Helmut Oxner

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Helmut Oxner (* 1956 , † June 24, 1982 in Nuremberg ) was a German neo-Nazi who shot three people and injured three others in Nuremberg on June 24, 1982 .

Example

Oxner was a roofer in his father's business. Until 1979 he was “politically completely disinterested” according to the assessment of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office . Through a work colleague he came into contact with the Young Nationalists (JN) and the NPD . He then attended Young Nationalist events for years. However , on January 29, 1981, Oxner and others were excluded from the JN regulars' table meetings due to anti-Semitic statements.

On the day before the crime, Oxner and Rudolf Rother had to answer to the lay judge's court for incitement to hatred and threats , among other things , because both had insulted Turks and Jews as “camel drivers”, “foreigners” or “ Jews ” in several anonymous phone calls . Both had also confessed to the police that they had smeared the Nuremberg city walls with neo-Nazi slogans; Oxner later retracted his confession, which is why a main hearing was scheduled for autumn 1982. Both had been investigated in connection with the murder of Shlomo Lewin .

In early 1981, during a house search near Oxner, two of his weapons, for which he had no license, were confiscated . The proceedings for violating the Weapons Act were discontinued in August 1981 with the condition that the company paid 200 DM to a non-profit organization. Oxner, who had been a member of the “Rangierbahnhof” rifle club since 1977 , had valid weapons possession cards for the other weapons in his arsenal and these were not withdrawn from him despite the proceedings, as the Nuremberg Public Order Office saw no specific threat to public safety . The head of the authority, Helmut Rietzer, said: "Our impression was that this is someone who yells, but he doesn't shoot."

did

When asked to pay at the Twenty Five nightclub late that evening , he shot and killed the 24-year-old non-white American citizen William Schenck standing next to the cash register and then fired at the two dozen guests on the dance floor Year old American sergeant Rufus Surles fatally met. A Korean woman and a Turkish waiter were seriously injured. The following scuffle he lost his large-caliber Smith & Wesson - Revolver Magnum 357 , but took immediately from a shoulder bag another weapon and shot thus on foreign passers-by. He fatally hit the 21-year-old Egyptian Mohamed Ehap and seriously injured a Libyan . Oxner was shot in the hip by a policeman and killed himself with shots in the heart and lungs. To policemen who wanted to take cover, he called out beforehand: “I only shoot Turks!” He left stickers of the NSDAP organizational structure on Crime scene, you could also find it in his pockets.

classification

The Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior saw Oxner as a "terrorist loner"; the head of the special commission , Erwin Hösl, said on the night of the crime that Oxner was "like all these people not normal". The newspapers that appeared the day after the crime saw him as a “ mad gunman ”. In the opinion of Spiegel (1982), however, Oxner's act was "part of a wave of right-wing extremist violence" "which is currently spilling over the Federal Republic". Incidentally, Oxner was described in the press as a “gun fanatic” and an NPD supporter and classified as part of the Hoffmann military sports group . NSU-Watch describes the act as a “ racially motivated rampage”. According to the opinion of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on November 21, 2012, it is certain that Oxner acted as a sole perpetrator whose motive was to be found in “strong xenophobia , combined with his right-wing extremist political attitude and a kind of gun fetishism”; Oxner did not run amok, but rather targeted foreigners as victims, at least when shooting at passers-by.

reception

Bernies Autobahn band processed Oxners fact in her piece Thursday , appeared in 1984 on the album board games .

In 2012, Oxner, among others, was the subject of a written request from MPs Sepp Dürr and Christine Stahl ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) in the Bavarian state parliament .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Terrorist lone perpetrator associations: The neo-Nazi terror of the eighties in the old Federal Republic. In: https://www.nsu-watch.info . anti-fascist press archive and education center berlin ev (apabiz), February 9, 2016, accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s right-wing radicals - living time bombs. In: https://www.spiegel.de . SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH & Co. KG, July 5, 1982, accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f request of September 28, 2012 (pdf). In: https://www.bayern.landtag.de . Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Bernie's Autobahn Band - Board Games . In: https://www.discogs.com . Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Inquiry from September 28, 2012 (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Oxner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi who killed three people
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1982
Place of death Nuremberg