Gernot Tegetmeyer

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Gernot H. Tegetmeyer (born December 18, 1957 in Graz ) is a German political activist of Austrian origin who belongs to the anti-Islamic scene in Bavaria that is relevant to the protection of the constitution . He was general secretary of the now disbanded right-wing populist small party “ Die Freiheit ” and the organizer of the Nuremberg branch of Pegida . The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BayLfV) has named Tegetmeyer several times in its publications, such as the reports on the protection of the constitution from 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Career

Tegetmeyer spent his childhood in St. Margarethen an der Raab and moved to Germany at the age of six, where he was naturalized . Tegetmeyer used to be a police officer . He is married to a Bulgarian woman and ran a transport company in Fürth- Dambach .

Political activities

The final judgment of sedition sentenced Michael Stürzenberger , according BayLfV "the central figure of the constitutional protection-related anti-Islamic scene in Bavaria," motivated Tegetmeyer to become politically active. Until he left the party in the second half of 2015, Tegetmeyer was the deputy state chairman of the Bavarian regional association of the party “ Die Freiheit ”, which, according to the BayLfV, pursued anti-Islamic endeavors that were relevant to the protection of the constitution and which in 2013 had been classified as unconstitutional by the BStMI .

After a mutual support negotiated by Tegetmeyer and Stürzenberger with the party Die Republikaner in the municipal elections in Bavaria in 2014 , Tegetmeyer ran unsuccessfully on their list for the city council of Fürth . In November 2014, Tegetmeyer appeared as a speaker at a HoGeSa demo in Hanover and spoke of the "armed struggle" there.

From February 2015 on, Tegetmeyer first appeared as a speaker at “Nügida” and then several times as chairman of the “Pegida Nürnberg” demonstrations, with the number of participants initially in the range of around 150 demonstrators. The BayLfV saw numerous factual indications that the group around Tegetmeyer was pursuing extremist endeavors that could be assigned to the phenomenon of Islamophobia relevant to the protection of the constitution. At the beginning of 2016, the number of participants rose briefly to up to 200 people, and then fell again to around 50 people. According to BayLfV's observations, right-wing extremists also regularly took part in the rallies at Pegida Nürnberg, although meeting leader Tegetmeyer had described right-wing extremists at Pegida Nürnberg events as undesirable. The Nürnberger Nachrichten (NN) wrote regarding the wording of the speakers at Pegida Nuremberg of "incitement and vilification": Tegetmeyer as a keynote speaker used the from the Nazi Volkstumspolitik derived notion of a supposedly held "enormous umvolkung " and predicted that "we in no later than 15 to 20 years [...] are a minority in their own country ”. At another Pegida event, Tegetmeyer even propagated a “ genocide against our people”. According to the NN analysis, Tegetmeyer hated in his speeches against migrants , especially against people of Turkish origin. Accordingly, he conjured the victory of the war coalition against the troops of the Ottoman Empire outside Vienna in the 17th century. But in the meantime, despite this victory, the "enemy [...] among us" would be.

In November 2016, several St. Martin trains had to be canceled due to a Pegida move announced by Tegetmeyer ; several hundred children were affected. At a demonstration by “Pegida Nürnberg / Pegida Mittelfranken” on January 20, 2018 in Nuremberg, Tegetmeyer equated Islam with Salafism and denied the possibility of moderate interpretations.

Tegetmeyer also appeared as a speaker at events organized by the right-wing populist citizens' movement Pax Europa . In 2016 Tegetmeyer invited in Altdorf near Nuremberg as a protest against an evening of dialogue between Christians and Muslims to a demonstration under the title “No Islamic mess in Altdorf”. In September 2018, Tegetmeyer was named "Patriot of the Year" by Jürgen Elsässer and the two convicted criminals, Tommy Robinson and Lutz Bachmann, at a conference organized by Compact magazine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the occasion of the “Border Protection People's Initiative” . Martin Sellner was one of the speakers . a. Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider , Uli Henkel , Franz Bergmüller , Michael Stürzenberger and Gerhard Wisnewski . In October 2018, Tegetmeyer, together with Michael Stürzenberger, tried to revive the Munich branch of Pegida, to which, according to the southern Germans, around 45 participants appeared with ten times the number of counter-demonstrators.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2018 . In: Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration . 17th May 2019.
  2. ↑ Jonas Miller: The movement on the ground . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . 23rd September 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c 2015 report on the protection of the constitution . In: Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration . April 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2016 . In: Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration . May 2017.
  5. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2017 . In: Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration . April 2018.
  6. ↑ Gernot H. Tegetmeyer: Speech at Pegida Graz (from 0:02:17) on YouTube February 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Gernot H. Tegetmeyer: Speech at the “Border Protection Conference” (from 0:06:00) on YouTube of the Compact magazine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, September 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ Michael Stürzenberger : Speech at Pegida Graz (from 0:00:59) on YouTube March 29, 2015.
    Michael Stürzenberger : Speech at the start of the "Border Protection Conference" (from 0:08:45) on YouTube of the Compact magazine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, September 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ Birgit Mair: Pegida Nürnberg - Analysis of the content of the speech . In: Institute for Social Science Research, Education and Advice (ISFBB) . Nuremberg, May 2015.
  10. ↑ Because of defamation: Brenner sues against Pegida speakers . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . May 3, 2017.
  11. ↑ Gernot H. Tegetmeyer: Speech in the context of the "Border Protection Conference" (from 0:10:22) on YouTube of the Compact magazine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, September 29, 2018.
  12. ↑ a b Announcement of the results of the city council election . Election officer for the city of Fürth, April 3, 2014.
  13. ↑ Gernot H. Tegetmeyer: Speech in the context of the “Border Protection Conference” (from 0:06:46) on YouTube of the Compact magazine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, September 29, 2018.
  14. ↑ Bernd Kastner: "Freedom" and PI are considered unconstitutional in Bavaria . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 12th, 2013.
  15. ↑ The Republicans and Freedom parties decide to support each other ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Die Republikaner . 20th November 2013.
  16. ↑ AfDler and Islamfeinde in hooligan action ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Blick nach Rechts . 17th November 2014.
  17. ↑ a b Nuremberg prevent Nügida deployment . In: Malfunction reporter . 17th February 2015.
  18. ^ "Pegida Nürnberg" is planning a rally on Thursday . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . March 2, 2015.
  19. ^ Agitation and degradation: The language of Pegida Nuremberg . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . May 21, 2015.
  20. ^ Lars Wienand: Martinsumzüge have to give way to demo of Pegida . In: Westfälische Rundschau . November 11, 2016.
  21. ↑ Eva Steinlein: Pegida activist invites to a demonstration against “Islamic rottenness” . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 31, 2016.
  22. ↑ Tommy Robinson , Lutz Bachmann : Appointment of Gernot Tegetmeyer as "Patriot of the Year" as part of the "Border Protection Conference" (from 0:01:39) on YouTube of the Compact magazine in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, September 29, 2018.
    Solidarity with radicals . In: Bayernkurier . 4th October 2018.
  23. ↑ Annual report 2018 . In: Specialized Information Center for Right-Wing Extremism in Munich (FIRM) . January 2019.
  24. ^ Whistle concert against the right . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tegetmeyer, Gernot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tegetmeyer, Gernot H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Freiheit)
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz