Axel Heinzmann

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Axel Heinzmann (born December 16, 1946 in Mülsen ; † September 30, 2018 in Reutlingen ) was a political activist on the right-wing extremist scene in southwest Germany . He became known nationwide from 1980 onwards through his connections to a right-wing terrorist environment , in particular to the military sports group Hoffmann and the Oktoberfest bomber Gundolf Köhler .

From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Heinzmann headed the Hochschulring Tübinger Studenten (HTS). He later ran for the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in various elections as a constituency candidate in the state constituencies of Reutlingen and Tübingen , in the federal constituency of Reutlingen and in mayor elections in numerous cities and municipalities in Baden-Württemberg - albeit always unsuccessful in the respective election results.

Life

Heinzmann grew up in Mülsen, Saxony , and completed an apprenticeship as a pit electrician. He was imprisoned in the GDR in 1968 for political reasons. According to his own statements in interviews with neo-Nazi Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , published decades later on the Internet portal YouTube , he was sentenced to two years in prison after a trial for "subversive agitation". The reasons were, on the one hand, slogans he painted on the anniversary of June 17th for the death of the Berlin Wall refugee Peter Fechter , and that in 1968 - meaning the events of the Prague Spring - he took "the side of the Dubček people" . In 1970 he was ransomed by the federal government .

In western Germany, Heinzmann settled in Baden-Württemberg . He made up his Abitur and then studied political science, Eastern European history and regional studies, constitutional and international law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen ; but without obtaining a degree. Politically, he was first starting from 1970 member of the SPD and moved in 1972 to the CDU , whose electoral list he wore at the Baden-Wuerttemberg local elections in 1975 for the Tübingen council candidate.

As a student, he was involved with the Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft , lived in its Tübingen office in 1973 and 1974 and was one of the key figures in the work of the federal section in Tübingen. In addition, in 1973 Heinzmann became a member of the Hochschulring Tübingen Students (HTS) and advanced to become the ideological driving force of this group by the end of the 1970s .

After missing a mandate in the Tübingen city council, Heinzmann turned away from the CDU in 1975 and became one of the leading actors in the Action Group Fourth Party (AVP), which aimed to expand the (Bavaria-specific) CSU across Germany . He ran for the AVP in the 1976 federal election .

Parallel to his increasingly clear development into right-wing extremism, in 1976 he became the executive chairman of the Ostpolitischer Deutschen Studentenbund (ODS), a successor organization to the Association of Displaced German Students .

Axel Heinzmann (4) and Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (5) in the fight on December 4, 1976 in front of the old cafeteria in Tübingen

Heinzmann met Karl-Heinz Hoffmann in 1976, the founder and leader of the Hoffmann military sports group formed three years earlier . On December 4, 1976, he invited him to be a speaker at an HTS event on the subject of “ Black Communist Aggression in Southern Africa ” in the old canteen Prinz Karl in Tübingen. The blockade of the venue by counter-demonstrators resulted in massive riots in which members of the HTS and members of the military sports group Hoffmann violently attacked the blockers. A police operation put an end to the riots. Heinzmann was sentenced to a fine for bodily harm in the course of the legal processing of the incident in March 1980 . He was represented by Martin Mußgnug , the then national chairman of the NPD.

Investigations into the Oktoberfest attack

Heinzmann became known nationwide as part of the investigation into the Oktoberfest attack on September 26, 1980. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, asked by the later assassin Gundolf Köhler for support in setting up a " military sports group " (WSG) in his home country, referred to Axel Heinzmann. Köhler, who studied at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen from 1979, took part sporadically in HTS events from March 1979, which - now under Heinzmann's direction - was clearly assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum.

Uwe Behrendt went the opposite way, murdering the rabbi, publisher and former head of the Israelite religious community in Nuremberg, Shlomo Lewin and his partner on December 19, 1980 . Behrendt was a member of the HTS at the end of the 1970s, before he got in touch with the military sports group Hoffmann through Heinzmann and joined it.

In 1980 Heinzmann founded the "Tübingen Institute for Combating Communist Human Rights Violations" (IBKM). On behalf of the IBKM, Heinzmann registered two demonstrations in Nuremberg in February and March 1980, which were directed against the ban on the military sports group Hoffmann in January of that year.

Acting as a candidate in political elections

From the beginning of the 1980s, Heinzmann repeatedly appeared as a candidate both with the status of "independent" and for various - sometimes only existing for a short time - new groupings of the right-wing fringe or the NPD in municipal (Baden-Württemberg-related) political elections ) at the state and federal level , provided that he was not refused a candidacy due to restrictions due to criminal law. However, in none of the elections to which he was admitted could he obtain a mandate or any function attainable by any democratic election outside of his own grouping.

In 1979, Heinzmann was involved in the establishment of a "Citizens' Action for Law and Order", with which he ran for the municipal council in Tübingen in the Baden-Württemberg municipal elections in March 1980. In February 1982 Heinzmann invited people to a "Reich Foundation Event" with his citizens' campaign.

In August 1985 Heinzmann distributed leaflets with historical revisionist theses at the Stuttgart "Historians Congress" , for which he was sentenced in November 1986 to a fine of 1,200 DM.

In December 1994 Heinzmann tried to be admitted as a candidate for the mayor elections in Wannweil and in January 1995 for the mayor elections in Reutlingen. However, this was denied him because he was imprisoned in Stuttgart-Stammheim at the time . In November 1994 he had organized a right-wing extremist "comradeship foundation" in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, in which Friedhelm Busse and other supporters of the Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP), which was banned the following year, also took part. In the course of the dissolution of the event, Heinzmann had injured a police officer with a knife and was arrested. He was one of 197 arrested neo-Nazis and in 1996 was sentenced to 16 months in prison for serious breach of the peace and dangerous bodily harm .

In 2003, Heinzmann's approval to run for the mayoral election in Reutlingen failed again.

Heinzmann ran for the NPD for the first time in 2005 in the federal elections and as a direct candidate in the Reutlingen constituency for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2006 .

In 2006 he was the Amtsgericht Reutlingen for sedition sentenced to a prison term of two months, because he was a front door of his home in Wannweil antisemitic had installed poster on which he defamed Jews as invaders.

As a result, Heinzmann ran for the NPD in the state elections of Baden-Württemberg in 2011 and 2016 , in the federal elections in 2009 and 2013 and since the beginning of the 21st century in various mayoral elections in various small towns and communities, especially in the Stuttgart area and the Neckar region. Alb . With his provocative demeanor , he often attracted a certain amount of attention in the regional media, but could not win any of these elections.

Personal

Before he retired, Heinzmann worked as a truck driver. He died at the end of September 2018 at the age of 72 from complications from cancer . He was married and had four children.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b c Axel Heinzmann , tagblatt.de, March 23, 2011
  2. ^ Rainer Fromm, The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification: a contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism , Lang 1998, p. 125
  3. ↑ Nikolai Wehrs, Protest of the Professors: The "Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft" in the 1970s , Wallstein Verlag 2014, p. 233
  4. ↑ "With Dumdum out of the line of fire" , Der Spiegel 41/1980 of October 6, 1980
  5. ↑ a b In the right network , Der Spiegel 43/2011 of October 20, 2011, p. 50
  6. ^ Right-wing radical youth organizations: Articles and documentation , PDI special issue, issue 8, 1979 p. 66
  7. ^ Alwin Meyer, Karl-Klaus Rabe, Relevant Relationships between Union Politicians , Lamuv-Verlag 1980, p. 25
  8. ↑ Sebastian Gräfe, Right-wing Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany: Between Experience-Oriented Young People, "After-Work Terrorists" and Clandestine Underground Cells , Nomos-Verlag 2017, p. 108
  9. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy, Oktoberfest - Das Assentat: How the repression of right-wing terror began , Ch. Links Verlag 2016, p. 162
  10. ↑ Sebastian Gräfe, Right-wing Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany: Between Experience-Oriented Young People, "After-Work Terrorists" and Clandestine Underground Cells , Nomos-Verlag 2017, p. 109
  11. ^ Rainer Fromm, Die "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification: a contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism , Lang 1998, p. 130
  12. ^ Hans Jennes, Antifascist Perspectives or Where is the Federal Republic heading ?: Documentation , Röderberg-Verlag 1979, p. 226
  13. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy, Oktoberfest - Das Assentat: How the repression of right-wing terror began , Ch. Links Verlag 2016, p. 163
  14. ↑ SPIEGEL of February 15, 1982, p. 210
  15. ↑ Journal Germany in Past and Present, Issue 1 1987, p. 44
  16. ↑ 197 Neo-Nazis arrested , Stuttgarter Zeitung of November 7, 1994
  17. ↑ Reutlinger Generalanzeiger of March 12, 2002 ( Memento of July 11, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ "Permissible Authority " , gea.de, July 24, 2003
  19. ↑ Tobias von Heymann, Die Oktoberfest-Bombe: Munich, September 26, 1980-the act of an individual or a terrorist attack with a political background? , NoRa, Novitäten & Raritäten 2008, p. 236
  20. ↑ Turbulent negotiation , gea.de, December 19th 2006
  21. ↑ Reutlinger Nachrichten of January 15, 2016 and July 27, 2013; Reutlinger General-Anzeiger of January 29, 2011, March 22, 2011 and September 12, 2009; Südkurier from September 13, 2006
  22. ↑ Lecture on "The nature and work of the secret services": Head of the banned military sports group Hoffmann active again , Report Mainz , swr.de, January 15, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Heinzmann, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Pods
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2018
Place of death Reutlingen