Enver Şimşek

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Enver Şimşek (born December 14, 1961 in Salur Köy in the Şarkikaraağaç district ; died September 11, 2000 in Nuremberg ) was the first victim of the series of murders by the “ National Socialist Underground ” (NSU) terrorist group . The owner of a flower shop in Schlüchtern in Hesse was gunned down on September 9, 2000 at his mobile flower stand in Nuremberg. Two days later he died in a hospital as a result of his serious injuries.

Life

Enver Şimşek immigrated to Germany from Turkey in 1985. He first worked in a factory and then started his own flower shop. This resulted in a flower wholesale business with attached shops and stands.

A few years before his murder, he became more religious, took part in Hajj with his wife and donated money to the local Islamic community. He even thought about opening a Koran school in Schlüchtern . He sent his children to a religious boarding school.

Enver Şimşek was married and the father of two children, Semiya and Abdulkerim.

assassination

By chance, Şimşek was at the scene of the crime on September 9, 2000. Usually he only delivered goods for the flower stand. On that day, however, he also took over the sale at a stand along a street as a holiday replacement.

The crime scene is on the former Nazi party rally grounds , between the former camps of the SS, the SA and the Reich Labor Service and is now part of the Langwasser district ( Lage ).

Eight shots were fired at Şimşek between 12:45 and 14:15. Two days later he succumbed to his severe injuries without regaining consciousness. The forensic examination of projectiles and shell casings revealed that two different weapons had been used for the shots: a 6.35 mm caliber pistol, the type not identifiable, and a Česká 83 pistol , 7.65 mm caliber.

Commemoration

At the central memorial event of the Federal Republic in honor of the NSU victims in the Berlin theater on Gendarmenmarkt , Semiya Şimşek spoke with Mehmet Kubaşık's daughter , Gamze, and declared that she had not even been allowed to be a victim with a clear conscience for eleven years. The story of her family's suffering after the death of her father and the investigators' dealings with relatives she worked on in the 2013 book Painful Homeland. Germany and the murder of my father , which became the basis for the ARD television film The Victims - Don't Forget Me, broadcast in 2016 .

To commemorate all NSU murder victims, including Şimşek, a stele was erected in Nuremberg in 2013 (see Memorial Sites of the Ceska Murder Series ). At the scene of the crime, an information board in his memory was inaugurated in September 2014 on the initiative of residents and in the presence of the widow - who was visiting this place for the first time. After the plaque was stolen by strangers, the group "Breaking the Silence" attached a sign showing a picture of the murdered man.

In Zwickau , where the NSU's core trio last lived underground, a German oak was planted on September 8, 2019 in memory of Enver Şimşek on the Ziegelwiese in the northern part of the Swan Pond Park . Only a few weeks later, the tree was sawed off by strangers. Mayor Pia Findeiß spoke of a testimony “of intolerance, a lack of understanding of democracy and contempt for victims of terrorism and their relatives”. A week later, a bank with an inscription placed in memory of Şimşek was also destroyed. Barbara John , the federal government's ombudswoman for NSU victims, regards this as an indication of the existence of networks that approve of the murders. As a result, ten new memorial trees were planted and memorial plaques were installed in the same place. At the inauguration on November 3, 2019, however, there was criticism due to the incorrect spelling of Şimşek's name and the failure to invite survivors and relatives.

Şimşek's relatives were represented by Seda Başay-Yıldız in the NSU trial .

In March 2020, after a lengthy discussion, the culture committee of the city of Jena decided to name a place in Jena-Winzerla , where the perpetrators of the NSU grew up , after Enver Şimşek.

literature

  • Semiya Şimşek and Peter Schwarz: Painful Home. Germany and the murder of my father. Rowohlt Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-480-0 .
  • Barbara John (ed.) In collaboration with Vera Gaserow and Taha Kahya: Our wounds cannot be healed. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Herder, Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-06727-3 , chapter “Without my religion I would have sunk in hatred. Abdulkerim Şimşek, son of Enver Şimşek, tells ”, pp. 31–39.
  • Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Homeland Security. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-55202-5 , pp. 448–454, 463–466.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, p. 464.
  2. ↑ a b Oliver Bendixen, Matthias Fink: In search of the "kebab killer". Radio feature. In: SWR.de , April 2010.
  3. ^ Opening of the traveling exhibition “The victims of the NSU and the processing of crimes” on the website of the advisory network against right-wing extremism in Saxony-Anhalt, accessed September 12, 2016
  4. ↑ Interview with Birgit Mair, Institute for Social Science Research, Education and Consulting e. V. (PDF) DIMENSIONS - The NSU and its effects on the migration society: a project of the Information and Documentation Center for Anti-Racism Work (IDA) e. V., February 3, 2015, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Hartmut Voigt: NSU: Enver Simsek was shot 16 years ago. NN , September 9, 2016, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The pistol was the Bruni 315 Auto, which was later found in the rubble of the Zwickau apartment, a blank-shot pistol of Italian origin converted into a live weapon.
  7. ↑ Barbara John : Introduction. In this. (Ed.): Time cannot heal our wounds. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, pp. 9–27, here p. 18.
  8. ↑ Antje Hildebrandt: NSU in the ARD: Goose bumps as history lessons. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . March 30, 2016, accessed October 6, 2019.
  9. ↑ Memorial for the first victim of the NSU series of murders. In: Nordbayern.de , September 9, 2014, accessed October 6, 2019.
  10. ^ NSU: Enver Simsek was shot 16 years ago. In: Nordbayern.de , September 9, 2016, accessed October 6, 2019.
  11. ↑ Lord Mayor is appalled by the destruction of the memorial tree to an NSU victim . Press release of the city of Zwickau from October 3, 2019, accessed on October 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Sawed off memorial tree for NSU murder victims in Zwickau. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 4, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ Another memorial for NSU victims destroyed. In: Deutschlandradio . October 6, 2019, accessed the same day.
  14. ↑ Zwickau inaugurates memorial for NSU victims . In: Zeit Online . 3rd November 2019.
  15. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Seda Basay-Yildiz: Fight against the state racism. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
  16. ^ Controversy over "Enver-Simsek-Platz" - Jena city administration rejects naming after NSU victims. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  17. ^ Official Journal of the City of Jena. City of Jena, March 12, 2020, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Armin Lehmann: Victim Lawyers: The NSU murders have RAF dimensions. In: Tagesspiegel.de , accessed March 7, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Şimşek, Enver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish florist, first victim of the series of murders by the right-wing extremist terrorist organization "National Socialist Underground" (NSU)
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Salur Köy in the Şarkikaraağaç district
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2000
Place of death Nuremberg