Hans Jörg Schimanek jun.

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Hans Jörg Schimanek jun. (Born October 1, 1963 in Klosterneuburg ) is an Austrian right-wing extremist who was active as a leading neo-Nazi in the circle of Gottfried Küssel and the VAPO from the late 1980s to the early 1990s . Schimanek was a comradeship leader in Krems-Land and an activist of the “Kameradschaft Langenlois”, a neo-Nazi and paramilitary group. He organized military sports exercises and appeared as a " mercenary ". In 1995 he was finally sentenced to a long prison term for being “ re-employed ”. The Austrian Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights were dealing with his case . Released early in 1999 from prison, he has been active in the private sector ever since.

Life

Origin and family

Schimanek jun. was born in 1963 as the son of journalist and later SPÖ, later FPÖ or BZÖ politician Hans Jörg Schimanek , from 1998 to 2000 liberal state party leader in Lower Austria, in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria . He later stood up for his son in the form of "replies, threats of lawsuits and lawsuits" against journalists and newspapers. His brother is the FPÖ local politician Rene Schimanek, currently the office manager of the Third National Council President Norbert Hofer (FPÖ).

In 1995 Schimanek junior married.

Training and the armed forces

Schimanek jun. attended AHS and trained as a commercial artist .

He was then first seven years time obligor soldier in the Austrian army , where he u. a. served in the infantry guard battalion . Recruit trainer Schimanek, who made it up to the batch rank of corporal , originally wanted to become a non-commissioned officer , but failed the relevant selection test in 1985, according to the 1986 personnel file. The army psychologists had concerns about his behavior and the military intelligence service made a note in its file. After weapons disappeared in the Maria-Theresien-Kaserne in Vienna , he was dishonorably dismissed . However, the Administrative Court (VwGH) in Vienna later overturned the decision due to a violation of the procedural rules . At the end of the 1980s he left the army for good; During his service (1987) he met his political companion Gottfried Küssel , a key figure in the German-speaking neo-Nazi scene, with whom he cooperated from then on.

Neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist context

1980s and 1990s

In 1987 Schimanek jun. participated in a vigil for the former Hitler deputy Rudolf Hess in Vienna. In the same year, during an event organized by the Young People's Party , the youth organization of the ÖVP , he described himself as a National Socialist , who was however within the scope of the Prohibition Act (see later judgments in criminal matters ).

He advanced to the position of “military sports chief” of the militant, neo-Nazi people loyal to the extra-parliamentary opposition (VAPO) and organized “paramilitary exercises” together with Küssel (approx. 100) until 1991. He showed his like-minded friends how to cut a knife through throats. So he took in 1991 with the VAPO activists Gottfried Küssel (Chairman) and Günther Reinthaler ( "Gaubeauftragter" for Salzburg and Upper Austria) and Gerhard Endres (VAPO Vienna) at a German-Austrian military sports training - from Germany right-wing extremist was Klaus Kopanski arrived - at Langenlois part.

Together with the “ GDR coordinator” of the republicans , Reinhard Rade , he took part in “ mercenary services ” in South America, i. H. Suriname (1989) and French Guiana (1990), and Croatia (1992). Via Paris he got into the civil war- plagued Suriname, where he was equipped with a self-loading rifle ( HK SL7 ) and a machete for the supposed “hunting holiday”. After he and his "comrades" (Rade and another German) were arrested in 1989 by the Surinamese army of the ex-dictator, Colonel Desi Bouterse , he was freed a few days later by Ronnie Brunswijk's " Jungle Commando " . The French national gendarmerie arrested Schimanek and the other foreigners in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni , a town in French Guiana on the border with Surinam, and sent them back to Vienna-Schwechat as detainees .

In 1990 he was a steward at a VAPO / Küssel event in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, and published a leaflet against an alleged "flood of foreigners". An answer to a parliamentary question in 1990 revealed that thirteen administrative criminal proceedings had been conducted against him at the time . In 1991 he was present with the neo-Nazi activist Gottfried Küssel at a prohibited so-called “ revisionist ” meeting in Munich. a. David Irving , Fred Leuchter , Mark Weber and Udo Walendy appeared as speakers. According to a later criminal judgment, Schimanek appeared as the Lower Austrian “district commissioner” of the VAPO. In 1992 he became second chairman of the People's Socialist Party (VSP) founded by the neo-Nazi Gerd Honsik , for which Küssel was also a leader. In the same year he and other neo-Nazis supported the FPÖ's referendum “ Austria first ” as “unpaid helpers ”. For right-wing extremism researchers Brigitte Bailer and Wolfgang Neugebauer from the Vienna Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), he was one of the "leading figures" of the neo-Nazi scene at that time, alongside Gottfried Küssel. The convictions of leaders like Schimanek jun. - who received a “ draconian punishment” - in the first half of the 1990s led to the smashing of the old “neo-Nazi structures”.

Post-imprisonment activities

Contacts with the right-wing extremist scene continued during and after his imprisonment: until 1997 he wrote letters to the editor for the news of the HNG of the right-wing extremist aid organization for national political prisoners and their relatives (HNG), which was meanwhile (2010) managed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior was banned in Germany. In 2009 he was present with Gottfried Küssel, who was also convicted of re-employment in the 1990s, and other relevant people at the alternative event organized by the FPÖ for the returnees' meeting at Ulrichsberg in Carinthia . In addition, he and Küssel attended an event organized by the German neo-Nazi comradeship Free Forces Leipzig (FKL). There he fabulated about an alleged “genocide of the Germans” as part of the “Germanness in Austria” and underlined the “benefits of the strong character of the FPÖ”. The DÖW evaluates the activities of old VAPO cadres as part of the “restructuring of the Austrian neo-Nazi scene”.

Ventures

In 1994 he was a partner in a Leipzig demolition company with Reinhard Rade . Schimanek, who now lives in the neighboring state of Saxony , returned to Rade's business after his imprisonment. In 1999 he was single representation as Managing Director of the CONDOR - Projektentwicklung GmbH in Leipzig Lindenthal .

Research by Zeit and Sächsischer Zeitung made public in 2016 that he held 16 percent of the Leipzig Unister subsidiary Travel24.com through the Swiss company Loet Trading AG , whose shares he received from Rade after 2013, and was thus the “second largest shareholder ”.

Judgments in criminal matters

Schimanek junior, who was in possession of an assault rifle 77 of the armed forces, was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 schillings in 1985 ( legal force 1992) for stealing ( § 164 StGB ) and forbidden possession of weapons . This was followed by two smaller fines for violating the Weapons Act in 1988, with 12,000 schillings, and in 1991, with 1,500 schillings.

In the course of the re-activation trial against Küssel in 1994 he was arrested: In 1995, Schimanek was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment by the jury at the Regional Criminal Court in Vienna for being re-activated by the National Socialists in accordance with Section 3a II of the 1947 Prohibition Act . He appealed and appealed for annulment . The Supreme Court in 1995 (Supreme Court) upheld the sentence, but took an extraordinary mitigation of punishment ( § 41 , Section 1 of the Criminal Code) at eight years ago. In 1999, after the Lower Austrian Regional Court of Korneuburg and the Higher Regional Court of Vienna had been dealt with, he was released early from imprisonment in the Sonnberg Prison in Lower Austria "because of his previous life, because of his well-founded prospects for legal advancement and his performance during execution" . According to the sociologist Max Preglau, the FPÖ “played down” the re-engagement in this specific case at their New Year's meeting in 2001 in Vienna.

An individual complaint ( Art. 34 ECHR ) Schimaneks against the Republic of Austria before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg from 1996 was rejected in 2000 because it was unfounded . Schimanek relied on freedom of expression in his lawsuit . In the decision of the First Section it was stated that the condemnation within the meaning of Article 10, Paragraph 2 of the ECHR was necessary. The Rotterdam legal scholar Jeroen Temperman criticized the judgment in 2014 because, in his opinion, the court had reverted to the indirect approach of Art. 17 ECHR.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Schimanek, Hans Jörg jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian neo-Nazi
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg