Eric Weber

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Eric Weber (2012)

Eric Weber (born June 24, 1963 ; resident in Jens ) is a Swiss journalist and right-wing extremist politician ( VA ). He was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt from 1985–1992 and 2013–2016 .

Eric Weber

Life

Eric Weber is a son of the travel entrepreneur and politician Rudolf Weber . According to Weber, his mother comes from Chemnitz , then Karl-Marx-Stadt, in Saxony. According to his own information, Weber completed an apprenticeship as a travel agent as well as an internship at the Oltner Tagblatt .

Youngest member of the cantonal parliament in Switzerland and convicted of forgery of documents

Weber's father was Basel's Grand Councilor for four years and, for a short time, the central president of the National Action against Foreign Immigration of People and Homeland (NA). Eric Weber was also a member of NA. In 1984 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt as the youngest member of parliament at the time; In 1988 he was confirmed. Sometimes he ran on his own list with the title People's Action against too many foreigners and asylum seekers in our homeland (VA). On March 19, 1987, after an insult to the President of the Council, he was expelled from the council chamber without a dissenting vote. On July 23, 1987, he applied to the government council to give the public action in April 1988 the basement of the town hall to celebrate Adolf Hitler's 99th birthday . On January 29, 1988 Eric Weber applied for political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany . On November 10, 1988, the Grand Council banned him from meeting until the end of the year. In 1992 he did not succeed in being reelected due to the introduction of the five percent hurdle .

According to Jürg Frischknecht (1989), Eric Weber was the only Swiss politician to the right of NA who was elected to parliament after 1945: “Apart from this exception, the rule applies that if one is obviously involved with Hitler and Nazism, the rule is that it is tantamount to political suicide sympathizes. "

As a result of manipulation in the run-up to the Great Council elections in 1988, Weber was convicted by the Basel Criminal Court in August 1991 and by the Court of Appeal in November 1992, whereupon he went to the Federal Supreme Court . In April 1994 the appellate court sentenced him for recurring and continued forgery and declared him incapacitated for five years.

In the "emigration"

He then settled in Hof an der Saale in Germany and set up his own press office there. According to his own statements, Weber worked for the Free Press in Chemnitz, the Sächsische Zeitung in Dresden and Bild for twelve years . According to an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he never worked for Bild , but rather wrote articles for right-wing newspapers such as Nation und Europa (NE) and Zur Zeit .

Back in Basel: candidacies, conflicts with the judiciary and re-election to the Grand Council

In 2002 Weber returned to Basel. Because of his political declarations of intent and his attempts to run on the lists of the Swiss Democrats (SD) and the Swiss People's Party (SVP), he was the mockery of free newspapers. According to the WoZ, he also tried to run on the list of the Nationally Oriented Swiss Party (PNOS). In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2003 he ran with his father and two young women (one of whom died before the elections) on their own list for the National Council , but was not elected. In the 2004 Grand Council elections, he ran with the Swiss Democrats on a joint list. According to his own statements, he was hoping for around 8 to 10 percent of the vote. In fact, the list received just 3.2 percent of the vote. In March 2006 he ran unsuccessfully in a replacement election for the resigned government councilor Jörg Schild . Even with the National Council and Council elections in 2007 and the election 2011 candidate Weber.

According to a report in the Basler Zeitung on October 7, 2004, Weber is said to have tried to buy votes in the run-up to the grand elections. That is why the Basel public prosecutor's office initiated another investigation against him for election fraud . Weber tried a reply to counter in the Basler Zeitung, the impression was, however, by the editorial staff and later by the Swiss Press Council rejected. The newspaper had quoted the public prosecutor as saying "Weber was guilty of election fraud," from which the public prosecutor distanced himself because he was not the judge. Weber demanded the correction because he saw the presumption of innocence violated. However, the press council only assessed it as a blurring, which would be clearly clarified by the context, that the allegation still had to be checked by the judging court. He rejected Weber's complaint as unfounded, but urged the newspaper to make a voluntary correction in the future. Weber himself felt the matter as «pig journalism». In March 2008, Weber was finally sentenced by the criminal court for bribery, attempted election fraud and threats to pay a conditional fine of 180 daily rates of 30 francs, conditionally for three years. He did not appeal.

In 2012 he was re-elected to the Grand Council in the general election in Basel-Stadt. During the election campaign, Eric Weber was arrested twice on suspicion of election fraud . On election day Weber announced, among other things, that he would “paralyze parliament”. On June 26, 2013, Weber announced another alleged resignation. He also wants to move to Abu Dhabi with his family . Weber's Ausraster became famous when, in a film interview with u. a. the comment "Prosecutor, lick my ass!" held her bare buttocks in front of the camera. On December 1, 2014, Weber was sentenced to 360 hours of community service in two cases by the Basel criminal court for fraudulent voting. His public defender appealed in the courtroom. Weber once again announced his resignation from the Grand Council and this time a departure to France, which he did not do either.

When he was elected to the Basel Grand Council on October 23, 2016, Weber was not re-elected and left it at the end of the 2013–2016 legislative period. In the simultaneous government council elections, for which he also ran, he landed in last place with 3,247 votes. During his tenure, Weber attracted attention with an "unprecedented flood of sprawling speeches and hundreds of senseless inquiries"; with 17 hours of speaking time, he spoke more than two and a half times longer than the second-placed Grand Councilor.

