Andreas Harlaß

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Albrecht Andreas Harlaß (* 1961 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German politician ( AfD ) who attracted attention several times with right-wing extremist symbols. He is the press spokesman for the AfD Saxony and the AfD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament .

Career

Andreas Harlaß is a trained cook and served as a soldier on a minesweeper for the NVA for four years . From 1990 to 2014 he worked as a journalist for BILD in Dresden and Junge Freiheit, among others . Since November 2014 he has been head of the press and public relations department of the AfD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament . In 2018 he was elected as press spokesman for the first time to the board of the Saxon state association of the AfD , which is considered particularly wing- close. Among other things, Harlaß is responsible for the “Blaue Landespost”, the AfD's online newspaper in Saxony.

In the state elections in Saxony in 2019, Harlaß ran in the constituency of Dresden 6 , but failed to make it into the state parliament. With 26.9 percent of the direct votes, he received the second-best result in his constituency and only had to admit defeat to the CDU candidate.

Positions

In September 2014, Harlaß published a commentary in Junge Freiheit , in which he questioned German sole guilt for World War II. Harlaß suggested in the article that the German Reich had anticipated a Polish war of aggression with its attack on Poland in 1939.

In the past few years, Harlaß has repeatedly attracted attention with right-wing extremist and anti-Christian symbols. In November 2017 he posted a picture of a so-called Julle chandelier on Facebook and temporarily made the photo his cover picture. During the Nazi era, Heinrich Himmler gave Julleuchter selected members of the SS as gifts. Himmler wanted to suppress Christian Christmas rituals . The candlesticks were made by prisoners from the Dachau and Neuengamme concentration camps . Harlaß told the Frankfurter Rundschau that the Julleuchter was an heirloom from his parents. According to the newspaper, Harlaß threatened the editors with the words: “If you try to construct in any way that I have a special affinity to the SS, which is classified as a criminal organization, I will take legal action against you and your paper - including a lawsuit for damages. “ According to the historian Kirsten John-Stucke , Harlaß 'Julleuchter is clearly“ a replica of an SS Julleuchter ”.

Harlass has also threatened the MDR with legal action if the editors send a conversation with him about his affinity to National Socialist symbols. The station had reported, among other things, on a Facebook post by Harlaß, in which a black sun could be seen in his living room. Harlaß also appeared several times in a polo shirt from the neo-Nazi mail order company Artam, the online shop of the so-called Artgemeinschaft . According to the federal government, this is the "largest German neo-Nazi association with ethnic, racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian characteristics". On Christmas Eve 2017, Harlaß posted an excerpt from the "German Christmas House Book" on Facebook. The book is published by the right-wing extremist Dietmar Munier .

After the attack in Halle , in which the assassin wanted to carry out a massacre in a synagogue and murdered two people, Harlaß posted on Facebook: "Just a reminder. The psycho from Halle shot Germans, not Semites."

According to a ruling by the Dresden District Court, Harlaß can be described as a neo-Nazi and as a representative of Nazi racial ideology.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The constituency 46 - Dresden 6: A three-part structure. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Brief biography of Andreas Harlaß. In: AfD candidates for the 2019 state election. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Presentation of the candidates for the AfD state executive election 2020. Accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ State Board of Saxony. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ tagesschau.de: Direction dispute: Saxony's AfD leaders stick to ex-"wing" bosses. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution observes AfD “wings” | Free press - Saxony. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Imprint & Disclaimer. In: Blue State Post. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Urlaß in the MDR candidate check. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ Election results for the Dresden constituency on February 6, 24, 2020, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Canossa is on the Westerplatte - YOUNG FREEDOM. February 24, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Wewelsburg Memorial and Memorial 1933 - 1945. September 27, 2007, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Dubious winter greetings from the AfD. December 12, 2017, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ mdr.de: AfD in Saxony | MDR.DE. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ mdr.de: How radical the AfD is in Saxony | MDR.DE. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  15. ^ Answer of the federal government to a small question about right-wing extremist organizations, printed matter 19/16742. January 23, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Amazon and Thalia sell right-wing books from the Nazi era. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  17. ↑ bild.de: Roth alert: How anti-Semitism becomes socially acceptable in Germany. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Downplayed and underestimated: Right-wing terrorism and anti-Semitism in Germany. October 17, 2019, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Are you allowed to call these AfD politicians neo-Nazis? Two Dresden dishes say yes. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Harlaß, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harlaß, Albrecht Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (AfD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City