Germar Rudolf

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Germar Rudolf (born October 29, 1964 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German neo-Nazi and convicted Holocaust denier . The graduate chemist is the author of the scientifically refuted so-called Rudolf report , which denies the purpose and functioning of the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau . According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , he was the most active German right-wing extremist history revisionist before his conviction in 2007 .

Life

Germar Rudolf grew up with an older sister and a younger brother in the parents' household. His father was a social worker , his mother a trained industrial clerk. After graduating from high school in 1983 in Remscheid , Rudolf began studying chemistry in Bonn , which he completed in 1989 with a diploma (grade 1.0). During his studies he belonged to the student associations A. V. Tuisconia Königsberg Bonn and K. D. St. V. Nordgau Prague zu Stuttgart in the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations , but was excluded from these in 1994 because of his revisionist statements. During his school and university days, Rudolf was temporarily a member of the Junge Union and from 1985 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1991 a member of the Republicans party . In May 1994 he married his first wife and took her family name Scheerer . The marriage, which was divorced in August 2000, had a daughter and a son.

PhD position and "Auschwitz report"

After completing his basic military service , Rudolf received a temporary job at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart as part of a doctoral degree in October 1990 . During this time he wrote on behalf of the lawyer and former fighter pilot of the National Socialist Air Force Hajo Herrmann , who was General a. D. Otto Ernst Remer represented in a process of incitement to hatred, a paper entitled Expert opinion on the formation and detectability of cyanide compounds in the "gas chambers" of Auschwitz . In this controversial so-called Rudolf report , he claims, among other things, that he took wall samples from the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and found only small residues of cyanide compounds in the rock remains, so that no mass murders of people could have taken place with Zyklon B. When the dissemination of Rudolf's “expert opinion” attracted some media attention in early 1993, his employer ordered that Rudolf was no longer allowed to stay in the institute without prior request. When Rudolf entered the institute without permission, his employment contract was terminated without notice. Rudolf submitted his doctoral thesis, but no date for the oral examination ( Rigorosum ) was set as a result of the investigative procedure initiated on the basis of the Rudolf report , so that the doctoral procedure was ultimately not completed.

Publications under a pseudonym

From 1992 to 1995 Rudolf wrote his revisionist writings under numerous pseudonyms , including "Ernst Gauss", "Manfred Köhler", "Jakob Sprenger", "H. K. Westphal "," Dipl.-Ingenieur Dr. W. Kretschmer "," Dr. Ch. Konrad "," Dr. Dr. R. Scholz ”,“ Michael Gärtner ”and“ Anton Mägerle ”(as a misleading allusion to Anton Maegerle ). According to his own admission, he primarily wanted to evade state prosecution.

Law enforcement in Germany ("Auschwitz report")

The dissemination of his writing report on the formation and detectability of cyanide compounds in the "gas chambers" of Auschwitz led to criminal investigations against Rudolf. Between November 1994 and June 1995, Rudolf stood before the Stuttgart Regional Court to answer for his role in the dissemination of his “expert opinion” in the spring of 1993. He was finally, after seven months of trial on 23 June 1995 14 months in prison without parole for sedition in coincidence with insulting the memory of the dead , insult convicted and incitement to racial hatred. Right at the beginning of this criminal case, Rudolf's publication foundations of contemporary history appeared at the end of 1994 under the pseudonym "Ernst Gauss" . A handbook on controversial issues of the 20th century published by Grabert Verlag . This publication led to another criminal investigation against Rudolf in 1995, while his first was being heard in court.

Escape via Great Britain to the United States

In order to avoid the fourteen-month prison sentence imposed by the Stuttgart Regional Court in 1995 and other possible punishments, Rudolf fled to Spain via France in March 1996 . After learning of plans there to criminalize Holocaust denial, he left Spain in June 1996 and settled in the UK . In July 1996, his first wife followed with their two children who returned to Germany after the separation in January 1999. After the divorce in 2000, Rudolf took his maiden name again. In 1998 he founded Castle Hill Publishers in Great Britain, where his publications are still published today. After Rudolf's stay in England was made public by the British media, he fled to the United States in late 1999 , where he applied for political asylum in late 2000 .

In 2004, Rudolf served in the United States as the technical contact for the internet forum of the due sedition sentenced Jena neo-Nazis Bernhard Paul Becker, the activist a "provisional national government" was.

