online. July 11, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  8. ^ Stephanie Lahrtz: NSU trial: satisfaction and tears on the occasion of the judgments. In: NZZ.ch . July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  9. ^ NSU judgments in Munich: tussle before the court after the end of the trial. In: Welt.de. November 7, 2018, accessed May 2, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger : NSU trial: the court has missed a historic opportunity. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eminger, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comradeship activist
BIRTH DATE 1979