Frank Rennicke

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Frank Rennicke (born December 18, 1964 in Mascherode near Braunschweig ) is a German songwriter and one of the key figures on the right-wing extremist scene. In 2009 and 2010 he was proposed by the NPD as a candidate for the election of the German Federal President .

Life

Frank Rennicke, whose father moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of the 1950s , is a trained electrician , home appliance technician and technical consultant in the field. He lived temporarily in Ehningen (Greater Stuttgart area) until he moved in 2005. Serious disputes broke out with his parents' home, which he considered to be rather middle-class , when he approached the ethnic-national camp in his youth. Rennicke is married and has nine children.

Rennicke was a youth leader for the right-wing extremist Wiking youth . When this was banned in 1994, he became a member of the NPD . He was involved in the German League for People and Homeland and continued to run a mail order business for media from the right-wing spectrum .

In 1996 the right-wing extremist Torsten Lemmer published a book entitled Singer for Germany: The Biography of the Folk Singer Frank Rennicke , which describes, among other things, how the right-wing extremist scene sustainably circumvents the ban on Wiking youth through camouflage measures.

In 2001, Ingrid Zündel-Rimland , wife of Ernst Zündel , who was accused of denying the Holocaust , published a petition to the Canadian government for the release of Zündel, which was also signed by the Rennicke couple. Alongside Ernst Zündel, Horst Mahler , Gerd Honsik , Germar Rudolf , Manfred Roeder , Wilhelm Stuellen , the French neo-Nazi Robert Faurisson and the widow of Otto Ernst Remer, Rennicke was a founding member of the Association for the Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Contesting the Holocaust , an organization that was part of the 2008 was banned. The German Youth , which was banned in 2009, held various meetings on a property in Rennicke's possession.

In the 2005 general election , Rennicke was ranked third on the Rhineland-Palatinate state list of the NPD.

Rennicke worked in a leading position in the schoolyard CD project of the NPD, in which music CDs with nationalist and racist content were distributed to schoolchildren.

Musical activity

Rennicke has also appeared as a songwriter with right-wing extremist texts since 1987

Rennicke, who plays the guitar and sings at his performances, wants to have largely adopted his musical style from songwriters like Reinhard Mey . He mentions Wolf Biermann and Hannes Wader as further role models in terms of composition , although Rennicke himself only has a “limited supply of melodies and guitar fingerings”. Both Rennicke and his followers are aware of this shortcoming, but the focus is on the content of the texts.

Rennicke has access to the most diverse forms of the right-wing extremist scene. He is recognized by old and neo-Nazis of both sexes. According to his own statements, he has made more than a thousand appearances in the German-speaking countries as well as in Moscow, London and Paris in twenty years.

The texts for his music, which was composed mainly for guitar , often do not come from Rennicke himself, but from unnamed authors, and take up right-wing extremist themes and values. This is how Rennicke sings about the Wehrmacht , calls the Oder-Neisse border a “shameful border ”, describes the Poles as “dirtiers of German soil” and takes up anti-American issues. Racism , anti-Semitism , xenophobia and the despising of left groups and a large number of minorities are contents of his poetry. He sings about Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess as a hero, teacher and role model. Rennicke also attracted attention through anti-Israeli statements. Some of his productions have been indexed by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People based on their content that is harmful to young people . The reasons given include: “Rhyming texts to catchy melodies shape the revisionist message of the songs indelibly in the memory of the listener. [...] The lyrics of the music cassette [s] run counter to the basic law that strives for peace between the peoples. ”In his songs, Rennicke also explicitly propagates the use of force“ as a means to restore the empire ”.

Rennicke is a role model for around 30 right-wing extremist songwriters in the German neo-Nazi scene. He is one of the key figures for entering the right-wing scene and is able to “produce a dangerous conglomerate of emotions, militant zest for action and neo-national socialist attitudes among the 'German-feeling audience'”.

