André Kapke

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André Kapke (born August 24, 1975 in Jena ) is a German right-wing extremist . He was one of the main actors in the militant comradeship network Thuringian Homeland Security (THS). The neo-Nazi with multiple criminal records is now a leading member of the Free Comradeship National Resistance Jena (NWJ) and one of the organizers of the Europe-wide Nazi meeting, Festival of the Nations . Kapke is also a member of the Normannia Jena fraternity and the NPD .

Life

In 1996 and 1997 stickers with the slogan Bratwurst instead of Döner appeared in Jena . Kapke was identified as responsible in terms of press law (ViSdP).

With a business start-up grant of 23,000 DM from the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs , a right-wing extremist newspaper project was founded in Erfurt in November 1997 under the name New Thinking . In the editorial both Kapke worked and later as an undercover agent unmasked Thomas Dienel . However, the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution stopped the project after media publications. In view of the repayment claims raised, Dienel and Kapke initiated insolvency proceedings , so that the repayment claims came to nothing.

From 2002 Kapke lived in Jena in Alt-Lobeda, later in Magdala and Bad Blankenburg . He is said to have run a construction company in Magdala.

Political career

André Kapke has been active in the right-wing extremist scene in Thuringia since the early 1990s, and in the mid-1990s he co-founded the Kameradschaft Jena . He maintained particularly close contacts with the former deputy NPD state chairman Ralf Wohlleben .

In 1998, on October 10th, Kapke led an unannounced procession of fifty neo-Nazis "against left-wing terrorism" under the motto: preach love, stir up hatred! The police prevented an attack on the house of the Protestant community. Seven days later on October 17th, Kapke gave a speech in front of the same house at a demonstration registered by the NPD under the motto Against left-wing violence, drugs and arbitrary police force , in which he described the youth pastor Lothar König as a “protector of left-wing terror”.

In addition to Thomas Gerlach (at that time the Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten ) and Ralf Wohlleben (at that time a functionary of the NPD), André Kapke was one of the organizers of the Europe-wide neonacite meeting, Fest der Völker , which took place annually until 2010 . In his function as organizer, Kapke forcibly prevented a participant from showing the Hitler salute , for which he was criticized within the right-wing extremist scene. Kapke lived on unemployment benefits during this time. He became a leading member of the Free Comradeship National Resistance Jena (NWJ).

According to his own statements, Kapke " joined the NPD at the end of the 90s [ sic !] [...], then left it again after 2 years, but [decided] to rejoin the NPD at the beginning of the ban proceedings against the NPD " .

In 2002 Kapke bought the former restaurant Zum Löwen in Alt-Lobeda (Jena) together with Wohlleben and the songwriter Maximilian Lemke . Then the office of the NPD district association Jena was moved there. The community of the lions was known in public as the Brown House , based on the former NSDAP party headquarters in Munich. Numerous training courses and events took place there, including a. the state party congress of the NPD on December 7, 2003. According to information from Uwe Luthardt, a short-term party and board member of the Jena NPD, there were SS pictures and weapons storage in the rooms. The house was cleared in 2009 and the police found an air rifle, a bayonet and an ammunition belt with blank cartridges. In 2012, the police ransacked the property again, assuming guns were walled in on the property.

Suspicion of NSU support

Kapke participated in the militant comradeship network Thuringian Homeland Security (THS), formerly Anti-Antifa East Thuringia. The members of the THS also included the alleged members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), Uwe Böhnhardt , Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschäpe , who are suspected of having committed several murders of migrants and a policewoman.

Andre Kapke is suspected of having organized right-wing rock concerts with Ralf Wohlleben . They are said to have collected DM 4,000  so that members of the NSU can move to South Africa . Kapke was also entrusted with obtaining passports for Böhnhardt, Zschäpe and Mundlos. He had paid between 1,000 and 1,500 marks for the empty passports, which he received from a contact of the former undercover agent Tino Brandt .

Kapke's name appeared on an address list which, during the investigation into the NSU, bears the evidence number 23.6.1. It contains around 35 addresses and telephone numbers of contact persons at the NSU.

The only known interview on the NSU complex of a direct supporter of the NSU core trio is the interview with André Kapke, which he gave to journalists Moritz Schwarz and Felix Krautkrämer from the new right-wing weekly " Junge Freiheit " shortly after it was exposed.

In the course of the investigation into the NSU, the federal prosecutor's office had Kapke's apartment and car in Jena searched in 2013 and confiscated a mobile phone and documents. Kapke denied having had any contact with the NSU or having known of its existence.

Kapke declared his presence in Eisenach on November 4, 2011, when his mobile phone logged into a radio cell there, saying that he was driving nearby on the autobahn because he wanted to buy a car. On that day, Böhnhardt and Mundlos were found shot in their mobile home in Eisenach.

When Kapke was summoned as a witness to the NSU trial in November 2013 , he let it be known through his lawyer that he had lost memories due to an accident.

Convictions

On March 16, 2000, the district court of Gera confirmed a judgment of the district court of Jena against André Kapke and his friend Ralf Wohlleben because of a jointly committed dangerous bodily harm and coercion of two young women in 1999 . With almost 20 neo-Nazis, they held the two women for hours and tried to force them to reveal the names and addresses of left-wing youths.

In 2000, the police also confiscated a alarm gun near Kapke . After two criminal proceedings, the judiciary sentenced him to a fine of 8,500 DM. During the first festival of the peoples in 2005, 30 armed neo-Nazis injured four students. A plainclothes policeman who was present therefore asked Kapke to "whistle his people back". However, since he did this "not without culpable hesitation", the Jena district court sentenced him in April 2007 to a fine of 150 euros (15 daily rates).

In November 2002, Kapke attacked protesters demonstrating against the Brown House together with several neo-Nazis. Kapke used an iron bar and struck. The proceedings opened against him are later dropped against payment of a fine.

In 2010, after a lecture by Karl-Heinz Hoffmann in the Saxon house village , in which Kapke also took part and whose phone was tapped, the police searched 16 apartments and meeting places of the right-wing extremist scene with the suspicion of a planned bomb attack.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Thieme: The New Generation In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung online, November 14, 2011
  2. ^ Paul Wrusch: The plumber is a neo-Nazi In: the daily newspaper online, November 11, 2009
  3. ↑ NPD and Zwickau Terror Cell: Der Unliebsame Kamerad Spiegel Online , January 27, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c d neo-Nazi André K .: man for the rough . Spiegel Online , November 30, 2011
  5. ^ Harald Lachmann: Funding for neo-Nazis . In: Südkurier online, November 17, 2011
  6. ↑ a b During a demonstration, André K. reaches for the iron bar . Spiegel Online , November 30, 2011
  7. ↑ Investigators arrest neo-Nazis on suspicion of terrorism. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 29, 2011.
  8. ↑ Janine Clausen, Andreas Speit : No prayer helps. ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Jungle World , October 28, 1998.
  9. ^ A b c Uwe Müller , Marc Neller: Wehrsportgruppen-Hoffmann in the sights of the investigators . In: Die Welt , November 27, 2011.
  10. ↑ Interview in September 2008. ( Memento of February 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) with the Bernese Oberland section of the right-wing extremist National Oriented Swiss Party (PNOS), led by the party's press spokesman at the time, Mario Friso and published on their website.
  11. ^ Fraternities in Thuringia. (PDF; 159 kB) Answer of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior of July 1, 2011 to the small question 1402.
  12. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report Free State of Thuringia 2003. (PDF; 714 kB; 109 pages) Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Erfurt 2003, p. 25.
  13. ^ Jörg Hafkemeyer : Probing in the brown swamp. ( Memento from November 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Vorwärts , November 22, 2011.
  14. ↑ Christoph Ruf: People like to sing the Horst Wessel song. In: Spiegel Online , February 25, 2009 (interview with Uwe Luthardt).
  15. ↑ Kai Budler: Brown House in Jena cleared. ( Memento from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Publikative.org , August 28, 2009.
  16. ^ LKA Thuringia searches neo-Nazi meeting place. In: Spiegel Online , June 6, 2012.
  17. ^ NSU trial: André K. felt pressured by people thueringer-allgemeine.de February 5, 2014
  18. ^ NSU trial: Witness André K .: "I know that I suddenly had three empty passports" . thueringer-allgemeine.de from February 5, 2014
  19. ↑ The who-is-who of terrorism . faz.net, March 3, 2013
  20. ↑ Moritz Schwarz, Felix Krautkrämer : “We have become more and more radicalized”, interview with André Kapke . In: Junge Freiheit, December 2, 2011, p. 14 ( jf-archiv.de )
  21. ↑ NSU: The end of the “terror trio”? publikative.org, February 23, 2013
  22. ^ New search of another NSU suspect . süddeutsche.de, February 23, 2013
  23. ↑ Cover identities and a Thuringian neo-Nazi occupy the NSU trial this week . thueringer-allgemeine.de, February 2, 2014
  24. ↑ What role did undercover Brandt play? tagesschau.de November 21, 2013
  25. ↑ Julia Jüttner and Georg Heil: The agitator . In: Spiegel Online from November 24, 2011
  26. ↑ Uwe Müller, Marc Neller: Brown connections . In: Die Welt , November 28, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kapke, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena