Bernd Wagner (criminalist)

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Bernd Wagner, 2013

Bernd Wagner (* 1955 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German criminalist and expert on right-wing extremism and right-wing radicalism . Together with Ingo Hasselbach, Wagner is the founder of the Exit Germany initiative .

Career

Bernd Wagner studied criminology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . As a qualified criminalist, he worked in the GDR and in the Federal Republic as a criminal investigator, most recently for the police state security . His activity covered various areas, including foreigner and economic crime. Most recently he served as lieutenant colonel in the criminal police (OSL dK) and headed a department in the main criminal police department in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR. In 1975 he joined the SED and remained a member until 1989. After the fall of the Wall, he was chief criminal officer in the Central Criminal Police Office of the GDR and in the Joint State Criminal Police Office of the New Federal States . In 1988/89 Wagner was employed as head of the VW / SE department and temporarily as head of a skinhead group in the criminal investigation department. There he also dealt with studies on East German neo-Nazism. In the Central Criminal Police Office of the GDR under Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel (DSU) he was head of the extremism / terrorism department. From 1992 to 1994 he was employed at the Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (ISS) in Frankfurt am Main as a research assistant in the Federal Government's program against aggression and violence among young people in the New Federal States (AgAG) . From 1996 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant in the Mobile Advisory Team Brandenburg (MBT) of the regional offices for foreigner issues, youth work and schools (RAA) Brandenburg. In 1997 he founded the Center for Democratic Culture (ZDK) in Berlin, which has been a non-profit company since 2004 and is now called the ZDK Society for Democratic Culture. The Exit-Germany initiative was founded in 2000 and the former extremists' action group was co-founded in 2008. Exit case management and exit family support go back to him. He founded Journal Exit in 2008 . Journal for deradicalization and democratic culture that is now internet-based.

Act

Bernd Wagner edited the manual for right-wing extremism (1994) and the manual for right-wing radicalism (2002) and published youth violence scenes and right-wing extremism and cultural subversion in the new federal states (1997), violence against freedom (2012) and numerous articles on right-wing extremism . His studies also attract international attention. Under his leadership, local studies on questions of democracy and extremism in the new federal states were carried out and the Community Coaching consulting label was developed and tested. The central question is that of democratic culture in everyday life in cities and communities and their residents. Threats originating from ideologies that devalue or reject the freedom and dignity of the individual are discussed. Right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, Islamism and left-wing extremism are among them. In 2010 Wagner co-founded the Islamism and Ultranationalism Office (AStIU), which deals with ideologies and movements that are hostile to human rights. Together with Claudia Dantschke, he founded the Hayat Germany initiative, which today advises Hayat families on matters of Islamism through the Hayat advisory center. In 2014 Wagner founded the DNE-Germany initiative, the diagnostic-therapeutic network for extremism. In the same year, Widerschein ibbm UG began work in the information, consulting, education and media sector, which works together with the Center for Democratic Culture and the Institute for the Study of Radical Movements (ISRM), which Wagner co-founded and now heads with ensures.

In 2014, Bernd Wagner was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon , thereby recognizing his commitment against right-wing extremism.

Wagner received his doctorate in 2013 from the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt / Oder. In 2013, he was an expert in the first parliamentary committee of inquiry into the terror group National Socialist Underground .

Wagner is a member of the Advisory Board of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance .

Awards

In 2013, EXIT Germany received the special award of the Remarque Peace Prize of the city of Osnabrück.

Publications (selection)

  • Right-wing radicalism in the late GDR. On the militant Nazi radicalization in GDR society (dissertation). Edition Widerschein, Berlin, 2014
  • with Wichmann, Krause Ausstiegsblätter - Instructions on leaving with EXIT-Germany Ed. ZDK Gesellschaft Demokratie Gesellschaft gGmbH, Berlin 2014
  • Right-wing radicalism Young right-wing radicals in criminal proceedings Conditions and instructions - possibilities and limits in deradicalization Ed. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH, Berlin, 2008
  • Youth violence scenes . Contribution to right-wing extremism in the GDR and in the new federal states, 1994
  • Youth violence scenes. On criminological and historical aspects in East Germany. Society for Documentation, Information, Journalism and Further Education, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-931003-01-9 .
  • Right-wing extremism and the world of work: exits, entries, interdependencies Text: Andreas Speit
  • National death and immortality. Modern right-wing extremism in southern Brandenburg - agitation, appearance and * continuity . EXIT Germany, Berlin June 2011 Ed. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH
  • Management report. Right-wing extremism in the Dahme-Spreewald district. EXIT Germany, Berlin May 2011 Ed. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH
  • Pictures of Life - The catalog EXIT-Germany , Berlin June 2012 Ed. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH
  • Strengthen families - against extremism and violence. Model project of the ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH as part of the EXIT Germany initiative using the example of the Dahme-Spreewald district. Published by ZDK Society for Democratic Culture gGmbH, Berlin 2010
  • First aid. Codes & symbols EXIT-Germany, Berlin 2009 Ed. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH
  • Last stop: Getting out of the right-wing extremist scene EXIT-Germany, Berlin June 2006 Ed. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH

Contributions

  • Tunnel light looks. From the practice of labor market-oriented exit work by the project sponsors of the XENOS special program "Exit to Entry". Ed. Ralf Melzer, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Forum Berlin, project "Against Right-Wing Extremism" - Berlin, 2012
  • with Dierk Borstel: Right-wing extremism and its increased threat potential. In: German Conditions VII, 2008, pp. 284–293.
  • On right-wing extremism and exit processes. In: Focus on Democracy and Extremism (01/12), 2008, pp. 1–10.
  • On constellations of the new right-wing extremism and "cultural subversion" as an instrument. In: Research Journal New Social Movements (4), 2008, pp. 6–16.
  • Cultural hegemony from the right. In: Duty-Legitimation-Responsibility, Bd. 114. Bonn: Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft eV (Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, 114), 2006, p. 17.
  • National community against McWorld. Legal intellectual discourses on globalization, nation and culture. With the collaboration of Thomas Grumke. Leipzig: Klett (Bulletin / Center for Democratic Culture, 2003.3).
  • Developments in right-wing extremism in Berlin from the 80s to the present day. Berlin State Commission against Violence. 2001
  • Youth - violence - scenes. On criminological and historical aspects in East Germany; the eighties and nineties. 1st edition Berlin: dip (materials / Berlin-Brandenburger Bildungswerk eV, 1), 1995
  • Terrorist tendencies in militant right-wing extremism. In: Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1993, pp. 156-168.
  • Right skinhead loite from hoite. Skins-The Elite? In: Blickpunkt-Das Jugendmagazin 42 (1), pp. 28–29.
  • Political violence in East Berlin. Expert opinion on behalf of the independent commission against violence of the Berlin Senate in 1993.

See also

  • Die neue Nazis (documentary film series from 2012 about modern right-wing extremism, in which Wagner is represented among others with explanatory speeches)

Web links

Commons : Bernd Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile at ZDK Society for Democratic Culture ( Memento from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 23, 2010.
  2. ↑ L'extrémisme de droite en Allemagne ( Memento of October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Award ceremony for the Day of German Unity on bundespraesident.de
  4. ↑ http://www.moz.de/artikel-ansicht/dg/0/1/1351176
  5. ↑ http://www.buendnis-toleranz.de/ueberuns/Beirat/?p=all
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2014/09/140923-Ordensverleihung-Tag-der-deutschen-Einheit.html
  8. ↑ http://friedenspreis.osnabrueck.de/index.php?id=205
  9. ↑ Bernd Wagner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)