Bernd Tödter

Bernd Tödter (born October 1, 1974 in Bad Segeberg ) is a German neo-Nazi . He was the founder and president of the organization "Sturm 18 eV", which was banned in 2015. In 2012 he founded the right-wing extremist prison aid organization Aryan Division Jail Crew in the Hünfeld prison . In July 2019 he founded the Aryan Circle Germany .

Activities in the right-wing scene

At the end of the 1990s, Tödter played a key role in building up the “Kameradschaft Nordmark” in Bad Segeberg. In 1996, up to 150 neo-Nazis gathered in the spa town and started brawls, demolished cars or messed with the police .

In addition, Tödter was active as a musician and website operator of the sturm18.de website . Since 2002 he has headed the “Kameradschaft NordHessen” and “Sturm 18 eV”. He was a member of the “Friends of National Activists” (FNA) and the now banned “Aid Organization for Political Prisoners and Their Relatives” (HNG). In 2006 it became known that he would be the managing director of the publicly funded multicultural association “Zur Spitze e. V. ”was elected in Kassel . At that time, Tödter protested his exit from right-wing extremism .

Since December 2010 he was head of the "NSO Germany" and 1st chairman of the association "Culture, Sport and Promotion Association Germany". He took part in nationwide campaigns. Shortly after his release from prison at the end of June 2019, he founded the Aryan Circle Germany in Bad Segeberg . The name gives the group as a German branch of the US prison gang Aryan Circle (AC). However, it is an independent group consisting of at least 12, possibly up to 50 German neo-Nazis, some of whom were former members of "Sturm 18". They tried to recruit students for their group in Segeberg and Sülfeld and physically attacked opponents in Sülfeld.

Criminal offenses

In 1993 Tödter had beaten a homeless man to death with an accomplice and was sentenced to prison for this. In February 2000 the police found an arsenal of weapons in his apartment: practice and maneuver ammunition, tracer ammunition, live rifle and pistol ammunition, alarm weapons and an armor-piercing projectile. Thereupon he was investigated, among other things, for violating the War Weapons Control Act. During a house search in 2002, police shot and killed his fiery attack dogs . Tödter attacked a Kurdish family in 2006 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He is also associated with an attack in which the DGB building in Kassel was sprayed with the slogan “Traitor of the people !!!” in the run-up to May 1, 2010 . During a house search in 2010, police shot and killed his Doberman. He was imprisoned again for ten months in autumn 2011 for threatening and insulting a woman whose underage daughter had come under the influence of Tödter. In 2012, at the request of the prosecution, the Kassler Regional Court decided to drop a case against Tödter for the " use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations ".

In 2013, the Frankfurt / Main public prosecutor's office launched an investigation into the establishment of a criminal organization, the prison aid organization "Aryan Division Jail Crew", but dropped the proceedings because of the lack of a legal basis. No legal violation could be proven.

After serving a two-year prison sentence in February 2014, he was arrested again in July 2014 on charges of two-fold dangerous bodily harm. Tödter was charged on suspicion of dangerous bodily harm in two cases. He is also said to have hired two women from his neo-Nazi group to abuse a 16-year-old. He was sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

In May 2016, he was sentenced to an additional two and a half years in prison for coercion and aggravated assault. Together with three other women and two men, he had severely abused several people who did not want to join or leave the “Sturm 18” comradeship he founded . The trial mainly concerned a man who was supposed to have been detained and tortured for a week on the orders of the "President" Tödter, who was described as "extremely violent".

On March 3, 2020, at the request of the Flensburg public prosecutor's office, the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Schleswig-Holstein searched the apartments of twelve suspects between the ages of 19 and 57 in Schleswig-Holstein and other federal states that Tödter had recruited to secure evidence. The public prosecutor's office assumes that the purpose of this right-wing extremist group is to commit xenophobic physical injuries and property damage as well as criminal offenses under the Weapons Act.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Jansen: Raid on "Aryan Circle Germany": Investigations against known right-wing extremists. Tagesspiegel, March 3, 2020; Murderer Bernd Tödter founds comradeship «Aryan Circle». Exif, October 26, 2019; Sabrina Winter: Everyday life with neo-Nazis in Bad Segeberg: Poisoned mood , taz, January 17, 2020; Daniel Göbel: Kassel neo-Nazi Bernd T. builds militant circles - students in sight , Gießener Allgemeine , November 6, 2019; Kristian Stemmler: "Aryan Circle" in Bad Segeberg: Dangerous start-up , Junge Welt, issue of November 20, 2019, p. 15; Julian Feldmann: Sülfeld: A place defends itself against neo-Nazis , Panorama 3 , NDR, January 28, 2020
2. ↑ https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/adolf-hitler-per29794/neonazi-kameradschaft-vereinsregister-11250825.html
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Frankfurter Rundschau: Kassel neo-Nazis must be in custody , May 30, 2016
5. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Raid in Schleswig-Holstein: Police strike against right-wing extremist "Aryan Circle Germany" - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .