Heinz Lembke

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Heinz Lembke (born March 24, 1937 in Stralsund ; † November 1, 1981 in Lüneburg ) was a German neo-Nazi .

Life

Lembke grew up in Stralsund and, according to his own account, had traumatic experiences as a child when Stralsund was taken by the Red Army .

In 1959 he fled from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany and joined right-wing extremist organizations. In 1960 he became a member of the anti-Semitic "Federation of Patriotic Youth" (BVJ) and within a short time advanced from an activist to a board member and managing director. For example, in a collection of sayings for use in the youth camp created by the “Federal Managing Director Lembke” there was the following saying: “A Jew is a Jew, you can teach him, he follows his blood, follows his teachings. But a guy, worth hanging, a German who thinks like a Jew! ” On July 17, 1962, the BVJ was banned nationwide. Lembke also became a member of the German Reich Party (DRP), a forerunner organization of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).

After the BVJ was banned, Lembke became a member of the Federation of Heimattreuer Jugend . In 1974 he organized their 20th Whitsun meeting in Dinkelsbühl.

After the DRP, he continued his partisan engagement within the NPD, for which he ran in the local elections in Lower Saxony on September 29, 1968. From 1971 to 1977 he was NPD district chairman in Uelzen .

Until 1978 Lembke lived out his interest in military sports as a supporting member of the reservist comradeship 12 of the Bundeswehr in Bremen. The training events included shooting, sparking, gun knowledge and off-road behavior.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s, Lembke appeared at numerous events organized by Manfred Roeder's “German Citizens' Initiative” . In addition, he organized so-called military sports exercises and became the "most active procurer of weapons for right-wing terrorists". The bombers around Peter Naumann used Lembke's reservoir to carry out attacks. In addition to Roeder, Lembke had contacts with Odfried Hepp , a supporter of the military sports group Hoffmann . In newspaper reports Lembke was described as the "hinge between the" WSG-Hoffmann "and Manfred Roeder's" German Citizens' Initiative "". According to Jürgen Pomorin , Lembke had demonstrably connections to Roeder's terrorist German action groups and to the "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann". Roeder and the members of the “German Action Groups” Raymund Hörnle and Sibylle Vorderbrügge went to Lembke after the arson attack on a temporary home for refugees in Hamburg on August 22, 1980, in which two Vietnamese were killed, in order to procure explosives for further attacks.

The references to Lembke and its extensive weapons depots resulted from a police interrogation of Raymund Hörnle and Sibylle Vorderbrügge one day after the Oktoberfest attack, in which they stated that Lembke had offered them weapons, explosives and ammunition. A search of Lembke's house was initially unsuccessful. Less than a year later, forest workers discovered one of the depots by chance. Lembke, who was the district forester in Hanstedt- Oechtringen not far from the Munster military training area , revealed the location of his 33 weapons and explosives depots in the remand prison , the discovery of which near Uelzen in the Lüneburg Heath in 1981 received wide media coverage: They contained automatic weapons and 13,520 rounds of ammunition , 50 bazookas , 156 kg of explosives and 258 hand grenades.

death

Lembke promised to give comprehensive testimony to the federal prosecutor. However, on November 1, 1981, the day before he was questioned by a public prosecutor, he was found hanged by a cable in his Lüneburg prison cell. He had left a handwritten suicide note. The investigation was discontinued soon after his death and Lembke was portrayed as a loner who had set up the weapons depots because of his fear of a Soviet invasion . Where he got the guns from remained unclear. In the files of the Ministry for State Security , intercepted radio messages were found in which the Federal Intelligence Service instructed a group 27 to create "material hiding places". There is no evidence to support the assumption that these are Lembke's weapons depots.

In the trace files of the Oktoberfest attack there is the note “Findings about Lembke are only partially usable in court”. Such notices usually only appear on informants or secret service employees.

literature

  • Julia Montalcino: The Gladio-Nazi Connection. The trace of a Gladio weapons store leads to a Nazi terrorist. In: ZOOM - magazine for politics and culture. No. 4 + 5/1996 ( excerpts in haGalil , 23 September 2005).
  • Ulrich Chaussy : Oktoberfest - The assassination attempt. How the suppression of right-wing terror began. 2nd Edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-757-1 , chapter "Wolfszeit: The right-wing extremist weapon master Heinz Lembke", pp. 213-223.
  • Erich Schmidt-Eenboom , Ulrich Stoll: The partisans of NATO. Stay-behind organizations in Germany 1946–1991. Ch. Links, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-840-0 , chapter “Stay-Behind-Struggle Inside? The riddle of the Oktoberfest bomb ", pp. 203–232.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Ulrich Chaussy, Oktoberfest - Das Assentat: How the repression of right-wing terror began , Ch. Links Verlag 2014, p. 214
  2. ↑ a b c d German Bundestag, stenographic report, 66th session on November 25, 1981, introduction to Lembke by the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior Andreas von Schoeler , p. 3842
  3. ↑ Jürgen Willbrand, is Hitler coming back? , Verlag Ludwig Auer Cassianeum 1964, p. 83
  4. ↑ Peter Dudek, Hans-Gerd Jaschke, Origin and Development of Right-Wing Extremism in the Federal Republic: on the Tradition of a Special Political Culture , Westdeutscher Verlag 1984, p. 440
  5. ↑ It is wolf time . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1981, pp. 30-32 ( online ).
  6. ^ A b Rainer Fromm , The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification: a contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism , Verlag Peter Lang 1998, p. 242
  7. ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke , Birgit Rätsch & Yury Winterberg : After Hitler. Radical right arm. Bertelsmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-570-00566-6 , p. 31
  8. ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke , Birgit Rätsch & Yury Winterberg : After Hitler. Radical right arm. Bertelsmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-570-00566-6 , p. 32
  9. ↑ Jürgen Pomorin, Reinhard Junge & Georg Biemann: Secret channels. On the trail of the Nazi Mafia. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1982 (2nd revised and supplemented edition), ISBN 3-88142-256-0 , p. 174 (but no references there)
  10. ↑ Der Spiegel 8/1982 of February 22, 1982, p. 65
  11. ↑ New doubts about the single perpetrator thesis. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 8, 2014, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  12. ^ A b Daniele Ganser : Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO's Secret Stay-Behind Armies. In: The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Vol. VI, No. 1, winter / spring 2005 ( PDF; 163 kB )
  13. ↑ a b Reinhard Jellen : “A lot of educational work will still be necessary” . In: Telepolis . July 31, 2010 (part 3 of an interview with Tobias von Heymann)
  14. ↑ Tomas Lecorte: Review: "The Partisans of NATO". In: Lecorte.de , December 7, 2015 with reference to Erich Schmidt-Eenboom , Ulrich Stoll: Die Partisanen der NATO. Stay-behind organizations in Germany 1946–1991. Ch. Links, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-840-0 , which make it clear that the date of birth of the SOO agent's wife mentioned in the radio message does not match Lembke's wife.
  15. ↑ Florian Fuchs: The explosive nature of 253 gauge. In: Süddeutsche.de , June 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lembke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1981
Place of death Luneburg