Legal proceedings

The District Court of Böblingen sentenced Rennicke to probation on November 22, 2000, to a total custodial sentence of ten months for incitement to hatred in eight cases, six of which were in unity in violation of Section 21 Paragraph 1, Section 4, Section 6 No. 1 of the Dissemination Act Writings harmful to minors (GjS; today: Youth Protection Act ). Upon appeal by the public prosecutor's office, the Stuttgart Regional Court overturned the district court judgment on October 15, 2002 with the stipulation that Rennicke was guilty of violations of the people in eight cases, of which seven (instead of only six) were in unity with a violation of the GjS, and sentenced to a total of 17 months in prison. Rennicke's appeal was rejected. The ruling of the regional court was based on the following findings: After Rennicke's CD Auslese with a "Heimatvertriebenlied", the text of which he had partly written himself, had been added to the list of writings harmful to minors in July 1996 , Rennicke had around six cases in total 4000 records were produced and sold by mail order from December 1997. It was about reprints of the "Auslese" or sound carriers with a different title, which contained the "Heimatvertriebenlied" without the two closing lines. In addition, according to the conviction of the court, Rennicke had enclosed brochures with a consignment, which claimed that it had been irrevocably proven according to scientific standards that no gassings had taken place in the alleged gas chambers in Auschwitz. Most recently, Rennicke had put the text of the "home displaced song" (without the last two lines) between July 20 and November 19, 1999 on his "home page" on the Internet.

The appeal filed by Rennicke, on the other hand, was rejected by the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on July 17, 2003 . However, his constitutional complaint resulted in a temporary success. By a chamber decision of March 25, 2008, the Federal Constitutional Court overturned the convictions for sedition - except in the case of Holocaust denial (Section 130 (3) and (4) StGB) - and referred the matter back to the Stuttgart Regional Court to this extent. The repealed convictions violate the fundamental right to freedom of expression (Art. 5 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 of the Basic Law). The courts failed to make the necessary “case-related weighing up between the importance of freedom of expression and the rank of the legal interest impaired by freedom of expression” and “also failed to show that this was dispensable because the lyrics violated human dignity [Section 130, Paragraph 1, No. . 2 StGB]. ”Nothing is known about the further progress of the proceedings. Rennicke's homepage doesn't say anything about this either.

On March 12, 2016, special forces of the Bavarian police searched the Rennicke property in Unterhartmannsreuth and that of another right-wing extremist in Schöllnach on a court order . According to the police, violations of the weapons law were uncovered during the searches . Rennicke contradicted this information, but confirmed that the raid had been carried out . The investigation was dropped after the items found were found to be toy weapons.

Federal presidential candidate of the NPD and DVU

After Rennicke was allowed to speak on February 26, 2009 in the committee for science, universities, culture and media of the Saxon state parliament as an expert on the topic of "youth music funding in Saxony", he was on April 5, 2009 at the NPD party congress as a joint candidate of the NPD and nominated by the DVU for the election of the German Federal President in 2009 . The right-wing extremist parties sent a total of four delegates from the state parliaments of Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the Federal Assembly .

Ten days before the election on May 23, 2009, parts of the information on his candidacy published the day before were removed from the website of the German Bundestag. In the election, Rennicke received the expected 4 of the 1223 votes cast in the Federal Assembly.

For the election of the German Federal President in 2010 , he was again proposed as a candidate by the NPD. In the first and second ballot he received 3 votes each; in the third ballot he withdrew his candidacy.

Publications

music

  • 1987: Protest grades for Germany (indexed until July 15, 2019)
  • 1989: beneath the rubble of time (indexed)
  • 1990: Longing for Germany (indexed)
  • 1990: To Germany (indexed)
  • 1992: We sing battle and soldier songs (indexed)
  • 1993: I'm not modern ... I feel German (indexed)
  • 1993: German feelings (indexed)
  • 1994: selection (compilation, indexed, indexing canceled again)
  • 1994: Songs Against Censorship - Longing
  • 1994: We sing German soldiers' songs
  • 1994: For Germany
  • 1995: Despite all that
  • 1995: longing
  • 1996: Other songs
  • 1996: Longing for home
  • 1996: Against the rubble
  • 1997: The Father's Country - Songs for Family, People and Fatherland
  • 1997: German freedom songs 1848
  • 1997: early work edition part 1 (indexed, indexing canceled again)
  • 1997: early work edition part 2 (indexed, indexing canceled again)
  • 1997: comrades
  • 1999: Hautnah (Live in Biblis)
  • 2001: Other songs - Other songs part II
  • 2001: Only our thoughts are free!
  • 2010: Frank and Frei
  • 2010: The song of the Germans
  • 2011: Now hear my song (DVD, indexed)
  • 2013: Frank Rennicke Live in Switzerland DVD
  • 2014: Frank Rennicke Live at Thinghaus (indexed)

