Ekkehard Weil

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Ekkehard Weil (* 1948 or 1949) is a German neo-Nazi and right- wing terrorist . Weil committed a number of violent crimes from 1970 to at least the late 1990s, including one attempted insidious murder.

biography

As a youngster, Weil joined the extreme right-wing “Community of German Youth” in 1965 and moved in the orbit of the Federation of Heimattreuer Jugend . At the age of 17, he volunteered for the German Armed Forces , which, however, prematurely terminated his four-year contract after a psychological report. In the summer of 1968 he began training as a nurse back in Berlin .

On November 7, 1970, the 53rd anniversary of the October Revolution , Weil, then 21 years old, shot a guard at the Soviet memorial in the Tiergarten in West Berlin with a small-bore rifle and seriously injured him. Nearby he left slogans, two leaflets and the self-accusation “ European Liberation Front ”. On March 8, 1971, a British military tribunal sentenced him to six years in prison for attempted malicious murder. During the trial, Weil had his defense counsel declare that "[he] r wanted to make a small contribution to ensuring that his beloved homeland Berlin does not become the spoils of the Soviet Union."

After his early release in the summer of 1976, Weil rejoined extreme right-wing groups and on August 1, 1977 carried out an arson attack on an office of the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin (SEW), for which he was sentenced to three years imprisonment on January 23, 1978. While still in the courtroom, Weil attacked a journalist who had reported on his case and broke his nose. Weil was sentenced to a further six months in prison.

On October 19, 1979, Weil fled while on prison leave and went into hiding in Austria . There he carried out a series of attacks on commercial buildings and private apartments of Jews , including the apartment of Simon Wiesenthal . After a tip from Norbert Burger , Weil was arrested near Mönichkirchen in August 1982 with forged papers and a pistol in his luggage . In 1983/84 he was tried in Vienna together with eight accomplices from the New Rights Campaign and finally sentenced to another five years in prison. On August 12, 1987, Weil was extradited to the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the early 1990s, Weil went back to Berlin, where he lived in Adlershof under the name Hans Weber. According to Ingo Hasselbach , Weil is said to have organized several military sports exercises for the National Alternative . Weil later went to Bochum and appeared there at the Freedom Association for Germany until it was banned by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior in 1993. On 27 April 1994 Weil was because of sedition sentenced to probation.

During searches of Weil's apartments in Berlin and Bochum in 1995, in addition to various extreme right-wing documents, a hand grenade with a detonator, two electric detonators, a detonator, a pistol and large amounts of ammunition were confiscated. In 1998, in an appeal hearing, Weil was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for violating the Weapons Act, the War Weapons Control Act and incitement to hatred. He did not serve the sentence and went into hiding.

Press reports suspected Weil's involvement in the bomb attacks on Heinz Galinski's grave in December 1998 and the Crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibition in March 1999 in Saarbrücken. State authorities also suspected that Weil was planning serious crimes out of illegality. According to information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he was arrested in Bochum in October 2000.

In an internal report in 2004, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution came to the conclusion that Weil “is an unbroken militant and convinced right-wing extremist with a high affinity for weapons and explosives. It is to be expected that after his release from prison, Weil will again present a not inconsiderable potential risk. "

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Far from women . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1970 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Berlin / Attentat, Fern von Frauen , Der Spiegel November 16, 1970
  4. ↑ Paul Moor: The small world of Ekkehard Weil. In: zeit.de . March 12, 1971. Retrieved October 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The last shots were fired in the zoo by Matthias Busse Neues Deutschland on May 31, 2005
  6. ^ Olaf Sundermeyer : Right terror in Germany: A history of violence. CH Beck. 2012
  7. ↑ https://www.nd-archiv.de/ausgabe/1979-10-27
  8. ↑ Andrea Röpke: Blood and Honor: History and Present Right Violence in Germany. Ch. Links Verlag, 2013, p. 38f
  9. ^ A b c Mariella Schwertmüller: Diving for the nation. (No longer available online.) In: Jungle World. August 2, 2000, archived from the original on November 16, 2016 ; accessed on October 20, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Riegler: "Common anti-Zionist struggle". In: profile. April 18, 2013, accessed October 20, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Jürgen Weninger: Dr. Norbert Burger - A Political Biography . Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna. 2014, p. 90f
  12. ↑ 12.08.1987 - Neo-Nazi Ekkehard Weil serving prison sentence Federal arrest warrants 1984. In: chroniknet.de. Retrieved October 20, 2015 .
  13. ↑ a b c Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Danger of an armed struggle by German right-wing extremists - developments from 1997 to mid-2004. BfV Special. Right-wing extremism. No. 21, VS-NfD . Published on NSUleaks , p. 16
  14. ↑ a b ANSCHLAG: Search for Nazi bombers Weil. In: Focus , No. 11 (1999). March 15, 1999, accessed October 20, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Because, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi and right-wing terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948 or 1949