Bernhard C. Wintzek

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Bernhard Christian Wintzek (born August 9, 1943 in Trachenberg ; † March 18, 2018 in Asendorf ) was a German right-wing extremist and later right-wing conservative publicist .

Life

Wintzeks was the son of the estate manager Paul Wintzek and the pharmacist Elsa Wintzek. His family fled to Northern Germany at the end of February 1945 and after various stops settled in Asendorf at the beginning of 1951 . From 1954 to 1958 he first attended the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Nienburg / Weser , then in 1958 a private high school in Bremen, which he left in spring 1962 at his own request and without a high school diploma. He then attended a boarding school in Switzerland for several months. After his return to Germany, he reported to the Federal Border Guard , where he did his military service from October 1962 to March 1964.

After his military service, Wintzek studied from April 1964 at the social pedagogical college of the city of Kassel in Fürstenhagen and passed the state examination there on March 10, 1966. He then worked as a teacher at the private secondary school for boys at Varenholz Castle . In 1967 Wintzek married.

In 1967 Wintzek received a scholarship from the Akademie für Musische Bildung Remscheid, where he completed further training from April 1967 to June 1968. His studies included history, German and media studies and also included short stays abroad in Amsterdam and Paris. Following the stipulation of the scholarship, which obliged him to spend two years in youth work, Wintzek was a member of the jury for musical education of the selection camp for the musical competition to take part in the Olympic trip of German youth to Mexico City from June 1968 . His journalistic work for the magazine MUT , which he founded in 1965, was credited here.

Act

Wintzek first appeared in public with the publication of his book Protest (1967). From 1968 to 2017 he published the magazine Mut , founded in 1965 , initially as Das Nationaleuropean Magazin , later as a forum for culture, politics and history . At the same time, Wintzek took over the editor-in-chief; The magazine's affiliated Mut Verlag , in which he published several of his books, was also in his hand until his death.

In the 1970s he was briefly known as one of the main initiators of the right-wing extremist organization Action Resistance . To this end, he used his positions within the Mut Verlag at the beginning of the 1970s to provide multimedia support for the Resistance campaign , whose initiators and supporters were referred to in the mass media as “brown mob” and “ neo-Nazis ”. At this time Wintzek was also active as a functionary in the NPD , for which he ran in the 1972 federal election.

In 1979, Wintzek declared that he had changed his editorial and personal guidelines in the direction of an unconditional opening for "liberality, tolerance and intellectual plurality". He changed the content of his magazine, which had been close to the NPD until then, and which changed from the 1980s to a “culturally conservative” magazine due to the increased commitment of Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner . Courage was discontinued with the July / August 2017 issue.

Works

  • Protest. A national European time criticism of the young German generation , Langer Verlag, Esslingen 1967
  • Young people are looking for new paths , Mut-Verlag 1972
  • Our fathers weren't criminals: as it really was back then , Mut-Verlag 1975
  • Red flags over Bonn? Aim and methods of Soviet imperialism , Mut-Verlag 1975
  • Secret - from the archive of the Reich Government , 1976
  • The Lies of Our Social Democrats , 1977
  • Zeitgeist thought trap: an encouragement to measure and center in 40 essays , Mut-Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-89182-083-6

literature

  • Katja Eddel: The magazine MUT - a democratic opinion forum? Analysis and classification of a politically changed magazine. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18172-1 (also: Chemnitz, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2011), detailed biography on pages 77-87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dare ads Bernhard Christian Wintzek. In: Kreiszeitung.de. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  2. Mut Verlag product index with table of contents for the final edition .