Axel Reitz

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Axel Reitz as a speaker at a rally in April 2005 in Essen

Axel W. Reitz (born January 10, 1983 in Dormagen ) was leader of the neo-Nazi “ Kameradschaft Walter Spangenberg ” until it was banned in 2012 and in 2013 announced his withdrawal “from active political life”.

Career

Axel Reitz (second from right in front)

Axel Reitz began his political career as a member of the Junge Union , but shortly thereafter became a member of the Young National Democrats and the NPD itself. Later he founded the Comradeship Cologne with Siegfried Lutz , which was later renamed Comradeship Walter Spangenberg and henceforth the name of one murdered SA man. After Lutz's death, Reitz took over the management of the organization in 1999 and was active in the Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten (KDS). Until his fall in 2002 , the KDS had contacts with Saddam Hussein's regime , whom Axel Reitz viewed as an “oriental variant of Adolf Hitler ”. According to right-wing extremism researcher Richard Gebhardt, Reitz was also a co-initiator of the Action Office West Germany .

Riehs , Reitz and Worch 2004 in Cologne

Axel Reitz was sponsored by Christian Worch , with whom he maintained personal contacts. Both of them often appeared together as speakers at rallies throughout Germany. Reitz was also responsible for registering the events and acted as a networker. In the Bundestag constituency Erftkreis I he received 1.5% of the first votes in the 2009 election as a non-party candidate of the NPD. Compared to the Kölner Stadtanzeiger , he described himself as a "professional demonstrator". In May 2012, Walter Spangenberg's comradeship was banned.

At the beginning of March 2013, during a trial against alleged members and supporters of the Mittelrhein Action Office , Reitz had his lawyer inform that he had stopped his political activities and did not intend to resume because he had entered a “political and personal dead end”.

In an article published on February 16, 2016 in the new right online magazine Blaue Narzisse , Axel Reitz reports on his failed attempt to join the “moderate right-wing party” Alternative for Germany . On the other hand, he was able to “emancipate and ultimately break away” from his “totalitarian, freedom-hostile and extremist trains of thought”. Reitz added to his statement about the AfD in 2020, including in an interview with dropout Philip Schlaffer ( Extremislos eV ), that the party and in particular Der Flügel had moved too far to the right for him. Reitz said this in an interview with the Rheinische Post . Meanwhile Reitz describes himself as a liberal - conservative and gives lectures about his exit from the scene, for example with the young liberals .

After leaving the scene, Reitz was exposed to hostility from the NPD and neo-Nazis such as Christian Worch . They also accused him of being a traitor because of his departure.

Conflicts with the law

As a 14-year-old, Reitz was warned by a judge for distributing propaganda material for unconstitutional organizations . This was followed by punishments for using marks from unconstitutional organizations and theft . In a ruling by the Bochum Regional Court on September 9, 2005, Reitz was sentenced to one year and nine months imprisonment for incitement to hatred because he had anti-Semitically agitated against the construction of a synagogue at a rally . As a previous suspended sentence of one year for violating the Assembly Act (prohibition of uniforms) was revoked due to the conviction , the duration of detention increased to a total of two years and nine months. After serving two-thirds of his sentence, the remainder of the sentence was suspended and Reitz was released in April 2008.

On March 13, 2012 Reitz was arrested again for allegedly supporting the Mittelrhein Action Office, which the Koblenz public prosecutor had classified as a criminal organization . He was released from custody less than two months later. Because he is said to have testified to the authorities, he has been threatened by parts of the neo-Nazi scene on the Internet since then.

The undercover agent JDH, who has been working for the protection of the constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1989, was assigned to Reitz. In an interview with the ZDF, Reitz helped clarify the role of the informant of the state constitutional protection and reports, among other things, that the secret service man temporarily led the Cologne comradeship.

Expressions as a teenager

In his youth, Reitz stated that he believed Adolf Hitler alone on this earth, and quoted the NSDAP functionary Robert Ley (1937):

“We believe that National Socialism is the only saving faith for our people. We believe that there is a Lord God in heaven who created us [...]. And we believe that this Lord God sent us Adolf Hitler so that Germany could become a foundation for all eternity. Hail Hitler."

As a 16-year-old, he said during a day of fighting against the reaction :

"Those who fought us for years, pushed us out of work and put us in prison, they will one day be put on the market square and shot."

Movies

  • Peter Schran : Next door the brown swamp - neo-Nazis, their followers and masterminds , 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Explosive AfD candidacies | Look to the right. August 10, 2020, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b The "Hitler of Cologne" gets out - the 30-year-old sees his life in a dead end. Rhein-Zeitung , March 1, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2013 .
  3. ^ A neo-Nazi from next door. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, September 24, 2005, accessed April 7, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Speaker with a long criminal record. Soester Anzeiger, February 9, 2011, accessed March 2, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Free Comradeship Cologne. Soester Anzeiger, December 28, 2007, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved March 2, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Michael Klarmann 2007: “Comradeships as a Strategy Element” , Federal Agency for Political Education
  7. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1999, p. 100
  8. ↑ a b c d A neo-Nazi from next door. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, September 24, 2005, accessed on March 2, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Richard Gebhardt, Roses strewn on the way: Germany and his neo-Nazis , PapyRossa Verlag 2007, p. 77.
  10. ↑ Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse, Extremismus & Demokratie , Volume 20, Bouvier Verlag 2008, p. 212
  11. ^ Election results Erftkreis I ( Memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Johannes Radke (Der Tagesspiegel, October 10, 2007): Extremism: Hear Left, Think Right ,
    Alexander Voelkel (derwesten.de, June 1, 2009): NPD Landtag candidate: "Hitler von Köln" is a candidate in Siegerland ,
    Fabian Weissbarth ( Die Zeit, March 31, 2010): Malfunction reporter: Berliners want to prevent the Nazi rally on May 1 ,
    Ulrich Hagmann, Birgit Kappel (Report Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 26, 2010): Region in fear: How right-wing extremists terrorize citizens
  13. ^ A b Raid on "Spangenberg" Nazis. taz, May 10, 2012, accessed February 23, 2013 .
  14. ↑ THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM ( Memento from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Blue Narcissus Tuesday, February 16, 2016 14:34 by Axel Reitz
  15. ↑ Ex- "Hitler of Cologne": The process created right-wing extremist martyrs. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  16. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt6-g9EVJiU
  17. ↑ All the way to the right and back again: Talk with a dropout. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  18. ↑ The "Hitler of Cologne" wants to get out of the right-wing scene. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  19. ↑ The "Hitler of Cologne" wants to get out of the right-wing scene. Rhein-Zeitung, August 3, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2013 .
  20. ^ The daily newspaper: Axel Reitz in prison , July 29, 2006
  21. ↑ Reitz, Axel. Netz gegen Nazis, accessed March 2, 2013 .
  22. ↑ 24 neo-Nazis arrested in a major raid. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, March 13, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2013 .
  23. ^ Right scene speculates about Reitz. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, July 10, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2013 .
  24. ↑ Secret service informant is said to be involved in a series of murders. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015 ; accessed on October 20, 2015 .
  25. ↑ ZDF broadcast “ Frontal21 ” from October 8, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Reitz, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reitz, Axel W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi, activist of the neo-Nazi Free Comradeships
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Dormagen