Herbert Schweiger

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Herbert Schweiger (* 22. February 1924 in Spital am Semmering , Styria , † 5. July 2011 in Neuberg , Styria) was one of the most extreme right-wing journalist from Austria . The documentation archive of the Austrian resistance described him as the “gray eminence of the German-Austrian neo-Nazi scene”.

Life

Herbert Schweiger comes from a German national family and was already active as a teenager in the German Gymnastics Club and the Hitler Youth . As a 17-year-old middle school student, he volunteered for the Waffen SS in April 1941 . In July 1941, the trained pioneer was accepted into the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and deployed in the Soviet Union . After several wounds and courses, including at the SS Junker School in Braunschweig, he was appointed SS Untersturmführer in 1943. At the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the United States .

Career after 1945

After his release from captivity, he was initially active in the "Heimkehrer Hilfs- und Betreuungsstelle" (HHB). In 1953 he became regional chairman of the Association of Independents (VdU) in Styria. In 1956 he joined the VdU successor party Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in Graz . In addition, Schweiger is the founder of the Styrian regional organization of the National Democratic Party (NDP), which was created in 1967 by Norbert Burger and banned in 1988 due to National Socialist ideas. When Burger ran as a candidate for the federal presidential election in 1980 , he was significantly supported by Schweiger as a member of the “Committee for the election of a national German-Austrian”.

Schweiger kept particularly close ties to the German Cultural Association of European Spirit (DKEG), for which he appeared regularly as a speaker in Austria and Germany. In 1980 he finally became a member of the DKEG Presidium. He also appeared as a speaker at the Hetendorfer Conference Weeks under the patronage of the Wiking Youth , which was banned shortly thereafter , at the Society for Free Journalism (GfP), the Ulrich von Hutten Circle of Friends , the NPD-affiliated National Democratic University Association (NHB) and at NPD events and the JN on.

Holocaust deniers

Schweiger worked closely with the Austrian Holocaust denier Gerd Honsik . B. at joint events or as a co-author of the Spanish edition of Honsik's book Acquittal for Hitler? 37 unheard witnesses against the gas chamber? The book is banned in Germany according to § 86 StGB.

Criminal record

Schweiger was imprisoned four times up to 1997. In 1990 he was sentenced by a Graz jury to three months' conditional imprisonment and nine months probation for re-activating under the prohibition law . In court he called Auschwitz a "lie monument". After the publication of his book Evolution and Knowledge - Reorganization of Politics in 1995, he was arrested the following year and sentenced again in 1997 by the Leoben jury court to a prison sentence of 16 months, of which four months were unconditional, for re-involvement in the Nazi regime.

On June 17, 2009, Schweiger was sentenced to two years of unconditional imprisonment by the Klagenfurt Regional Court for not having been re-engaged in Nazi Germany.

On April 21, 2010, Schweiger was legally sentenced by the Graz Higher Regional Court to 21 months of partially conditional imprisonment, 7 months of which were unconditional.

Publications

• The Waffen-SS myth. Military achievement and ideological foundation of a European elite force . Winkelried-Verlag , Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-938392-59-1 .
• Germany's new idea. National Manifesto for Germany & Europe . People in motion publishing house and media, Aalen 2004, ISBN 3-00-013777-7 .
• Evolution and knowledge. Reorganization of politics. Principles of a national worldview and politics. Working group for philosophy, history and politics. Augsburg 1995.
• Money and world politics. Huttenbriefe for folklore, culture, truth and law. Volume 2, 1984, series 1-4. German Cultural Work of the European Spirit, Graz 1984.
• World politics and the future of the German people . German Cultural Work of the European Spirit, Graz 1983.
• Preserve your face. Politics, laws of life and the future of the German people . Türmer Verlag , Lochham near Munich 1963.
• The right to truth .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Nazi Herbert Schweiger died. In: derStandard.at. July 6, 2011, accessed December 9, 2017 . 
2. ^ "Graue Eminenz" of the neo-Nazi scene is dead Die Presse , July 6, 2011.
3. ↑ Two years imprisonment for former Nazis ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , orf.at, June 17, 2009. 
4. ↑ 87-year-old conditionally sentenced to 21 months , Der Standard , April 21, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Schweiger in the catalog of the German National Library
• For Herbert Schweiger see the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance - functionaries, activists and ideologues of the right-wing extremist scene in Austria (PDF; 1.6 MB)