Election campaign for the AfD and alleged membership

In the spring of the 2014 European elections , Weber volunteered in the election campaign for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate from Baden-Württemberg , Bernd Kölmel . According to his own statements and those of Kölmel’s spokesman, Weber became a member of the AfD, but this was denied by the AfD Thuringia , at whose election party Weber was present after moving into the state parliament in autumn 2014 . At the election ceremony of the AfD Baden-Württemberg on the evening of the Baden-Württemberg state elections on March 11, 2016, Weber was present and celebrated.

Employee of an AfD member of the Bundestag

Through a publication by the anti-fascist information, documentation and archive office Munich aida, it became known that the AfD member of the Bundestag Petr Bystron Weber had been employed as an employee and that he should work for Bystron.

Private

Eric Weber is married and has two daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Candidates in the 2007 Council of States election, Canton Basel-Stadt (PDF; 19 kB)
  2. ^ Report to the National Council on the National Council elections for the 47th legislative period , November 5, 2003, accessed on October 29, 2012.
  3. ^ Court ruling: Eric Weber may be called a Nazi , weekday , November 3, 2016, accessed on March 22, 2018.
  4. Canton Basel-Stadt: Candidates for the elections to the National Council of October 23, 2011 (PDF; 37 kB), website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  5. a b c Eric Weber: "I want to strike and make history" ( Ego document ), Online Reports , March 25, 2004, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  6. Written request by Eric Weber regarding “Basel can be renamed Eric Weber-Stadt” , website of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on March 17, 2015.
  7. a b Website of Eric Weber , accessed November 3, 2012.
  8. a b Steffi Augter, Jörg Jelinnek: Survival runs ( Memento from February 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Durchgangs , 5th year (2003), Issue 1, p. 1 (archive version from February 22, 2007).
  9. a b Kurz und quer , Die Wochenzeitung , September 19, 2002. Reproduced from: Reports on right-wing extremism and racism in Switzerland, September 2002 , hans-stutz.ch, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  10. Hans-Martin Jermann: Eric Weber no longer wants to be a xenophobia , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , updated on May 7, 2012, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  11. a b Peter Knechtli: Polit-Desperado Eric Weber convicted again , Online Reports , March 19, 2008, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  12. March 19, 1987 , Basler Chronik, website of the Basler Stadtbuch, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  13. Domaine public , H. 872, August 6, 1987 ( online ).
  14. January 29, 1988 , Basler Chronik, website of the Basler Stadtbuch, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  15. November 10, 1988 , Basler Chronik, website of the Basler Stadtbuch, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  16. Jürg Frischknecht : Right-wing radicals in Switzerland - weirdos or spearheads ?. In: New ways . Vol. 83 (1989), H. 9, pp. 257-265, here p. 264 ( online ).
  17. Markus Vogt: Eric Weber is back in court , Basler Zeitung , December 1, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2015.
  18. Eric Weber: Pig Journalism Against the SD ( Memento from April 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Swiss democrat. Volume 40 (2005), No. 5, p. 10 (archive version from June 26, 2006).
  19. Oliver Das Gupta: Right-wing extremists by trickery Beckstein interview , Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 12, 2011, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  20. Final results of the 2003 National Council elections in Basel-Stadt , website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  21. a b Philipp Loser: New election scandal looming , Basler Zeitung , October 9, 2004, accessed on April 9, 2018.
  22. Peter Knechtli: "I want to get an absolute majority in the second ballot." , OnlineReports , March 10, 2006, accessed November 3, 2012.
  23. ^ Basel: Free-minded follows after free-minded. , Swissinfo , March 19, 2006, accessed November 3, 2012.
  24. ^ Final result of the 2007 National Council elections in Basel-Stadt , website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  25. ^ Final result of the 2007 elections to the Council of States in Basel-Stadt , website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  26. ^ Media documents on the 2011 National Council elections in Basel-Stadt , website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  27. Peter Gill: Suspicion of an offense against the will of the people , media information, Public Prosecutor of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, October 9, 2004, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  28. rp / sda: electoral fraud in Basel: investigations completed , news.ch, November 23, 2004, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  29. ^ Obligation to truth and correction / presumption of innocence (Weber c. «Basler Zeitung») , Statement of the Swiss Press Council, 2005, No. 33 (August 26, 2005), accessed on April 9, 2018.
  30. ^ Adrian Gottwald: New Grand Councilor Eric Weber ticks off: «Basel is a criminal city» , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , updated on October 28, 2012, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  31. Martina Rutschmann: Despite investigations: Weber will take office , TagesWoche , October 29, 2012, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  32. Joël Gernet: “I will paralyze parliament” , Tages-Anzeiger , October 29, 2012, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  33. Eric Weber “redeems” the Great Council , Basler Zeitung , June 26, 2013, accessed on June 27, 2013.
  34. Joel Gernet: «Public Prosecutor, lick my A ****!» In: bazonline.ch: (baz.ch/Newsnet) . ( bazonline.ch [accessed April 1, 2016]).
  35. Eric Weber convicted of election fraud , Basler Zeitung , December 2, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2015.
  36. a b c The end of the electoral fraudster , Der Bund , October 25, 2016
  37. Nadine A. Brügger: An Uninvited Guest at the AfD , Basler Zeitung , September 16, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2015.
  38. ^ Election party in Baden-Württemberg: Swiss right-wing extremist celebrates with the AfD. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved April 1, 2016 .
  39. The "loyal soul" of the NPD and the "Nazi" from Basel are now working for the AfD , website of the anti-fascist information, documentation and archive office in Munich, March 8, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2018.
  40. ^ Samuel Hufschmid: A motley bunch of candidates , 20 minutes , September 11, 2012, accessed on November 3, 2012.
  41. Nina Jecker: The Troublemaker is Back , Basler Zeitung , February 9, 2013, accessed on March 17, 2015.