Fritz Teufel

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Fritz Teufel (left)

Fritz Teufel (born June 17, 1943 in Ingelheim ; † July 6, 2010 in Berlin ) was a West Berlin Communard , author and active participant in the student movement and member of the June 2 terrorist movement .

Life

Childhood and youth

Fritz Teufel was born in Ingelheim during the war in 1943 as the youngest of six children. The family moved to Ludwigsburg in 1946 , where Teufel finished his schooling at the local Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium with the Abitur . He came to West Berlin in 1963 and began studying German, journalism and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin . He dealt with contemporary German history and traveled to Frankfurt several times to follow the Auschwitz trials. With Dieter Kunzelmann he was one of the co-founders of Commune I , which attracted worldwide attention primarily through its deliberately provocative actions directed against the prevailing social conditions.

Pudding assassination

Teufel and others were arrested in early 1967 when they were seen throwing bags. The police and the press described this as an attack on the then US Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey , but the projectiles turned out to be pudding and flour bombs (" pudding attack "). The alleged assassins were released the day after Humphrey's visit.

Accused of throwing a stone during the Shah's visit

On 2 June 1967 was hell on charges of throwing a stone, during the demonstration on June 2, 1967 in West Berlin against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi arrested and sat until the start of negotiations in November in custody . During the negotiations, Teufel was particularly noticed by - from the point of view of the public prosecutor - disrespectful behavior. When he wanted to give a longer statement, he was warned by the judge that he should only present facts that served to establish the truth. A little later he came the request of the judge, to rise, with the remark for: "If it's because the truth is." This phrase has become a household word . On December 22, 1967, Teufel was acquitted.

Arrest for kidnapping Peter Lorenz, pre-trial detention and acquittal

Since autumn 1969, Teufel was a leading member of the Tupamaros Munich group , which was active until 1971 and was responsible for a number of incendiary and explosive attacks in the Bavarian capital. In 1970 he was also one of the main suspects in the arson attack on the Jewish old people's home in Munich, in which seven Jews died. However, the perpetrator could not be proven. He went underground in 1973 and was arrested in 1975 while carrying a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun. He was accused of having participated as a leading member of the June 2 Movement in the kidnapping of the Berlin CDU chairman Peter Lorenz . After five years of pre-trial detention, the trial took place in 1980. It was only after the defense and the public prosecutor's office, who had demanded 15 years imprisonment, that Teufel presented an alibi with which he could prove that he had worked under a false name in a factory in Essen (Pagette) at the time of the crime . He justified the late presentation of the alibi by saying that it could “show how a defendant was prejudiced for acts that were definitely not committed and how the whole system worked”. In addition, he assumed that he would be sentenced to five years in prison even if he was not involved. Another indictment by the federal prosecutor's office over some bank robberies in Berlin was dropped for lack of evidence. The court sentenced him on October 30, 1980 to five years' imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons and membership of a terrorist organization , which was compensated for by pre-trial detention, after which he was released.

Icon of fun guerrilla

According to an interview with Spiegel on November 3, 1980, Teufel coined the term “Fun Gerilja” ( fun guerrilla ) and propagated: “For me, Fun Gerilja” is the current form of class struggle ”and:“ Ever since I tried to use the term “Fun Gerilja 'To put into circulation, word creations are my hobby ... “On February 19, 1982 he discussed good behavior in the TV show 3 to 9 with the then Federal Minister of Finance, Hans Matthöfer . Talking to the moderator, he drew a water pistol and splashed the minister with magic ink. Matthöfer responded by pouring a glass of wine over the devil. In obituaries, Teufel was referred to as a "fun revolver".

Later activities and Parkinson's disease

After the court proceedings were over, Teufel worked for a year as a baker in London, as a columnist for the taz and as a bicycle courier in Berlin. In the last twelve years of his life he suffered increasingly from Parkinson's . In 2001 he was awarded the Wolfgang Neuss Prize for Civil Courage . Fritz Teufel in his thanks: "Thanks go to my unborn, unconceived children who enable me to live a life of luxury and joy." Most recently, he lived in seclusion with his partner Helene Lollo and friends in Berlin-Wedding .

Funeral service and desecration

Grave of Fritz Teufel in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery (2012)
Newly designed grave (2014) at the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof Berlin with the gravestone inscription if it serves to establish the truth

Teufel died on July 6, 2010 in Berlin as a result of his Parkinson's disease. The funeral service took place on July 15, 2010 at the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Mitte . Ulrich Enzensberger and Hans-Christian Ströbele paid tribute to devils in necrologists .