Books

  • 1995: Songbook: all my songs from the beginning. Lyrics with guitar fingerings.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frank Rennicke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IDA-NRW: "Right-wing extremist songwriters and ballad singers - For example Frank Rennicke"
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Margitta Fahr: Frank Rennicke - The National Bard. In: PopScriptum 04 - Right Music, series of publications published by the Research Center for Popular Music at the HU Berlin , 1995, pp. 116–137.
  3. ^ Anton Maegerle and Holger Kulick: A national President? on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , April 10, 2009
  4. ^ Tagesspiegel: Neo-Nazi propaganda on the Bundestag homepage, May 14, 2009
  5. ↑ a b http://web.archive.org/web/20100629074605/http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/lösungen/weitereaufgabe/bundesammlung/rennicke.html "Singer and craftsman: Frank Rennicke" at www.bundestag .de
  6. ^ NPD propaganda on the Bundestag side
  7. ↑ Youtube interview with Rennicke
  8. ↑ facebook.com/frankrennicke: Article from May 13, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Noam Chomsky and the reality of the gas chambers. Time online , November 21, 2012
  10. ^ A b c d Anton Maegerle and Holger Kulick: The failed nationalist candidate for the federal presidency ( memento from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) offered by Courage against right-wing violence , May 1, 2009.
  11. ↑ The border - Poland is inland. In: Longing for Germany. Quoted in Margitta Fahr: Frank Rennicke - The "National Bard". In: PopScriptum 04 - Right Music, series of publications published by the Research Center for Popular Music at the HU Berlin , 1995, ISBN 3-928835-42-4
  12. ↑ Thomas Kuban: Blood must flow. Undercover among Nazis. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39802-0 , p. 129.
  13. ↑ Mr. Rennicke, what would you do if ... , www.endstation-rechts.de, May 13, 2009
  14. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ http://lexetius.com/StGB/130,6
  16. ^ Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court, 1 BvR 1753/03 March 25, 2008
  17. ^ Thies Marsen: Raid on neo-Nazi bard Frank Rennicke. ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 13, 2016
  18. ↑ Raid on right-wing extremists. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 15, 2016
  19. ↑ A toy gun triggered a house search in the scene on the right. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 24, 2016
  20. ↑ Patrick Gensing: Election of the Federal President: NPD and DVU send Rennicke into the race. On: NPD blog , April 5, 2009.
  21. ^ Anton Maegerle and Holger Kulick: Right-wing extremism. A national president? On: bpb.de , April 10, 2009.
  22. ↑ German Bundestag: https://web.archive.org/web/20090613035921/http://www.bundestag.de/parlament/wahlen/146/bundesammlung/index.html , viewed on May 15, 2009
  23. ↑ "This [original] text adopted - in the subjunctive - numerous formulations that are also on the NPD side." Sebastian Christ: Election of the Federal President. The brown candidate . On: stern.de , April 20, 2009.
  24. ↑ Election of the Federal President. Köhler confirmed in the first ballot ( memento from May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). On: tagesschau.de , May 23, 2009.
  25. ↑ Third ballot - the left releases votes
  26. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Indexed sound carriers ( Memento from July 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) and BAnz AT 04/29/2019 B8 .
  27. ↑ Deletion of the list: BAnz AT 07/29/2019 B7
  28. ↑ BAnz AT 02/27/2020 B6
  29. ↑ a b c List deletions ( Memento from October 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
  30. ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People: Announcement No. 3/2015 on carrier media harmful to young people of February 19, 2015
  31. ↑ BAnz AT 12/30/2015 B9
personal data
SURNAME Rennicke, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and neo-Nazi
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mascherode near Braunschweig