In August 2004, an investigation was initiated against Rudolf Großkopf 's supporter for aiding and abetting the distribution of holocaust-denying writings because Großkopf was authorized to sign a bank account.

In September 2004 he married his second wife, an American.

Deportation to Germany, criminal proceedings and imprisonment

On November 15, 2005, Rudolf was deported from the United States after his asylum application was rejected and immediately after his arrival at the airport in Frankfurt am Main he was arrested by the German police. He was first taken to the Rottenburg correctional facility and shortly thereafter transferred to the Stuttgart JVA , where he served the fourteen-month prison sentence imposed by the Stuttgart Regional Court in 1995.

On November 14, 2006, the trial against Rudolf began before the Mannheim Regional Court because of his publishing activities abroad. He was initially represented by Jürgen Rieger , Sylvia Stolz and Ludwig Bock. He later separated from Rieger and Stolz and replaced them with a lawyer from the Rolf Bossi law firm . Immediately following the serving of prison sentences in Stuttgart, he was on 15 January 2007 due to the ongoing process in custody made and the prison Heidelberg (branch office of the JVA Mannheim transferred).

On March 15, 2007, Rudolf was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment in two cases for incitement to hatred in unity with insult and denigration of the memory of the deceased . The presiding judge Matthias Schwab stated that Rudolf deliberately wanted the Holocaust to appear contrary to historical truth as an invention or an exaggeration of the Jews. Rudolf as well as the public prosecutor's office accepted the judgment, whereby it gained immediate legal force . In reaching its verdict, the court took into account that Rudolf had separated from the right-wing extremist lawyers Rieger and Stolz. The Mannheim Regional Court ordered the confiscation of the book Lectures on the Holocaust published by Rudolf in accordance with Section 74 of the Criminal Code .

He served his sentence in Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ulm and most recently Rottenburg until July 5, 2009.

Return to the United States

According to his own statements, he has been living in the USA with his second wife, with whom he has a daughter, since the beginning of August 2009. According to the 2012 report on the protection of the constitution by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Rudolf “is now continuing his agitation from abroad”.

Publications

Holocaust Denying Scriptures

  • (as editor) The Holocaust on the Dissection Table: The Growing Criticism of "Truth" and "Memory" (Holocaust Handbooks, Volume 1) . Castle Hill Publishers 2019, ISBN 978-1591480693
  • Auschwitz lies. Legends, lies, prejudices from the media, politicians and scientists about the Holocaust. Castle Hill, Hastings 2005, ISBN 1-59148-014-0 (English: with Carlo Mattogno: Auschwitz Lies. 2nd edition, The Barnes Review, Washington, DC, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9846312-6-1 ).
  • with Robert Countess, Christian Lindtner: Festschrift for Robert Faurisson to his 75th Birthday. Theses & Dissertations, Chicago 2005, ISBN 1-59148-004-3 .
  • with Fred A. Leuchter , Robert Faurisson : The Leuchter Reports: Critical Edition. Theses & Dissertations, Chicago 2005, ISBN 1-59148-026-4
  • Lectures on the Holocaust. Controversial questions in cross-examination. Castle Hill, Hastings 2005, ISBN 1-902619-07-2 (English: Lectures on the Holocaust. 2nd edition, The Barnes Review, Washington, DC, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9818085-7-4 ).
  • The Rudolf report. Report on the “gas chambers” of Auschwitz. 2nd Edition. Castle Hill, Hastings 2001, ISBN 1-902619-03-X (English: The Rudolf Report. 2nd edition, The Barnes Review, Washington, DC, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9846312-7-8 .)
  • Herbert Verbeke (Ed.): Auschwitz: Naked Facts. A reply to Jean-Claude Pressac , Vrij Historisch Onderzoek , Berchem 1995, ISBN 90-73111-16-1 (English: Auschwitz: Plain Facts. Theses & Dissertations, Chicago 2005, ISBN 1-59148-020-5 ).
  • Basics of contemporary history. A handbook on controversial issues of the 20th century Grabert, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-87847-141-6 (English: Dissecting the Holocaust. 2nd edition. Theses & Dissertations, Chicago 2003, ISBN 3-87847-141-6 ).
  • Lectures on contemporary history. Controversial questions in cross-examination. Grabert, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-87847-130-0 .

Other fonts

  • Cardinal questions on contemporary history. Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, Berchem 1996, ISBN 90-73111-20-X .
  • Cardinal questions to Germany's politicians. Call for the restoration of human rights in Germany. Castle Hill, Hastings 2005, ISBN 1-902619-09-9 .
  • Holocaust revisionism. A critical historical method. Castle Hill, Hastings 2005, ISBN 1-59148-019-1 .
  • Censorship is taking place! Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany. Castle Hill, Hastings 2006, ISBN 1-59148-017-5 .
  • Dictatorship Germany. The destruction of democracy and human rights under the influence of war propaganda , Castle Hill Publishers, Hastings 2005, ISBN 1-59148-018-3 .
  • Resistance is a must. Admission to criminal proceedings in 2006/2007. Castle Hill, Uckfield 2012, ISBN 978-1-59148-029-7 (English: Resistance is Obligatory. , Castle Hill, Uckfield 2012, ISBN 978-1-59148-030-3 .)

Editorships

  • 1997–2005 editor of the journal Vierteljahreshefte for free historical research
  • 2003–2005 editor of The Revisionist magazine

literature

Web links

For legal reasons, the website of Germar Rudolf and other websites that deny the Holocaust may not be linked from the German-language Wikipedia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Röpke : Brown channels . In: Andreas Speit , Andrea Röpke (eds.): Neo-Nazis in pinstripes . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86284-006-9 (e-book, 1st edition, corresponds to the 2nd print edition from 2008): “[...] convicted hardcore neo-Nazis like Manfred Roeder , Ernst Zündel or Germar Rudolf. "
  2. ↑ Neo-Nazi helpers arrested. In: Der Spiegel , issue 41/2004, p. 22.
  3. ^ A b Terri Judd: Neo-Nazi on the run is hiding in Britain. In: The Independent . October 18, 1999.
  4. ^ Chemistry is not the science. Refutation of the "Rudolf Report" by Richard Green on the website of the Holocaust History Project .
  5. ↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2004 . Federal Ministry of the Interior (Ed.), May 2005, p. 112 (Right-wing extremist efforts: International revisionism) : "The most active German revisionist is still Germar RUDOLF [...]."
  6. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Incitement of the people in court: Miss Stolz and the Hitler salute. In: Spiegel Online , May 9, 2009, accessed June 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Bayern 2003. 2004, p. 84.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g District Court Mannheim, Az .: 2 KLs 503 Js 17319/01, judgment of March 15, 2007.
  9. ↑ Annett Heide: Collectors and hunters. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 15, 2002, accessed June 17, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Regional Court Stuttgart, Az .: 17 KLs 83/94, judgment of June 23, 1995.
  11. ^ Entry about Bernhard Paul Becker at krr-faq.net.
  12. ↑ Judgment: Two and a half years imprisonment for Holocaust deniers. In: Focus Online . March 15, 2007.
  13. ^ Prison sentence for Holocaust denier Rudolf. In: Märkische Oderzeitung. March 15, 2007.
  14. ^ Entry about Germar Rudolf in the network against Nazis .
  15. ↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2012 . ( Memento from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Federal Ministry of the Interior (Ed.), Berlin 2013, p. 145, accessed on June 24, 2017 (PDF; 5.5 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Rudolf, Germar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheerer, Germar (married name); Gauss, Ernst (pseudonym); Köhler, Manfred (pseudonym); Sprenger, Jakob (pseudonym); Westphal, Hans Karl Dipl.-Ing. (Pseudonym); Kretschmer, Werner Dr. (Pseudonym); Konrad, Christian Dr. (Pseudonym); Scholz, Rainer Dr. Dr. (Pseudonym); Gardener, Michael Dipl.-Ing. (Pseudonym); Mägerle, Anton (pseudonym); Schwind, Heiko (pseudonym); Körner, Gerhard (pseudonym); Rose, Lennard Dr. (Pseudonym); Schlesiger, Wilhelm (pseudonym); Gerner, Manfred Dipl.-Ing. (Pseudonym); Tuisco (pseudonym); Berger, Jörg (pseudonym); Markert, Rudolph (pseudonym); Pfitzner, Wolfgang (pseudonym); Reeves, Ronald (pseudonym); Schneider, Angela (pseudonym); Steiger, Gerd (pseudonym); Weidenfeld, Frank (pseudonym); Angry, Rudi (pseudonym); Niepel, Andreas Dr.-Ing. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German convicted Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn