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Gerald Fredrick Toben (born June 2, 1944 in Jaderberg , Wesermarsch district ; † June 29, 2020 in Australia ), born Gerold Friedrich Töben, was an Australian right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier . From 1994 to 2009 Toben directed the private Adelaide Institute in Australia.

Career

Tobens family emigrated to Australia in 1954 and continued to work in agriculture there. Toben studied at the University of Melbourne, Australia (BA 1970) and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand (BA 1968). He then worked as a teacher in New Zealand before accepting a job at the Merz Werkschule in Stuttgart in 1970. In 1971 Toben learned that his Australian degrees were not recognized in the Federal Republic. He then studied philosophy again at the University of Stuttgart , where he received his doctorate in 1977 under Professors Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther on Charles S. Peirce and Karl Popper . In 1978 he graduated from the University of Rhodesia with a diploma in educational science and accepted a position as a teacher in Rhodesia , after which he continued to teach English, German, sociology and philosophy in Australia, New Zealand, West Germany, Zimbabwe and Nigeria until he returned in 1980 returned to Australia and got married there. In 1985 he was expelled from school for "incompetence and disobedience", but this dismissal had to be withdrawn in 1992 after a judicial review.

Racist Activities and Holocaust Denial

From 1983 to 1993 he was director of Toben International Pty Ltd. Import-export. Since 1985 he has been a publisher at Peace Books, author of various articles and books on educational science and Holocaust denial.

Together with David W. Brockschmidt, Toben founded the Adelaide Institute in 1994 , of which he was director until May 1, 2009. This institute denies the Holocaust in newsletters and publications. In 1998 the institute organized an "International Revisionist Symposium". Among the guests and speakers were well-known representatives of this scene such as Germar Rudolf , Jürgen Graf , the neo-Nazi Robert Faurisson and Ernst Zündel's wife Ingrid Rimland .

In 1999 Toben made a tour of Europe and published his travel diary on websites. Finally, as in April 1997, in April 1999 he visited the public prosecutor who led the investigation into the Günter Deckert case . Raging was arrested in the office of the Mannheim public prosecutor Klein because of his diary published on the Internet and sentenced to ten months imprisonment in a subsequent process under Section 189 of the Criminal Code for denigrating the memory of the deceased .

After his release from prison in November 1999, Toben first traveled to Iran to give lectures and interviews before going to the congress of the Institute for Historical Review in California in May 2000 , where he was invited as a speaker. In 2006 he took part in the Holocaust Conference in Tehran, in 2008 he was arrested in London on the basis of a German arrest warrant , but was not extradited to Germany . The Holocaust denier Michèle Renouf had organized a team of lawyers especially for riot.

On August 13, 2009, he was sentenced by the Australian Federal Court of Justice to a three-month prison term without parole for 24 times a court order that prohibited him from distributing racist material on his website .

Fonts

  • Where Truth Is No Defense, I Want To Break Free 2001
  • Fight or Flight: The Personal Face of Revisionism 2003
  • 40 Days in Tehran 2007
  • 50 Days in Gaol 2010
  • Work sets you free: impertinent incarceration 2010

Web links

The website of Fredrick Toben is not linked in the German language Wikipedia for legal reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben dead at 76. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Noam Chomsky and the reality of the gas chambers. Time online , November 21, 2012
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Koydl, Williamson's new friends ( memento from March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 25, 2009
  4. ^ Richard Shears: Holocaust denier at center of British legal row is jailed for three months in Australia , Daily Mail , August 13, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Romping around, Fredrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raging, Gerald Fredrick; Töben, Fredrick; Töben, Gerold Friedrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaderberg , Wesermarsch district
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2020
Place of death Australia