Dieter Riefling

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Dieter Riefling (born June 13, 1968 in Alfeld (Leine) ) is a German neo-Nazi and former cadre of the banned organization FAP , who appears nationwide as a speaker at right-wing extremist marches and rallies.

Dieter Riefling

Political career

In the 1980s Riefling was second chairman of the Hildesheim office of the FAP, then district commissioner of the FAP Recklinghausen and responsible for the FAP magazine “Der Aktivist”. Later he worked on the founding of several " Free Comradeships " z. B. in Recklinghausen and Hildesheim with. He is also active in the area of ​​the banned “ Blood and Honor ” movement. Riefling has good contacts to nationwide neo-Nazi leaders such as Thorsten Heise , member of the board of the NPD and head of the “Free Comradeships” section, and to the Hamburg “Leader of the Free Nationalists” Christian Worch . Like Worch, he describes himself as a “Free Nationalist”. In 1998, experts on the neo-Nazi scene counted Riefling among the 20 leading figures in the extreme right-wing spectrum.

In January 2007 he married Ricarda Riefling , who is also active in the right-wing extremist spectrum. The couple, who have four children together, divorced in 2012. Ricarda Riefling is now the partner of the Pirmasens city ​​councilor Markus Walter.

The Hildesheim "Citizens' Initiative for Civil Courage"

Riefling was the main initiator and person responsible in terms of press law for a “Citizens' Initiative for Civil Courage” (BfZ) in Hildesheim. This “citizens' initiative” is primarily close to the citizens and calls for garbage collection on the “National Environment Day”, for example. However, the contents of these leaflets and campaigns are openly nationalistic. The neo-Nazi background shows the BfZ logo, a ring gear that was also used by the National Socialist “ German Labor Front ” and the FAP.

Riefling's relationship with the NPD

As one of the best-known representatives of the “Free Forces”, Dieter Riefling has an ambivalent relationship with the NPD . Like Worch, he has a rather distant relationship with the party. On the other hand, he often appeared as a speaker at rallies, demonstrations and events organized by the NPD. However, this cooperation was dampened after Riefling was supposed to speak at a demonstration registered by the NPD on October 29, 2005 in Göttingen as a representative of the “Free Forces”, but a speech ban was imposed on him by the NPD state executive under the leadership of Ulrich Eigenfeld . Numerous " Free Comradeships " in particular from Lower Saxony and the neighboring federal states, the Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten (KDS), the Action Office North Germany and Action Office West Germany , some NPD district and local associations, the JN -Landesverband Niedersachsen and several leading neo-Nazis such as Daniel Graef , Ralph Tegethoff , Axel Reitz , Philipp Hasselbach , Peter Borchert and Hartmut Wostupatsch then announced on January 4, 2006 that they would cease cooperation with the Lower Saxony NPD state association for demonstrations and hall events with immediate effect as long as this ban lasts. In this context, Riefling was referred to as the “best-known freelance speaker in Lower Saxony”, as a “longstanding management team and therefore also representative”.

As part of the preparation for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2008, there was renewed rapprochement between the NPD and representatives of the so-called “Free Forces”. Riefling was a direct candidate for the NPD for the state election in constituency 21 ( Hildesheim ).

Criminal proceedings

Dieter Riefling has had several relevant criminal records. In 1993 he was convicted of sedition and dissemination of propaganda by unconstitutional organizations. In 1998, he received a ten-month sentence after breaking his nose to a police officer. For continuing the FAP, which was banned in 1995 for anti-constitutional reasons, he was sentenced to a suspended sentence in 1999. On February 18, 2013, the Münster Regional Court upheld a ruling by the local district court, which found Riefling guilty of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations and sentenced him to a six-month suspended prison sentence.

On September 25, 2014, the Aachen Regional Court sentenced Dieter Riefling to a 13-month suspended sentence and a fine of € 750 for sedition and the use of symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.

Also for sedition, the 46-year-old was sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Jena Higher Regional Court in January 2015, which this time was not suspended. The reason for the conviction goes back to 2012 and relates to racist insults which Riefling uttered to the TV presenter Mo Asumang in front of 700 people at the right-wing rock festival “ Rock for Germany ” in Gera . She had visited the right-wing rock festival for the shooting of the documentary " The Aryans ".

Quotes

“If we have really managed to unite everyone in the national opposition, whatever the sign, then there will be a star march to Berlin, as once, and then none of these treasoners will escape us. Then every arterial road will be closed and barricades will be in place. Then Germany woke up again. What is good comes back and we are already there. "

“If we own the road, this is the first step. If we own the parliaments, then this is the second step. And the third step will mean the restoration of the German Empire. Nobody will get around it. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Career” not excluded: The scene wants to adorn itself with women . ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Weser-Kurier , Norddeutscher Rundfunk (ed.): Right-turners: The underestimated danger: Neo-Nazis in Lower Saxony . Bremer Tageszeitungen AG , Bremen, January 2008, ISBN 978-3-938795-05-7 , p. 45 (PDF; 3.2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weser-kurier.de
  2. ↑ Jana Lange: The harmless "little coat" of the NPD. (No longer available online.) Südwestrundfunk , formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 3, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swr.de
  3. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport: Constitutional Protection Report 2006 , p. 103 (PDF; 1.6 MB).
  4. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport: Constitutional Protection Report 2006 , p. 122 f. (PDF; 1.6 MB).
  5. ↑ The loudspeaker: Dieter Riefling doesn't speak, he roars . ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Weser-Kurier , Norddeutscher Rundfunk (ed.): Right-turners: The underestimated danger: Neo-Nazis in Lower Saxony . Bremer Tageszeitungen AG , Bremen, January 2008, ISBN 978-3-938795-05-7 , pp. 60–61 (PDF; 3.2 MB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weser-kurier.de
  6. ^ Aachen regional court again imposes prison sentences against neo-Nazis from Hildesheim . Published on the website of “Aachen: Live Democracy!”, September 27, 2014, accessed on January 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ Riefling has to be arrested . Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung , January 18, 2015, accessed on January 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2004 , p. 68 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Riefling, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi and cadres of the banned organization FAP
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Alfeld (leash)