Erwin Schönborn

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Erwin Schönborn (born October 8, 1914 in Sohlen ; † 1989 ) was a German publisher who became known as a neo-Nazi , history revisionist and Holocaust denier .

Life

Schönborn came from the Magdeburg area and was a trained interpreter . From 1935 to 1939 he was Oberfeldmeister in the Reich Labor Service and did military service until 1943 during the Second World War . He was taken prisoner and, after his release, worked as a translator for an East Berlin publishing house.

Political activities

In 1952, Schönborn founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Nation Europa (ANE) and declared that if Adolf Hitler was “pelted with dirt in a disgusting way”, it was “our right and our obligation” to defend his reputation. The working group was banned on January 29, 1953 and Schönborn was sentenced to five months in prison. The German Freedom Party founded by Schönborn was also dissolved in 1954. In addition, other associations and alliances were founded, behind which mostly only a few people hid and which remained largely ineffective.

In 1956, Schönborn founded the German-Arab Community , which supported anti-Semitic movements in the Middle East . In the same year he tried to set up a regional association of the German Community (DG) in West Berlin , but resigned from this party in the dispute. In addition, Schönborn cooperated for years with Gerhard Opitz from the DG and Iwan Jungbluth from the German Reich Party for the purpose of bringing together nationalist forces in Berlin .

By 1967, Schönborn had founded eight unsuccessful political groups and served three prison terms for glorifying Hitler and insulting Erich Ollenhauer and Eugen Gerstenmaier .

In 1975 Schönborn was one of the founders of the Combat League of German Soldiers (KDS), which primarily pursued the denial of Nazi crimes as propaganda. He referred to himself as a "German Reich Governor ". Based on the contents of the club's magazine, Schönborn was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 1979 for insult , defamation and coercion . The charge of sedition , he was acquitted.

In 1976 Schönborn dissolved the Bierbaum-Verlag, which he operated, and joined Udo Walendy at the Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichte in Vlotho . An “Auschwitz Congress” planned for 1977 by Schönborn with Thies Christophersen and Klaus Huscher was forbidden by law. Based on his alliance, which was banned in 1953, Schönborn founded the National Europe Action Group as a “gathering movement of all national and constructive forces”.

Holocaust denial

In 1976 Schönborn published the pamphlet Our fight against the greatest lie in world history , in which he claimed that the Holocaust was an invention that served to " forever discredit the idea of National Socialism ". He spread that "anyone who claims that even a single Jew was 'gassed' in a German concentration camp [...] is either a fool or a criminal". Mainz carnival association , he suggested that the mass extermination of Jews in a Büttenrede to caricature and as fools Greeting introduce "Helaukost". In leaflets, the KDS offered a reward of DM 10,000 for “every perfectly proven 'gassing' in a 'gas chamber' of a German concentration camp”. In 1978 Schönborn had leaflets distributed to schools named after Anne Frank in Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg , in which he described their diary as a forgery and "product of Jewish anti-German atrocity propaganda", which supports "the lie about the six million Jews who were gassed" should. In a trial in March 1979, he was acquitted by the Frankfurt Regional Court of incitement to hatred for the allegation of falsification, which led to heated discussions. In a trial in February 1979, Schönborn had already been sentenced to a five-month suspended sentence for other Holocaust denials.

Propaganda Writings

  • Lot of America: A National Democratic Analysis . Bierbaum, 1966
  • Fest and its witness: the Fall Graben, a Fall Fest . Bierbaum, 1974
  • Soldiers defend their honor . Bierbaum, 1974
  • Our fight against the greatest lie in world history . Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichte, 1976
  • The trial against the "central office" in Ludwigsburg . Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichte, 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Stöss (ed.), Party Handbook, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, p. 1383.
  2. ↑ Hans Frederik: The right-wing radicals . Humboldt-Verlag, 1965, pp. 74f.
  3. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Benz: Handbook of Antisemitism: Anti-Semitism in Past and Present. Organizations, institutions, movements. Volume 5, de Gruyter 2012, pp. 129ff.
  4. ^ Gideon Botsch : The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 until today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, p. 32.
  5. ^ Gideon Botsch: The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 until today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Right off to the fatherland . Der Spiegel 18/1967, April 14, 1967
  7. ↑ Fabian Virchow: Against Civilism: International Relations and the Military in the Political Conceptions of the Extreme Right . Springer, 2006, p. 290.
  8. ↑ a b Hitler's harlequins of today . The time, April 28, 1978 No. 18.
  9. ↑ Hannah Vogt: Right-wing propaganda in the Federal Republic . Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, Information No. 77, IX / 1979, p. 7.
  10. ^ Juliane Wetzel: Anti-Semitism as an element of right-wing extremist ideology and propaganda. In: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Antisemitism in Germany. On the timeliness of a prejudice. dtv, 1995, p. 104.
  11. ↑ Bonames Pack . Mirror 39/1979.
  12. ↑ Michael Rindchen: The phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the seventies and in the first half of the eighties and the reaction of the judiciary, the public, and legislators . University of Kaiserslautern, script, 1999, p. 18f
personal data
SURNAME Schönborn, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Soles
DATE OF DEATH 1989