Gerd Honsik

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Gerd Honsik (born October 10, 1941 in Vienna , † April 7, 2018 in Sopron ) was an Austrian neo-Nazi and a convicted Holocaust denier .

family

According to his own statement, on April 27, 1992, Honsik came from a “family of decent National Socialists ” before the Vienna Regional Court ; the concentration camp commandant Amon Göth was his uncle, which Honsik denied in an interview in 2005.

Honsik was a member of the Vienna fraternity Rugia-Markomannia and the ring of freedom students .

Extreme right-wing activities

In 1961 Honsik took part in attacks in Vienna , among other things, together with Günther Kümel and Peter Melzer, he pelted the Italian embassy with a Molotov cocktail and diatribes. For this he was sentenced to imprisonment.

From 1967 he was a leading functionary of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in Austria , which was banned in 1988. In 1976 he was elected to their national board. In the same year he was u. a. Sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for throwing a smoke bomb at the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

In 1979 Honsik became a member of the editorial team of the magazine Die Babenberger and in 1980 he joined the editorial team of the successor magazine Halt. Wall newspaper of the Austrian defensive fight . Following the Nazi-coined term " final victory ", he joined it under the pseudonym Endsik Gerhon on. In 1983 he founded a "Knut Hamsun Society Vienna" and its publication Der Babenberger Literaturkreis .

In 1984 he tried to found a “National Front” party which, according to its program, organized exercises “to eliminate the system”. However, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior prohibited the founding meeting.

In 1986, in his magazine Halt , Honsik called on “the Arab world” to “expose the gassing of Jews as the greatest propaganda fraud in world history” and to support him financially. The appeal was published in the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Balagh .

In October 1987 he became “legal and ideological advisor” to the Austrian “people's movement” (also called “people's movement against foreign infiltration ” or “foreigners stop movement”). From March 1988 to April 1991 he was its chairman.

In 1988 Honsik published the book Acquittal for Hitler? 37 unheard witnesses against the gas chamber , in which he denied the Holocaust and also printed an interview with the Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who had gone into hiding. That is why a jury in Vienna sentenced him on May 5, 1992 to an 18-month prison term for re- activating the Nazis . The Supreme Court of Austria (OGH) dismissed its appeal and appeal against it in 1994.

In 1990 the Munich District Court convicted Honsik of sedition , incitement to racial hatred , insulting and disparaging the memory of the deceased .

Honsik then fled to Spain , where Holocaust denial is not a criminal offense. From there he continued to publish the magazine Halt at irregular intervals , published articles denying the Holocaust and anti-Semitic articles and sent right-wing extremist e-mails.

In December 2005, Honsik asked the Ambassador of Iran to Germany for legal help for Ernst Zündel , who was then charged with Holocaust denial. These contacts are said to have given the impetus for the 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Iran , in which Honsik's lawyer Herbert Schaller took part.

On August 23, 2007, Honsik was arrested in Málaga on the basis of a European arrest warrant issued by the Vienna Regional Criminal Court and extradited to the Austrian judiciary on October 4, 2007. Spain had previously refused Honsik's extradition twice; however, the European arrest warrant made extradition possible for racism and xenophobia, even if the offense is not punishable in the extraditing state.

On December 3, 2007, the appeal hearing on the judgment from 1992, which had previously been broken off because the person concerned was not tangible, took place before the Higher Regional Court in Vienna. The appeal was dismissed and the unconditional sentence of 18 months was confirmed.

In May 2008, the Vienna Public Prosecutor's office again brought charges against Honsik for re-activating the Nazis. If found guilty as charged, he faces up to 20 years in prison. On April 27, 2009, he was sentenced to five years in prison. The guilty verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court and the amount of the sentence was reduced to four years by the Vienna Higher Regional Court on March 1, 2010 .

In July 2010, the trial for passages in books Honsiks was rogue and monster and The Jewish Third Reich continued with whom he Simon Wiesenthal had assumed and other Jews, they invented the Holocaust in order to benefit from its marketing. On September 9, a first instance judgment (not final) was issued for a further two years in prison, which would have resulted in a total sentence of six years. In this context, Honsik was supported by the gas chamber denier and Engelwerk activist Martin Humer .

On September 8, 2011, Honsik was released early from prison due to his old age and social integration in Spain. On April 7, 2018, Honsik died in Hungary , where he had lived since 2017. The newspaper Die Presse reports that, according to the FPÖ-critical portal “FPÖ Fails”, members of the FPÖ , among others, apparently condoled , “including an employee of the infrastructure ministry or a Viennese FPÖ councilor”. The press are claims to screenshots before deleted after a short time condolences.

Publications

  • Acquittal for Hitler? 37 unheard witnesses against the gas chamber . Publisher: Burgenland Cultural Association Vienna, 1988
  • Nothing new in the Alcázar! The epic of the twentieth century . Göran Holming, Major ret. D., 1998
  • Racism legal? Hold on to the Kalergi plan. 2005 2nd edition ISBN 84-922725-5-4
  • The flower war. Should my books burn? From the poetry volumes prosecuted by the relevant criminal record. Burgenland Cultural Society, 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dahamist: Gerd Honsik is dead
  2. ^ Markus Perner , Wolfgang Purtscheller : The national international. In: Wolfgang Purtscheller (ed.): The order they mean. »New rights« in Austria. Picus Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-256-8 , p. 72f.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Berlin 2009, p. 378
  4. ^ DÖW (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism. Deuticke, Vienna 1994², ISBN 3-216-30099-4 , p. 328 ff .; summarized in DÖW: Right-wing extremists, activists and ideologues (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  5. ^ Anton Maegerle : The Iranian right-wing extremist connection . In: grandstand. Journal for the Understanding of Judaism . Frankfurt am Main, 2nd quarter 2006, issue 178. Supplemented version online ( Memento from December 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at DÖW.
  6. ^ Forum against Anti-Semitism: Newsletter September 2007 (pdf), p. 4f.
  7. ↑ Art. 2 para. 2 Framework Decision 2002/584 / JHA of the Council of June 13, 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between the Member States (PDF; 165 kB), OJ L 190 of July 18, 2002; Ministry of Justice: Gerd Honsik arrested in Spain Article of the BMJ , 23 August 2007.
  8. ↑ OLG confirms judgment for Gerd Honsik. In: orf.at. December 3, 2007.
  9. ↑ Holocaust denier Honsik again indicted. ORF Vienna, May 2, 2008, accessed on March 1, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Five years imprisonment for Gerd Honsik. ORF Vienna, April 27, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2010 .
  11. ↑ Mildness for Honsik: only four years in prison. ORF Vienna, March 1, 2010, accessed on March 1, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Wild dispute in the Honsik trial. Die Presse, July 21, 2010, accessed July 21, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Holocaust-denier-Honsik-also-convicted-in-the-second-trial. Der Standard, September 9, 2010, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Jürgen Pachner: Porn hunter denies gas chambers. Courier dated December 9, 2010.
  15. ↑ Heiner Boberski: The angel work. Theory and Practice of Opus Angelorum. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, ISBN 3-7013-0854-3 , pp. 242 and 265.
  16. ↑ Holocaust denier Honsik released on probation. In: orf.at. September 8, 2011.
  17. ↑ Neo-Nazi Honsik dead: Condolences also from the FPÖ. The press of April 9, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Honsik, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2018
Place of death Sopron