Bela Ewald Althans

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Bela Ewald Althans , actually Bernd Ewald Althans (born March 23, 1966 in Bremen ) is a former German leader of the neo-Nazi scene .

Life

Althans already appeared as a right-wing extremist as a schoolboy . First, he became a member of Otto Ernst Remer's "German Freedom Movement" , which Althans sponsored in the following years. From his youth, Althans also took part in so-called military sports exercises and was a member of the Wiking Youth .

In 1983 Althans joined the ANS / NA around Michael Kühnen and Christian Worch . Like this top cadre, he moved to the FAP after the organization was banned . Althans later took part in the committee preparing the celebrations for the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler (KAH). After Kühnen's death in 1991, Althans became one of the most important figures in German right-wing extremism. At that time he was in charge of organizing the Rudolf-Hess marches in Wunsiedel . Althans' role during the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992 has not been clarified .

Since the early 1990s, Althans has increasingly appeared in connection with Holocaust denial by helping to organize events at which revisionists such as Raimund Bachmann , Karl Philipp and the British publicist David Irving appeared. He also acted as a liaison person in Germany for the Nazi Ernst Zündel , who lived in Canada from 1958 until his deportation in 2005 , for which he used his PR agency Althans Vertriebswege und PR (AVÖ, internally also “Office for Public Enlightenment and Public Relations”). During this time, numerous trips abroad etc. a. to Canada and Russia, which should serve to establish international contacts with the right-wing extremist underground. In 1994 Althans ran for the NPD in the Munich local elections .

In the mid-1990s, Althans became known to a wide audience through the documentary Profession Neo-Nazi . Among other things, he caused outrage by denying the murder of European Jews on the grounds of the Auschwitz Memorial .

Althans had been accused of offenses with a neo-Nazi background since 1985, and some were sentenced to prison terms. 1995 saw the last trial against him. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for denial of the Holocaust and sedition. During the trial he announced his exit from the neo-Nazi scene.

On 10 July 1995 reported Der Spiegel , Althans have as an undercover agent for the Bavarian Constitutional protection worked, but it was in 1994 on the part of the secret service because "lack of honesty News" has been completed. The Spiegel report was disputed on August 1, 1995 before the Berlin Regional Court by Gerhard Forster, head of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, who, however, admitted two contacts in 1994. At a first meeting on February 23, 1994, Althans offered the Office for the Protection of the Constitution "extensive material" on the neo-Nazi scene for DM 360,000, which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution rejected at a second meeting on March 10, 1994.

Due to his homosexuality , Althans is controversial among right-wing extremists, similar to Michael Kühnen . Rosa von Praunheim portrayed him in the 2005 film Men, Heroes, Gay Nazis . Today he works under the name Bernd E. Althans as a promoter and organizer of gay parties.

He handed over his private documents to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.

Documentaries in which Althans took part

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Schmidt's documentary Truth makes you free after 24 minutes and 30 seconds.
  2. ↑ a b without author: Dürstende Jugend. A Munich yuppie wants to become the new leader of the militant neo-Nazis. In: Der Spiegel 1992, No. 18, pp. 110-113.
  3. ↑ Second job undercover agent. In: Der Spiegel 28/1995, July 10, 1995, p. 18.
  4. ^ Sigrid Averesch: Bavarian constitutional protector in court: the accused Althans was not an undercover agent ( Berliner Zeitung , August 2, 1995)
  5. ^ Inge Günther: Neo-Nazi Althans is said to never have been an undercover agent ( Frankfurter Rundschau , August 2, 1995)

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personal data
SURNAME Althans, Bela Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Althans, Bernd Ewald (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German leader of the neo-Nazi scene
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen