Dieter Stein (journalist)

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Dieter Stein (2014)

Dieter Stein (born June 15, 1967 in Ingolstadt ) is a German publicist and editor-in-chief . He is the founder and managing director of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and its associated projects. He is considered a representative of the New Right .

Live and act

Origin and studies

Dieter Stein was born in 1967 in Ingolstadt as the son of a career officer ( lieutenant colonel ) and military historian Hans-Peter Stein (1937–1994). He grew up in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and most recently attended the St. Sebastian College in Stegen. In July 1988 he began his military service with the 3rd Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion in Lüneburg . From 1989 to 1994 he was a student of political science and history at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg. There he became a member of the Freiburg University Guild Balmung (member of the German guild body ). Stein is married and has four children.

Party political activities and early journalism

Stein began his partisan activities in the Junge Union (JU), and in 1984 he joined the Republicans (REP). When the Freedom People's Party (FVP) was formed in 1985 with a split from the Republicans under the leadership of Franz Handlos , he wanted to design the youth organization's newspaper. At that time Stein was a high school graduate. Thomas Pfeiffer, who interviewed Stein as part of his research, presented his further career as follows: “After the fall of the FVP, he left the party in 1987 and turned again to the REP, which was successful at that time, but also made contacts with established conservatism and neo-Nazi spectrum. ”From November 1986 to November 1987, Stein was listed as a freelancer in the imprint of the right-wing extremist magazine Freie Umschau . The editors of the Freie Umschau came from the environment of the German Workers' Youth (DAJ), founded in 1982 and dissolved in 1983 . In October 1989 Stein was elected chairman of the local branch of the Republican University Association (RHV) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. According to Stefan Kubon, Stein left the Republicans in 1990 and has been non-party ever since. According to the authors Christian Fuchs and Paul Middelhoff, Stein is registered with Alternative für Deutschland in a "member list" as a "sponsor" ("with the number 10815").

Young freedom

In 1986 Stein founded the newspaper Junge Freiheit as a schoolboy in Freiburg im Breisgau , and has been its editor-in-chief ever since. In 1990 he founded Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH, of which he has been managing partner since then. With the establishment of the limited partnership JUNGE FREIHEIT Verlag GmbH & Co. , the GmbH , founded in 1990, became general partner and renamed JUNGE FREIHEIT Verwaltungs und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH . Dieter Stein holds 73% of the shares in this general partner. At the end of 2014, the old general partner was replaced by JUNGE FREIHEIT Entwicklungs-GmbH , in which Dieter Stein holds 100% of the shares. The boy freedom appears as a weekly newspaper since 1994 in Potsdam , since 1996 in Berlin . After August 1, 1999, it stayed with the German spelling of the 20th century . After many years of his own positioning as right-wing conservative and after the Junge Freiheit ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) on the illegal mention in the reports of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1994 to 2005 under the heading "right-wing extremism", Stein referred to Junge Freiheit in an interview of the year 2006 now as a " liberal - conservative " medium. In a press release published by Junge Freiheit (JF) in 2007, Stein distanced himself from the weekly newspaper Zur Zeit (with which the JF had cooperated until then) because of contacts between Zur Zeit publisher Andreas Mölzer and the NPD and called the NPD a "political opponent".

Stein called the agreement on forced labor compensation "a welcome invitation to clever lawyers to milk Germany many more times" and also called for compensation for "enslaved German forced laborers". In 2014, Dieter Stein started a campaign against “foreigner crime” and “ hostility towards Germans ” in the JF and stated: “A taboo in the media and politics are acts of violence hostile to Germany: whether sexual assault, rape or when a horde of semi-strong› southerners ‹are in the subway station Haß chooses a 'German potato' to beat her into a coma ”On February 12, 2017, he was a member of the 16th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President as the nominated representative of the Berlin House of Representatives for the AfD party .

Stein defined the term “conservative” as follows: “Conservative is organic order, natural hierarchy and authority against the utopia of total equality and the idea of ​​complete feasibility.” In 2009, Stein denounced in the Junge Freiheit a “gutting” of the “CDU brand” under Chancellor and Party leader Angela Merkel . The party was "at the price of maintaining power completely raptured into chameleon-like". Among other things, Stein accused the party of giving up the “traditional family image”. Instead of the necessary resistance “against gay marriage ”, the CDU “took the lead in the feminist gender mainstreaming project and a socialist family policy”. Overall, the CDU committed an unforgivable "betrayal" of its conservative core electorate.

Referring to the book " Never twice in the same river " by the AfD parliamentary group leader in Thuringia and exponent of the " wing " Björn Höcke , Stein judged in the JF that Höcke had "[nothing] original or at least original [...] [, ] [n] ot even to offer anything consistent ”. He expressed himself unclearly and aroused "in tone and choice of words cryptic and repulsive associations". Höcke is an “ideological will-o'-the-wisp” and threatens to split the AfD. “The forces of reason [within the AfD]” don't have much time left. An immediate contradiction came from Stein's former companion, the new-right publisher and co-founder of the Institute for State Policy Götz Kubitschek : Stein read Höcke's book "as an anti-fascist job marker could not read it better". "Höcke the discord in the AfD [at the expense]" is "shabby". Stein had previously expressed fears that a “shift to the right and the abandonment of the liberal wing” would further sideline the party.

Foundation for Conservative Education and Research

In 2007, Stein was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the non-profit foundation for conservative education and research (FKBF), which was founded in 2000 by the right-wing conservative journalist Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing . On Stein's initiative, the Schrenck-Notzings library was transferred to Berlin, whose 20,000 volumes form the basis for the Conservatism Library, which opened in 2012 .

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: The dispute about Martin Walser. Articles and interviews by Eckhard Henscheid , Joachim Kaiser , Heimo Schwilk , Martin Walser , Günther Zehm et al. Edition JF, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929886-13-8 .
  • as editor: Beyond the day. Festschrift for Günter Zehm. Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929886-16-2 .
  • as editor: Die Tragödie des Westens. Articles and interviews from Junge Freiheit after September 11, 2001. Edition JF, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929886-10-3 .
  • as editor: Save the German language. Articles, interviews and materials on the fight against spelling reform and Anglicisms. Edition JF, Documentation series, Volume 9, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-929886-21-9 .
  • as publisher: A life for Germany. Commemorative letter for Wolfgang Venohr 1925–2005. Edition JF, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-929886-24-3 .
  • Phantom "New Rights". The history of a political term and its abuse by the protection of the constitution. Edition JF, Documentation series, Volume 10, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-929886-22-7 .
  • as Ed .: Heroes of the Nation. Articles and interviews on July 20, 1944. Edition JF, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-929886-27-6 .
  • For a new nation. Thinking about Germany. Edition JF, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-929886-43-6 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dieter Stein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer: The New Right in Germany ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). P. 63.
  2. ↑ Steffen Kailitz: Political Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. VS-Verlag, 2004, p. 86.
  3. ↑ Christian Fuchs, Paul Middelhoff: The network of the new right. Who controls them, who finances them and how they change society. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019 (3rd edition), p. 60
  4. ↑ Gaby Mahlberg: “Junge Freiheit”: A visit to the “ideological mother ship” of right-wing populism. www.welt.de, March 31, 2017
  5. ↑ Thomas Pfeiffer , "Media of a new social movement from the right" , dissertation University of Bochum, 2000, p. 187 online . Pfeiffer based his portrayal that Stein had “maintained contact with neo-Nazis” at the time that, in addition to Stein, authors such as Steffen Hupka and Michael Krämer had also written articles for the Freie Umschau .
  6. ^ Stefan Kubon: The Federal German newspaper "Junge Freiheit" and the legacy of the "Conservative Revolution" of the Weimar Republic. An investigation to capture the continuity of “conservative-revolutionary” political ideas. Dissertation 2005. Ergon 2006, p. 47.
  7. ↑ Christian Fuchs, Paul Middelhoff, The Network of the New Right , Rowohlt 2019, p. 63
  8. ^ Frank Böckelmann: Who owns the newspapers? The ownership and ownership structure of daily and weekly newspaper publishers in Germany, p. 404.
  9. ↑ https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ureg/
  10. ↑ In the imprint of the JF it has been stated since August 20, 1999: "The weekly newspaper JUNGE FREIHEIT adheres to the traditional German spelling as it was valid until August 1, 1999."
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 1, 2010)
  12. ↑ Gernot Facius: A completely normal weekly newspaper? www.welt.de, June 28, 2001
  13. ↑ Alexander Häusler: Topics of the Right . In: Fabian Virchow, Martin Langebach, Alexander Häusler (eds.): Handbuch right-wing extremism , Springer VS Wiesbaden 2016, p. 158
  14. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 12, 2017 [1]
  15. ↑ Helmut Kellershohn: “It's about influencing people's minds” - The Institute for State Policy www.bpb.de, July 7, 2016
  16. ↑ Volker Weiß : The authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Fall of the West. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, p. 76 f.
  17. ↑ Sabine am Orde: Allegations of extremism against Höcke: Family dispute over the course of the AfD. taz.de, March 3, 2019
  18. ^ André Postert: “Saxony and intellectual right-wing extremism. Metapolitics of the New Right. ”In: Uwe Backes / Steffen Kailitz (Ed.): Saxony - A stronghold of right-wing extremism? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2020, p. 55
  19. ↑ Sven Becker, Ludwig Krause: Right think tank: They don't just want to read. www.spiegel.de, February 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt