Rolf Kosiek

Rolf Kosiek (born September 23, 1934 in Herford ) is a German publicist , politician of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and neo-Nazi multifunctional. One of his pseudonyms is "Rudolf Künast".

Life

Kosiek studied physics, chemistry and history in Göttingen (1955–1957) and Heidelberg (1957–1960). He obtained his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1963 in Heidelberg. rer. nat. From 1963 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the 1st Physics Institute of Heidelberg University, from 1968 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the Duden publishing house. From 1963 to 1967 he was federal leader of the youth association Junge Adler .

From 1968 to 1972 he was a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in the 5th state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

After the NPD left the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Kosiek then worked from 1972 to 1980 as a lecturer in mathematics, physics and statistics at the Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences (now the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment ) until he left for right-wing extremist activities was dismissed from civil service.

He found a new job in 1981 with the right-wing extremist Wigbert Grabert , who is also a Witikone . Since 1981 he has been responsible for content work and lecturer at the right-wing extremist Grabert Verlag as well as head of the Institute for German Post-War History belonging to the publisher . Kosiek lived in Nürtingen until 2012 and since then in Bad Soden-Salmünster .

Functions in right-wing extremist networks

Rolf Kosiek is a member of the management team of the " German Study Association " (DSG) founded in 2000 by well-known right-wing extremists . From 1991 to 2005 he was chairman of the Society for Free Journalism (GfP), which is closely networked with the DSG and which, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is “the right-wing extremist cultural association in Germany” with the largest number of members. Since 2005 he has been deputy chairman of the GfP.

In Grabert Verlag he has worked as an editor and sales. From 2006-2008 he campaigned for the right-wing extremist NPD think tank Dresdner Schule , which, in contrast to the Frankfurt School around Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno , “declared political war on the multiculturalists and local people”.

He is a board member of the " German Seminar " led by Walter Staffa and has been chairman of the " German Circle of 1972 " since 2001 , which is listed in the publication "Right-Wing Extremism" of the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution as an association of right-wing extremist efforts. Both associations are based in Nürtingen. He is on the advisory board of the racist , formerly of Jürgen Rieger -run Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioral Research (GbfAEV), a member of the " Witikobundes ", the "Action Group of Witikobundes" (located in both Germany), is active in the revisionist club culture and contemporary history - archive of time .

From 1968 to 1972 Kosiek was a member of the state parliament of the NPD in Baden-Wuerttemberg , from 1968 to 1973 a member of the municipal council of Heidelberg for the NPD , from 1973 to the NPD federal executive board and 1977 deputy chairman of the NPD in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Kosiek was considered one of the party's chief ideologues. Since the late 1970s he had close ties to the German Cultural Association of European Spirit (DKEG), where he appeared several times as a speaker.

Kosiek acted as a speaker for the Dichterstein Offenhausen association , the German League for People and Homeland and at the Schutzbund for the German People . Kosiek worked closely with Walter Staffa and other representatives of the DSG as well as with the other board members of the GfP and is still very important as a strategist and ideologist of the NPD and similar groups.

The right-wing extremism expert and journalist Hans-Henning Scharsach called Kosiek in connection with the terrorist organization National Socialist Underground : “The radical anti-Semite and racial theorist is one of the leading ideologues of the brown milieu in which the neo-Nazi murderer trio, who came under the cynical term 'kebab murderer 'made headlines in Austria in autumn 2011 ".

Dismissal from civil service

Rolf Kosiek received his doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Heidelberg in 1963. Then he was a research assistant at the physical institute there until 1968. At the beginning of the 1970s, Kosiek applied to be a lecturer at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. The Ministry of Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate refused to accept Rolf Kosiek into civil service. Kosiek sued this decision. The 7th Chamber of the Neustadt Administrative Court dismissed his complaint, not because of his NPD membership, but because of an action against left-wing students in Heidelberg. In addition, Kosiek had caught a GDR flag in front of the Ulm City Theater. Thus Kosiek does not show the necessary restraint in political disputes. Kosiek appealed against this. The Baden-Württemberg Minister of Education, Wilhelm Hahn, on the other hand, appointed Kosiek to the Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences (now HFWU) in 1972. He considers Kosiek to be a “nationalist with very conservative views”, but not a “radical” who opposes the existence and social order of our state. On February 28, 1974, Wilhelm Hahn stated in a letter of resignation to Rolf Kosiek that the key function in the NPD, which pursues anti-constitutional goals, is incompatible with the status of an official, it does not respect the idea of ​​international understanding, it pays homage to extreme nationalism, cultivate a racist ideology and do not distance yourself from the National Socialist state. In 1980 Rolf Kosiek was dismissed from civil service and switched to Grabert-Verlag.

Journalistic activity

Kosiek is a book author, journalist and co-editor of resolutions. He published u. a. Contributions in the right-wing publications Nation and Europa . As a permanent author “Rudolf Künast”, Rolf Kosiek wrote numerous articles in the historical revisionist magazine Germany in Past and Present (DGG) of the Tübingen Grabert Verlag .