On August 6, 2010, the theft of the Teufels urn was found. Since political motives were initially assumed for the desecration of the grave , the police state security took over the investigation. Ashes were scattered on the sidewalks near the grave as a deception, but they did not come from the urn. On August 13, 2010, the urn was found in Berlin-Dahlem next to Rudi Dutschke's grave . In the meantime, based on a letter of confession, the police assume that it is a joke by sympathizers Teufels from the left scene.

Fonts

  • Rainer Langhans , Fritz Teufel (ed.): Steal me. StPO der Kommune I. Voltaire Edition, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1968 (Series: Voltaire Handbuch 2, edited by Bernward Vesper ), ISBN 3-88167-022-X . Reprints (without the pornographic supplement): Trikont Verlag , Munich 1977 and 1978; Rixdorfer Verlagsanstalt, Berlin undated
  • The indomitable from the Spree, Karl Heinz Roth , Fritz Teufel: steal them! (Self) critical contributions to the crisis of the left and the guerrillas . In: International Pocket Library Volume 17. IVA-Verlag Polke, Tübingen 1979. ISBN 3-8826-6017-1 .
  • Fritz Teufel, Robert Jarowoy : Fairy tales from the fun gerilja. Libertarian Association, Hamburg / Verlag Roter Funke, Bremen 1980 (without ISBN ).
  • Fritz Teufel: Who will be world champion? taz column of June 12, 1986, accessed on July 9, 2010
  • Fritz Teufel: From the devil's kitchen . a-verbal VerlagsGmbH, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88999-008-8 (with 72 drawings and 6 puzzles by Fritz Teufel).
  • Fritz Teufel: A journey from the Neckar to the Moselle . (on-line)
  • Fritz Teufel: Nothing and tiny in France . (on-line)
  • Fritz Teufel: The trip to Findland oda: More love for thieves . (on-line)

literature

Web links

Commons : Fritz Teufel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Fritz Teufel  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b dpa / jw: Old 68ers: Fritz Teufel died at the age of 67. In: welt.de . July 7, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Manfred Kriener: Fritz Teufel's last interview: “I was most susceptible to love”. In: Tagesspiegel from July 7, 2010, accessed on September 28, 2018
  3. ↑ On the death of Fritz Teufel - article on news.de ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Gerd Koenen , Vesper, Ensslin, Baader. Primal scenes of German terrorism, Cologne 2003, p. 261.
  5. ↑ controversial | 02/12/2020: CDU - Union sister worried | Drug shortage “Made in China” | Alpine tourism. Retrieved on February 14, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ One who liked to sit. In: Der Spiegel from June 9, 1997, accessed on September 28, 2018
  7. ↑ Spiegel interview from November 3, 1980
  8. ↑ Excerpt from broadcast 3 after 9 of February 19, 1982
  9. ↑ z. B. in the ARD Tagesthemen, Focus-Online , Süddeutsche Zeitung , BILD , Stern ( Memento from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Fritz Teufel, the taz columnist: "Vodka with iodine makes cheeks red". In: taz.de from July 8, 2010, accessed on September 28, 2018
  11. ↑ Lorenz Jäger , On the death of Fritz Teufel. The jokes you know. , faz.net, July 7, 2010.
  12. ↑ Knud Kohr : Fritz Teufel. A life in opposition . In: Tagesspiegel, December 12, 2001.
  13. ↑ Caroline Fetscher : Fritz Teufel: A clown with a shotgun . Tagesspiegel from July 7, 2010
  14. ↑ 68: Fritz Teufel - The Commune 1 mourns. In: Süddeutsche.de of July 15, 2010, accessed on September 28, 2018
  15. ↑ Several hundred companions at Fritz Teufel's coffin. Märkische Allgemeine , accessed on July 17, 2010
  16. ↑ Grave robbers steal urn from Fritz Teufel Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on August 6, 2010
  17. ↑ dpa / cor: Alt-68er: Fritz the devil's urn stolen and ashes scattered. In: welt.de . August 7, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  18. ↑ a b Fritz Teufel's grave desecration was a macabre joke in Welt-online, viewed on May 24, 2011
  19. ^ After the desecration of the grave: the devil's urn and Dutschke's grave. In: Spiegel Online . August 13, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  20. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419758
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Communard, terrorist of the June 2nd movement
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2010
Place of death Berlin