Christian Worch

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Christian Worch in Erfurt (2003)

Christian Worch (born March 14, 1956 ) is one of the leading cadres of the German neo-Nazi scene. The activist, who has been convicted several times, was a functionary of various right-wing extremist groups as well as an organizer and speaker at a large number of neo-Nazi demonstrations. From 2012 to 2017 he was chairman of the far-right splinter party Dierechte .

Right-wing extremist activities

Action Front of National Socialists / National Activists

Worch has been politically active in the right-wing extremist spectrum since he was 21. In 1977 he became known as a Holocaust denier in particular with a provocative action by the "Hansabande" led by Michael Kühnen in Hamburg under the motto "I donkey believe that Jews were gassed in Germany" . In the same year, the National Socialists Action Front (ANS) emerged from the organization . At this time they also maintained contact with the later banned Wiking youth .

After Kühnen was arrested in 1979, Worch took over the management of the ANS and was also brought to justice shortly after a propaganda campaign and an attack.

Freedom German Workers Party

After the Action Front National Socialists / National Activists ANS / NA was banned in 1983, Worch joined the (later also banned ) Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP) and became its deputy chairman. Since 1984 he has also been involved in the “ Aid Organization for National Political Prisoners and Their Relatives”. V. ”, which was banned in 2011, and took part in leadership meetings of the NSDAP organizational structure .

National list

In 1989, Worch founded the National List (NL) party together with Thomas Wulff and was also active on its board from 1993.

On the night of May 19-20, 1989, according to Spiegel Version, with reference to the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution , four anti-fascists disguised as a police special unit “from a special 'investigation command' of the Hamburg ' Antifascist Action ', to which the protection of the Constitution took about 50 people reckon, “the Worch couple overwhelmed, tied up and took away 50 files, member lists and address files from the National List and neo-Nazi scene. The self-designation - based on the MEK- Mobiles Einsatzkommando  - was "MAK - Mobiles Antifa Kommando".

Within the National List he published the magazine Index until September 1991 , with which he was particularly active in the area of ​​so-called anti-antifa work. After Kühnen's death in 1991, together with Arnulf Priem and Gottfried Küssel , he took over the management of the community of ideas of the New Front (GdNF). Worch became known as the main organizer of GdNF marches and the Rudolf Hess memorial marches .

In the environment of the NPD and Free Comradeships

After the NL was banned in February 1995, Worch was at times close to the NPD in the 1990s and was one of the key liaison officers for the Free Comradeships , a neo-Nazi form of organization that Thorsten Heise , Thomas Wulff and he had previously developed to a large extent on NPD activities.

Ever since the NPD leadership announced in August 2000 that it would initially suspend the “fight on the street” in order to provide the state with fewer areas for attack in view of the ban, Worch has increasingly distanced itself from the party. He was also critical of the so-called Popular Front from the right , which was propagated by the NPD . a. led to arguments with his long-time companion Wulff and for Worch, who had previously been offered to take over the state chairmanship of the Hamburg NPD, also resulted in a temporary "appearance and speech ban" at party events. Worch was active until the end as an opponent of the 2011 merger of the NPD and DVU .

The right

Worch moved from his previous Hamburg environment to Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and founded the “ Dierechte ” party under his chairmanship in May 2012 . To this end, he took over the DVU's program in order to mobilize right-wing extremist voters in competition with the NPD. On October 28, 2017, Worch was confirmed in his office as party chairman at the federal party conference of the small party with 78.4% of the valid votes. Subsequently, however, there was a motion from the Thuringian regional association, in which it was demanded that the federal party congress should resolve “that the party Dierechte is fully committed to the German national community .” Worch made “a counter-speech and stated that he was facing the motion mainly for legal, but also for political reasons ”. It came to a head because the majority of the members did not follow Worch, but the Thuringian regional association. Worch then resigned the conference presidium and left the party congress. He then stated "that he would resign from his position as federal chairman on October 31 and justify this in an internal circular". In the context of this break, the website was also changed from "die-rechte.com" to "die-rechte.net". Despite the differences, Worch continues to play a relevant role in "Dierechte" , be it at the march in Kassel in July 2019 or when registering for the demonstration of "Dierechte" on May 1, 2020 in Hamburg. At the beginning of January 2019, Worch also returned to the federal executive committee as treasurer and assessor at the federal party conference.

Criminal proceedings

In numerous criminal proceedings, Worch was usually represented by his co-thinker Jürgen Rieger . In 1977 he and Kühnen were sentenced to a work order for honoring the war criminals sentenced to death in the Nuremberg Trials . In 1980 he was found guilty of sedition and dissemination of National Socialist propaganda and sentenced to a total of three years in prison. At the end of 1994 Worch was sentenced to two years imprisonment for illegally continuing the ANS / NA after the organization was banned. Worch began serving this sentence in late February 1996, but was released early in 1997.

Otto Riehs and Axel Reitz with Christian Worch at the head of a rally in Cologne in October 2004

Private and professional

Worch grew up in Hamburg-Hamm and trained as a lawyer and notary assistant . He is divorced and has lived with his partner Lorena Riewa, the sister of the presenter Jens Riewa , for years .

At a young age Worch became a millionaire through inheriting real estate and capital; according to endstation-rechts.de, he worked as a taxi driver in his home town of Parchim in 2017 .

literature

  • Rainer Erb : Protest organization and event management: The type of right-wing extremist movement entrepreneur. In: Andreas Klärner, Michael Kohlstruck: Modern right-wing extremism in Germany. Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936096-62-7 , pp. 142-176.
  • Martin Thein : Biographical portrait: Christian Worch. In: Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . Vol. 20 (2008), ISSN  0938-0256 , pp. 204-214.
  • Andreas Speit : We march to victory In: Andreas Röpke / Andreas Speit (Ed.): Braune Kameradschaften. The militant neo-Nazis in the shadow of the NPD. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-365-0 .

Web links

Commons : Christian Worch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Gensing: NPD loses most important financier. tagesschau.de, October 29, 2009, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ "The rights" loses the chairman , failure reporter November 2, 2017
  3. ↑ Worch: Active in the scene for decades. ndr.de, October 5, 2012, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  4. ^ Felix M. Steiner: Little chance of success for the new neo-Nazi party . Zeit Online , August 14, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c d Andreas Speit: On the rubble of the DVU. In: taz.de. June 17, 2012, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  6. ^ Karl Hoffmann: Skadi about K2 to Ohmanwasfürinname . Jungle world , October 12, 2005
  7. ↑ Oliver Tolmein : Radical Antifa, militant state. In: Konkret , 3/90
  8. ↑ Conversation with Hamburger Antifas
  9. ↑ Extremists: Human Chatter . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1989 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Timeline: Militant Actions against Neo-Nazis: Supplement to the book "Antifa means attack: Militant antifascism in the 80s" by Horst Schöppner (2015) . (PDF) p. 9
  11. ↑ Bernd Langer: Art as Resistance: posters, oil paintings, actions, texts from the Art and Struggle initiative . Pahl-Rugenstein, 1997, p. 109, google.de
  12. ^ The story of the "Anti-Antifa" Belltower.News April 24, 2008
  13. ↑ Michael Klarmann: Comradeships as a strategic element. bpb.de, April 23, 2007, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Andreas Speit: Brown block suffers. taz.de , January 8, 2005, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b c Wolf Annaun: The Brown Army Faction . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/1995
  16. ↑ Florian Diekmann, Christina Hebel: "The Right" founder Christian Worch: Disputes of the neo-Nazi scene. spiegel.de, July 27, 2012, accessed October 30, 2016 . Thilo Schmidt : A little coat on time. deutschlandradiokultur.de, April 24, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Patrick Gensing : A good day for Christian Worch . publikative.org, July 27, 2012
  18. ↑ Friederike Hunke: Neo-Nazi Worch founds "The Right" Braune copy. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 31, 2012
  19. ^ Felix M. Steiner: The Right: Hardly any chance of success for the new neo-Nazi party . Zeit Online , August 14, 2012
  20. ^ Philipp Wittrock, Florian Diekmann, Christina Hebel: New right-wing party wants to replace NPD. In: Spiegel Online . July 27, 2012, accessed October 30, 2016 . Marc Brandstetter: One year of rights: Christian W.'s private campaign endstation-rechts.de, May 27, 2013, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  21. ↑ "Dierechte" loses chairman , by Sebastian Weiermann, Störungsmelder , November 2, 2017
  22. ↑ Renegade party leaders , by Theo Schneider, Blick nach Rechts , November 3, 2017
  23. ^ The right: Bundeschef Christian Worch resigns . endstation-rechts.de, November 2, 2017
  24. ↑ Declaration of the Federal Board of RIGHTS to the resignation of party leader Christian Worch ( Memento of 13 November 2017 in the Internet Archive ), The Rights 2 November 2017
  25. ↑ web presence Dierechte
  26. ↑ Christian Worch is the face of the party "Dierechte" This is the neo-Nazi who marches the right-wing extremists in Kassel , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine July 18, 2019
  27. ↑ Right-wing extremists Report Maidemo in Hamburg , Stefan Schölermann, NDR Info, August 8, 2019
  28. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2019, p. 79
  29. ↑ Photo Peter Jülich Dortmund September 4, 2010 around 400 neo-Nazis gathered for the so-called "6th National Anti-War Day".
  30. ↑ Lorena Riewa items in view to right
  31. ↑ Andreas Speit: THE RIGHT EDGE Election campaign modern . taz Nord, January 10, 2008
  32. ↑ TV News , BZ , July 18, 2013
  33. ↑ Patricia Schlesinger : violence, chaos, overthrow - the strategy of the people behind the Nazi terror. daserste.ndr.de, August 24, 2000, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  34. ↑ The rights: Federal Chief Christian Worch resigns November 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Worch, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1956