The Frankfurt School and its corrosive effects

On the occasion of the takeover of government by the red-green coalition in 1998, Kosiek revised his work on the Frankfurt School : The Frankfurt School and its Corrosive Effects (2001). In the leading representatives of the red-green coalition Kosiek saw intellectual children of the “ 68ers , whose intellectual fathers form the Frankfurt School. Your goals: the destruction of the German spiritual tradition, the destruction of the national and fatherland consciousness, the dismantling of all authorities, the dissolution of the family and the state. "

Kosiek blames Jews for the so-called “corrosive effects” . The " critical theory " that emerged after 1945 , which was also part of the Frankfurt School, was "alien to German thinking", it brought the "dangerous spiritual poison of Marxism into the German national body ". The "re-education" with which - according to Kosiek - the members of the Frankfurt School were commissioned by the US allies , made this possible. “Decomposers” who returned from exile in the US as “winners” have - according to Kosiek - done a great job: A “ selfish fun and enjoyment society” has replaced the good old people's community . Today “ foreigners ” could “ flow into the German national body in millions” unhindered.

Kosiek laments a “demon of negation, doubt and denial” that has destroyed the “inner world”. Kosiek not only blames their hatred of everything German, but also what he calls the “decomposers” of the Frankfurt School for the destruction of the environment. He blames “the Jews” for all of this: He propagates that “almost all leading representatives of the Frankfurt School came from Judaism ”. In the same book Kosiek took several times for incitement convicted Holocaust deniers Udo Walendy into custody and referred to the serious historical research as "re-education prevailing opinion."

The big maneuverable

“The winner writes the story!” Is the title of the five-volume work Der Grosse Wendig, which he has edited . Corrections to contemporary history , "this ancient wisdom" applied "especially to Germany after the surrender of the Wehrmacht and the complete occupation of the German Reich from May 1945". Since then, “the Germans” have “been given an image of history that was primarily based on the war propaganda of the Allies, was intended to serve the re-education of the Germans and made possible their political blackmail”. Kosiek also wrote the article on the subject of the gas chamber in Auschwitz's delousing facility , in which he complained that nowadays the “gas chamber” is immediately “inferred” about the Holocaust. This is an expression of "intellectual [r] constriction, which caused several decades of re-education and the linguistic sovereignty of the 68ers".

Honors

In 2012 Rolf Kosiek was awarded the “Ulrich von Hutten Medal” by the right-wing extremist “Society for Free Journalism”.

Publications

• with Olaf Rose (ed.): Der Grosse Wendig. Corrections to contemporary history , 4 volumes + register volume. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 2010
• The Frankfurt School and its corrosive effects . Grabert, Tübingen 2001
• Waldemar von Schütz (editor & publisher), arr. Rolf Kosiek: German history in the 20th century . Series: Publications by the Institute for German Post-War History, 34th Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , Rosenheim 1990
• German land in foreign hands. A thousand years of borderland fate. German Eastern Territories. Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Rosenheim 1990. 1982.
• Rolf Kosiek, Waldemar Schütz: Lexicon of German history in the 20th century, shaped by World War I, National Socialism, World War II Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Rosenheim 1990
• Nations instead of 'One World'. The people in the mirror of science. Grabert, Tübingen 1999
• Beyond the borders. 1000 years of ethnic Germans and Germans abroad . Publications from universities, science and research, 12. Grabert, Tübingen 1987
• The people in their reality. Science and life confirm the popular term . Kurt Vowinckel Verlag , Berg am See, 1975
• Marxism? A superstition. Kurt Vowinckel, Berg am See 1972
• Paths to Reality. The people in their reality. Volume 7, Kurt Vowinckel, Berg am See 1976
• German history in the 20th century. The struggle of a people for unity and continuity . Grabert, Tübingen 2004
• Mathematics for Economists , Vol. 1, 1975

According to his own account, Rolf Kosiek wrote four books under pseudonyms.

literature

• Anton Maegerle : authors of the Grabert-Verlag and Hohenrain-Verlag. Their function and importance in the right-wing scene. In: Martin Finkenberger, Horst Junginger (Ed.): In the service of lies. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) and his publishers. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-932710-76-2 . Pp. 155–174, on this p. 168 f.
• The networks of the right-wing scene . In: German police . Journal of the Police Union , No. 1, January 2005, in it a graphic representation of a right-wing network with Rolf Kosiek.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Kosiek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anton Maegerle : Brown Festschrift for long-serving jubilarians . In: Context: weekly newspaper . Issue 187 from October 29, 2014.
• Lecture: The Frankfurt School and its corrosive effects Rolf Kosiek, GfP annual conference 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans-Henning Scharsach: Strache in the brown swamp. K & S Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-218-00844-0 . File on Google Books
2. ↑ ^{a b} Anton Maegerle : Braune Festschrift for long-serving jubilarians . In: Context: weekly newspaper . Issue 187 from October 29, 2014.
3. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (editor): Right-wing extremism . Stuttgart 2006, p. 37 ( Memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
4. ↑ Hayo Matthiesen: Outside the door. Those affected by the extremist decision. A documentation. In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1973
5. ↑ Shot to the left . In: Die Zeit , No. 38/1974
6. ↑ Der Spiegel : Best Notes , Der Spiegel 25/1982
7. ↑ Heribert Schiedel , Stephan Grigat : Hatred of the Right on Critical Theory: Burschis against Adorno in HaGalil
8. ↑ Rolf Kosiek: The Frankfurt School and its corrosive effects. Hohenrain Verlag Tübingen 2001, pp. 74 ff, ISBN 9783891800614
9. ↑ Hans-Henning Scharsach : Strache: In the brown swamp. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau 2012, ISBN 9783218008563 , file on Google Books
10. ↑ Interview  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. National newspaper  
11. ↑ From the presentation of the publication in the “German Book Service. Freiheitlicher Buch- und Zeitschriften-Verlag ”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke : Origin and development of right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic. Volume 1 Springer Science + Business Media 2013, ISBN 9783322997098 . File on Google Books