Frank Schubert (terrorist)

Frank Schubert (* 1957 in Görlitz ; † December 24, 1980 in Böttstein ) was a German right- wing terrorist and a member of the People's Socialist Movement Germany / Labor Party (VSBD). He murdered two Swiss border guards on December 24, 1980 and then shot himself.

Life

Frank Schubert was a trained cook, karate fighter and grew up in the GDR . In 1977 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany over the Berlin Wall and worked as a waiter in Frankfurt and as a gardener's assistant in Mainz. Schubert was a member of the VSBD and established links to other right-wing extremist collections. Among other things, he kept in contact with the " Aid Organization for National Political Prisoners" (HNG).

On December 24, 1980, he tried to smuggle arms and ammunition from Switzerland to Germany. With a rubber dinghy he wanted to bring them across the Rhine to the Federal Republic. The Swiss customs officer Josef Arnold was apparently watching him. When the Swiss border patrol corporal Josef Arnold (38 years) and the canton police officer Walter Wehrli (31 years) tried to arrest him, he killed them. Following the crime, he shot himself. A diving suit and break-in tools were later discovered at the site of the killed border guard.

Schubert was celebrated as the hero of the movement in the neo-Nazi scene. Schubert was suspected of having participated in bank robberies in 1980 with Walter Kexel in the southern Hessian cities of Zwingenberg and Bensheim .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Right-wing extremists: Living time bomb . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1981 ( online ).
↑ The deep roots . In: The time . No. 6 , 1982 ( zeit.de ).
^ Right- wing terrorist efforts in Hesse . In: Antifascist Information Office Rhein-Main . Part 3: The radicalization of the far right in the 1970s ( infobuero.org [accessed November 14, 2016]).

personal data
SURNAME	Schubert, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German right-wing terrorist and member of the People's Socialist Movement Germany (Party of Labor (VSBD))
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1980
Place of death	Böttstein

[spiegel-1] Right-wing extremists: Living time bomb . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1981 ( online ).

[2] The deep roots . In: The time . No. 6 , 1982 ( zeit.de ).

[3] Right- wing terrorist efforts in Hesse . In: Antifascist Information Office Rhein-Main . Part 3: The radicalization of the far right in the 1970s ( infobuero.org [accessed November 14, 2016]).